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Personal data Werner von Haeften 

• He was born on October 9, 1908.
• He died on July 20, 1944, he was 35 years old.
• A child of Hans Maximilian Gustav von Haeften and Agnes von Brauchitsch
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

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Assistent van von Stauffenberg en medepleger van de aanslag op Adolf Hitler.

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Werner von Haeften (October 09, 1908 - July 20, 1944) ;
Werner von Haeften
An attorney and first lieutenant, Haeften serves primarily on the eastern front. After recovering from being severely wounded, he is assigned to the staff of commanding officer of the Ersatzheer (Reserve Army) and serves as Stauffenberg's adjutant from November 1943 on. There he plays a key role in planning the assassination attempt. On July 20, 1944, Haeften and Stauffenberg fly to Hitler's headquarters in the "Wolf's Lair" near Rastenburg in East Prussia. Here Haeften helps Stauffenberg with the final preparations for the assassination attempt. After the bomb detonates, Haeften and Stauffenberg are able to leave the restricted area surrounding Hitler's headquarters under a pretext, and they succeed in escaping to Berlin by air. After the attempted coup has failed, Haeften is executed by a firing squad in the inner courtyard of the Bendler Block in the night of July 20-21, 1944, together with Stauffenberg, Friedrich Olbricht, and Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim.

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Werner von Haeften
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Werner von Haeften
9 October 1908(1908-10-09) – 21 July 1944 (aged 35)

Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Place of death Berlin, Germany
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branch Wehrmacht
Years of service 1939-1944
Rank Oberleutnant
Battles/wars World War II

Werner Karl von Haeften (9 October 1908 - 21 July 1944[1]) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the July 20 Plot.

Haeften and his brother Hans Bernd von Haeften were born in Berlin to Hans von Haeften, an army officer and President of the Reichsarchiv. He studied law in his hometown and then worked for a bank in Hamburg until the outbreak of World War II, when he joined the German army.

In 1943, having recovered from a severe wound he had suffered on the eastern front, Haeften became adjutant to Oberstleutnant Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the leading figures in the German Resistance.

On 20 July 1944 Haeften accompanied Stauffenberg to the military high command of the Wehrmacht near Rastenburg, East Prussia, where the latter planted a briefcase bomb in Hitler's Wolfsschanze bunker. After the detonation, Stauffenberg and Haeften rushed to Berlin and, not knowing that Hitler had survived the explosion, engaged in a coup d'état, which would swiftly fail.
Memorial at Bendlerblock

On the same day, Haeften, along with Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators General Friedrich Olbricht and Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, was arrested and condemned to death by General Friedrich Fromm. All four were shot after midnight by a ten man firing squad from the Grossdeutschland Guard Battalion in the courtyard of the War Ministry, the Bendlerblock.[2] When Stauffenberg was about to be shot, in a last dramatic gesture of defiance, Haeften threw himself into the path of the bullets.[3]

His brother Hans Bernd von Haeften was executed on the 15th August at Plötzensee Prison.

Haeften is portrayed by Jamie Parker (The History Boys) in the upcoming movie, Valkyrie.

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