Konstanze von Schulthess

Konstanze von Schulthess Rechenberg ( born January 27, 1945 in Frankfurt ( Oder) ) is a German author.

Schulthess Rechenberg is the youngest of the five children of Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. She lives in Zurich. In 2008 she published a biography of her mother Nina von Stauffenberg.

Life

Konstanze von Schulthess Rechenberg came on 27 January 1945 as Konstanze Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg six months after the execution of her father in a women's maternity home of the National Socialists in Frankfurt ( Oder) to the world, where her mother had been transferred from the Ravensbrück concentration camp for childbirth. Your pregnant mother Nina had already taken a few days after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 in guilt by association. After the war, Konstanze Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg grew up with her ​​four older siblings Berthold, Heimeran, Franz Ludwig and Valerie on the seat of the Stauffenberg family in Lautlingen and in Bamberg, the hometown of her mother on. She was trained as a maternity nurse to help young mothers to help after the birth at home. Since 1965 she has lived in Switzerland. She is married and has four children. Her son Philipp von Schulthess is an actor and was primarily for his involvement in the film Operation Valkyrie - The Stauffenberg assassination known in which the story is told of his grandfather.

Writings

• Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: A child as " enemy of the people ". In: Thomas Vogel (eds.): Rise of conscience. Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. 6th edition. Mediator, Hamburg, among others 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0708-0, pp. 287-295.
• Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg. A portrait. Pendo, Munich, etc. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85842-652-9.
• Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg. A portrait. With a foreword and a personal afterword by the author. audio media, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86804-055-5 ( Audiobook ).