Eberhard Finckh

Colonel Eberhard Finckh was a German army officer who was a colonel on the general staff of the German army, a longtime opponent of Nazism and a member of the German resistance to Adolf Hitlers regime.

Finckh was born in Kupferzell, BadenWrttemberg. He joined the Imperial Army in 1917 and was then was a member of the Reichswehr. In 1927 he was posted to the War Academy in BerlinMoabit, where he later met Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. In World War II he first served in Poland and on the Eastern Front as quartermaster of the 6th Army and in 1943 for Army Group South. He then served under General Gnther Blumentritt as the chief quartermaster to the commander in chief in Paris and he was involved in planning the coup attempt in the west linked to theJuly plot with ColonelGeneral CarlHeinrich von Stlpnagel and his adjutant LieutenantColonel Csar von Hofacker.

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