Georg Elser

Georg Elser
Photo in a personnel file of Georg Elser from the Düsseldorf State Police Headquarters
Born
Johann Georg Elser

(1903-01-04)4 January 1903
Died9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 42)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
OccupationCarpenter
Known forAttempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler

Johann Georg Elser (German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈɛl.zɐ]] ; 4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (known as the Bürgerbräukeller Bombing). Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech. It did not kill Hitler, who left earlier than expected, but it did kill 8 people and injured 62 others. Elser was held as a prisoner for more than five years until he was executed at Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the surrender of Nazi Germany.


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