- Friedrich Klausing
Friedrich Karl Klausing (
24 May 1920 -8 August 1944 ) was a resistance fighter inNazi Germany , and one of theJuly 20 Plot ters.Biography
Friedrich Klausing was born in
Munich .Military career
He joined the "
Wehrmacht " in the autumn of 1938 and belonged to the Potsdam Infantry Regiment 9. At theBattle of Stalingrad , he was badly wounded and in 1943, he was posted to the indoor service, that is to say, an office, at the "Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ". He was drawn into the plan to assassinateHitler byFritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg .On
11 July 1944 , on the first attempt on Hitler's life, Klausing went along withClaus Schenk von Stauffenberg as his adjutant to the Obersalzberg ("ie" the Berghof nearBerchtesgaden ) and made sure that a car and a plane were standing by, ready to whisk the plotters away to Berlin after the job had been done. The Obersalzberg plan was, however, put off, as was a second attempt on15 July at theWolf's Lair near Rastenburg inEast Prussia , where Klausing made the same preparations for Stauffenberg.On
20 July , Captain Klausing stayed behind at theBendlerblock in Berlin while Stauffenberg went to the Wolf's Lair to try again, and was jointly responsible for forwardingOperation Valkyrie orders. He forwarded the orders to, among others,Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin . On the night of 20-21 July , after it had become apparent that Stauffenberg's briefcase bomb had not killed Hitler, Klausing was the only one to escape the firefight at the Bendlerblock subsequent to which Stauffenberg and several other conspirators were captured, but the next morning, he gave himself up to theGestapo .Death
In a show trial before the
Volksgerichtshof on8 August 1944, he was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out the same day atPlötzensee Prison in Berlin.ee also
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List of members of the July 20 plot ,Widerstand .
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