Colonial Police School Oranienburg
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The Colonial Police School Oranienburg was one of two colonial police schools in the National Socialist German Reich . The second was in Vienna-Strebersdorf .
history
In order to prepare for the future conquest of colonies in Africa , selected police officers received a special colonial course at the Police University in Berlin in February 1938 . The learning contents were language lessons , cartography , colonial law , tropical hygiene and colonial technology.
In March 1939, 380 officers and 2000 sergeants of the Ordnungspolizei volunteered for the future colonial police .
For this purpose, in the spring of 1941, on the instructions of the Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police, Heinrich Himmler , a colonial police school was set up in an extension on the grounds of the Oranienburg Palace , in which selected officers of the regulatory police were to be prepared for service in the future German colonies . The school, which could train 600 police officers at the same time, was opened by Kurt Daluege on April 21st. The first commanding officer was Colonel of the Gendarmerie Herbert Jilski .
The first course began four days before the official opening. On September 1, 1941, the second course began with 300 military officers.
Due to the war situation, which made a deployment of the colonial police in their intended area obsolete, the colonial police school was closed in March 1943.
