Alfred Kranzfelder (10 February 1908 – 10 August 1944) was a German naval officer and a member of the German resistance against
Adolf Hitler's
Nazi regime.
He was born in
Kempten im Allgäu,
Bavaria and joined the ''
Reichsmarine'' in 1927. In 1933 he was promoted to ''
Leutnant zur See'' and in 1937 as a member of the ''
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...
'' he served on the battleship
Admiral Scheer
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (30 September 1863 – 26 November 1928) was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine''). Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commandin ...
. He was transferred to
Berlin for health reasons in February 1940, where he worked in the Operations Department of the 1st Sea War Branch of the Naval High Command as liaison officer to the Foreign Ministry.
He met fellow naval officer
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in 1943 and became active in the resistance against the Nazi regime. His opportunities to actively participate in the
20 July plot
On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, now Kętrzyn, in present-day Poland. The ...
were limited but he was asked to find further potential resistance members in the navy.
He was arrested shortly after Berthold von Stauffenburg on 24 July 1944 and tried by the
People's Court on 10 August 1944 with
Erich Fellgiebel,
Georg Hansen,
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg and
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. He was sentenced to death by
Roland Freisler and executed by hanging on 10 August 1944 at
Plötzensee Prison, Berlin.
See also
*
List of members of the 20 July plot
External links
dmh de Biography of Alfred Kranzfelder
1908 births
1944 deaths
People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison
People from Bavaria executed at Plötzensee Prison
Kriegsmarine personnel killed in World War II
Executed members of the 20 July plot
Military personnel from the Kingdom of Bavaria
People from Kempten im Allgäu
Reichsmarine personnel
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Executed military personnel