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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Adam von Trott zu Solz, Adolf Reichwein, Albrecht Haushofer, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Albrecht von Hagen, Alfred Delp, Alfred Kranzfelder, Anton Saefkow, Arthur Nebe, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Busso Thoma, Caesar von Hofacker, Carl-Heinrich von Stulpnagel, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Carl Langbehn, Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eduard Brucklmeier, Eduard Wagner, Egbert Hayessen, Elisabeth von Thadden, Erich Fellgiebel, Ernst Schneppenhorst, Erwin Planck, Erwin von Witzleben, Eugen Bolz, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, Ferdinand von Luninck, Friedrich Fromm, Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, Friedrich Klausing, Friedrich Olbricht, Friedrich von Rabenau, Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, Fritz Thiele, Gunther Smend, Hans-Jurgen von Blumenthal, Hans Bernd von Haeften, Hans Georg Klamroth, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Hans John, Hans Koch, Hans Otfried von Linstow, Hasso von Boehmer, Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Helmuth Stieff, Hermann Josef Wehrle, Hermann Maass, Joachim Meichssner, Joachim Sadrozinski, Josef Wirmer, Karl Ernst Rahtgens, Karl Freiherr von Thungen, Karl Sack, Klaus Bonhoeffer, List of members of the 20 July plot, Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod, Ludwig Schwamb, Michael Graf von Matuschka, Nikolaus Gross, Nikolaus von Uxkull-Gyllenband, Otto Herfurth, Otto Kiep, Paul von Hase, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Reinhold Frank, Robert Bernardis, Roland von Hosslin, Rudiger Schleicher, Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, Saefkow-Jacob-Bastlein Organization, Theodor Strunck, Walter Cramer, Werner von Haeften, Wilhelm Canaris, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf. Excerpt: Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 2 February 1945) was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant, and opponent of the Nazi regime. Had the 20 July plot of 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government. Goerdeler was born to a family of Prussian civil servants in Schneidemuhl, Germany (now Pi a, Poland) in the Prussian Province of Posen. Goerdeler's parents were supporters of the Free Conservative Party, and Goerdeler's father served in the Prussian Landtag as a member of that party after 1899. Goerdeler's upbringing was described by his biographer and friend Gerhard Ritter as a part of a large, loving middle-class family that was cultured, devoutly Lutheran, nationalist, and conservative. As a young man, the deeply religious Goerdeler chose as his motto to live by, omnia restaurare in Christo (restoring everything in Christ). Goerdeler studied economics and law at the University of Tubingen between 1902 and 1905. Starting in 1911, Goerdeler worked as a civil servant for the municipal government of Solingen. That same year, Goerdeler married Anneliese Ulrich, by whom he had five children. Goerdeler was described as: Goerdeler's own career had been both impressive and idiosyncratic. He came of conservative Prussian stock with a strong sense of duty and service to the State; his father had been a district judge. His upbringing had been happy, but sternly intellectual and moral; his legal training had pointed to a career in local administration and economics...He was a born organiser, an able, voluble speaker and writer, tough and highly individual; in politics he became a right-wing liberal. Although at heart a very humane man, Goerderler's frigid, spartan belief in hard work and his austere, puritanical morality-he would not tolerate a divorced man or woman in his house-lacked warmth and comradeship. He was, in fact, an autocrat by nature and his commanding personality, combinded wi
