Adolf von Harnier

Adolf Freiherr von Harnier (April 14, 1903 - May 12, 1945) Lawyer and member of the Resistance. Born in Bavaria he was the son of a landowner. He took his degree as a doctor of law in 1934 and settled in Munich as a lawyer. He rejected Nazism and was converted to Catholicism. As a German jurist he defended clerics and Jews during the National Socialist 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. Just as the prison in Strabling he was serving his time was being liberated by US troops.[1]

References Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Louis L. Snyder


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