Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Countess Nina von Stauffenberg | |
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Born | Baroness Elisabeth Magdalena von Lerchenfeld; Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von Lerchenfeld 27 August 1913 Kowno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) |
Died | 2 April 2006 | (aged 92)
Nationality | German |
Known for | Wife of Claus von Stauffenberg, sister-in-law of Nazi test pilot and resistance supporter |
Title | Countess |
Children | 5, including Berthold, Franz-Ludwig and Konstanze |
Countess Nina von Stauffenberg (German: Elisabeth Magdalena Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg; 27 August 1913 – 2 April 2006) was the wife of Colonel
plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944
. Following the plot's failure, she was arrested and imprisoned, during which time she delivered her youngest child.
Biography
Born Elisabeth Magdalena
Freiin
von
Johan Mauritz von Hauke, which made Nina a third cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[1]
Nina von Lerchenfeld and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg were married on 26 September 1933 in
Roman Catholics
, in accordance with the wishes of Stauffenberg's father.
The marriage produced five children:
- Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born 3 July 1934).
- Heimeran Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born 9 July 1936 in Zurich), unmarried and without issue.
- Franz-Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born 4 May 1938).
- Valerie Ida Huberta Karoline Anna Maria Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (born 15 November 1940 in Bamberg; died 4 June 1966 in Munich, Bavaria of leukemia), married Heino von L'Estocq (born 6 April 1935 in Potsdam, Brandenburg) on 4 April 1964.
- Zurich, Switzerland) on 8 April 1967.
After her husband's failed attempt to assassinate Hitler (he was summarily executed the following evening), the Countess von Stauffenberg was arrested by the
Nazi government. Her five children were placed in an orphanage in Bad Sachsa, Lower Saxony, under the surname of Meister. At the time of her husband's death, Stauffenberg was pregnant and gave birth while imprisoned in a Nazi maternity center in Frankfurt an der Oder
. That same year, her own mother, Anna, died in a Soviet detention camp.
By the end of the Second World War, Stauffenberg had been moved to the
Lautlingen, Baden-Württemberg. She died in Kirchlauter, near Bamberg, Bavaria, on 2 April 2006 at the age of 92.[2][3]
The biography Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg – Ein Porträt by
ISBN 978-3-85842-652-9
).
Notes
- Countess. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The masculine form is Graf.
- Freiin was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Baroness. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The title is for unmarried daughters of a Freiherr.
References
- ^ "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics". www.genealogics.org.
- ^ "Countess von Stauffenberg". The Telegraph. 5 April 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "Stauffenberg-Enkelin feiert Hochzeit in Kirchlauter". Infranken. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
Sources
- (in German) Zeller, Eberhard (1994). Oberst Claus Graf Stauffenberg. Ein Lebensbild. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. ISBN 3-506-79770-0.
- (in German) Steffahn, Harald (2002). Stauffenberg. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek. ISBN 3-499-50520-7.
- (in German) ISBN 3-10-086003-9.
- (in German) Hassel, Fey von, "Niemals sich beugen". dtv.
- (in German) Meding, Dorothee von (1997). Mit dem Mut des Herzens – Die Frauen des 20. Juli. btb Verlag. ISBN 3-442-72171-7.
External links
- (in English) Nina von Stauffenberg, The Times, 2006-04-11 (retrieved 2009-07-18).
- (in German) "Stauffenberg-Witwe gestorben" Archived 14 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Netzzeitung, 4. April 2006.
- (in German) Genealogisches Handbuch der estländischen Ritterschaft