Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (died 1980)

Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff

German general and failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (1905–1980)

Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff was an officer in the German Army. As a Wehrmacht intelligence officer, he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. That same month,…