Georg Jedicke
Bruno Georg Jedicke (born March 26, 1887 in Dresden , † March 10, 1969 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general of the police and SS leader with the rank of SS group leader in World War II .
Live and act
After attending school, Jedicke joined the Imperial Navy on April 1, 1906 . This was followed by promotions to ensign at sea on April 6, 1907 and on September 19, 1912 to lieutenant at sea . As such, Jedicke was on duty on the small cruiser SMS Strasbourg before the outbreak of the First World War . As the war continued, he was promoted to lieutenant captain on October 12, 1916 and retired from military service with effect from January 31, 1920 after the end of the war.
On February 1, 1920 Jedicke was accepted into the Reich water protection authority, in which he received the rank of police captain. On May 1, 1922, he was finally appointed representative of the head of the Reich water protection department in Berlin.
After the dissolution of the Reich water protection, Jedicke was taken over into the Prussian police with effect from April 1, 1931, in which he initially held the post of deputy commander of the protection police in Potsdam . On April 20, 1934, he was appointed lieutenant colonel and commander of the protection police in Stettin , from where he moved to Frankfurt am Main on October 1, 1935 as colonel of the protection police and commander of the protection police . Then he switched to the regulatory police . Philipp W. Blood describes him as the seventh highest man in the hierarchy of this organization. On October 1, 1936, he became the inspector of the Ordnungspolizei of the Rhine Province and Saarland ( Military District XII), based in Koblenz . As a police officer, Jedecke held a rank in the SS since 1939 at the latest in connection with the progressive merger of the two organizations under the aegis of Heinrich Himmler . From January 10, 1936 to 1945, Jedicke was an honorary member of the People's Court . The NSDAP Jedicke was in 1930 with the membership number joined 346,948.
At the beginning of World War II Jedicke with effect from 1 September 1939 as a Major General of the Police Commander of the Order Police appointed in Wiesbaden, a post he held until May 15, the 1,941th From May 15 to July 15, 1941, he then held the post of commander of the East Prussian order police in Königsberg .
Shortly after the German attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Jedicke was appointed commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Riga (also commander of the Ordnungspolizei Ostland), which he was officially from June 22, 1941 to March 1944. In an interrogation in 1946, however, he stated that he had only come from Koenigsberg to Riga in October 1941 and that Himmler had already been forced to leave in December 1943. While he was in command of the regulatory police in Riga, Jedicke was promoted to lieutenant general of the security police in January 1942. In the SS he received at this time as part of the rank approximation to the rank of SS-group leader.
At the end of the Second World War, Jedicke was taken prisoner by the US , where he remained until 1947. After his release he settled in Wiesbaden.
Promotions
- April 20, 1939: Character as Major General of the Ordnungspolizei and SS-Oberführer
- April 20, 1940: Major General of the Ordnungspolizei and SS Brigade Leader
- December 9, 1941: Lieutenant General of the Police and SS Group Leader
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Minutes of a Jedicke interrogation from 1946 (PDF; 917 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 30
- ↑ Philip W. Blood: Hitler's Bandit Hunters. The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe , 2006, p. 321.
- ↑ Maximilian Scheer , ed. (Anonymous): The German people accuse : Hitler's war against the peace fighters in Germany . Editions du Carrefour, Paris 1936, p. 152; again Laika, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 9783942281201
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jedicke, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jedicke, Bruno Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently lieutenant general of the police and SS group leader in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1969 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |