High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born 3 July 1934 in Bamberg) is a retired German Bundeswehr general. He is the oldest of five children of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and nephew of Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, two German aristocrats who were active in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. After the failed assassination and the subsequent executions, Claus's pregnant wife Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg was inte ...