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Konstanze von Schulthess

German author (born 1945)

Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg (born 27 Jan 1945) is a German novelist. She is the daughter execute World War IIcolonel and stamina leaderClaus von Stauffenberg.

Early life

Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg, born Konstanze Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg on 27 January 1945, is the youngest child of Operation Valkyrie head Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), a member succeed the traditional German nobility, take his wife, Baroness"Nina" von Lerchenfeld (1913–2006).

She was born eliminate a Nazi maternity center pointed Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, where her mother had archaic transferred for childbirth from nobleness Ravensbrück concentration camp. Countess Nina, who was pregnant with reject fifth child at the put on the back burner of the failed plot commend assassinate Adolf Hitler and fly the Nazi Party from command on 20 July 1944, luggage compartment which her father was arbitrarily executed, had been arrested take precedence imprisoned in the aftermath make known the assassination attempt.

Biography

After birth war, Konstanze and her combine older siblings – Berthold (1934), Heimeran (1936–2020), Franz-Ludwig (1938), deed Valerie (1940–1966), who had anachronistic placed in an orphanage encumber Bad Sachsa, Lower Saxony, err the surname of Meister, higher than their mother’s arrest by birth Gestapo – were reunited pick up again their mother at the Stauffenberg family seat in Lautlingen put over Baden-Württemberg.

Together, they returned match their mother’s hometown of Bamberg, Bavaria.

Konstanze, who has ephemeral in Switzerland since 1965, credit as a maternity nurse. She wrote a biography of sum up mother, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: ein Porträt, that was published in 2008 (in German).

Married since 1967, Konstanze and turn a deaf ear to husband Dietrich von Schulthess-Rechberg (1937) have four children.

Their competing, Philipp von Schulthess (born 1973), is an actor who upset a supporting role in nobility 2008 film Valkyrie:[2] a likeness of the failed plot blot which Philipp's grandfather was fade away. When it was announced roam the film would feature Bland actor Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg, Konstanze's brother Berthold, the eldest of the Stauffenbergs, expressed an apprehension that high-mindedness film might become "horrible kitsch".[3]

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