Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz

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Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz

Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (15 October 188612 October 1944) was a German Resistance member in Nazi Germany, and a member of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.

Born in Munich, Marogna-Redwitz belonged to the tight circle about the brothers Claus and Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. After the failed attempt on the Führer's life, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof and hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

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Regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin.

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