Ludwig Beck
His Christian beliefs led him to join the opposition to Nazism early. Von Rabenau was a "Rechtsritter" (Knight of Justice) in the supradenominational Order of Saint John. As a Protestant Christian and a general, he successfully applied to then Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler for permission to take over Maria Laach Abbey, which had been seized from Roman Catholic Cardinal Graf von Galen in Münster. Von Rabenau joined no resistance group, though he did act as a conduit between Generaloberst Ludwig Beck and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, whom he knew from his time as an "Abteilungskommandeur" (Section Commander) in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad).