Clarita von Trott

Clarita von Trott zu Solz, née Tiefenbacher (born on 19 September 1917 in Hamburg; died on 28 March 2013 in Berlin), was a German medical doctor and psychotherapist and the widow of Adam von Trott zu Solz, one of the figureheads of German resistance to Nazism and one of the protagonists of the 20 July Plot, who was executed after the failure of the assassination attempt on Hitler.

She became acquainted with Adam von Trott zu Solz in 1935, happened to travel with him to China and married him in June 1940.

Under the Sippenhaft law, which put criminal liability of the next of kin to a person who was considered a criminal, she was placed in custody in the Moabit Prison, in Berlin, while her two daughters, aged respectively two years and nine months, were interned under false names in the SS-run Children's Home in Borntal [de], in Bad Sachsa.

[2] In 1950, Clarita von Trott began studying medicine and in 1965 wrote her thesis on "the influence of the usual fixers of ultraviolet absorption by serum protein bodies".

In 1987, she wrote, "My life has been exceptionally rich as the mother to my daughters and their families, and as a therapist, through the friendships and the medical treatment of people in a state of mental distress, but in the centre of my existence, Adam's place, has remained empty".