List of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler
This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted.

List of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler

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Table Section Text: This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted.

Date	Location	Attempted by	Summary

1932	Hotel Kaiserhof (Berlin)	Unknown	Hitler and several members of his staff fall ill after dining at the revered Kaiserhof hotel in Berlin. Poisoning is suspected, but no arrests are made.

February 9, 1932	Berlin	Ludwig Assner	Ludwig Assner, a German politician and member of the Bavarian State Parliament, sends a poisoned letter to Hitler from France. An acquaintance of Assner warns Hitler and the letter is intercepted.

1934	Berlin	Beppo Römer	Freikorps member Beppo Römer vows to assassinate Hitler as revenge for the Night of the Long Knives but is turned over to the Gestapo before any concrete plan can be made.

1934	Berlin	Helmut Mylius	Dr Helmut Mylius, head of the right wing Radical Middle Class Party (Radikale Mittelstandspartei), has 160 men infiltrate the SS and begin gathering information on Hitler's movement.

1935	Berlin	Marwitz group	Several German officers in the Foreign office pen a letter writing that "The oath of alligence against Hitler has lost its meaning since he was ready to sacrifice Germany" and that "now was the time to act" in an attempt to instigate an army coup against the Fuhrer.

1935	Berlin	Paul Josef Stuermer	Dr Paul Joseph Stuermer leads a resistance group composed of several officers, university professors, businessmen and government workers. The group assists several assassination attempts including Beppo Römer's attempt.

December 20, 1936	Nuremberg	Helmut Hirsch	Helmut Hirsch, a German Jew and a member of the Strasserist Black Front, is tasked with planting two suitcases filled with explosives at the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg.

1937	Berlin	Josef Thomas	On November 26 mental patient Josef Thomas is arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin after he confesses that he traveled from Elberfeld for the explicit purpose of shooting Hitler and air force commander Hermann Göring.

1937	Berlin	Unknown man in SS uniform	An unidentified man in SS uniform reportedly tries to kill Hitler during a rally at the Berlin SportPalast.

September 28, 1938	Berlin	Hans Oster, Helmuth Groscurth	A plan is formed by Generalmajor Hans Oster and other high-ranking conservatives in the Wehrmacht to overthrow Hitler in the case he declares war on Czechoslovakia.

November 9, 1938	Munich	Maurice Bavaud	Swiss theology student Maurice Bavaud poses as a reporter and plans to shoot Hitler from the reviewing stand as he passed through the parade.

October 5, 1939	Warsaw	Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Service for Poland's Victory	General Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski and other members of the Polish Army attempt to detonate hidden explosives during Hitler's victory parade in Warsaw.

November 8, 1939	Munich	Johann Georg Elser	German Carpenter Georg Elser places a time-bomb at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, where Hitler was due to give his annual speech in commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1939	Berlin	Erich Kordt	German diplomat and resistance fighter Erich Kordt hatches an assassination plot along with officer Hasso von Etzdorf to plant explosives, but the plan is abandoned after the security restrictions following Georg Elser's attempt to kill Hitler make the acquirement and concealment of the necessary explosives too dangerous.

1941–1943 (several)	Berlin	Beppo Römer	Beppo Römer plots once again to assassinate Hitler along with several co-conspirators of the resistance group Solf Circle. He obtains funds from co-conspirator Nikolaus von Halem and keeps tabs on the Fuhrer's movements through a contact at the Berlin City Commandment.

1943	Walki, Ukraine	Hubert Lanz, Hans Speidel, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz	Following the war, General der Gebirgstruppe Hubert Lanz proclaims of a plan involving himself and Generals Hans Speidel,Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz & Paul Loehning to assassinate Hitler during his visit to the Army Detachment Kempf in Ukraine.

March 13, 1943	Flight to Smolensk	Henning von Tresckow, Fabian von Schlabrendorff	On the return flight from a front visit Hitler visited the headquarters of the Army Group Center in Smolensk. During the visit there were several attempts to take his life: Under the direction of Major Georg von Boeselager, several officers were to intercept and assassinate Hitler in a grove on his way from the airport to the headquarters.

March 21, 1943	Berlin	Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff	After becoming close friends with leading Army Group Center conspirator Colonel (later Major-General) Henning von Tresckow, Generalmajor Gersdorff agreed to join the conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler in order to save Germany.

November 16, 1943	Wolf's Lair	Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst	Encouraged by Claus Stauffenberg, Major Axel von dem Bussche agreed to carry out a suicide bombing in order to kill Hitler.

January 1944	Wolf's Lair	Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin	A similar scheme to Axel von dem Bussche is attempted by German Resistance fighter Ewald von Kleist however the uniform inspection is once again postponed, and eventually canceled by Hitler.

March 11, 1944	Berghof	Eberhard von Breitenbuch	On 9 March 1944, Covert German resistance member Busch and his aides were summoned to brief Hitler at the Berghof in Bavaria on 11 March.

July 20, 1944	Wolf's Lair	Claus von Stauffenberg	Main article: 20 July plot

Sentence(s)

In 1937, Berlin was the site of an Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by an unknown person in a SS uniform.

final_sentence: In 1937, Berlin was the site of an Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by an unknown person in a SS uniform.