(1888-10-04)4 October 1888 Leisnig, Saxony, German Empire
Died
21 July 1944(1944-07-21) (aged 55) Berlin, Gau Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Military service
Allegiance
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Branch/service
German Army
Years of service
1907–44
Rank
General der Infanterie
Commands
24th Infantry Division
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II. He is known for being one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Olbricht 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. Olbricht quietly encouraged field commanders to support the resistance. By late 1943, his office was the centre of Resistance plotting, under Claus von Stauffenberg.[1] Had the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler been successful, Olbricht would have assumed the position of minister of war in a post-Nazi regime.
^Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr, eds. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990 (2 vol. Garland, 1998) 2:724–25.
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