Wilhelm Jahn (Chief of Police)

Wilhelm Jahn (born February 2, 1891 , † 1952 ) was a German police officer and SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA Obergruppenführer . Among other things, he was the police chief of Halle an der Saale , Stettin and Königsberg .

Life and activity

Jahn, a trained banker, began to be politically active in 1920: In that year he joined the DNVP , which he left again in the same year. In 1922 he became a member of the NSDAP and in their street combat unit, the Sturmabteilung (SA). After the party was temporarily banned from 1923 to 1925, he rejoined it in 1926.

From 1922 to 1930 Jahn worked as an electrical and automobile salesman in Osnabrück . From 1931 he was a full-time SA leader. In 1932 Jahn was promoted to SA group leader and appointed staff leader of the SA upper group II (SA groups Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Lower Rhine and North Sea) led by Viktor Lutze . He reached his highest rank in the SA in 1936 when he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer.

From 1936 to 1943, Jahn held various posts as police chief: on October 28, 1936 he was appointed police chief of Halle. On January 11, 1939, he then moved to Stettin in the same position, before finally becoming Police President of Koenigsberg in 1942. He held this post until December 1943. In that month he was appointed leader of the SA Elbe group. He remained in this post until the end of World War II .

On the occasion of the Reichstag election of April 10, 1938 , Jahn ran unsuccessfully on the "List of the Führer to the election of the Greater German Reichstag" for a mandate as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , which had no political influence .

literature

• Götz Aly / Wolf Gruner (editor): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933 - 1945 , vol. 3 ( German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 ), 2011, p. 282.
• Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads. Who was what in the Third Reich , 1967, p. 216.