Henning von Tresckow

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Henning von Tresckow (January 10 1901 – July 21 1944) was a Major General in the German Wehrmacht.

In the winter 1939/40 he served as general staff officer under von Rundstedt and Erich von Manstein in Army Group A.

From November 20 1943 he served under Field Marshal Günther von Kluge as Chief of staff of the German Army Group Center in the Soviet Union until his death.

Although at first a sympathizer of National Socialism, he became an enemy of Hitler in 1938 and was active in the military resistance. He developed several assassination plots against Hitler and Himmler, but all failed.

Von Tresckow killed himself with a hand-grenade in a pretended partisan attack after Claus von Stauffenberg's assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and the following coup in Berlin (July 20,1944) had failed.

von Tresckow: "Hitler is not only the very enemy of germany, but the enemy of the world."

"The assassination must be attempted at all costs. Even if it should not succeed, an attempt to seize power in Berlin must be made. What matters now is no longer the practical purpose of the coup, but to prove to the world and for the records of history that the men of the resistance dared to take the decisive step. Compared to this objective, nothing else is of consequence."

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