Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von StauffenbergGerd Wunder: Die Schenken von Stauffenberg. Müller & Gräff, 1972, p. 480 (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat in the Wehrmacht.

Stauffenberg was a leader of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 during World War 2 that aimed to kill the German Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, and to remove the Nazi Party from power in Germany. With Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, Stauffenberg was one of the central figures of the German resistance within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the plot to kill Hitler, Stauffenberg was executed, as were many other German resistance members. He was an army infantry soldier (1926-1930) and Army Infantry Officer (1930-1944) in the German Army of both the Reichswehr (1926-1935) and the Wehrmacht (1935-1944) militaries of both the Weimar Era and Nazi Era of Germany.
+German Army Officer Ranks of Claus Von Stauffenberg German Army Officer Rank Rank Equivalent Date and Year LeutnantLieutenant 1930-1933Hauptmann Captain 1933-1940OberstColonel 1941-1944

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