Christian Peder Kryssing (7 July 1891 – 7 July 1976) was an SS-Brigadefuhrer and Waffen-SS Generalmajor during World War II. Kryssing commanded the fascist Free Corps Denmark during the war.
Biography[]
Christian Peder Kryssing was born in Kolding, Denmark on 7 July 1891, and he entered the Danish Army in 1910. Kryssing became an artillery officer and an ardent suppoter of anti-communism, and he became commander of the Nazi collaborationist Free Corps Denmark on 29 June 1941 during World War II. He commanded the free corps for less than a year, being fired on 23 February 1942 for insufficient loyalty to Nazism. Kryssing then returned to the artillery, and he served in the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf and the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking before retiring with the rank of Generalmajor der Waffen-SS in February 1944. He was the highest-ranked foreign SS officer during the war. In 1947, he was sentenced to four years in prison for his SS membership, but he was released in May 1948, dying in Haderslev in 1976 at the age of 85.