Christoph Diehm

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Christoph Diehm

Christoph Diehm (born March 1, 1892 in Rottenacker ; † February 21, 1960 ibid) was a German SS brigade leader , major general of the Waffen SS and police, police president and politician ( NSDAP ).

Career

Diehm, the son of a farmer, completed an advanced training school from 1906 to 1909 after attending elementary school for seven years. From 1911 Diehm was a professional soldier and took part in the First World War from August 1914 . From January 1919 Diehm belonged to a volunteer corps for two years and was then a professional soldier in the Reichswehr . From 1922 to 1925 he attended the army technical school and then worked in agriculture until 1929. From October 1926 to January 1928 Diehm was a member of the Stahlhelm . As an old fighter, Diehm was a member of the NSDAP from 1921 to 1923 . After the party ban, he rejoined the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 212.531). Diehm also became a member of the SA at the beginning of March 1928 and switched from the SA to the SS in March 1932 (membership number 28,461).

In his home village Rottenacker he founded the local branch of the NSDAP. From 1929 he was adjutant in the SA sub-group Württemberg and from 1931 leader of the SA group southwest. From April 24, 1932 to November 20, 1933 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg . From 1933 Diehm was a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP for the constituency 32 Baden in the National Socialist Reichstag from the 9th to the 11th electoral term . Diehm, who was promoted to SS-Oberführer in 1932, was leader of SS-Section X from March 1932 to July 1933, from mid-July 1933 to mid-March 1936 of SS-Section XIX and from mid-March 1936 of SS-Section I. Ab On September 1, 1939, Diehm was the leader of the SS Upper Section West.

Second World War

After the outbreak of World War II , Diehm was police chief in Gdynia from late September 1939 to early January 1942 and then in Saarbrücken / Metz . On September 8, 1943 Diehm was transferred to the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader Hans-Adolf Prützmann and worked as SS and Police Leader Shitomir from October 9, 1943 to the end of February 1944 . Then Diehm was deployed as SSPF Lemberg until September 16, 1944. From mid-August 1944 Diehm worked briefly at the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Southeast as the representative of the Reich Defense Commissioner at the fortress construction staff in Katowice . From the end of August 1944 to September 1944 Diehm was briefly commander of the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "RONA" (Russian No. 1) . From September 19, 1944 to the beginning of October 1944, Diehm Friedrich Jeckeln represented Belgium-Northern France as HSSPF. In November 1944 Diehm was injured in the war, due to which he was transferred to a hospital in Berlin. From January 1945 he served as Inspector Southwest with the Volkssturm and was a member of the command staff of this paramilitary organization. In April / May 1945 he was SS and Police Leader in Salzburg and after the Battle of Vienna he became a combat troop commander in the 6th Army on May 8, 1945, and was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

CV after the end of the war

Diehm was released from Soviet captivity nine years later, in mid-January 1954, and returned to Germany, where he lived for a short time in Zuffenhausen , then again with his family in Rottenacker, until his death in 1960.

As police chief of Gdynia, Diehm was involved in mass murders in his catchment area and in June 1944, shortly before the liberation of the district of Galicia, had refugee Jews tracked down in the forests of Galicia . After the end of the war he was not prosecuted.

Awards

Diehms SS and police ranks
date rank
March 1932 SS-Oberführer
March 1934 SS Brigade Leader
August 1944 Major General of the Police
November 1944 Major General of the Waffen SS

See also

literature

  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .
  • Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 140 .
  • Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators - helpers - free riders. Nazi victims from the Ulm / Neu-Ulm area (=  perpetrators - helpers - free riders . Volume 2 ). 1st edition. Klemm + Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2013, ISBN 978-3-86281-062-8 , p. 50 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Diehm in the database of members of the Reichstag
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives by Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 , Bonn 1996, p. 429f
  3. ^ A b c Dieter Pohl: National Socialist persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 412.
  4. ↑ Short text by the Mayor of Rottenacker from October 21, 1935 for a commemorative publication by the district leadership of the NSDAP (Rottenacker municipal archive 897).
  5. ↑ Joachim Lilla, Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: Extras in Uniform: The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924, Düsseldorf 2004, p. 99
  6. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 473.
  7. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 389.
  8. ↑ Christoph Diehm at www.dws-xip.pl
personal data
SURNAME Diehm, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diehm, Christoph Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, major general of the Waffen SS and police
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenacker
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1960
Place of death Rottenacker