Education
Liedig volunteered the German Imperial Navy in October 1916, was educated at the Naval Academy Mürwik and served as an Artillery Officer on a Torpedo boat. Liedig studied law and worked as a lawyer
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After a short time of internment at Scapa Flow in 1919, he started to study at the Technical University Munich. Liedig left the navy in September 1920 and was active in some rightwing organisations throughout the 1920s. In 1936 he joined the Kriegsmarine at the instigation of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who knew Liedig from the Freikorps episode.
Heinz and Liedig were instructed to form an assault group to arrest Adolf Hitler.
After Witzleben left that meeting, both decided to shoot Hitler if possible. The plans were abolished after the Munich Conference.
On October 8, 1939 Liedig drove Hans Oster to the Dutch Military attaché in Berlin, Colonel Bert Sas. After Oster returned to the car, he told Liedig, that he just committed treason.
In fact Oster informed Sas about the planned date of attack of the German Wehrmacht in the West.
In 1940 Liedig became the Military attaché at the German embassy in Sofia and later on in Athens. In February 1944 he was removed as the First Officer of the German cruiser Köln in Oslo. After von Dohnanyi, Oster and Canaris were arrested by the Gestapo and the 20 July plot failed, the plans of 1938 were found on September 22, 1944 at the Abwehr and Liedig was arrested in November 1944.
He was imprisoned at several concentration camps like Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, Dachau and finally transferred to Niederdorf amongst about 140 prominent inmates in late April 1945, where the Steamship left them behind.
Liedig died in 1967.
Politics
Liedig was a founding member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria in 1946 and their political executive in 1946 – 48.
Membership
Liedig was a member of the Freikorps Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, deployed in Berlin and Upper Silesia in 1919/20, and a participant of the Kapp Putsch in March 1920. Here he came in contact to members of the German military resistance such as Hans Oster and Hans von Dohnanyi. Around September 20, 1938 the leading members of that opposition Erwin von Witzleben, Hans Bernd Gisevius, Hans Oster, Hans von Dohnanyi, and assumedly Carl Friedrich Goerdeler met Abwehr Captain Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz and Franz-Maria Liedig at Oster’s house in Berlin.
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Political Party
Christian Social Union of Bavaria