Christoph Diehm was a German SS-Brigadefuhrer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS and police, who served as the SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and Poland during the Second World War.
17 Facts About Christoph Diehm
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Christoph Diehm fought in the First World War from August 1914 with that unit, and with the 247th and 478th Infantry Regiments.
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Christoph Diehm was wounded four times, earning the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and the Wound Badge in Silver.
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Christoph Diehm attended the army college, attained the rank of Leutnant and left the military in 1925.
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From October 1926 to January 1928 Christoph Diehm belonged to the Stahlhelm, the army veterans' organization.
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Christoph Diehm became the first commander of SS-Abschnitt X, based in Stuttgart, from March 1932 to July 1933.
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Christoph Diehm was promoted to SS-Brigadefuhrer on 21 March 1934.
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Christoph Diehm was next assigned to a staff position with SS-Oberabschnitt "West," based in Dusseldorf.
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Christoph Diehm had joined the Wehrmacht as a Leutnant of Reserves in 1936 and, after the outbreak of the Second World War, he served with Infantry Regiment 61 in the Polish campaign.
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Christoph Diehm was next transferred to be the Police President of Saarbrucken and Metz until September 1943, attaining the rank of Generalmajor of Police on 1 April 1942.
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In September 1943, Christoph Diehm was transferred to the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader "Russland-Sud" Hans-Adolf Prutzmann for additional police training and served from January 1944 to the end of February 1944 as the last SS and Police Leader "Shitomir" as the Red Army offensive pushed the Germans out of the area.
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Christoph Diehm was then reassigned and became the last SSPF "Lemberg" of the Government General.
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Christoph Diehm left that post on 16 September 1944 after the Red Army overran the District of Galicia.
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Christoph Diehm was then briefly the SSPF "Kattowitz" in Upper Silesia.
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From 16 September 1944 to 18 January 1945, Christoph Diehm served as the Acting HSSPF "Belgien-Nordfrankreich" while the permanent holder of that post, Friedrich Jeckeln, was still in Russia.
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Christoph Diehm never faced formal prosecution for his role in the Holocaust in Poland.
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Christoph Diehm then returned to Germany, where he lived for a short time in Zuffenhausen, then again with his family in Rottenacker until his death in 1960.