Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg, born Konstanze Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg on 27 January 1945, is the youngest child of Operation Valkyrie leader Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907 – 1944), a member of the traditional German nobility, and "Nina" Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913 – 2006). She was born in a Nazi maternity center in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, where her mother had been transferred for childbirth from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her mother, who was pregnant with her fifth child at the time of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power on 20 July 1944, for which her father was summarily executed, had been arrested and imprisoned in the aftermath of the assassination attempt.