Infantry Regiment 9 of Potsdam (I.R. 9) was an infantry regiment in Weimar Republic's Reichswehr and Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, descended from famed 1st Prussian Regiment of Foot Guards in the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

's Deutsches Reichsheer. Garrisoned at the cradle of

Prussian army The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, german: Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development of Brandenburg-Prussia as a European power. The Prussian Army had its roots in the co ...

and rich with tradition, it was nicknamed 'Count Nine' (Graf Neun) or 'I.R. von 9' by its detractors because of high percentage of Prussian aristocrats and purported arrogance in its ranks. Today it is most remembered for the fact that nineteen of its officers (or former officers) were involved in conspiracy against Hitler, more by far than any other German regiment. Most of them were executed or committed suicide after the failure of 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 ...

to assassinate Hitler. Major General Henning von Tresckow and Lieutenant Colonel Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg in particular were central figures in

German resistance German resistance can refer to: * Freikorps, German nationalist paramilitary groups resisting German communist uprisings and the Weimar Republic government * German resistance to Nazism * Landsturm, German resistance groups fighting against France d ...

. The regiment's tradition is continued by the Wachbataillon of the Bundeswehr.

Officers who conspired against Hitler

Lieutenant Colonel Hasso von Boehmer
Major Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst
Captain Dr. Hans Fritzsche
Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth von Gottberg
Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein
Lieutenant Colonel (res.)

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg (October 22, 1891 – October 24, 1958) was a German people, German politician and landowner. Early life and ancestry Carl-Has was born was born in Glogau Silesia, Germany (now Głogów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship) ...

Lieutenant General Paul von Hase
Lieutenant

Ewald Heinrich von Kleist Ewald-Heinrich Hermann Konrad Oskar Ulrich Wolf Alfred von Kleist-Schmenzin (10 July 1922 – 8 March 2013) was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an off ...

Colonel

Hans Otfried von Linstow Hans Otfried von Linstow, (16 March 1899 – 30 August 1944) was a German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army colonel. He took part in the 20 July Plot to assassination, assassinate Adolf Hitler. Early life Born in Berlin, von Linstow joined the German ...

Captain

Friedrich Karl Klausing Friedrich Karl Klausing (24 May 1920 – 8 August 1944) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, and one of the 20 July Plotters. Biography Friedrich Klausing was born in Munich, Germany. During his teens he served in the Hitler Youth and Re ...

Major (res.
Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck

Major (res.) Herbert Meyer
Lieutenant Georg-Sigismund von Oppen
Colone
Alexis Freiherr von Roenne

Lieutenant Colonel (res.) Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg
Lieutenant Colone
Gerd von Tresckow

Major General Henning von Tresckow
Lieutenant Colonel i. G
Hans-Alexander von Voß

Captain (res.)

Achim Freiherr von Willisen Joachim Freiherr von Willisen (31 January 1900 – 5 April 1983) was a German public official and member of the Resistance against the Nazi régime. Biography Willisen was born in Bärenwalde, West Prussia, German Empire (modern Bincze, Poland) ...

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Captain (res.)

Richard von Weizsäcker Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician ( CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobilit ...

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