Egbert Hayessen

Egbert Hayessen (born 28 December 1913 in Eisleben, † August 15, 1944 in Berlin- Plotzensee ) was a German major and resistance fighters.

Training

He grew up on the Hessian State Domain Mittelhof to near Felsberg - Gensungen. 1924 moved Egbert Hayessen to enable Roßleben. There he made in 1933 at the convent school Roßleben the Abitur. After graduation Hayessen completed military training at the Artillery Regiment No. 12 in Schwerin. At first he was a career officer and rose to Major General Staff by the Supreme Commander of the Reserve Army General Friedrich Fromm. In 1943 he worked on the staff of Friedrich Olbricht.

Involvement in the assassination attempt of 20 July 1944

By Robert Bernardis learned Hayessen Egbert on July 15, 1944 Sponsored by the Valkyrie and the planned assassination of Adolf Hitler. He turned abruptly from National Socialism and participated spontaneously in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, when he used the provided logistical connections to the city commander Paul von Hase and Police Commissioner Wolf -Heinrich Graf von Helldorf. On the day of the attack Egbert Hayessen Paul von Hase brought the news of the arrest of General Fromm at the Bendlerstrasse. Subsequently, he was involved in the occupation of Berlin's commandant, in preparations for the occupation of the broadcast building in Berlin, and finally to the arrest of the Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels.

Egbert Hayessen was hanged on 15 August 1944 sentenced in a process whose judgments are now rated as judicial murders, death, and on the same day in Plotzensee.

Memorials

Is thought Egbert Hayessen in the memorial Plotzensee. In addition, a plaque and a street name to remember in the near Mittelhofs at Gensungen to his personal revolt of conscience.