Theodor Christensen (SS member)

Theodor Christensen alias Fritz Ramm (born May 7, 1905 in Kiel , † October 24, 1988 in Kassel ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer .

Life

Christensen grew up as the son of a businessman in Kiel. After an apprenticeship in a bank, he tried unsuccessfully in several professions and ended up in a relative's vegetable gardening shop. During his apprenticeship as a banker, Christensen joined the Young German Order in 1923 and then joined the Wiking Association . In 1930 he joined the NSDAP , in 1931 the SA and had also been a member of the SS since 1935 . From 1933 he was employed as a full-time employee of the SD in the SD main office. From 1934 to 1937 Christensen was the department head for the Freemasonry area. In October 1937 he was transferred as staff leader to the SD command section in Königsberg.

In January 1942 he became commander of the Security Police and the SD in Chernigov in the Soviet Union. During this time he led Sonderkommando 4a in Ukraine from January 1943 to autumn 1943 . Since July 1944 Christensen worked for Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe G in Romania. In 1940 he had been promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, which he remained until the end of the war.

After the war Christensen was interned in the Eselheide internment camp near Paderborn ; in October 1947 he was able to flee. After the war he worked under the name Fritz Ramm as a sales representative and employee of a wagon factory in Kassel.

literature

• Florian Altenhöner: The man who started World War II. Alfred Naujocks : Forger, murderer, terrorist , Prospero Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-941688-10-0 . Contains, among other things, the biographies of Kiel SS members who made careers in the SD Berlin.
• Ernst Klee : " Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich ", Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .