Eckhard Christian

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Eckhard Christian (born December 1, 1907 in Berlin , † January 3, 1985 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German officer, most recently Major General of the Air Force.

Life

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Eckhard Christian was born in Charlottenburg . He joined the Reichsmarine in 1926 and attended the officers' school from 1928 to 1929. On October 1, 1930 he was promoted to lieutenant and on January 1, 1933 to first lieutenant at sea. From July 22, 1933 he served in a naval artillery department as a company officer.

On October 1, 1934, he switched to the Air Force and went to the pilot school in Warnemünde . On April 1, 1935, he was promoted to captain , before moving to the Fliegerstaffel (M) in Kiel-Holtenau on October 1. There he flew the aircraft on board the ironclad Admiral Scheer . On May 5, 1936, he was transferred to Air War School II for training. From July 1, 1936, he served temporarily in Kampfgeschwader 153, which later became Kampfgeschwader 3 . On October 1, 1936, he was appointed First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the Greifswald training squadron, later the first training squadron . On February 16, 1938, he began training as a general staff officer at the Air War Academy in Berlin-Gatow. Up to March 8, 1940, several changing activities followed within the General Staff of the Air Force. He then moved to X. Fliegerkorps as Ia , where he was promoted to major on June 1 . On June 3, he moved as a group commander to Kampfgeschwader 26 before moving to the command staff of the Wehrmacht High Command on January 15 . There he was on March 1, 1942 Lieutenant Colonel and on March 1, 1943 Colonel promoted. On August 25, 1943, he joined the Luftwaffe command staff, which he formally took over as chief on September 1, 1944, in connection with his promotion to major general .

In Hitler's headquarters Eckhard Christian met Gerda Daranowski , one of Hitler's secretaries, whom he married on February 2, 1943.

From April 1945 Christian was ordered to the Führerbunker in Berlin , where he took part in the briefing on April 22, 1945, on behalf of Hermann Göring and Karl Koller . On May 8, 1945, Christian was captured by the British in Flensburg - Mürwik , from which he was released in May 1947. Eckhard Christian died on January 3, 1985 in Bad Kreuznach .

Awards

literature

  • Anton Joachimsthaler: Hitler's End. Legends and documents. Bechtermünz Vlg. Augsbg. 2000, ISBN 3-828-9028-55
  • Helmut Heiber: Hitler's briefings: the protocol fragments of his military conferences 1942-1945 . German paperback publisher 1963
  • Joachim Fest : The Downfall. Hitler and the end of the Third Reich. Alexander Fest Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8286-0172-3
  • Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven : With Hitler in the bunker. Records from the Führer Headquarters July 1944 - April 1945 . Berlin 2006, wjs- Verlag, ISBN 3-937989-14-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section A-F. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2016, p. 467 , archived from the original on December 28, 2016 ; accessed on January 27, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ww2.dk
  2. ↑ Rolf-Dieter Müller , Horst Boog , Jörg Echternkamp : The German Empire and the Second World War . P. 848
  3. ^ Anton Joachimsthaler: Hitler's end. P. 147; Photo of the transcript of Lieutenant Hans Volk
  4. ↑ Leo Sillner: When everything fell into pieces: the end of the Second World War in Germany . P. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Christian, Eckhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1985
Place of death Bad Kreuznach