Career
Early in his career, he commanded Germany"s largest military base. At the time of his retirement in 1994 he was Germany"s longest serving soldier. Until the end of the war they were forced to use a different family name, as Schenk von Stauffenberg was not accepted as their name.
Berthold Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg was the oldest of the children and had just turned ten at the time of the failed assassination plot.
Stauffenberg was educated at Schule Schloss Salem before studying engineering and becoming an officer in West Germany"s new army as soon as it was established in 1956. From 1972 to 1974, he commanded Armoured Reconnaissance Training Battalion 11 at Munster, Lower Saxony, Germany"s largest military base.
His career culminated in promotion to Supreme Commander of Territorial Command South, and he retired in 1994 with the rank of Generalmajor. He was Germany"s longest serving soldier, after 38 years in the Bundeswehr.
They have three sons:
Valerie Roxana Monika Mechtild Maria Schenk, Gräfinance von Stauffenberg (b Erlangen, 17 February 1992)
Sebastian Heimrich Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg (b 2 December 1961), unmarried and without issue
Gottfried Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg (b 8 October 1964), unmarried and without issue
In July 2004, for his 70th birthday and for the 60th anniversary of the 20 July plot in which his father took part, Stauffenberg was interviewed by several newspapers and was also invited to a ceremony at the former Wolfschanze.
In 2006, he participated with Richard von Weizsäcker and others in the opening ceremony of the Stauffenberg Memorial in Stuttgart. He feared that the film could become "horrible kitsch".
