Georg Elser
Johann Georg Elser (January 4 1903, Hermaringen, WÃÂürttemberg - April 9 1945 at KZ Dachau), was a conspirator against National Socialism. On November 8 1939 he attempted an assassination of Adolf Hitler, which however failed as Hitler left the BÃÂürgerbrÃÂäukeller in Munich only minutes before the explosion of the bomb.The preparation took Elser more than 30 nights working inside the beer hall, hollowing a pillar to place a bomb with a time ignition mechanism. The mechanism worked accurately as Elser, a carpenter, took a year of preparation, including a visit to the annual Nazi meeting the year before the attempt. The explosion happened at 21:20, at which time Hitler should still have been speaking to his "old comrades" as nearly every year since 1923 to commemorate the events of the Beer Hall Putsch. But as the war was going on, Hitler wanted to reach a train back to Berlin and thus left early.