Stauffenberg

Coat of arms of the family
Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg (1658–1740)
Patent awarding the title of Count to Anton Schenk von Stauffenberg by Emperor Joseph II, 1785

The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a Roman Catholic Uradel German noble family from Swabia, Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 "20 July plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler.