SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Claus von Stauffenberg

1907 - 1944

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Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈʃtaʊfn̩bɛʁk] ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Operation Valkyrie, a plan that would have seen the arrest of Nazi leadership in the wake of Hitler's death and an earlier end to World War II. Stauffenberg took part in the Invasion of Poland, the 1941–42 invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa and the Tunisian campaign during the Second World War. Alongside Major Generals Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he became a key figure in the German resistance to Nazism within the Wehrmacht. On 20 July 1944, Stauffenberg's assassination attempt failed, the explosive he had placed only dealing Hitler minor injuries. The conspirators were arrested, and many of them executed, including Stauffenberg on the day after the attempt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claus von Stauffenberg is the 14th most popular social activist, the 120th most popular biography from Germany (down from 100th in 2019) and the most popular German Social Activist.

Claus von stauffenberg was a German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 14 out of 840. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. After him are Bertha von Suttner, Rosa Parks, Nicholas Winton, Jean-Paul Marat, Gustav I of Sweden, and Mary Harris Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 4. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Astrid Lindgren, and Edwin McMillan. After him are John Wayne, Ayub Khan, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, Alexander R. Todd, W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, and J. Hans D. Jensen. Among people deceased in 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 7. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, and Erwin Rommel. After him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Charles Glover Barkla, Abdulmejid II, Günther von Kluge, and Richard Sorge.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 120 out of 7,253. Before him are William the Silent (1533), Ernst Haeckel (1834), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Albert Speer (1905), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), and Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846). After him are Philip Melanchthon (1497), Arminius (-17), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Erich Honecker (1912), Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805), and Willy Brandt (1913).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 1. After him are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Horst Wessel (1907), Anneliese Michel (1952), Martin Niemöller (1892), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), and Marianne Bachmeier (1950).

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