Hans Bernd von Haeften
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Hans Bernd von Haeften (18 December 1905 – 15 August 1944) was a German
Biography
Haeften was born in Berlin, the son of Hans von Haeften (1870–1937), an army officer and President of the Reichsarchiv, and his wife the former Agnes von Brauchitsch (1869–1945), a relation of Walther von Brauchitsch. His siblings were Elisabeth (1903-1980) and Werner (1908–1944). He passed his Abitur in 1924 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and then studied law, which took him as an exchange student to the University of Cambridge.[1]
He married Barbara Curtius (1908–2006), daughter of Julius Curtius, on 2 September 1930. The couple had five children: Jan, Dirk, Verena, Dorothea, and Ulrike.[2]
After University, he worked for the
During the rise of the Nazi Party
In 1940, Haeften became the department's leader, but refused to join the
Arrest
Haeften was arrested on 23 July 1944, three days after the
Aftermath
In August 1998, the German Bundestag cancelled the judgements of the Volksgerichtshofs and special courts with a law, zur Aufhebung nationalsozialistischer Unrechtsurteile in der Strafrechtspflege (overturning unjust National Socialist judgments in criminal cases).[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Möckel, Andreas (2005). "Zum 100. Geburtstag von Hans-Bernd von Haeften". Kreisau-Initiative. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
- ^ a b c d
Haeften, Barbara von; Winter, Julie (September 2014). "Write Nothing about Politics: The Life of Hans Bernd von Haeften". www.BrooklynRail.org. In Translation. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
Hans von Haeften became active in the Kreisau Circle resistance group in the early 1940s and was closely connected to the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
- ^ (Hoffman, 1995) p.231
- ^ (Fest, 1996) p.326
- ^ German Bundestag (29 August 1998), Gesetz zur Aufhebung nationalsozialistischer Unrechtsurteile in der Strafrechtspfleg (PDF), Bundesministeriums der Justiz, retrieved 2016-07-17
See also
References
- ISBN 0-297-81774-4
- Haeften, Barbara von (1997), Nichts Schriftliches von Politik - Hans Bernd von Haeften: Ein Lebensbericht, Munich: C. H. Beck, ISBN 3-406-42614-X
- Hoffmann, Peter (1995), Stauffenberg (translation of 'Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder'), University of Cambridge, ISBN 0-521-45307-0
External links
- Hans Bernd von Haeften in the German National Library catalogue
- (in German) Die Gedenkstätte Plötzensee: Der 20. Juli 1944 (title translated into English: July,20 1944) Archived 2019-03-06 at the Wayback Machine; 2003; p. 12–13
- (in German) Michael Stürmer: Barbara von Haeften: Abschied; in: Die Welt, Ausgabe April 8, 2006.
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