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Nicholas Christoph von Halem (born 15 March 1905 in Schwetz, died 9 October 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel) was a German lawyer, businessman, and resistance fighter against the Nazi Party. His parents were Gustav Adolf von Halem (1870-1932) and Hertha von Halem(1879-1957). He was the fourth child, his father was an East Prussian district administrator. During the First World War, the family moved to Berlin. As a child Halem was first educated at home, later he attended a school in Schwetz. After moving to Berlin he attend the Protestant monastery school Roßleben. After high school, in March 1922, he studied law at the University of Göttingen in Leipzig, Munich and Heidelberg. During his time at the University he belonged to the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg fraternity, but was excluded for intoxication. He then became involved so a short time in the illegal Black Reichswehr, an extreme right paramilitary troops. In 1931 he did law clerking and married Marie (Mariechen) Garbe, with whom he had two sons. ==Politics== After the November 9, 1923 Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, the Nazi's march on Munich Feldherrenhalle, he established close contacts with opponents of the Nazi regime Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, Henning von Tresckow, and Hubert Ballestrem. He became active in conservative Catholic circle around the Berlin, with scholar Carl von Jordans and the Solf Circle, whose goal was to keep the National Socialist movement from power. Through these groups and his legal training he became connected to Wilhelm Freiherr von Ketteler and Karl Winkler. A few months after the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor and his seizure of power in 1933, Halem quit his legal internship to avoid having to swear allegiance to Hitler. By 1935 under the influence of Ernst Niekisch and Carl von Jordans, Halem already has conclude that killing Hitler was a political necessity to avert a catastrophe. In 1936 Halem was now a working in finance for the Reich Commissioner. By 1938 Halem working as a liaison, with his friend Wilhelm von Ketteler, anti Nazi group in Austria. Hitler's annexation of Austria upset Halem. According to his brother, Halem traveled to Czechoslovakia in March 1938 for a few days and took part in a successful assassination attempt against the Gestapo. In 1940 Halem took a leading position in the Graf-Ballestremschen freight management. This activity served him well as a facade to disguise his renewed activity on assassination planning and goal of political unrest. He took many business trips abroad and used them to contact anti-Nazi groups in England and other countries, as he saw Hitler's war as "sheer madness", the need to end Hitler, the war and eliminate Nazi governance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikolaus von Halem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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