Margarethe von Oven (11 March 1904-5 February 1991) was a German secretary who was affiliated with the German Resistance during World War II.
Biography[]
Margarethe von Oven was born in Berlin, Germany in 1904 to a family of Prussian nobility; her father was killed in the opening weeks of World War I. Oven became a secretary in 1920, working for the Defense Ministry after 1925. She worked at the military attache's office in Moscow in 1928, for the Reichswehr Ministry from 1930 to 1935, at the military attache offices in Budapest and Lisbon, and at the Bendlerblock headquarters of the Defense Ministry during World War II. Her superior and friend Henning von Tresckow recruited her into the German Resistance, and she was arrested for two weeks following the failure of the 20 July plot. However, she was allowed to return to her job after questioning. After the war, she worked for a medical practice and an investment management office, and she died in Gottingen in 1991.