Haeften, Hans-Bernd von, born 18-12-1905 in Charlotteburg,
as the second child in the family of the respected officer Hans von Haeften










Werner worked for a bank in Hamburg until the outbreak of World War II, when he joined the German army.
Werner who was three younger then his brothet Hans Bernd von Haeften, and their elder sister, grew up in a liberal conservative atmosphere at home, where well-known scholars were regular visitors. Some of the people the Haeften brothers met when they were young later became their comrades in the resistance. Hans Bernd von Haeften began studying legal science in Berlin and Munich in 1924. After his final law examination in 1928 he spent a year in England as an exchange student. From 1930 to 1933 he was managing director of the Stresemann Foundation.
At that time he established initial contacts with the ecumenical movement of the European Churches. In 1933 he joined the Foreign Service; even as a diplomat he consistently refused to join the National Socialist Party (NSDAP). Haeften was one of the most important confidants in the Foreign Office for the conspirators around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
A close friend of Adam von Trott zu Solz, a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism.









Death and burial ground of Haeften, Hans-Bernd von.






His body is lost or destroyed and their is a Ehrengrab (Kenotaph) on the gravestone of his wife Barbara on the St. Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem.


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