Tresckow, Hermann Karl Robert “Henning” von, born 10-01-1901 in Magdeburg,
the son of thea nobel Prussian officer
Leopold Hans Heinrich Eugen Hermann von Tresckow and his second wife Marie Agnes, born von Zedlitz and Trützschler. Hermann volunteered at the age of sixteen and served in the First World War in 1917-18. In 1920, he left the Army and took up the study of law. Four years later, he took over his father’s estate
in the Neumark region only to join the Reichswehr again two years after that. Tresckow was initially skeptical of the Weimar Republic. He completed training for the General Staff and was married to Erika “Ida” von Falkenhayn, with whom he had two daughters and two sons. 




In 1886 General Erich von Falkenhayn
married Ida Selkmann, with whom he had a son Fritz Georg Adalbert von Falkenhayn (1890–1973)
and a daughter Erika Karola Olga von Falkenhayn (1904–1975) who married Henning von Tresckow.



Tresckow joined the 1 Regiment of the Food Guards as an officer cadet at age of 16 and became the youngest leutnant in the Army in June 1918. In the Second Battle of the Marne, he earned the Iron Cross 1st class
for outstanding courage and independent action against the enemy. At that time Count Siegfried von Eulenberg, the commander of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, predicted that “You, Tresckow, will either become chief of the General Staff or die on the scaffold as a rebel. Von Eulenberg died old age 91, on 18-10-1961 in Lindau. He initially welcomed the National Socialist takeover but became increasingly skeptical of Hitler’s policies and finally joined the ranks of the resolute opponents to the regime following the November pogroms in 1938. Tresckow strengthened the connections between the military resistance and victim of Operation Walküre. “20-07-1944, Ludwig Beck
and Carl Goerdeler,
who died on the guillotine, age 60, on 02-02-1945 and assumed a dominant position among the officers of the opposition. He believed it was necessary to “shoot Hitler like a mad dog.” For him, the assassination attempt was an act of self-defense and the consequence of a moral obligation. Tresckow succeeded in finding several fellow officers who were prepared to risk their lives to carry out the assassination that they knew to be necessary. Assigned to the command of Army Group G under General Gerd von Rundstedt



















Death and burial ground of Tresckow, Hermann Karl Robert “Henning” von.








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