Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen

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Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July plot.

Biography

Born in Berlin, Bismarck was a grandson of the 19th century Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was a member of the Nazi Party and in 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag. From 1933 to 1934 he was a Kreisleiter in Rügen.

In 1935 he became chairman of the regional council (

After the failure of the plot, Bismarck's connections to the plotters were discovered.[1] He was expelled from the SS and from the Reichstag. Because of his famous name and many powerful connections, however, he escaped the fate of most of the active plotters. He was not arrested until August and he was not tortured. In October he was acquitted of the charges against him by the People's Court, but was nevertheless sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was relatively well treated. He was liberated by Soviet forces in April 1945.

In September 1949 Bismarck and his wife were killed in a car accident in Verden an der Aller near Bremen.^{[citation needed]}

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