Herbert Jilski

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Herbert Jilski (born August 27, 1893 in Breslau ; † March 1979 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German police general , most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police in the National Socialist German Reich during the Second World War . Jilski was most recently in command of the Ordnungspolizei (BdO) in Croatia.

Life

Jilski was an officer in the police from 1921 and from 1926 in the protective police in Wesermünde . As an author he has published books on police training, such as the 1928 book Police Tactics . After serving in the gendarmerie in Stralsund for some time, from 1932 he was a regional hunter supervisory officer in Potsdam . After he joined the NSDAP in 1933 , he became commander of the gendarmerie and leader of the gendarmerie district of Potsdam II in 1934. After a year he changed to the same function in the administrative district of Arnsberg . After another year he was transferred to Bad Ems to take over the management of the local gendarmerie school. In this post he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1937 . In November 1938 he went to the Gendarmerie School in Freiburg im Breisgau as a commander . With the promotion to colonel on October 1, 1940, he moved to the head of the gendarmerie in Litzmannstadt in occupied Poland. In April 1941 he took over the management of the newly founded Colonial Police School in Oranienburg . From October 1942 he switched to the police officers' school in Berlin-Köpenick as a guide , before moving to the Balkans in September 1943 as the commander of the police in charge of the police in Croatia. There he was promoted to major general of the police on April 20, 1944 . It was here that he saw the end of the war. After the war he took up residence in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he also died.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Klemp: Oranienburger Schriften edition 1/2015, Die Oranienburger Polizeieunheiten from 1936 to 1945 , p. 90.
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Klemp: Oranienburger Schriften edition 1/2015, Die Oranienburger Polizeieunheiten from 1936 to 1945 , p. 91.
personal data
SURNAME Jilski, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police general, most recently SS brigade leader and major general of the police in the National Socialist German Reich during the Second World War
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 1979
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau