Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1 July 1907-3 September 1980) was a German Resistance leader during World War II who took part in several assassination attempts on the life of Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.
Biography[]
Fabian von Schlabrendorff was born on 1 July 1907 and became a lawyer. As a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht reserves, he became the adjutant to Colonel Henning von Tresckow, who was secretly a major leader of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler. On 13 March 1943 he tried to bomb Adolf Hitler's plane as he returned from an inspection in Smolensk, but the time bomb was defused by cold luggage, and Schlabrendorff succeeded in retrieving the bomb and preventing the plot from being discovered. On 20 July 1944 he was arrested after the 20 July plot's failure, and he would have been executed had it not been for the bombing of the courthouse where he was tried by the Royal Air Force, killing the judge Roland Freisler. He was later moved to Tyrol in late April 1945 from the Dachau concentration camp, but he was rescued when the brave Wehrmacht officer Wichard von Alvensleben decided to defy the Waffen-SS and free Schlabrendorff and the other prisoners. From 1967 to 1975, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of West Germany and died in 1980.