Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , was a German army officer and member of the German nobility who was one of the leading members of the failedJuly plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement, he was executed by firing squad shortly after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.

Stauffenbergs full name was Claus Philipp Maria Justinian, followed by the noble title of Count of Stauffenberg. He was born in the Stauffenberg castle of Jettingen between Ulm and Augsburg, in the eastern part of Swabia, at that time in the Kingdom of Bavaria, part of the German Empire. He was the third of four sons including the twins Berthold and Alexander and his own twin brother Konrad Maria, who died in Jettingen one day after birth onNovember 1907. His father was Alfred Klemens Philipp Friedrich Justinian, the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Wrttemberg. His mother was Caroline Schenk Grfin von Stauffenberg, ne Grfin von xkllGyllenband, the daughter of Alfred Richard August Graf von xkllGyllenband and Valerie Grfin von Hohenthal.

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