Adam von Trott zu Solz
Wire of a former minister for the state education of Prussia (current Germany), Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944) had an American grandmother, back-small-girl of John Jay, the first president of the Supreme court of the United States.
After having attended the universities of Munich, Gottingen and Berlin, it had obtained a Rhodos purse in Balliol College of Oxford.
It spent then a few years to the United States, then to China (1937-1938).
Of return in Germany in 1940, it adheres to the party Nazi to be used to him as cover and integrates the German ministry of the Foreign affairs.
Quickly introduced into the " Ring of Kreisau" , founded by the count Helmuth von Molkte, intellectual spearhead of the German Resistance to the Nazism, Adam von Trott plays a big role in the preparation of the attack against Hitler, on July 20th, 1944.
After the failure of this one, it is stopped by the Gestapo, is imprisoned, then judged in front of the Court of the people, which condemn it to death.
It can be regarded today as one of the thinking heads of German resistance to the Nazism, at the sides of personalities the such Count Claus von Stauffenberg, the Count von Molkte, Dr. Herbert Blankenhorn, the ambassador Count von der Schulenbourg, the Count Gottfrid von Bismarck…, which for much of them left their life there.
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