Friedrich Olbricht
German general
Died when: 55 years 291 days (669 months)Star Sign: Libra
Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II and one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
He was a senior staff officer, with the rank of lieutenant general.He was secretly in contact with most of the leaders of the resistance.
They briefed him on their various plots and he placed sympathetic officers in key positions.He quietly encouraged field commanders to support the resistance.
By late 1943 his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, under Claus von Stauffenberg.Had the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler been successful, he would have assumed the position of Minister of Finance in a post-Nazi regime.
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