Arthur Bahl

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Arthur Bahl (born August 9, 1893 in Wiesbaden ; † January 31, 1966 in Karlsruhe ) was a German police general.

After finishing school, he applied as a professional soldier. In 1912 he was promoted to lieutenant. At the end of the First World War , he had the rank of first lieutenant in March. In 1921 he switched to the police in Baden . On January 1, 1923, Bahl became a captain of the police, in October 1933 a major.

He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel of the police in the Baden police administration in early 1937. In December 1937 he completed the 9th air defense course in Berlin-Schöneberg with the air defense staff .

At the beginning of 1938 he was deployed to the police in Cologne as deputy commander. The representation of the command via the air raid police was connected with this. After being promoted to colonel in early 1940, he also took over command of the police in Cologne, which he led until 1943. At the same time, he also represented the police chief of Cologne as the local head of air protection.

From 1943 he became the commander of the officers' school of the Ordnungspolizei in Oranienburg . He held this command until April 1944, then he moved to the main office of the Ordnungspolizei as head of the Amtsgruppenkommando II. After he was promoted to major general in July 1944, he took over command of the protection police in Vienna from September 1944 to May 1945 .

After the war he settled in Karlsruhe. His paper on the activities of the police in Cologne dealt only with questions of air protection .

Fonts

  • The deployment of the protection police in Cologne during the war 1939/45 in: BH Lankenau (edit.), Police in action during the war 1939-1945 in Rhineland-Westphalia, Bremen 1957, pp. 168–203.

credentials

  • Departments of the Office Group Command II in the Main Office of the Ordnungspolizei
  • Harald Buhlan, organization, staff and locations of the state police administration in Cologne during the Nazi era , in: Harald Buhlan, Werner Jung (ed.), Whose friend and whose helper? - The Cologne Police under National Socialism, Cologne 2000
  • Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, The Generals of the Waffen SS and the Police , Vol. 1, Bissendorf 2003
personal data
SURNAME Bahl, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1966
Place of death Karlsruhe