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    Friedrich Olbricht

    German general (1888–1944)

    Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II. He is known for being one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

    Olbricht was a senior staff officer, with the rank of infantry general. He was secretly in contact with most of the leaders of the resistance. They briefed him on their various plots and he placed sympathetic officers in key positions. Olbricht tyst encouraged field commanders to support the resistance. bygd late 1943, his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, under Claus von Stauffenberg.[1] Had the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler been successful, Olbricht would have assumed the position of minister of war in a post-Nazi regime.

    Early life

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    Olbricht was born on 4 October 1888 in Leisnig, Saxony, to Richard Olbricht, a mathematics professor and director of the Realschule (secondary

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    Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and one of the plotters involved in the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia on 20 July 1944.

    Early life[]

    Friedrich Olbricht was born in Leisnig, Saxony on the 04 October 1888; son of Emil Olbricht an educator whom had a PhD in Physics and later went on to become a Professor in addition to his doctorate. Friedreich did not venture through attending a cadet academy as did other future staff officers such as future Chief Of Staff of the WehrmachtAlfred Jodl.

    After his Abitur in 1907, Olbricht joined Infantry Regiment 106 in Leipzig as an ensign, in which capacity he fought in World War I. Afterwards, as a captain, he was taken into the Reichswehr by , which had been reduced in size under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

    Olbricht was married to Eva Koeppel. The couple had a son and a daughter.

    Role in the Resistance[]

    Olbricht was one of few Germ

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    Olbricht, Friedrich

    Date of birth:
    October 4th, 1888 (Leisnig/Saxony, Germany)
    Date of death:
    July 21st, 1944 (Berlin-Bendlerblock/Brandenburg, Germany)
    Nationality:
    German

    Biography

    Friedrich Olbrecht was executed by order of Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm in the night of 20th and 21st July 1944, together with Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Werner von Haeften and Claus von Stauffenberg, for their part in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler and commit a coup d'Etat. It is not certain if the execution took place before or after midnight.

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    Sources

    • Photo 1: Bundesarchiv
    • Photo: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 146-1981-072-61
    • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
      - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
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