page_title: Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling / Biography / Family
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Katholische Wallfahrtskirche Unschuldige Kindlein Heiligenstatt (zu Tüßling); gotische Saalkirche, Tuffquaderbau, Chor 1373 geweiht, Langhaus vor 1451, Veränderungen 1629, Turmoberteil 1635 und 1702, sogenannter Kreuzgang 1724; Grufthalle der Tüßlinger Schlossbesitzer, um Mitte 19. Jahrhundert; Friedhofsummauerung, 18./19. JahrhundertThis is a photograph of an architectural monument.It is on the list of cultural monuments of Bayern, no. D-1-71-133-22
context_page_description: Karl Richard Freiherr Michel von Tüßling was a German Schutzstaffel officer who served in the Nazi government of dictator Adolf Hitler, in the staff of the Reichsführer SS and in the staff of the SS Main Office. From 1936 onwards, he also was the personal adjutant of Reichsleiter and SS-Obergruppenführer Philipp Bouhler, who was in charge of Hitler's Chancellery, head of the euthanasia programme Aktion T4, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13. In 1947 Tüßling provided an affidavit in defence of war criminal Viktor Brack who was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials.
context_section_description: Michel von Tüßling was married twice. His first marriage took place on the 16 May 1938 to Elisabeth von Stumm (1918–1996) in Berlin; divorced, Traunstein, 22. December 1948. His second marriage took place on the 14 November 1960 to Ulrike Barth (1925–1999) in Munich. He had three children. His daughter, Stephanie Gräfin Bruges-von Pfuel  (born 1961), who inherited her father's estate, was from 1. May 2014 till 30. April 2020 mayor of Tüßling (CSU). In her first marriage she was married to Benedict Count Batthyány (born 1960), whose aunt Margit Batthyàny aka "The Killer Countess" (1911–1989), a daughter of Heinrich Thyssen, maintained a reconvalescence home for members of the SS (Rechnitz massacre). From 1999–2005 she was married to Christian Graf Bruges-von Pfuel (* 1942), grandson of General der Panzertruppe Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg. His daughter Ulrike (born 1962) married in 1988 Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach (born 1956), a member of the Krupp family and nephew of the industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, who was convicted after World War II of crimes against humanity; divorced 1995. Michel von Tüßling's sister Freda (1905–1936) was married to the Alter Kämpfer, SS-Standartenführer Henning von Nordeck (1895–1978). His cousin Lilly (1892-1973) was married to Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978). The second husband of his cousin Marie (1893-1978), Karl Freiherr von Thüngen (1893-1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht who was executed in 1944 after the failed 20 July Plot.
caption: Gravestone of Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling and his wife Ulrike, on the pilgrimage church Innocent Children, Heiligenstatt (Tüßling)
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