Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg was the wife of Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the leader of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. Following the plot's failure a
Nina Gräfin von Stauffenberg's grave.
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The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a Roman Catholic Uradel German noble family from Swabia, Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
…von Stauffenberg were married on 26 September 1933 in Bamberg, Bavaria, making Nina the Countess (Gräfin) von Stauffenberg. Count Claus belonged to the House of Stauffenberg, an ancient Bavarian noble family. Although Nina's and Claus von Stauffenberg's mothers were both Lutherans, the couple's children were raised as Roman…
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Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg (1658–1740)
Patent awarding the title of Count to Anton Schenk von Stauffenberg by Emperor Joseph II, 1785