List of Members of The 20 July Plot - B

B

• Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Chief of the German General Staff (1880–1944); voluntarily committed suicide when the plot failed. He was to be arrested whilst the other captives were to be executed under the order of Friedrich Fromm.
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bernardis (1908–1944) executed on 8 August 1944
• Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (1890–1945); executed by firing squad at Gestapo headquarters, 22 April 1945
• Count Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Civil Governor of Potsdam (1901–1949)
• Major Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1907–1944);
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Hasso von Boehmer (1904–1945)
• Lieutenant Colonel Baron Georg von Boeselager, cavalry officer (1915–1944)
• Lieutenant Colonel Baron Philipp von Boeselager, cavalry officer (1917–2008)
• Eugen Bolz, State President of Württemberg till 1933 (1881–1945)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pastor and Theologian (1906–1945); executed by SS
• Klaus Bonhoeffer, Lawyer (1901–1945); executed by Gestapo, 22 April 1945
• Randolph von Breidbach-Bürresheim
• Dr. Eduard Brücklmeier, Diplomat (1903–1944)
• Major Baron Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst (1919–1993); made plans to assassinate Hitler with suicide bomb