1944. He was found guilty of high treason and hanged the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 21 August 1941 as General of the Infantry and commander-in-chief of the 17th Army See also Otto von Stülpnagel - cousin and German military commander of occupied France References Sources Cave Brown, Anthony. Bodyguard of Lies, (Harper & Row, 1975) Koehn, Barbara. Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Offizier und Widerstandskämpfer. Eine Verteidigung (2008); scholarly biography in German Knopp, Guido Die Wehrmacht: Eine Bilanz, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München, 2007. External links 1886 births 1944 deaths Holocaust perpetrators in France Holocaust perpetrators in Ukraine Military personnel from Berlin German military governors of Paris German Army personnel of World War I German Army generals of World War II Generals of Infantry (Wehrmacht) People condemned by Nazi courts People from the Province of Brandenburg Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Executed members of the 20 July plot People executed by hanging at Plötzensee Prison Prussian Army personnel Executed military leaders Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery German anti-communists Reichswehr personnel Von Stülpnagel family Executed mass murderers