Ernst von Harnack

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Ernst Wolf Alexander Oskar Harnack, granted the title von Harnack in 1914 (b. 15th July, 1888, in Marburg/Lahn; d. 5th March, 1945, in Berlin), was a head of the Prussian provincial government, a German politician, and a resistance fighter. He was arrested, tried and executed in March 1945 at Plötzensee Prison for political opposition to the Nazi party.

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Harnack was the son of the theologian Professor Dres. Adolf of Harnack (1851-1930) and the Amalie Thiersch (1858-1937), the granddaughter chemist Justus von Liebig. On 25 March, 1916, in Hindenburg (Upper Silesia), he married Anna (Änne) Wiggert (b. 5 October, 1894, in Göttelborn, Ottweiler district , Saarland; d. 22 August, 1960, in Berlin), daughter of Prussian official Ernst Wiggert and Elizabeth Schmidt. Together they had two sons and three daughters.