Re: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:55 am
Hello to all ; more............................
Stauffenberg - pre-war period.
Providence - Abitur (high school diploma) and officer training.
Claus von Stauffenberg's next goal was to become a general staff officer. But before that, maneuvers were on the training program, in May 1930 in Munsterlager; In mid-September on the Main and on the Saale, with the crowning conclusion of a parade gallop in line in front of the Reich President, Field Marshal von Hindenburg.
Claus von Stauffenberg's cavalry regiment had made a name for itself, in which his company crossed the deep Saale without any aid and successfully fell in the rear of the infantry and the artillery standing far to the rear, the so-called "red side".
On November 15, 1930, Leutnant Count Claus von Stauffenberg became engaged to Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld, daughter of a former royal Bavarian chamberlain and imperial consul-general associated with the regiment. Claus von Stauffenberg quoted his mother-in-law to Frederick the Great as saying that for an officer a woman was a necessary evil. Warriors should not marry, but at least the needs of family and offspring must be satisfied in peace.
Thirteen years after the First World War, the German Reich was still under the supervision of the victorious powers. Not only in the Reichswehr did this fact feel humiliating in view of the much larger armies of small neighboring states such as Poland and Czechoslovakia, which was allied with France against Germany and which alone had more than 600,000 men under arms, while Germany was not allowed to train any reservists at all.
In these years between 1930 and 1932, Claus von Stauffenberg and his regimental comrade von Pezold secretly trained SA men in nightly field service exercises, as they did everywhere in the Reichswehr. The collapse of the world economy in 1929 also had serious economic, social and political consequences in Germany. In 1932, unemployment exposed millions of people to impoverishment. Many had to live on sixty cents a day per person.
Leutnant Graf von Stauffenberg now believed more than his brothers that the National Socialists would make Germany strong again. The Weimar Republic offers no opportunities to do so. Article 22 of the NSDAP party program called for the formation of a large people's army, which naturally fascinated part of the officer corps.
Sources: http://www.mahnung-gegen-rechts.de/page ... gszeit.htm (Offline)
Claus und Nina von Stauffenberg. Gunter Pirntke
http://www.vho.org/D/Staatsbriefe/Strauss9_7_8_2.html
http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Hoff.htm (Offline)
Cheers. Raúl M .
Stauffenberg - pre-war period.
Providence - Abitur (high school diploma) and officer training.
Claus von Stauffenberg's next goal was to become a general staff officer. But before that, maneuvers were on the training program, in May 1930 in Munsterlager; In mid-September on the Main and on the Saale, with the crowning conclusion of a parade gallop in line in front of the Reich President, Field Marshal von Hindenburg.
Claus von Stauffenberg's cavalry regiment had made a name for itself, in which his company crossed the deep Saale without any aid and successfully fell in the rear of the infantry and the artillery standing far to the rear, the so-called "red side".
On November 15, 1930, Leutnant Count Claus von Stauffenberg became engaged to Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld, daughter of a former royal Bavarian chamberlain and imperial consul-general associated with the regiment. Claus von Stauffenberg quoted his mother-in-law to Frederick the Great as saying that for an officer a woman was a necessary evil. Warriors should not marry, but at least the needs of family and offspring must be satisfied in peace.
Thirteen years after the First World War, the German Reich was still under the supervision of the victorious powers. Not only in the Reichswehr did this fact feel humiliating in view of the much larger armies of small neighboring states such as Poland and Czechoslovakia, which was allied with France against Germany and which alone had more than 600,000 men under arms, while Germany was not allowed to train any reservists at all.
In these years between 1930 and 1932, Claus von Stauffenberg and his regimental comrade von Pezold secretly trained SA men in nightly field service exercises, as they did everywhere in the Reichswehr. The collapse of the world economy in 1929 also had serious economic, social and political consequences in Germany. In 1932, unemployment exposed millions of people to impoverishment. Many had to live on sixty cents a day per person.
Leutnant Graf von Stauffenberg now believed more than his brothers that the National Socialists would make Germany strong again. The Weimar Republic offers no opportunities to do so. Article 22 of the NSDAP party program called for the formation of a large people's army, which naturally fascinated part of the officer corps.
Sources: http://www.mahnung-gegen-rechts.de/page ... gszeit.htm (Offline)
Claus und Nina von Stauffenberg. Gunter Pirntke
http://www.vho.org/D/Staatsbriefe/Strauss9_7_8_2.html
http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Hoff.htm (Offline)
Cheers. Raúl M .