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Max Bastian (28 August 1883 – 11 March 1958) was a German Admiral (''
Admiral (Germany) Admiral, short Adm, (, ) is the most senior flag officer rank in the German Navy. It is equivalent to general in the German Army or German Air Force. In the Central Medical Services there is no equivalent. In the German Navy ''Admiral'' is, as ...
'') in the
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during
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who served as President of the Reich Military Court until his retirement in 1944. Bastian was a decorated Naval Officer during World War I. In 1939, he was made president of the Reich Military Court. While serving in this position, Bastian oversaw the death penalties of multiple
conscientious objectors A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or freedom of religion, religion. The term has also been extended to objecting to working for ...
within the Wehrmacht. He was briefly represented by
Paul von Hase Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (24 July 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a Nazi Germany, German career soldier and figured among the members of the German_resistance_to_Nazism, resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazism, Nazi regime. Life Von Hase was bo ...
while ill in 1943. The aging Bastian retired in 1944.


See also

* Flag officers of the Kriegsmarine


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{{Authority control 1883 births 1958 deaths Military personnel from Brandenburg Kriegsmarine admirals Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I