Claus von stauffenberg children

Valerie schenk gräfin von stauffenberg

As a military officer from a noble background, Stauffenberg took part in the Invasion of Poland , the —42 invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa and the Tunisian campaign during the Second World War. On 20 July , Stauffenberg's assassination attempt failed, the explosive he had placed only dealing Hitler minor injuries.

The conspirators were arrested, and many of them executed, including Stauffenberg on the day after the attempt. His wife Nina was also arrested, giving birth to their fifth child Konstanze while imprisoned. Their children also included Berthold , who followed in his father's footsteps as a military man, and politician Franz-Ludwig. Konstanze's son Philipp von Schulthess would become an actor and play a supporting role in Valkyrie , a American film about the 20 July assassination with Stauffenberg as main character, portrayed by Tom Cruise.

From birth, Stauffenberg inherited the hereditary titles of Graf and Schenk , leaving him referred to by his first name and Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg until the Weimar Constitutional Law abolished privileges of nobility. Stauffenberg grew up in Bavaria, where he and his brothers were members of the Neupfadfinder , a German Scout association and part of the German Youth movement.

In , he joined the family's traditional regiment, the Reiterregiment 17 17th Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg. Around the beginning of his time in Bamberg, Albrecht von Blumenthal introduced the three brothers to the poet Stefan George 's influential circle, Georgekreis , from which many notable members of the German resistance later emerged. George dedicated Das neue Reich "the new Empire" in , including the Geheimes Deutschland "secret Germany" written in , to Berthold.

Claus von stauffenberg cause of death

By , Stauffenberg had been commissioned as a leutnant second lieutenant , studying modern weapons at the Kriegsakademie in Berlin, but remaining focused on the use of horses — which continued to carry out a large part of transportation duties throughout World War II —in modern warfare. His regiment became part of the German 1st Light Division under General Erich Hoepner , another later member of the covert German Resistance , and the unit was among the Wehrmacht troops that moved into Sudetenland following its annexation to the Reich as per the Munich Agreement.

Though Stauffenberg had supported the German colonization of Poland and had made extremist remarks regarding Polish Jews, he refrained from joining the Nazi Party. Stauffenberg's views of Hitler were conflicted during this period.