ヴァルター・フォン・ブラウヒッチュ
Haeften was born in Berlin, the son of Hans von Haeften (1870–1937), an army officer and President of the "Reichsarchiv", and his wife the former Agnes von Brauchitsch (1869–1945), a relation of Walther von Brauchitsch. His siblings were Elisabeth (1903-1980) and Werner (1908–1944). He passed his Abitur in 1924 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and then studied law, which took him as an exchange student to the University of Cambridge.