Kurt Christmann

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Kurt Emil Heinrich Christmann alias Dr. Ronda (born June 1, 1907 in Munich ; † April 4, 1987 there ) was a German war criminal during the Nazi era .

Nazi career

Born the son of an administrative inspector , he became a member of SA-Sturm Klintsch in 1920 and in 1922 of Jungsturm Adolf Hitler . In 1923 Christmann took part in the Hitler putsch .

After the seizure of power, he joined the SS in April 1933 and the NSDAP a month later . In the following year Christmann received his doctorate as Dr. jur. As an athlete, he won the German championship in canoeing and the German police ski championship. Based on these references, Christmann also worked as a winter sports advisor to the SS. In 1938 he was transferred to the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna and later to Innsbruck , before becoming Gestapo chief in Salzburg in 1939 . Christmann stayed there until July 1942. From August of that year he then led Einsatzkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D in Krasnodar . Later he was head of the Gestapo in Klagenfurt and Koblenz . Kurt Christmann was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1942.

After the war

In 1946 Christmann managed to escape from the Dachau internment camp and worked until 1948 under the name of Dr. Ronda under the British occupation forces . Soon afterwards he fled to Argentina via Rome . Christmann took an active part there within the Kameradenwerk , an organization that supported National Socialists and fascists fleeing Europe, including many war criminals.

1956 returned Christmann in the Federal Republic back to where when he admission lawyer was denied. Christmann then entered the real estate industry, where he soon became the owner of a company.

On December 19, 1980, the Munich District Court I sentenced Kurt Christmann to ten years imprisonment for his involvement in war crimes in Krasnodar. The subject of the proceedings was the killing of imprisoned partisans and their relatives, including children, with the help of a gas truck and the shooting of suspected partisans and communists. The judgment was upheld by the Federal Court of Justice on November 11, 1982 .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  • Uki Goñi : Odessa. The true story. Escape aid for Nazi war criminals. Translation: Theo Bruns and Stefanie Graefe, Association A, Berlin / Hamburg 2006. 2nd edition 2007. ISBN 3-935936-40-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office in Munich No. 900/1987.
  2. ↑ Uki Goñi: Odessa: The True Story. Escape aid for Nazi war criminals. 2nd edition 2007. pp. 140f.
  3. ^ Justice and Nazi crimes ( Memento from April 17, 2012 on WebCite ) Summary of the judgment
personal data
SURNAME Christmann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christmann, Kurt Emil Heinrich (full name); Dr. Ronda (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Obersturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1987
Place of death Munich