Otto Klinger

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Adoption of reserve battalion 9 to Norway, May 9, 1940; v. left SS Gf. August Heissmeyer (general SS); Gene. Kurt Daluege ; Ol. Eberhard Herf ; Gene. Adolf von Bomhard [?]; Gen.mj. Otto Klinger.

Ernst Otto Klinger (born April 25, 1886 in Hohnstein ; † June 26, 1966 in Usseln ) was a German police officer, most recently lieutenant general of the police and SS group leader in World War II .

Life

Klinger was the son of a brewery owner. He attended elementary school in his hometown and from 1901 to 1907 the teachers' college in Dresden-Plauen. He then did his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Saxon Army and then worked as a teacher in Kötzschenbroda and Dresden . From August 1914 he then took part in the First World War with the Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 177 , most recently as a company and battalion leader. After he had already received both classes of the Iron Cross , he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Saint Henry on November 1, 1917 .

After his discharge from the army in January 1919, he joined the troop police in Dresden, was initially at the Dresden Gendarmerie Directorate from 1921 and headed a gendarmerie department from 1923 to 1928. He was then transferred to the Chemnitz Police Headquarters, headed a police candidate inspection in Plauen for the next two years, and was gendarmerie section commander in Chemnitz from 1930 to 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power , he joined the Saxon State Police and was commander of the State Police School in Meißen from 1933 to 1935 . He then switched to the police force and got a job as a clerk in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior, based in Dresden. At the beginning of May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5.550.129). From the beginning of August 1937 to the end of May 1939 he was Inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (ITE) at the Upper Presidium of the Province of Brandenburg. In the meantime, on April 20, 1939, he was given the rank of SS-Standartenführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS-Nr. 337.820) and belonged as SS-Führer to the staff of the SS Upper Section East / Spree. From June 1939 until his retirement due to incapacity for work on September 14, 1944, he succeeded Jürgen von Kamptz as the commander of the police in Berlin. At the same time he was in charge of the Berlin Police Sports Association.

Since December 1930 he was married to Charlotte Runge (born April 30, 1897).

Awards

Klinger's military, police and SS ranks
date rank
April 1915 lieutenant
April 1, 1920 Police lieutenant
April 1, 1921 Captain of the gendarmerie
August 1, 1930 Major in the gendarmerie
December 1, 1933 Lieutenant Colonel of the State Police
September 1937 Colonel of the security police
April 20, 1939 SS standard leader
September 1, 1939 SS-Oberführer
April 20, 1940 SS Brigade Leader
April 20, 1940
(with effect from November 1, 1939) 		Major General of the Police
November 9, 1943
(with effect from August 10, 1943) 		SS group leader
December 14, 1943
(with effect from August 1, 1943 and October 1, 1943) 		Lieutenant General of the Police

literature

  • Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 2: H-K. (Hachtel-Kutschera), Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2592-8 , pp. 523-525.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 376.
  2. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. , Volume 2: H – K (Hachtel-Kutschera) X, Bissendorf 2005, p. 523
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 2: H-K. (Hachtel-Kutschera), X, Bissendorf 2005, p. 524.
personal data
SURNAME Klinger, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klinger, Ernst Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and SS group leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Mockery
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1966
Place of death Usseln