Deichmann, Carl (1906–1985): Freya’s brother; Helmuth James’s contact with the Dutch resistance
Deichmann, Carl Theodor (1866–1931): Banker; Freya’s father
Deichmann, Hans (1907–2004): Freya’s brother; member of the Schwarzwald Circle in Vienna; in Italy from 1940 as liaison to Italian chemical industry; supported the Italian resistance
Delp, Alfred (1907–1945): Jesuit; member of the Kreisau Circle; discussed theology with Helmuth James, with whom he spent his final months in Tegel when the two were in adjacent cells; executed on February 2, 1945
Dieter: See, Dietrich von Mirbach
Dietz: See Truchsess, Dietrich Baron von
Dix, Rudolf (1884–1952): Attorney and defense lawyer; closest legal adviser of Freya and Helmuth James
Ebersberg: Adjutant of Reich minister of justice Otto Georg Thierack
Eddy: See Waetjen, Eduard
Eggensberger: Undersecretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice
Ehrlich, Dr.: District court director
Einsiedel, Horst von (1905–1948): Early friend of Helmuth James; doctorate in economics; economic policy expert in the Kreisau Circle
Faulhaber, Michael von (1869–1952): Cardinal; archbishop of Munich and Freising; contact with Helmuth James by way of the Munich Jesuits in the Kreisau Circle
Fehr, Anton (1881–1954): Bavarian secretary of state for nutritional issues; arrested on July 22, 1944, along with Andreas Hermes and Otto Gessler; incarcerated at Ravensbrück concentration camp; never made to stand trial
Franke, Dr.: Undersecretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice
Frau Pastor: See Wild, Frau
Freisler, Roland (1893–1945): State secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice in 1934; president of the People’s Court as of August 1942
Freyberg, Daisy Baronesse von (1913–2010): Stage name Daisy d’Ora; actress; friend from the Schwarzwald Circle in Vienna
Friedrich, Frau: Acquaintance of Hans Peters
Frisby, Julian (1911–2000 ?): Horticultural architect; British friend of the Moltkes who was a guest in Kreisau before the war and co-wrote the first English history of Helmuth James and the Kreisau Circle after the war
Fritzi: See Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der
Fugger von Glött, Joseph-Ernst Fürst (1895–1981): In the monarchist resistance in Bavaria; sentenced to three years in prison in trial with Helmuth James; his cell was on the same corridor as that of Helmuth James in Tegel prison
Gaevernitz, Gero (né Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz): Emigrated to the United States; worked in Allen W. Dulles’s intelligence operation; recipient of US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Gentz, Werner: Criminal lawyer; circuit judge during the Nazi years; in the Ministry of Justice until 1933; helped Poelchau get his position in Tegel prison
Gerstenmaier, Brigitte (née von Schmidt): Wife of Eugen Gerstenmaier
Gerstenmaier, Eugen (1906–1986): Colleague of Bishop Theophil Wurm in the Protestant foreign church office; member of the Kreisau Circle; arrested on July 20, 1944; incarcerated with Helmuth James and Alfred Delp in Tegel prison; sentenced by the People’s Court to seven years in prison; president of the German Bundestag from 1954 to 1969
Gissel: Head guard in Tegel prison
Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich (1884–1945): Jurist and politician; mayor of Leipzig before 1933; head of the conservative military and civilian resistance; executed along with Alfred Delp and Johannes Popitz on February 2, 1945
Gollwitzer, Helmut (1908–1993): Theologian of the Protestant Confessing Church; pastor in Berlin-Dahlem; friend of Harald Poelchau
Görisch, Gerhard: Senior public prosecutor; lead prosecutor in trial of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Wilhelm Leuschner, Josef Wirmer, Ulrich von Hassell at the People’s Court on September 8, 1944
Graf, Frau: Tended to Theodor Steltzer in the Lehrter Strasse Gestapo prison
Granny: See Rose Innes, Lady Jessie
Gross, Nikolaus (1898–1945): Miner; secretary in the trade association of Christian mine workers; editor of the newspaper Westdeutsche Arbeiterzeitung; knew Alfred Delp; contacts with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Jakob Kaiser; in the prison at Ravensbrück concentration camp with Helmuth James; executed on January 23, 1945, along with Helmuth James
Haeften, Hans Bernd von (1905–1944): Student of law; exchange student in England; worked in the Foreign Office beginning in 1933 without joining the Nazi Party; along with Adam von Trott zu Solz, a representative of the resistance in the Foreign Office; member of the Kreisau Circle; executed on August 15, 1944; his youngest daughter, Ulrike, married Freya and Helmuth James’s son Konrad
Halder, Franz (1884–1972): As of 1938, colonel general of the general staff of the army; dismissed by Hitler in September 1942; arrested after the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944, and incarcerated in the Ravensbrück cell block with his wife, Gertrud; liberated by American troops in Südtirol
Hansen, Georg Alexander (1904–1944): Colonel; served under Wilhelm Canaris, head of the military Abwehr; arrested in connection with the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt and executed on September 8, 1944
Hapig, Marianne (1894–1973): Social worker; stayed in contact with Alfred Delp at Tegel prison
Hassell, Ulrich von (1881–1944): Senior diplomat in the diplomatic service; retired from his post by order of Joachim von Ribbentrop, foreign minister of the Reich; in 1938, was part of the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Ludwig Beck, and Johannes Popitz; sentenced to death by the People’s Court and executed on September 8, 1944
Haubach, Theodor (1896–1945): Writer; editor of a Social Democratic newspaper; leading member of Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, which campaigned for Weimar democracy; press officer with minister of the interior Carl Severing and with police commissioner Albert Grzezinski in Berlin; after 1934 spent two years in the Esterwegen concentration camp; member of the Kreisau Circle; executed on January 23, 1945, along with Helmuth James
Haus: Captain; loyal colleague of Helmuth James in the international law group in the international bureau of the Abwehr in the Armed Forces High Command
Henssel, Edith: Friend of the Moltke and Deichmann families; married to Karl Heinz Henssel
Henssel, Karl Heinz (born 1917): Bookseller and later publisher; friend of the Moltkes by way of his wife, Edith
Hercher, Wolfgang: Berlin attorney, public defender of Helmuth James
Hermes, Andreas (1878–1964): Reichstag delegate for the Catholic Center Party as of 1939; connections with Wilhelm Leuschner, Josef Wirmer, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler; arrested after July 20, 1944, assassination attempt and sentenced to death January 1, 1945; with Helmuth James in the prison at the Ravensbrück concentration camp; execution delayed; survived the war
Hewel, Walther (1904–1945): Early Nazi supporter; participant in the 1923 Hitler putsch; fellow inmate of Hitler in Landsberg in 1920s; during the war, liaison between Foreign Affairs and the Reich chancellery; close to Hitler; committed suicide on May 2, 1945
Himmler, Heinrich (1900–1945): From 1929, Reichsführer-SS and top Nazi; attempted secret negotiations with the Western powers near the end of the war; in April 1945, Hitler dismissed him from all his positions; in May 1945 committed suicide while in British custody
Huber, Kurt (1893–1943): Musicologist and psychologist; member of the Weisse Rose resistance group; executed on July 13, 1943
Hübner, Ida: “Sister Ida”: District nurse; in Kreisau from 1907 until the end of the war in 1945; in charge of health care and nursery school; very close relationship with the Moltkes
Hülsen, Leonore von: “Aunt Leno” (1875–1961): The wife of Karl von Hülsen (1859–1903); sister of Helmuth James’s father; her son, Hans Carl von Hülsen, and his wife, Editha, died when a plane crashed into their house in November 1943, after which their children (Ignes, Editha, Renate, Hans-Viggo, and Matthias) stayed with their grandmother in the Kreisau Schloss
Huppenkothen, Walter (1907–1979): SS-Standar
tenführer; leader of Task Force I in Poland; as of July 1941 section commander in the Gestapo; member of the Special Commission Regarding July 20; interrogated Helmuth James in Drögen
Husen, Paulus van (1891–1971): Centrist politician; district administrator in Silesia; in contact with Hans Lukaschek; at the Supreme Administrative Court in Berlin starting in 1934, then cavalry captain with the Armed Forces High Command; member of the Kreisau Circle; arrested in August 1944; sentenced by the People’s Court to three years imprisonment in April 1945; liberated on April 25, 1945, when the Soviet troops invaded
Jessen, Jens Peter (1895–1944): Political scientist and economist; participated in the July 20, 1944, assassination plot; executed on November 30, 1944, in Plötzensee
Jowo: See Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang von
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst (1903–1946): SS-Obergruppenführer; general in the police and the Waffen-SS; as of January 1943 head of the Reich Main Security Office and the Gestapo
Keitel, Wilhelm (1882–1946): Chief of the Armed Forces High Command; promoted to field marshal in 1940; sentenced by Allies to death at Nuremberg and executed
Kempinski, Hans: Jewish owner of Hotel Kempinski in Berlin; advised by Helmuth James in questions of emigration
Kiep, Otto Carl (1886–1944): In the diplomatic service; from 1939 to 1944 liaison between the Foreign Office and the international bureau of the Abwehr in the Armed Forces High Command; arrested as a member of the Solf Circle in January 1944; with Helmuth James in the Ravensbrück concentration camp; executed on August 26, 1944
Kleinert, Frau: Lived in the neighboring village of Gräditz; her brother was a priest
Kleist, Ewald-Heinrich von (1922–2013): Son of Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945); participant in the assassination plot of July 20, 1944; with Helmuth James in the Ravensbrück concentration camp; released from Tegel prison in December 1944
König, Lothar (1906–1946): Jesuit from Munich; member of the Kreisau Circle; went into hiding after July 20, 1944
Krebs: Superintendent of the Schweidnitz church district; in charge of the Gräditz district, to which Kreisau belonged
Kurth: Director of Building I in Tegel prison
Langbehn, Carl Julius (1901–1944): Attorney in Berlin; conveyed conversations between Johannes Popitz and Heinrich Himmler in 1943; with Helmuth James in Ravensbrück; executed on October 12, 1944
Lange, Herbert (1909–1945): SS-Sturmbannführer and Gestapo detective, at the beginning in 1942; head of the Special Commission Regarding July 20, which was relocated to Drögen
Lautz, Ernst (1887–1979): As of 1939 chief Reich prosecutor at the People’s Court for the trial of Helmuth James
Leber, Julius (1891–1944): Social Democratic member of the Reichstag beginning in 1924; imprisoned from 1933 to 1937, then worked as a coal merchant in Berlin; member of the Kreisau Circle; arrested after meetings with communists; interrogated along with Theodor Haubach and Helmuth James in Drögen; sentenced and executed on October 20, 1944
Leuschner, Wilhelm (1890–1944): Trade unionist and Social Democrat; initially member of the Kreisau Circle; contact with the Goerdeler–Beck Circle; sentenced and executed on September 8, 1944
Lilje, Hanns (1899–1977): As of 1927 secretary-general of the German Student Christian Movement in Berlin; contact with resistance members who attended his services, including Helmuth James; imprisoned and tried after July 20, 1944
Lukaschek, Frau: Wife of Hans Lukaschek
Lukaschek, Hans (1885–1960): Member of the Catholic Center Party; district administrator and governor in Silesia; attorney in Breslau as of 1933; member of the Kreisau Circle; acquitted by the People’s Court; released from Gestapo custody on April 22, 1945
Maack: Attorney who worked for the Moltkes in Schweidnitz
Maass, Hermann (1897–1944): Social Democrat; 1924 general manager of the Reich Committee of German Youth Associations but was dismissed in 1933; co-worker and business partner of Wilhelm Leuschner; in the union resistance; initially a member of the Kreisau Circle; executed on October 20, 1944
Mami: See Moltke, Dorothy Gräfin von
Margrit: See Trotha, Margarete von
Maschke, Walter (1891–1980): Unionist and Social Democrat with connections to Wilhelm Leuschner and Hermann Maass; sentenced to two years in prison on January 19, 1945
Mierendorff, Carlo (1897–1943): Journalist and Social Democratic Party politician; from 1933 to 1938 in various concentration camps; member of the Kreisau Circle; died during an air strike on Leipzig on December 4, 1943
Milner, Alfred Viscount (1854–1925): British politician; high commissioner for Southern Africa; war cabinet member in World War I, then colonial secretary; patron of the talented young politicians whom Helmuth James met in England: Lionel Curtis, Philipp Kerr (later Lord Lothian) et al., who gathered to produce the periodical The Round Table
Mirbach, Dietrich von: “Dieter” (1907–1977): Relative of Helmuth James, worked with Baron Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland in the Foreign Office
Mittelstädt: Tegel prison guard who worked in the sick bay; critical of the Nazis
Moltke, Anne Marie Gräfin von: “Pension Annie” (née Altenberg, 1902–1952): Second wife of Helmuth James’s father; asserted her right to Kreisau and an inheritance
Moltke, Carl Bernhard von: “Carl Bernd” (1913–1941): Brother of Helmuth James; killed in action on December 30, 1941, in Greece
Moltke, Carl Viggo von (1897–1990): Uncle of Helmuth James; district court president; important source of aid in legal matters and in formulating the petition for clemency; contacts with Roland Freisler
Moltke, Davida von: “Davy” (née Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg, 1900–1989): Sister of Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg and Irene Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg; married to Ambassador Hans-Adolf von Moltke
Moltke, Dorothy Gräfin von: “Mami” (née Rose Innes, 1884–1935): Wife of Helmuth Graf von Moltke and mother of Helmuth James
Moltke, Erika von: Distant relative who had contact with Heinrich Himmler
Moltke, Hans-Adolf von (1884–1943): Relative of Helmuth James; joined foreign service in 1913; senior diplomat and German ambassador in Poland (1931–1939) and in Spain (1943); received a state funeral in Breslau in 1943 following his sudden death
Moltke, Helmuth Graf von: “Papi” (1876–1939): Father of Helmuth James
Moltke, Helmuth Caspar von: “Casparchen” (b. 1937): Eldest son of Freya and Helmuth James
Moltke, Joachim Peter von: “Uncle Peter” (1880–1963): Uncle of Helmuth James
Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang von: “Jowo” (1909–2002): Brother of Helmuth James
Moltke, Johannes Helmuth von (1916–2006): Distant relative; served with distinction
Moltke, Konrad von (1941–2005): Youngest son of Freya and Helmuth James
Moltke, Wilhelm von (1881–1949): Son of Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the German general staff (1848–1916)
Moltke, Wilhelm Viggo von: “Willo” (1911–1987): Brother of Helmuth James; in the United States during World War II; served in US Army
Müller, Heinrich (1900–?): As of 1939, Gestapo chief with the rank of general; missing since 1945; the boss of Adolf Eichmann; a participant in the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 that ordered the Holocaust
Muto: See Yorck von Wartenburg, Irene Gräfin
Mütterchen: See Deichmann, Ada
Nan: See van Heerden, Anna Petronella
Neuhaus, Karl: SS-Sturmbannführer at the Gestapo branch on Meinekestrasse; head of the department of churches in the Gestapo; in charge of interrogating the members of the Kreisau Circle
Oldenbourg, Ulla (née Schultz, 1876–1953): Christian Scientist and friend of Helmuth James’s parents
Oster, Hans (1887–1945): In 1938 participated in preparing a military putsch; chief of staff in the international bureau of the Abwehr in the Armed Forces High Command; arrested after July 20, 1944, and executed on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp
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nbsp; Oxé, Werner: Colonel; immediate superior of Helmuth James in the international law group of the Abwehr
Papi: See Moltke, Helmuth Graf von
Pension Annie: See Moltke, Anne Marie Gräfin von
Peters, Hans (1896–1966): Catholic administrative lawyer; officer in an air force command during World War II; member of the Kreisau Circle; drafted documents on self-governance, higher education, church and state, and other issues
Pfuel, Curt-Christoph von: Colleague of Helmuth James in the working group on international law at the international bureau of the Abwehr of the Armed Forces High Command
Pick, Frau: Housekeeper for Helmuth James, first in Berlin, later in the Berghaus
Pieper: Attorney in the Reich Ministry of Justice
Pippert, Hans: Clerk in the Ministry of Justice; after 1945 senior public prosecutor in Dortmund
Planck, Erwin (1893–1945): Son of Max Planck; opponent of Nazis; worked with Goerdeler group; arrested after July 20, 1944, and sentenced to death; executed on January 23, 1945, along with Helmuth James
Poelchau, Dorothee (1902–1977): Wife of Harald Poelchau
Poelchau, Harald (1903–1972): From 1933 to 1945 prison chaplain in Tegel; member of the Kreisau Circle and active resistance figure; hid Jewish and other endangered persons; enabled Helmuth James and Freya to conduct their secret correspondence
Popitz, Johannes (1884–1945): Administrative lawyer, state secretary, and Reich finance minister; contacts with the civilian and military resistance movements; executed on February 2, 1945
Power, Eileen Edna Le Poer (1889–1940) Economic historian; professor at the London School of Economics; specialist in medieval economic history
Pressel, Wilhelm (1895–1986): Member of the High Consistory in Stuttgart; liaison between Bishop Theophil Wurm, Eugen Gerstenmaier, and Helmuth James
Preysing, Konrad Graf von (1880–1950): As of 1935, Catholic bishop of Berlin; critic of the National Socialist system and the stance of the Catholic bishops’ conference under the leadership of Adolf Cardinal Bertram; important Catholic interlocutor of Helmuth James
Prost: District court director in the Reich Ministry of Justice; clerk for Dr. Franke; right-hand man of the Reich minister of justice
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