Otto Dillenburger

Otto Paul Hugo Dillenburger (born June 16, 1880 in Kastel , † March 16, 1948 in Magdeburg-Sudenburg ) was a German police officer.

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In his youth, Dillenburger was educated in the imperial cadet corps. He then joined the Prussian army , where he came as a lieutenant to Infantry Regiment 2 in Trier , before he was assigned to a training battalion. The commanders then sent him to the War Academy in Berlin .

At the beginning of the First World War , Dillenburger first became the leader of a machine gun company in order to command a battalion on the Western Front from 1916 . He was later transferred to the General Staff, worked in various divisions and general commands, and finally was appointed as a major in the Army High Command.

After the November Revolution of 1918, Dillenburger briefly studied chemistry at the Berlin University , but after the end of the First World War , around 1919, he joined the Reichswehr . As a battalion commander he participated in the suppression of communist uprisings in Saxony.

On October 1, 1920, Dillenburger joined the protection police in Kiel , where the government in Schleswig entrusted him with the organization of the protection police. Then the Prussian Ministry of the Interior appointed him to Berlin as head of personnel for the police force . He then worked as a group commander of the Berlin Police with the rank of colonel , should quit his service in 1929 for political reasons. However, those responsible in the ministry left him in the police department and instead transferred him to Oberhausen .

In August 1933, then Interior Minister Hermann Göring appointed Otto Dillenburger as the successor to Police General Richard Baltzer as commander of the Berlin Police. In the following years he was next to the Berlin police chief Magnus von Levetzow , the chief of the secret state police Rudolf Diels and the head of the state police group z. b. V. Walther Wecke one of the four highest and most important police commanders in the capital.

Dillenburger was also chairman of the Association of Police Officers of Prussia and Germany for many years .

From Dillenburger's marriage to Käthe Beck (1888–1974), among other things, the son Helmut Dillenburger emerged.

Fonts

• 10 years of the Association of Police Officers of Preussens eV , 1932.

literature

• “Successor to General Balzer. The new bobby commander Police Colonel Otto Dillenburger ”, in: Berliner Illustrierte night edition of August 24, 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Sudenburg No. 401/1948.
2. ^ Colonel Dillenburger remains in office . In: Vossische Zeitung , April 2, 1929, evening edition; P. 2.