Wilhelm Canaris - Wikipedia. Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1. Initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he later turned against the Nazis as he felt Germany would lose another major war. During the Second World War he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to the Nazi regime. He was executed in Flossenb.
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Canaris himself believed that his family was related to the 1. Greek admiral, freedom fighter, and politician Constantine Kanaris, a belief that influenced his decision to join the Imperial German Navy. While on a visit to Corfu, he was given a portrait of the Greek hero that he always kept in his office. However, according to Richard Bassett, a genealogical investigation in 1. Northern Italian descent, originally called Canarisi, and had lived in Germany since the 1. His name was of Italian origin, as was later shown in an elaborate family tree. His grandfather had converted from Roman Catholicism to Lutheranism.
In 1. 90. 5, at the age of seventeen, Canaris joined the Imperial Navy and by the outbreak of the First World War in 1. SMS Dresden, a light- cruiser he was assigned to in December 1.
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This was the only warship that managed to evade the British Royal Navy for a prolonged period during the Battle of the Falkland Islands of December 1. Canaris' skilful evasion tactics.
After the Battle of M. While in the bay, Royal Navy ships approached and shelled the Dresden. The crew scuttled the ship. Most of the crew was interned in Chile in March 1. August 1. 91. 5 Canaris escaped by using his fluency in Spanish. With the help of some German merchants he was able to return to Germany in October 1.
On the way, he called at several ports, including one at Plymouth in Great Britain. Canaris was then given intelligence work as a result of having come to the attention of German naval intelligence (likely due to his clever escape from Chile). German plans to establish intelligence operations in the Mediterranean were underway and Canaris seemed a good fit for this role. Eventually he was sent to Spain, where in Madrid his task was to provide clandestine reconnaissance over enemy shipping movements and to establish a supply service for the U- boats operating in the Mediterranean Sea. After being assigned to the Inspectorate of Submarines by the Naval Staff on 2.
October 1. 91. 6, he took up training for duty as a U- boat commander and graduated from Submarine School on 1. September 1. 91. 7. He ended the war as a celebrated U- boat commander from late 1. Mediterranean and was credited with a number of sinkings, even coming to the attention of the Kaiser. As a result of his exploits in Spain, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class.
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Canaris spoke a total of six languages with fluency, one of which was English. As a naval officer of the old school, he had great respect for Great Britain's Royal Navy, despite the rivalry between the two nations. Interwar years. He was also a member of the military court that tried (and mostly acquitted) those involved in the assassination of the leftist revolutionaries Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
Also during this period, he was appointed to the adjutancy of defence minister Gustav Noske. In 1. 91. 9, he married Erika Waag, also the child of an industrialist with whom he had two children.
In the spring of 1. Canaris was sent to Osaka, Japan to supervise a secret U- boat construction program in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
When that project was shelved by Vice Admiral Adolf Zenker in favor of a more cooperative relationship with the British, Canaris began making deals, aided by the son of a powerful German shipping line, Captain Walter Lohmann . Unfortunately for Canaris, he made some enemies within Germany during the course of his secret business and intelligence negotiations, partially as a consequence of the bankruptcy incurred by the film- maker Phoebus in his dealings with Lohmann. Suddenly, the former involvement with the . From his new post, Canaris haplessly discovered that Lohmann's . Sometime in 1. 92.
Canaris was removed from his intelligence post and began two years of conventional naval service aboard the training cruiser Schlesien, becoming captain of the vessel on 1 December 1. Just two months later, Adolf Hitler became Germany's new Chancellor. Enthused by this development, Canaris was known to give lectures about the virtues of Nazism to his crew aboard the Schlesien. Detached from the previous government of Weimar whose Republican principles never appealed to Canaris, he looked to the Nazi Party to shape the future. Two things stood out for Canaris about the Nazis; one, they represented a return to state- centered authoritarian government led by a charismatic leader (which he favored) and two, the National Socialists were determined to throw off the shackles of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler proselytized a return to world- power status (which for him, implied constructing a super- fleet) through the preservation of a virtuous soldier- based society, a .
Many of his friends joined the Nazi crusade and Canaris . That must be our grand design. Then in short order, Canaris caught wind of the dispute in the Reichswehr Ministry over the impending successor to the Abwehr chief Captain Conrad Patzig, who was forced to resign. Patzig recommended Canaris as his replacement due to his outstanding service record and because he considered him best suited for the position due to his previous experience in intelligence operations.
His aspirations were quickly being realized and in his zeal for his new job, Canaris paid . These admonitions principally concerned Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SS intelligence service known as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), since he was not well- disposed towards the Abwehr, believing as he did that Germany's defeat during the First World War was attributable to military intelligence failures by the organization; moreover, Heydrich had aspirations to oversee all aspects of political intelligence- gathering for Germany. On 1 January 1. 93. Hitler took total control of the German government in 1. Canaris was made head of the Abwehr, Germany's official military intelligence agency. Records suggest that Canaris was approved in his role as Abwehr chief as a compromise candidate since commander- in- chief of the German navy Admiral Erich Raeder (a staunch navy man) was initially opposed to his appointment but caved when Patzig manipulated the situation by suggesting an army officer for the post if Canaris was rejected.
Given the seemingly amicable relationship between SD chief Heydrich and Canaris which existed at the time according to former Abwehr secretary, Inge Haag, it is possible that Heydrich supported the installment of Canaris as head of the Abwehr, at least based on their behavior toward one another. Heydrich was suspicious of Canaris and referred to him as a . Just a few weeks into his role as head of the Abwehr, he met with Heydrich and some of his officials to divide out intelligence operations between the Abwehr, Gestapo, and SD. It is clear from sources that at this point, Canaris was a true devotee to Hitler according to former Gestapo officer, Gerhard Fischer, who claimed that the F. This meant a significant expansion of the Abwehr.
Enlargement of the Abwehr mission brought Canaris into contact with . During the period between 1. Meeting with Heydrich again on 2. December 1. 93. 6, the two men signed a document which came to be known in their orbit as the .
Hitler's nationalism, his social- Darwinist beliefs, his opposition to the Versailles Treaty, his belief in rebuilding a Greater German Reich, and his anti- Semitic ideology appealed to the Abwehr chief. Prompted by anti- Semitism, Canaris first suggested the use of the Star of David to identify Jews during 1. Despite that the sham action did not move the Austrian Chancellor, Schuschnigg was forced to resign when German troops marched into Austria, which was followed by its official annexation into Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) on 1.
March 1. 93. 8. At this development however, Canaris began spending more and more time in the company of Hans Oster and also began formulating ways to forestall or prevent a European war. Among the first to arrive in Vienna, Canaris had a special team seize records from the Austrian archives since he was worried there might be references to his connections to London. He also absorbed as much of the Austrian intelligence service as he could into the Abwehr, while avoiding those who were Nazi converts already. Canaris was disturbed by Hitler's intention to absorb Czechoslovakia as were others, all of them fearing another European war; this resulted in the formation of a conspiratorial group consisting of members of the German Foreign Office and ranking members of the military. This assemblage included General Ludwig Beck, the Foreign Office's state secretary Ernst von Weizs. Arguments used by Franco to counter Hitler's demands for German access to Spanish territory were influenced directly by Canaris, who met with a number of Franco's top advisors. Franco's position at Hendaye was greatly influenced by Canaris.
Additionally, a significant sum of money ($1. British at Churchill's urging in Swiss accounts for Franco and his generals to maintain their neutrality. Munich Agreement and intrigue. The most audacious plan contemplated by Canaris, in collaboration with Ewald von Kleist- Schmenzin, was to capture and unseat Hitler and the entire Nazi Party before the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
At this particular moment, Kleist visited Britain secretly and discussed the situation with British MI6 and some high- ranking politicians. There, the name of Canaris became widely known as Kleist's executive hand in the event of an anti- Nazi plot. The high- ranking German military leaders believed that if Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, or any other country, Britain would declare war on Germany. MI6 was of the same opinion.
Efter kriget var han aktiv i Freikorps i kampen mot bland andra kommunister. Gestapo grep honom och i april 1. Canaris lyckades dock fly i samband med en l. Under 1. 92. 0- talet engagerades Canaris inom den tyska underr. Hitler skickade Canaris till Spanien f. Detta ledde inte bara till den tyska inblandningen i kriget p.
Han kom snart att se naziregimens brott och blev tillsammans med andra inom ledningen f. Hans dubbelliv som motst. Han var under ytan en aktiv och betydelsefull motst. Canaris avskedades den 1. Jag gjorde endast min plikt mot mitt fosterland d. Axis Biographical Research.