Julius Christiansen

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Julius Christiansen (born March 30, 1897 in Westerland , † October 12, 1951 in Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union ) was a German politician ( DVP ).

Life

Christiansen came from an old Sylt captain's family. After graduating from primary school in Westerland, he attended the preparatory institute and the teachers' college in Tondern from 1912 to 1914 . From September 1914 to November 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He passed the Abitur in Kiel in 1919 and began studying law at the University of Göttingen the following year . From 1921 he studied law and economics at the University of Hamburg , where he in 1922 with the dissertation topic Sylt in agricultural historically to Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate .

During the time of the Weimar Republic Christiansen joined the German People's Party (DVP), for which he worked as party secretary in Altona from October 1920 to March 1923 . From April 1, 1926 to 1939, he worked as a lawyer for the Reich Association of the German Civil Engineering Industry in Hamburg-Rahlstedt . In this function he was responsible for District IV (Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Lower Elbe region). He also acted as managing director of the farmers' association in the South Tondern district and as managing director of Tiefbau-Treuhand GmbH. In April 1932 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until the end of the fourth legislative period in 1933. In parliament he represented constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein).

During World War II Christiansen served in the Wehrmacht's military intelligence service . When the war broke out, he was initially active as a reserve officer in the Abwehr in Copenhagen and in 1941 moved to Biarritz as head of the Abwehrstelle . From November 1942 he was Major Head of Abwehr Command 304 in Vilnius . In this function he maintained contacts with the leadership of the Polish Home Army until 1944 to combat Soviet partisans . In June 1944 he took over the management of the front reconnaissance command 305 in Galicia and Krakow , most recently as a lieutenant colonel . Shortly before the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , in which he died in 1951.

Julius Christiansen had been with Paula, born in May 1923. Kayser (1895–1963), married and had two sons. His grave is in the old cemetery in Westerland.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 4th electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1932, pp. 424-425.
  • Bernhard Chiari, Aleksandr Sabelin: Using contradictions, talking to the devil , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung June 15, 2016, page N3 (on the negotiations between the Wehrmacht and Armia Krajowa 1944)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Chiari (ed.): The Polish Home Army. History and myth of Armia Krajowa since World War II. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-48-6567151 , p. 516ff.
  2. ↑ Tombstones Old Cemetery Sylt-Westerland (North Frisian Island). grabsteine.genealogy.net, accessed February 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Christiansen, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerland
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1951
Place of death Sverdlovsk , Soviet Union