Schwarze Kapelle - Membership

Membership

Schwarze Kapelle claimed members throughout all the strategic operations of the German military and government. Those believed to have been active with the organisation included:

• Ulrich von Hassell 1881–1944, German ambassador in Rome 1932–1938
• Carl Goerdeler 1884–1945, mayor of Leipzig 1930–1937
• Generaloberst Ludwig Beck 1880–1944, the Chief of the General Staff, the OKH 1934–1938
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945, the theologian
• Admiral Wilhelm Canaris 1887–1945, the head of the Abwehr
• Hans Oster 1887–1945, deputy head of the Abwehr
• Generaloberst Franz Halder 1884–1972, the Chief of the Army General Staff (part of OKH) 1938–1942
• Josef Müller 1898–1979, CSU politician and Munich attorney, confidante of Pope Pius XII
• Hans Dohnanyi 1902–1945, German Jurist, head of Abwehr's Office of Political Affairs 1939–1943
• Hans Bernd Gisevius 1904–1974, a diplomat and intelligence officer
• Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth Groscurth 1899–1943, Chief of Abwehr Department II 1938–1940
• Generalmajor Erwin von Lahousen, 1897–1955, Chief of Abwehr Section II
• General Henning von Tresckow, 1901–1944, chief of operations at the HQ of Kluge's Army Group Centre.
• Helmut von Moltke 1907–1945, great-grand-nephew of a hero of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870
• Peter Yorck von Wartenburg 1904–1944, lawyer, founding member of the Kreisau Circle
• Adam von Trott zu Solz 1909–1944, a descendant on his mother's side of the first chief justice of the USA
• Ernst von Weizsäcker 1882–1950, permanent head of the German foreign office from 1938 to 1943
• Erich Kordt 1903–1969, head of German Foreign Office's Ministerial Bureau
• Hasso von Etzdorf Foreign Office Liaison to the OKH 1939–1944
• Fabian von Schlabrendorff 1907–1980, Adjutant to General Hennig von Tresckow
• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 1907–1944, a great-grandson of August von Gneisenau, a devout Roman Catholic, an officer in a cavalry regiment in peacetime and a distinguished staff officer in war
• General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel 1886–1944, Military commander of the Wehrmacht in Paris.
• General Erich Fellgiebel 1886–1944, General of the Communications Troops
• Fieldmarshal Erwin von Witzleben 1881–1944
• General Erich Hoepner 1886–1944
• General Friedrich Olbricht 1888–1944, Chief of the Armed Forces Replacement Office

The main axis of operations were centred in a line between Paris-Berlin-Smolensk.