He was also a conspirator against Adolf Hitler. Von Esebeck had knowledge of and was sympathetic to the anti-Hitler conspiracy. He was arrested on 21 July 1944 and spent the rest of the war in concentration camps.
Liberated at the end of the war he lived the rest of his life in poverty and died on 5 January 1955.
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Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (20 September 1914) 1st Class (27 January 1917) Knight"s Cross Second Class of the Friedrich Order with Swords Order of Merit 4th Class with Swords (Waldeck, 24 July 1915) Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with War Decoration (Austria-Hungary, 2 October 1916) Order of the Cross of Liberty, 2nd class with Swords (Finland, 7 May 1918) Commemorative Medal of the Finnish War of Independence (1918) (15 August 1918) Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (26 September 1939) 1st Class (15 May 1940) Wound Badge (1939) in Silver (15 August 1942) German Cross in Gold (20 December 1942) Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross on 4 July 1940 as Oberst and commander of the 6. Schützen-Brigade Silesian Eagle, 2nd class.
