Paul Illing

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Paul Illing (1932)

Paul Illing (born January 9, 1904 in Landstraßen , Bohemia, † June 8, 1984 in Viechtach ) was a German local politician of the NSDAP . From 1939 to 1945 he was the district administrator of the Leitmeritz district .

Life

Illing graduated from high school in Prachatitz . He then studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . There he joined the NSDAP and SA on March 1, 1923 and acted as block leader . He later went to Czechoslovakia on behalf of the NSDAP and worked as Hans Krebs' deputy at the head of the German national gymnastics movement. In 1929 Illing was one of the initiators of the founding of the Volkssport and then acted as its organizational leader and national guide for Bohemia. Illing , who lived in Lovosice, was sentenced in 1932 to a prison term of two years and seven months for subversive activities. In 1936, Illing , who had meanwhile joined the Sudeten German Party , began studying law at Karl Ferdinand University . In 1938, at the invitation of Heinrich Himmler, Illing moved to the German Reich , where he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer and was appointed head of two departments in the staff of the SS upper section “Elbe”. Illing, who had membership number 309.731 of the SS , was promoted to Obersturmbannführer on January 30, 1939.

After the occupation of the “rest of Czechia” , Illing was ordered to Prague on March 15, 1939 by Himmler as his interpreter and guide . He then worked as the head of the SS acceptance point of the SS upper section "Elbe" and, as the site manager of Prague, built up the SS in the northern protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In December 1939 Illing was appointed provisionally as district administrator for the district of Leitmeritz . From that time on he was also the honorary leader of the 103rd SS Standard in Aussig and, from June 1940, honorary Gau organization leader in Reichenberg . Of Rudolf Hess Illing was appointed Chief of Staff to the Nazi Gauleiter Reichenberg. In 1940 Illing was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In December 1940 he was officially confirmed as District Administrator of Leitmeritz, later he also took over the office of District Administrator of Dauba .

After the end of the Second World War Illing fled to West Germany, where he was an American prisoner of war between 1947 and 1948. From 1952 Illing was general manager and from 1954 to 1969 federal manager of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He also worked as secretary of the Federal Assembly of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and was the founder of the “Sudetenland” publishing house. The Federal Minister for All-German Issues Ernst Lemmer appointed him to his advisory board.

Awards

literature

  • K. Erik Franzen: The fourth tribe of Bavaria. Patronage over the Sudeten Germans 1954–1974 , Oldenbourg 2010 (biography p. 504).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.muzeumlovosicka.cz/2012/03/obsazeni-sudet/
  2. ↑ Paul Illing on www.dws-xip.pl
  3. ↑ Leitmeritz district at www.territorial.de
personal data
SURNAME Illing, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Country roads , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1984
Place of death Viechtach