Schlabrendorff, Fabian Ludwig Georg Adolf Kurt von, born 01-07-1907 in Halle, Saale, the son of Carl Ludwig Ewald von Schlabrendorff, Berlin, 05-04-1854, died in Detmold, 04-02- 1923 and wife Ida Freiin von Stockmar, born in Buch, 27-09-1874, died 26-03-1944, a great-great-granddaughter of William I, Elector of Hesse by his mistress Rosa Dorothea Ritter. He was trained as a lawyer, later joining the German Army. As a Leutnant in the reserves, he was promoted to Adjutant to Oberstleutnant Henning von Tresckow
a major leader in the resistance against Adolf Hitler. He joined the resistance and acted as a secret liaison between Tresckow in Russia and Ludwig Beck, Carl Goerdeler
, Hans Paul Oster, and Friedrich Olbricht in Berlin, taking part in various coup d’état plans and plots.
On 13-03-1943, during a visit by Adolf Hitler to Army Group Center Headquarters under General Field Marshal, Fedor von Bock in Smolensk, Schlabrendorff smuggled a time bomb, disguised as bottles of cognac, onto the aircraft which carried Hitler back to Germany. The bomb detonator failed to go off, however, most likely because of the cold in the aircraft luggage compartment. Schlabrendorff managed to retrieve the bomb the next day and elude detection. The 20 July threaten for Hitler at the Bendlerblock in Berlin was saved by Major Otto Ernst Remer
commander of the Infantry Regiment Grossdeutschland
who refused to arrest Josef Goebbels after talking to an unhurt Hitler in the Wolfschanze by phone
. Schlabrendorff was arrested on July 20, 1944, following the failure of the July 20th plot. He was sent to Gestapo prison where he was tortured, but refused to talk. While imprisoned he met fellow imprisoned co-conspirators Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster, Ulrich von Hassell
, executed age 62 on 08-09-1944, Johannes Popitz
, hanged in the Plötzensee Prison, on 02-02-1945, age 60, Carl Goerdeler, also hanged age 60, on 02-02-1945, Josef Mueller,
who survived the war and died age 80, on 12-12-1979, in Munich and Alexander von Falkenhausen.













In February 1945, Schlabrendorff was brought before the infamous Nazi People’s Court of jurist Roland Freisler,
Volksgerichthof. But, while awaiting his trial, the courtroom took a direct hit from a bomb during an American air raid led by Lieutenant Colonel, Robert Rosenthal, “Rosie” Jewish future Nuremberg process prosecutor, who died age 89, in 2007





Death and burial ground of Schlabrendorff, Fabian Ludwig Georg Adolf Kurt von.





