Emil Just

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Emil Just (born June 18, 1885 in Strasburg , West Prussia ; † January 21, 1947 in Kaunas , Soviet Union ) was a German major general and commander of Oberfeldkommandantur 396 in occupied Lithuania .

Life

Just fought with Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 59 during World War I , where he achieved the rank of captain . From November 1918 to August 1919 he was in command of the Border Guard Battalion III , which he founded and fought against Polish insurgents in the district of Bromberg . After that he was with the Berlin police from the end of January 1920 . In 1924 he joined the defense . During the Second World War he was among other things military attaché in Romania and Oberfeldkommandant in occupied Lithuania , where he oversaw the formation of the Lithuanian construction battalions .

On January 31, 1945 Just was released from military service and returned to Berlin. After the city was captured by the Red Army , he was arrested by the Soviets . On November 2, 1946, Just was sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal for espionage against the Soviet Union, as well as the mass killing and kidnapping of Soviet citizens . His pardon was rejected on December 30, 1946 and the sentence was carried out in Kaunas in January 1947 .

Awards

literature

  • Christoph Dieckmann : German occupation policy in Lithuania 1941-1944 . 2 volumes. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The agony of the Ostmark 1918-1919
  2. ↑ Lietuvių statybos (inžinerijos) batalionai 1943-1944 m.
  3. ^ Major General Emil Just
  4. ↑ Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947): a historical-biographical study , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 9783525369685 , p. 305
personal data
SURNAME Just, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasburg , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1947
Place of death Kaunas , Soviet Union