Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim was a German colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in theJuly plot against Adolf Hitler.
Quirnheim was born in Munich, Bavaria, the son of Hermann Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, a captain on the Bavarian General Staff, and the nephew of Walter Hohmann. He spent his youth in the Bavarian capital before his father became head of the Imperial Archive and the family moved to Potsdam in Prussia. As a child he befriended HansJrgen von Blumenthal and as a young man came to know the brothers Werner von Haeften and Hans Bernd von Haeften, through family connections these were all future fellowconspirators.
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