Eberhard Charisius

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Eberhard Charisius (born October 2, 1916 in Wiesbaden ; † March 29, 1980 ) was a German colonel in the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR and a police officer . He was the commander of the People's Police (VP) and chief of staff of the border police in the GDR.

Life

Charisius, the son of a government director , joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) as a student at a grammar school in Düsseldorf in 1934 and was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a medic until 1935 . In 1937 he graduated from the officers' school in Dresden with the rank of first lieutenant and in 1938 went to the fighter pilot school in Faßberg as a radio operator . In 1940 he switched to the pilot school in Zeltweg . By 1941 he flew several combat missions in World War II . As an officer in Kampfgeschwader 55 , he was used in Poland , France and England .

After an emergency landing Charisius came on 22 June 1941, the first day of the war against the Soviet Union, Soviet prisoners of war from which he was released 1945th In 1942 he was a student at the Central Antifa School in Oranki and in 1942/43 belonged to the Ulbricht group , which had tried to move the German troops to surrender around the Stalingrad pocket. In 1943 Charisius co-founded the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) and agitated among German prisoners of war on the Southwest Front of the Red Army . As an authorized representative of the NKFD in the ranks of the Red Army, he took part in the liberation of Belgrade in October 1944 and made it to Vienna . Because of his anti-fascist engagement Charisius was sentenced to death in absentia in Germany .

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Charisius returned to Germany and became police director in Gera . In 1946 he became head of department and in 1948 chief of staff of the main border police department at the German Administration of the Interior, the forerunner of the Ministry of the Interior in the GDR . In 1949 Charisius was the commander of the main training administration for the Barracked People's Police (KVP). In 1949/50 he completed tank training in the Soviet Union and then became deputy commander for training at the tank officers' school of the KVP, which he remained until 1953. From 1954 to 1956 Charisius was deputy commander of the II. Mechanical readiness of the KVP Dresden and then until 1959 employee in the military district command of the NVA and was promoted to colonel.

From 1959 to 1961 Charisius studied Russian and history at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Dresden and graduated with a degree in military history. From 1961 to 1967 he was a teacher for civics and political economy at a vocational school in Dresden.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. Willy Wolff, On the Right Side, Military Publishing House of the GDR, 1985, p. 26
  2. ^ Luitpold Steidle , Decision on the Volga, Union Verlag Berlin, 7th edition, 1977, p. 227
  3. Comrade Graf's dilemma , at www.einestages.spiegel.de
  4. ^ New Germany of September 28, 1966
  5. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from April 11, 1980