:''See also Treskow (noble family) and

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Henning von Tresckow Henning Hermann Karl Robert von Tresckow (; 10 January 1901 – 21 July 1944) was a German military officer with the rank of major general in the German Army who helped organize German resistance against Adolf Hitler. He attempted to assassin ...

was one of the prime movers behind what led to the

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to assassinate

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Notable members

von Tresckow

* Egon von Tresckow (1907–1952) * Gerd von Tresckow (1899–1944) *

(1901–1944) * Joachim Christian von Tresckow (1698–1762) * Hermann von Tresckow (1818–1900) * Udo von Tresckow (1808–1885)

von Treskow

:''See also Treskow (noble family)'' * Carl von Treskow (1819–1882) * Christian von Treskow (born 1968) * Ernst Heinrich von Treskow (1844–1915) * Johann Karl Sigismund von Treskow (1864–1945) * Julius von Treskow (1818–1894) * Nikolai de Treskow (born 1968) * Sigmund Otto Joseph von Treskow (1756–1825)

Imitation of name and coat of arms

In the 19th century, a Dano-Norwegian family named Treschow, which is unrelated to the Tresckow family, adopted a coat of arms based upon that of the German Tresckow family. The name of the Dano-Norwegian family has a different

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, being a corruption of the original ''Træskomager'', meaning "wooden shoe-maker" in Danish/Norwegian.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tresckow German noble families Brandenburgian nobility