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Gottlob Dill (born August 30, 1885 in Niederstetten , † January 30, 1968 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer, Württemberg ministerial official and SS-Oberführer .

Life

Gottlob Dill was the son of the pharmacist and businessman of the same name (1845–1909) and his wife Cordula Regina Charlotte, née Bauer (1846–1899). He had two siblings who, however, died of diphtheria in 1877 . Dill first attended elementary and secondary school in his hometown, then from 1900 the high school in Schwäbisch Hall and finally from the following year the Dillmann Realgymnasium in Stuttgart, which he graduated from in 1903 with the matriculation examination. This was followed by his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 3rd Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 49 , he achieved the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. From 1904 he completed a law degree at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig , which he completed in 1909 with the first legal exam. In Tübingen he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . He completed his legal traineeship at courts in Mergentheim and Stuttgart. After passing the second legal exam in 1912, he was a court assessor in Ulm. From 1913 he was a lawyer in Calw . In 1913 he married Else, née Wiedersheim (1889–1961), and the couple had three children. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, receiving several awards ( Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class and Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Military Merit Order ), he was promoted to Captain of the Reserve in 1918 .

After the end of the war, he headed the criminal department of the Württemberg State Police Office for one year from June 1919. In March 1920, Dr. jur. PhD . As a member of the government , he was head of the district court prison in Stuttgart-Stadt from April 1921. From April 1923 he was a district judge, most recently from October 1927 as a district judge in Stuttgart.

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Dill was appointed Deputy Reich Commissioner for the Police in Württemberg and Deputy Police Commissioner for Württemberg in March 1933. At the beginning of May 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 326.470, revised shortly afterwards to 921.743). In 1933 he became the highest-ranking civil servant in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior and later deputy to the Württemberg Interior Minister Jonathan Schmid . From July 1933 he was a member of the Evangelical Church Congress and Committee for the German Christians .

One year after the annexation of Austria in April 1939 he became head of the Reichsstatthalters for Austria in Vienna and held this position until August 1939. In April 1939 he joined the SS (SS-No. 327.310) as an SS-Standartenführer and was only a few months later promoted to SS-Oberführer , the highest rank he achieved in the General SS .

After the invasion of Poland , Dill was head of the civil administration (CdZ) at the High Command of the 14th Army with headquarters in Krakow until October 1939 , where he organized the administrative structure.

After the end of the war he was held in the internment camps in Stuttgart, Kornwestheim , Darmstadt and Ossweil near Ludwigsburg until 1947 . After two judicial proceedings , he was finally denazified in September 1949 as a "minor offender" . From 1950 he received a pension, from 1957 in the amount of the remuneration of a ministerial councilor.

literature

• Bernd Ottnad, Fred L. Sepainter (eds.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien 3 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017332-4 , pp. 35-39.
• Frank Raberg : Gottlob Dill (1885–1968) , in: Rainer Smiling / Jörg Thierfelder (eds.): We could not escape. Thirty biographies on the Church and National Socialism in Württemberg , Quell-Verl., Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7918-3187-9 , pp. 189–205.

Web links

• Dill, thank God on the pages of http://www.leo-bw.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 396