Henning von Tresckow
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Henning von Tresckow (1944)
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| Birth name | Hermann Henning Karl Robert von Tresckow |
| Born | 10 January 1901 Magdeburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 21 July 1944 (aged 43) Królowy Most, Bezirk Bialystok, Nazi Germany now Królowy Most, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland |
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 Imperial German Army Reichswehr Wehrmacht Heer
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| Years of service | 1917–20, 1926–44 |
| Rank | Generalmajor |
| Commands held | Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army |
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World War I World War II |
| Spouse(s) | Erika von Falkenhayn |
| Other work | Drafted the Valkyrie plan for the 20 July plot |
Hermann Henning Karl Robert von Tresckow (10 January 1901 – 21 July 1944) was an officer in the German Army who helped organize German resistance against Adolf Hitler. He attempted to assassinate Hitler in March 1943 and drafted the Valkyrie plan for a coup against the German government. He was described by the Gestapo as the "prime mover" and the "evil spirit" behind the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. He committed suicide at Królowy Most on the Eastern Front upon the plot's failure.
Tresckow was born in Magdeburg into a noble family from the Brandenburg region of Prussia with 300 years of military tradition that provided the Prussian Army with 21 generals. His father, later a cavalry general, had been present at Kaiser Wilhelm I's coronation as the emperor of new German Empire at Versailles in 1871. His mother was the daughter of Count Robert Zedlitz-Trützschler, a Prussian Minister of Education.
He received most of his early education from tutors on his family's remote rural estate; from 1913 to 1917, he was a student at the Gymnasium in the town of Goslar. He joined the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards as an officer cadet at age of 16 and became the youngest lieutenant in the Army in June 1918. In the Second Battle of the Marne, he earned the Iron Cross 2nd class for outstanding courage and independent action against the enemy. At that time Count Siegfried von Eulenberg, the commander of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, predicted that "You, Tresckow, will either become chief of the General Staff or die on the scaffold as a rebel."
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