# Friedrich Klausing

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**Friedrich Karl Klausing** (24 May 1920 – 8 August 1944) was a [resistance](/source/German_resistance_to_Nazism) fighter in [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany), and one of the [20 July Plotters](/source/20_July_Plot).

## Biography

Friedrich Klausing was born in [Munich](/source/Munich), [Germany](/source/Germany). During his teens he served in the [Hitler Youth](/source/Hitler_Youth) and [Reichsarbeitsdienst](/source/Reichsarbeitsdienst) (State Labour Service).

## Military career

He joined the *[Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht)* in the autumn of 1938, belonged to the Potsdam [Infantry Regiment 9](/source/Infantry_Regiment_9) and fought and was wounded at the [Battle of Stalingrad](/source/Battle_of_Stalingrad). In July 1943 Klausing was wounded again during the Battle of Wolchow (Volkhov) near Lake Ladoga (Leningrad). He was subsequently posted to be an office assistant at the *[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht](/source/Oberkommando_der_Wehrmacht)* and was drawn into the plan to [assassinate](/source/Assassination) [Hitler](/source/Hitler) by [Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg](/source/Fritz-Dietlof_von_der_Schulenburg).

On 11 July 1944, on the first attempt on Hitler's life, Klausing went along with [Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg](/source/Claus_Schenk_von_Stauffenberg) as his adjutant to the Obersalzberg (*i.e.* the [Berghof](/source/Berghof_(Hitler)) near [Berchtesgaden](/source/Berchtesgaden)) and made sure that a car and a plane were standing by, ready to whisk the plotters away to Berlin after the job had been done. The Obersalzberg plan was, however, put off, as was a second attempt on 15 July at the [Wolf's Lair](/source/Wolf's_Lair) near [Rastenburg](/source/K%C4%99trzyn) in [East Prussia](/source/East_Prussia), where Klausing made the same preparations for Stauffenberg.

On 20 July, Captain Klausing stayed behind at the [Bendlerblock](/source/Bendlerblock) in Berlin while Stauffenberg went to the Wolf's Lair to try again, and was jointly responsible for forwarding [Operation Valkyrie](/source/Operation_Valkyrie) orders. He forwarded the orders to, among others, [Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin](/source/Ewald-Heinrich_von_Kleist-Schmenzin). On the night of 20–21 July, after it had become apparent that Stauffenberg's briefcase bomb had not killed Hitler, Klausing was the only one to escape the firefight at the Bendlerblock subsequent to which Stauffenberg and several other conspirators were captured, but the next morning, he gave himself up to the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo).

## Death

In a show trial before the [Volksgerichtshof](/source/Volksgerichtshof) on 8 August 1944, he was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out the same day at [Plötzensee](/source/Pl%C3%B6tzensee) [Prison](/source/Prison) in Berlin.

## See also

- [List of members of the 20 July plot](/source/List_of_members_of_the_20_July_plot)

## External links

Book published in 2013 (Currently available only in German): [Stauffenberg's companions, The fate of the unknown conspirators](https://www.amazon.de/dp/3446241566/)

Article published in 2018 (in German): [Friedrich Karl Klausing, the youngest of the July 20 conspirators](https://www.welt.de/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/article179650750/Attentat-auf-Hitler-So-dachte-der-Juengste-der-Verschwoerer-vom-20-Juli.html)

## References

- "Men Tried Swiftly: Plotters Executed Two Hours After Sentence by 'People's Court' Marshall Tops List Himmler Death Rumor, Wounding of Goering Are Unconfirmed 8 German Officers Hanged for Plot". *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. 9 August 1944. p. 1.

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