Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz[a] (15 October 1886 – 12 October 1944) was a Colonel of the Wehrmacht,[1] member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany and hanged after the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.
Early life
Born in Munich, Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz completed his training to be a career officer in the German Imperial Army. He worked initially in a successor organization to military counterintelligence after the First World War. In the 1920s he became acquainted with Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg at the Reichswehr Reiterregiment 17 in Bamberg.[2]
Second World War
In 1935, he was transferred to the Abwehr of Wilhelm Canaris and was sent to Vienna in 1938, where he served as the Chief of the counterintelligence office aka Abwehr department Vienna.[3] Marogna-Redwitz cooperated with the catholic-conservative parts of resistance in Austria.[4] After Canaris was disbanded out of office in early 1944, Marogna-Redwitz was transferred to the Army High Command in Berlin at the instigation of Friedrich Olbricht.
Among those who worked for him was Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader.
Marogna-Redwitz belonged to the tight circle with the brothers Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg and Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg and was scheduled as the plotter's liaison officer in Vienna.[5]
20 July plot
On 20 July 1944, while in Vienna, he contacted the Austrian Politicians Karl Seitz and Josef Reither[5] and took action against local Nazis[2] but was soon arrested by the Gestapo, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof or the People's Court on 12 October 1944 and hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin the same day.[5]
Personal life
Marogna-Redwitz and wife Anna Gräfin von Arco-Zinneberg had one daughter and two sons.[5]
Notes
- ^ Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.