Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a
German army officer and member of the traditional German nobility who was one of the leading members of the failed
20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate
Adolf Hitler and remove the
Nazi Party from power. Along with
Henning von Tresckow and
Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the
German Resistance movement within the
Wehrmacht. For his involvement in the movement he was executed by firing squad shortly after the failed attempt known as
Operation Valkyrie.