Abstract
The jurist and diplomat Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944) was
employed as an official in the foreign ministry starting in 1940. He
used his post to try to secure Allied support for the German opposition
movement that had developed around Hans Oster in the Wehrmacht’s Office
of Military Intelligence. His efforts were ultimately fruitless.
Additionally, Solz also participated in the Kreisau Circle’s discussions
on the governmental and social reconstruction of Germany after the
hoped-for fall of the Nazi regime. He was arrested in the course of the
investigation into the July 20, 1944, attempt to assassinate Hitler,
sentenced to death by the People's Court, and hanged on August 26 of the
same year.