Christian von Hammerstein (lawyer, 1887)

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Christian Wilhelm Hermann Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten (born May 29, 1887 in Schwerin , † February 21, 1963 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and from 1940 to 1945 head of the legal department of the Air Force .

Life

Christian von Hammerstein was a son of the Schwerin Ministerialrat Bernhard Freiherr von Hammerstein (1853–1907) and his wife Hedwig, born. from Wangenheim . His grandfathers were the director of the Hanoverian monastery chamber Hermann von Wangenheim (1807-1889) and Wilhelm von Hammerstein .

He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin and studied law, 1907/1908 at the University of Heidelberg , 1908/1909 at the University of Göttingen and from the summer semester 1909 at the University of Rostock . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg in 1908 .

From 1910 to 1911 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Field Artillery Regiment No. 60 . In 1911 he was a trainee lawyer at the Schwerin District and Regional Court . In 1914 he was in Rostock with a thesis Mecklenburg feudal law to Dr. jur. PhD. At the beginning of the First World War he was reactivated as a reserve lieutenant in the field artillery regiment. He served in various posts, including as a regimental adjutant . After a serious wound, he was given convalescence leave in 1918. He came to the public prosecutor's office in Schwerin and was appointed assessor there in February 1920 . From July 1920 he was a district judge at the district court of Boizenburg . On January 1, 1924, he moved to the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg as a legal senior church councilor at the upper church council in Schwerin . In the early 1930s he joined the conservative German Christian Movement led by Heinrich Rendtorff and was its managing director in early 1933.

When in 1933 the Schwerin upper church council was almost completely replaced in the course of the Nazi German Christians' takeover , Hammerstein was the only one of the upper church councils to initially remain in office. The further course of the church struggle and the harmonization in Mecklenburg soon led to serious disappointments for him. Hammerstein, who never became a member of the NSDAP , was pushed out of his part-time position as President of the German Red Cross for Mecklenburg by the National Socialists .

So he resigned from the Oberkirchenrat in 1935 and went to the armed forces justice . He was first senior judge at the Second Admiral of the Baltic Sea in Kiel and was seconded to the Reich Ministry of Aviation in 1937 , where he was ministerial advisor in its legal department ( ZA Law ). On August 14, 1939, two weeks before the start of the war, he replaced his boss Rüdiger Schleicher as head of the legal department.

From March 1, 1940, he was head of the legal department of the Air Force (LR). At the same time he was promoted to ministerial director and in 1942 to ministerial director . On the basis of a Führer order from January 24, 1944, the "career of military magistrates in special service" was established and the Wehrmacht officials became officers . He received the military title of General Staff Judge (equivalent to Lieutenant General ). From 1945 to 1947 he was an American prisoner of war .

His first marriage since 1920 was Ilsabe, b. von Meerheimb (1898–1926), a daughter of Ludwig von Meerheimb . After her early death he married Eleonore, b. Schröder (* 1905), a daughter of the landowner Ladislaus Schröder on Groß Siemen . From the first marriage he had a daughter and two sons, both of whom died in World War II, and from the second marriage two sons, including the Ministerialrat Christian von Hammerstein .

Awards

Works

  • The feudal claims of the daughters of the feudal owner left behind in accordance with Mecklenburg feudal law. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1914. Zugl. Rostock, Univ., Diss., 1914.
  • Commemorative sheets for 54 Heidelberg vandals who fell in the field. [sn: Stalling], [sl: Oldenburg i. O.] 1922.
  • My life was written for my wife and children, my sisters and my friends. (c. 1957, printed as a manuscript)

literature

  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume 2. Wismar 1925. p. 1006
  • Stephan Sehlke: The intellectual Boizenburg: Education and the educated in and from the Boizenburg area. Norderstedt 2011. ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 . P. 217
  • Manfred Messerschmidt: The Wehrmacht Justice 1933-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005. ISBN 978-3-506-71349-0 , esp. P. 47f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3810 .
  2. ^ Entry , Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 784
  4. ↑ Christoph Weiling: The "Christian-German Movement": A Study on Conservative Protestantism in the Weimar Republic. (Work on contemporary church history, series B: representations, volume 28). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998. ISBN 978-3-525-55728-0 . P. 279.
  5. ^ Niklot Beste : The church struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945. History, documents, memories. License issue . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975. ( Works on the history of the church struggle, supplementary series; 9 ). ISBN 3-525-55533-4 . P. 81
  6. ↑ Messerschmidt (lit.), p. 47.
  7. ↑ Allgemeine Heeresmachrichtungen 1944, No. 111, p. 64 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ Genealogical handbook of the baronial houses part: A. / Vol. 13. (Complete series Volume 80), Limburg an der Lahn: CA Starke 1982, p. 210
personal data
SURNAME Hammerstein, Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerstein-Loxten, Christian Wilhelm Hermann Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and head of the Air Force legal department (1940–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1963
Place of death Goettingen