Haeften, Werner Karl Otto Theodore von, born 09-10-1908 in Berlin,
son of Hans von Haeften
, an officer and later president of the National Archives, and Agnes, born von Brauchitsch.
Brother: Hans-Bernd von Haeften
(1905-1944), also involved in the resistance; worked in Foreign Office, was executed 15-08-1944, age 38, in Berlin-Plotzensee. On 02-09-1930 Hans-Bernd von Haeften married Barbara Curtius (7-11-1908 -1-4-2006)
Hans-Bernd and Werner had one sister Elisabeth “Liet” Charlotte Agnes Hedwig, married Harmsen
. Werner 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, treated by surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch
the same physician that treated Claus von Stauffenberg
who was wounded seriously in Africa, serving under Erwin Rommel,
He lost an eye and some fingers. Haeften became adjutant to Oberstleutnant der Kavallerie, Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg,














Death and burial ground of Haeften, Werner Karl Otto Theodore von.


On the same day as he was arrested, 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. Fromm himself couldn’t deny his involvement and was executed age 56, on 12-03-1945.







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