Eugen Gerstenmaier
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Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier was a German Protestant theologian, resistance fighter in the Third Reich, and a CDU politician. From 1954 to 1969, he served as the third president of the Bundestag.
"Langer Eugen" in Bonn, the former (until 1999) Bundestag members' office building.
Kreisau Circle
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The Kreisau Circle was a group of about twenty-five German dissidents in Nazi Germany led by jurist and nobleman Helmuth James von Moltke, who met up from 1940 at the historic Moltke estate in the rur
Eugen Gerstenmaier
…in the German Evangelical Church's office for outside affairs. After the Munich Conference in 1938, Gerstenmaier joined the resistance group about the Kreisau Circle. On 20 July 1944, the day of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg's attempt on Adolf Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia, Gerstenmaier was at his…
The von Moltke estate in Kreisau, Silesia
Helmuth James von Moltke, founder of the Kreisau Circle.