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All involved in the 20th july plot.

Name all nazis involved in the 20th july plot, AKA the plot to kill Hitler.
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What are they known for
Name
Date of death
Fate
Rank/role
In 1939, he was appointed as acting Oberpräsident of Upper and Lower Silesia.
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg
10 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Oberpräsident of the Province of Silesia
Member of the executive board of the German Industry and Commerce Day and Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the governments of the Free State of Bavaria
Eduard Hamm
2 September 1944
Suicide
Minister of the Economy
His wife succeeded in delaying his execution until the Red Army occupied Berlin
Andreas Hermes
4 January 1964
Survived
Minister of Finance
1933, he retired from politics, in World War II, he became a member of the resistance group
Otto Gessler
24 March 1955
Minister of Defence
Protested the mass persecution of Jews by offering his resignation, which was refused
Johannes Popitz
2 February 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Minister of Finance of Prussia
Member of the Bavarian parliament from 1912 to 1920, in 1918 he became leader of the general command of the III Royal Bavarian Corps
Ernst Schneppenhorst
24 April 1945
Ministers of War of Bavaria
Ambassador of Germany to the Soviet Union
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg
10 November 1944
Ambassador
Ambassador of Germany to Italy
Ulrich von Hassell
8 September 1944
Transferred to Lehrter Strasse prison, in Berlin's Moabit district, where the Gestapo interrogated him under torture. At the end of April 1945, he was assassinated by the SS
Albrecht von Bernstorff
24 April 1945
Executed (Firing squad)
Diplomat
Established extensive links with the resistance fighters that took part in the 20 July Plot
Eduard Brücklmeier
20 October 1944
Executed (Hanging)
his instructional concept, inspired by the Wandervogel movement and labour-school pedagogy
Adolf Reichwein
Economist
Arranged for appointment as Vice Consul in Switzerland, met with Allen Dulles in 1943 and agreed to serve as a liaison for the German opposition to Hitler
Hans Bernd Gisevius
23 February 1974
Survived
Diplomat
Involved in Hess' attempts to negotiate peace with the French and British, acting as an intermediary, speculated that he may have encouraged Hess's 1941 flight
Albrecht Haushofer
23 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Chief of the Reich Press Office
Otto Kiep
26 August 1944
Found his way into the plot's inner circle and advocated a number of violent acts to get rid of Hitler
Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin
9 April 1945
Drafted a Provisional Constitution, on the assumption that the forthcoming attack on the Western Front would lead to the overthrow Hitler's regime
Erwin Planck
23 January 1945
Was one of the leaders of the 20th July plot
Adam von Trott zu Solz
26 August 1944
Designated as a political commissioner in military district II (Stettin) after a successful coup
Joachim von Willisen
5 April 1983
Survived
Mayor of Leipzig
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
2 February 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Mayor
Mayor of Kwidzyn
Fritz Goerdeler
23 February 1945
Member of the Landtag of Prussia
Michael von matushka
14 September 1944
None
Member of the Reichstag
Eugen Bolz
23 January 1945
Executed (guilliten)
Politician
Member of the Reichstag and grandson of the 19th century Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen
14 September 1949
Survived
Member of the Reichstag, liberated from Brandenburg-Görden Prison by the Red Army in April 1945
Gustav Dahrendorf
30 October 1954
Member of the Reichstag and Oberpräsident of the Province of Westphalia
Ferdinand von Lüninck
14 November 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Member of the Reichstag
Ludwig Schwamb
23 January 1945
Member of the Landtag of Prussia during the Weimar Republic and member of the Reichstag
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff
15 August 1944
Member of the Reichstag and the president of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Paul Löbe
3 August 1967
Survived
Member of the Reichstag
Joseph Ersing
August 5, 1956
Member of the Reichstag, sentenced to penal servitude rather than execution. He was freed by American troops in April 1945
Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött
13 May 1981
Member of the Reichstag
Otto Gerig
3 October 1944
Executed (Concentration camp)
Member of the Reichstag
Ernst Von Harnack
5 March 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Member of the Reichstag, betrayed by an informer among an underground communist group
Julius Leber
5 January 1945
Member of the Reichstag
Theodor Haubach
23 January 1945
Member of the Reichstag, floated the idea for a European market
Paul Lejeune-Jung
8 September 1944
Member of the Reichstag, most likely to become Germany's vice-chancellor post coup
Wilhelm Leuschner
29 September 1944
The desert Fox
Erwin Rommel
14 October 1944
Suicide (Forced)
Field Marshall
Kluge went on to command the 4th Army in Operation Barbarossa, battle of moscow
Gunther von Kluge
19 August 1944
Suicide
Commander-in-Chief OB West, command of the 1st Army
Erwin von Witzleben
8 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Chief of Kriminalpolizei
Arthur Nebe
21 March 1945
SS-Gruppenführer
Served on the Eastern Front, in 1942 and 1943 with the 18th Panzer Division
Karl Freiherr von Thüngen
24 October 1944
Executed (Firing squad)
Lieutenant General
In August 1940 became Chief of Staff of the military commander in France, served as Chief of Staff of the 5th Army Corps, and as Chief of Staff of 8th Army in 1943
Hans Speidel
28 November 1984
Survived
Commanded the 65th Infantry Division in Italy
Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg
2 February 1945
Executed (Firing squad)
Ordered the Guard Battalion to seal off the government quarter in Berlin during the subsequent coup d'état attempt
Paul Von Hase
8 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Communications chief of the German Army during
Fritz Thiele
4 September 1944
Head of the cipher bureau of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, later the OKW/Chi
Erich Fellgielbel
General of the Communications Troops
Last post was as major general and Chief of the Acting General Command in Danzig,
Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten
14 September 1944
Major General
Helped organize German resistance, drafted the Valkyrie plan for a coup against the German government. He was described by the Gestapo as the "prime mover" behind the 20 July 1944 plot
Henning von Tresckow
21 July 1944
Suicide
Army Group Center, where he served as intelligence liaison with the Abwehr
Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff
27 January 1980
Survived
Leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943, deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau
Hans Oster
9 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Chief of staff of the III Military District which covered Berlin and Brandenburg
Otto Herfurth
29 September 1944
Member of the OKH,
Hellmuth Stieff
8 August 1944
Early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, spearheaded the advance on Moscow in Operation Typhoon
Erich Hoepner
Generaloberst
Chief of the General Staff of the German Army High Command
Ludwig Beck
20 July 1944
Executed (Shot)
By late 1943, his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, would have assumed the position of minister of war in a post-Nazi regime
Friedrich Olbricht
21 July 1944
Executed (Firing squad)
General of infantry
Military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, head of the military government of Belgium
Alexander von Falkenhausen
31 July 1966
Survived
Leading participant in planning and carrying out economic exploitation of the Soviet Union, most notably the Hunger Plan
Georg Thomas
29 December 1946
Commander of the 17th Army,
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
30 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Would read the conspirators' proclamation to the German people over the radio
Fritz Lindemann
22 September 1944
Died of injuries in custody
General of the Artillery
Christian beliefs led him to join the opposition to Nazism early, was relieved of his office, transferred to the Führerreserve in 19 42
Friedrich Von Rabenau
15 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Served as quartermaster-general, created policies against Soviet POWs
Eduard Wagner
23 July 1944
Suicide
Been slated for the role of Justice Minister within a planned post-coup civilian government
Karl Sack
9 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
General
Acted as a secret liaison between Tresckow in Russia and the plotters, failed 13 March 1943 plot
Fabian von Schlabrendorff
4 September 1980
Survived
Adjutant General
Head of the Abwehr
Wilhelm Canaris
9 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Admiral
Lead/ Head of the plot
Claus von Stauffenberg
21 July 1944
Executed (Firing squad)
Colonel
Was meant to arrest Joseph Goebbels and occupy the radio station in Masurenallee, commander of the Panzer reserve troops in defence districts II (Stettin) and XXI (Kalisch)
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
21 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Military intelligence-officer, head of the counter-intelligence station in Vienna since April 1944
Otto Armster
21 September 1957
Survived
Led the Nazi security warfare operations in the Army Group Centre Rear Area on the Eastern Front
Georg von Boeselager
27 August 1944
KIA
1939 with 15th infantry division and 1940 with the 10th army corps, in 1941 with the 9th army corps in Russia. In April 1944, he was dispatched to Paris, France, as Chief of Staff
Hans Otfried von Linstow
30 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
First served in Poland and on the Eastern Front as quartermaster of the 6th Army and in 1943 for Army Group South.
Eberhard Finckh
What are they known for
Name
Date of death
Fate
Rank/role
Baltic German colonel in the (OKW) provided the detonator charge and explosives for the assassination attempt
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
26 July 1944
Suicide
Colonel
organised the use of cars and airplanes as well as the protection of the co-conspirators, his house in Rangsdorf often served as the meeting place for the conspirators
Georg Hansen
8 September 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Scheduled as the plotter's liaison officer in Vienna
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
12 October 1944
Referred to by modern historians as 'Hitler's favourite intelligence analyst, tasked with espionage on the Western Front, planted through Allied deception helped to save thousands of Allied lives by diverting Axis and Nazi forces
Alexis von Roenne
Became Chief of the Organization Department of the Armed Forces Command in 1943
Joachim Meichssner
29 September 1944
Head of Staff of the 24th Army Corps at the Eastern Front, Chief of Staff at the Army's General Office in Berlin
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
21 July 1944
Executed (Firing squad)
Supposed to become the liaison officer for the military district of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband
14 September 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Counterintelligence at the Foreign Affairs Office in Berlin
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg
23/24 April 1945
Murdered
Colonel and journalist
Austrian resistance fighter, responsible for the order that set Operation Valkyrie in motion
Robert Bernardis
8 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Lieutenant Colonel
Tried to get his superior Zeitzler to participate in the plot, but to no avail
Gunther Smend
8 September 1944
Assessed the chances of the coup attempt as "only ten percent", tried to draw Rommel into the plot
Caersar von hofacker
20 December 1944
Responsible for the duplication and transmission of the "Valkyrie" orders in the Bendlerblock in Berlin
Joachim Sadrozinski
29 September 1944
Put together a secret archive complete with reports and photographs of SS atrocities in Poland
Werner Schrader
28 July 1944
Suicide
Liaison officer in the Wehrkreis XX
Hasso von Boehmer
5 March 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Informed in time to turn his unexplained cavalry retreat around and return to the front before suspicions could be aroused his involvement the operation went undetected, and he was not executed, unlike the majority of the conspirators.
Philipp von Boeselager
1 May 2008
Survived
Member of the Kriegsmarine he served on the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, worked in the Operations Department of the 1st Sea War Branch of the Naval High Command as liaison officer to the Foreign Ministry
Alfred Kranzfelder
10 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Lieutenant Commander
Led his battalion to the gates of Kiev, task to control the messages which were to mobilize Operation Valkyrie in favour of the coup. As his name was at the top of the duty roster, he was the first to be identified as a conspirator
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
13 October 1944
Major
Commander of Officer-Candidate Training Detachment 24 based at Insterburg, East Prussia
Roland von Hoblin
Took on the foreseen logistical connections between City Commandant and Police President
Egbert Hayessen
15 August 1944
Sentenced to death for keeping his knowledge of the plot to himself
Hans Georg Klamroth
26 August 1944
Supposed to become a liaison officer in military district VII, he was a descendant of a noble family
Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod
Served in Army Group Centre under one of the main leaders of the plot, was the liaison officer to the commander of the defense group III, and passed on the first Valkyrie orders
Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen
21 July 1944
Suicide
In view of the crimes he witnessed involuntarily, there were only three ways for an officer to protect his honor "by joining the group of victims"
Axel von dem Bussche
26 January 1993
Survived
Unsuccessful to commit suicide and was imprisoned in a concentration camp and tried for treason, The camp was liberated on April 22, 1945, a day before he was expected to be sentenced to death and executed
Carl-Hans von Hardenberg
October 24, 1958
Succeeded in rounding up nearly all Nazi officials in Vienna he was able to convince the Gestapo that he was only following orders and thus he escaped punishment
Carl Szokoll
25 August 2004
He was the military attaché in Ankara, Turkey. In 1944, he was on the staff of the 363rd Volksgrenadier Division.
Rolf Friedeman Pauls
4 May 2002
Appointed him to the Abwehr office at the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Berlin
Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld
8 September 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Brought together a small group of Bavarian monarchists such as ministers and bankers and businessmen, he organized himself with the resistance groups in Switzerland and in Bavaria
Franz Sperr
23 January 1945
Became a consultant on the staff of the General Army Office (AHA)
Busso Thoma
Belonged to the Potsdam Infantry Regiment 9 only one to escape the firefight at the Bendlerblock
Friedrich Klausing
8 August 1944
Captain
Captain in Germany's reserve forces, working in the Wehrmacht section of the Amt Ausland/Abwehr
Theodor Strunck
9 April 1945
was by the Gestapo in march of 44 but was able to flee and disappeared was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp
Ludwig Gehre
Rushed to Berlin and, not knowing that Hitler had survived the explosion, attempted to launch the coup, him an 3 others were shot after midnight by a ten-man firing squad
Werner von Haeften
21 July 1944
Executed (Firing squad)
Lieutenant
He was in the group that was to stage the coup in Berlin, he managed to cover up his resistance activities, and proceedings against him were dropped in December 1944 for lack of evidence
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
8 March 2013
Survived
Went to the Bendlerstraße, which the coup leaders intended to use as the centre of their operations in Berlin, arrested at Bendlerstraße the same night
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
10 August 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Judge
he had contacts with the church resistance, he had many contacts in the military resistance, he was connected to the social-democratic resistance
Klaus Bonhoeffer
23 April 1945
Executed (Shot)
Lawyer
made records for himself of the régime's crimes, altogether, 13 people were able to leave Germany without hindrance, thanks to forgeries and operation known as U-7,
Hans von Dohnanyi
8 or 9 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Agreed to stand ready in Baden to take a leading role in Germany's reconstruction
Reinhold Frank
23 January 1945
Stood ready to take power at the Foreign Ministry for the plotters His brother had been summarily shot in the early hours of 21 July at the Bendlerblock along with 3 others
Hans Bernd von Haeften
15 August 1944
He was responsible for the courier service between military posts in Berlin and the so-called Führerhauptquartier "Wolfsschanze" and arranged for the explosive that was to be used in the attempt on Hitler's life
Albrecht von Hagen
8 August 1944
Was arrested on 26 February 1942 by the Gestapo and suffered torture through a number of prisons and concentration camps but did not reveal any of his fellow conspirators
Nikolaus von Halem
9 October 1944
Arrested in August 1944 on plotting charges, and was severely mistreated in jail
Hans John
23 April 1945
Executed (Firing squad)
Worked as a lawyer at the Deutsche Lufthansa legal office in Madrid and used contacts he had made with British intelligence to escape to England and avoid certain execution
Otto John
26 March 1997
Survived
was not directly informed of the 20 July Plot, his knowledge of the plot to assassinate Hitler as well as his close ties to the resistance group forced him to go into hiding for the remainder of World War II
Jakob Kaiser
7 May 1961
Was slated to become the presiding judge of the Reichsgericht
Hans Knoch
24 April 1945
Extrajudicially shot
He was aware that Himmler was interested in the idea of negotiating peace behind Adolf Hitler's bac. He suggested a coup d'état as the war was lost, but Himmler was not interested
Carl Langbehn
12 October 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Convincing Roland Freisler that he was suffering from memory loss. Avoiding conviction he was committed to a sanatorium and survived the war
Ewald Loeser
23 December 1970
Survived
organized resistance among former labor unionists, he was charged at the Volksgerichtshof for his involvement in the resistance movement
Hermann Maab
20 October 1944
Executed (Hanging)
Lawyer
built up the biggest KPD resistance group, called the "Operative Leadership of the KPD", called on people to commit sabotage
Anton Saefkow
8 September 1944
Executed (Guillotine)
was sentenced to death by the Roland Freisler, who was killed in a US air raid the very next day, was to be responsible for the reorganization of air travel after the plot to assassinate the Führer
Rudiger Schleicher
23 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
He delivered information from the conspirators in Berlin to Hans Bernd Gisevius in Zürich who was in contact with Allen Dulles, the Swiss director of the Office of Strategic Services
Theodor Strunck
9 April 1945
Brought the trade unionists and the Social Democrats, the church circles and the old noble élites in
Josef Wirmer
8 September 1944
He initiated and led the discussions of the Kreisau Circle, which met very often at his home, he remained in the innermost circle of the conspirators until the very end
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
8 August 1944
He agreed to be ready to take over the position of Ober-Präsident of Silesia in the democratic new beginning which the lotters hoped would follow a successful revolution
Franz Leuninger
1 March 1945
Trade unionist
He was earmarked to be the Reconstruction Minister
Bernhard Letterhaus
14 November 1944
He was on the board of directors of the Leipziger Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. AG
Walter Cramer
Businessman
Worked for the Organisation Todt as an architect, family shelter one of the plotters
Erich Gloeden
30 November 1944
Executed (Guillotine)
Architect
Family shelter one of the plotters
Elizabeth Gloeden
Teacher
Was being monitored at the time on 12 August 1944 he was arrested sometime towards noon in connection with the failed plot
Nikolaus Gross
23 January 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Journalist
Administered the property of the former royal house of Schaumburg-Lippe, battalion leader and commander of a subsidiary regiment of Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam, threw himself out of a third-floor window of the Gestapo’s "house prison"
Kurt von Plettenberg
10 March 1945
Suicide
Landowner
Farmer and agricultural contractor
Carl Wentzel
20 December 1944
Executed (Hanging)
First lieutenant in the reserves, Lehndorff was deployed as liaison officer to Defence District I
Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort
4 September 1944
Was the secretary in the Bendlerblock headquarters of the Defense Ministry
Margarethe von Oven
5 February 1991
Survived
Secretary
Was at his assigned place at the Bendlerblock in Berlin to support the attempted assassination and coup d'état, Roland Freisler gave a unusually lenient sentence of 7 years of labor
Eugen Gerstenmaier
13 March 1986
Theologian
Key founding member of the Confessing Church, accused of being associated with the 20 July plot
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
9 April 1945
Executed (Hanging)
Secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the underground
Alfred Delp
2 February 1945
Priest
Was a carrier of secret dispatches, captured by the British Army following the Battle of Monte Cassino, Pope Pius XII saved him from execution from the french
Gereon Goldmann
26 July 2003
Survived
Interrogated and temporarily taken into custody on 6 September 1943 under charges of comparing Hitler and Göring with the two criminals crucified alongside Jesus Christ, he was temporarily released, local Nazi officials re-arrested him on 15 May 1944
Joseph Muller
11 September 1944
Executed (Guillotine)
sentenced to death on 14 September 1944 for his knowledge of the plot
Hermann Josef Wehrle
14 September 1944
Executed (Hanging)
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