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Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II. He is known for being one of the plotters involved in the 20 July Plot, an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Olbricht was a senior staff officer, with the rank of lieutenant general.
The primary military conspirators were General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, along with Claus-Heinrich Stülpnagel, the military commander in France.
In World War II: The Allied invasions of western Europe, June–November 1944. …with some notable success: General Friedrich Olbricht (chief of the General Army Office) and several of the serving commanders, including Rommel and Kluge, became implicated to various extents.
During 1942, Oster and Tresckow nevertheless succeeded in rebuilding an effective resistance network. Their most important recruit was General Friedrich Olbricht, head of the General Army Office headquarters at the Bendlerblock in central Berlin, who controlled an independent system of communications to reserve units throughout Germany. Linking ...
Jul 20, 1998 · In a countercoup at the Berlin headquarters, General Friedrich Fromm, who had known about and condoned the plot, sought to prove his allegiance by arresting a few of the chief conspirators, who were promptly shot (Stauffenberg, Olbricht, and two aides) or forced to commit suicide (Beck).
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Friedrich Olbricht was born in Germany in 1888. He fought in the German Army during the First World War and by 1938 had reached the rank of lieutenant general. In 1940 Olbricht became chief of the General Army Office in Berlin.
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With the aid of these commands, they hoped to gain control of the military districts after Hitler’s assassination and prevent counteractions. Friedrich Olbricht and Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim initiated Operation “Valkyrie” at around 4 p.m. on July 20, 1944.
