Adolf von Harnier

Adolf Freiherr von Harnier (April 14, 1903 – May 12, 1945) was a German lawyer and member of the resistance against the Nazi Party.^[1] Born in Bavaria, he was the son of a landowner. He earned a doctor of law degree in 1934 and then settled in Munich as a lawyer. He rejected Nazism and was converted to Catholicism. As a jurist, he defended clerics and Jews during the Nazi era. He was the leader of a group which supported the restoration of monarchism in Bavaria.

Denounced by a Gestapo informer, he was arrested in 1939. Tried for treason, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. He died of typhoid fever on May 12, 1945, shortly after the prison in Straubing he was detained in was liberated by US Troops.^[2]

References[]

^ Snyder, Louis L. (1998). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 978-1-85326-684-3.
^ "ADOLF FREIHERR VON HARNIER". German Resistance Memorial Center. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

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[1] Snyder, Louis L. (1998). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 978-1-85326-684-3.

[2] "ADOLF FREIHERR VON HARNIER". German Resistance Memorial Center. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

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