Kurt von Plettenberg

He was involved in the preparations for the 20 July plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich.

Born in Buckeburg, Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg studied law and forestry at the universities of Kiel, Lausanne, Hannoversch Münden, Berlin, Munich and Eberswalde.

In 1937, he resigned from the forest service at his own request because the political prescriptions of the National Socialist regime conflicted with his opinions.

In the post of court chamberlain, he administered the property of the former royal house of Schaumburg-Lippe.

To avoid betraying his friends under torture, he threw himself out of a third-floor window of the Gestapo’s "house prison" at 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Straße in Berlin.