Astrid Gräfin von Hardenberg (5 May 1925 – 4 February 2015) was the daughter of the opponent to the national socialist regime, Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg, and of Renate von der Schulenburg. Born in Potsdam, von Hardenberg started studying in 1942 at the Berlin State School but was forced to interrupt her studies in 1943, in order to work as Red Cross nurse in different hospitals, among which the military hospital in Rosenheim. In July 1944 the family mansion was confiscated because of the family's involvement in the 20 July plot against Hitler. She worked till 1990 for the European Commissi