Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was a Nazi German Police President and SS-Oberfuhrer.
17 Facts About Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was the older brother of Richard Hildebrandt, who became an SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and was executed in Poland as a war criminal in 1951.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class and the Wound Badge, in black.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt served briefly in the Freikorps from 1922 to 1923.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was active in 1923 in the Viking League, a paramilitary organization committed to the overthrow of the Weimar Republic.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt belonged to the Nazi Party from 1922 until November 1923 when it was banned in the wake of the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was employed until 1925 as a commercial clerk, then until 1928 as an auditor at the Mosaic and Wall Panel Association in Berlin and then as a self-employed tradesman until 1931.
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On 1 February 1932, Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt joined the SS.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt began his career as an intelligence officer with the SD from March to May 1933 in SS-Gruppe "Sud" in Munich, the headquarters of the Party.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was then made commander of the SD detachment in that jurisdiction and served in that capacity until April 1934.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was then promoted to SS-Sturmbannfuhrer and returned to his SD command in Munich from 20 April to 10 August 1937.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt's next posting was as the Police President in Hof, where he attained the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer in November 1938 and remained until July 1940.
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From 6 July 1940 until the fall of the Nazi regime, Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was the Police President of Dessau, though others acted in his place during his long wartime absence.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt next was deployed to the notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, then engaged in counterinsurgency campaigns against Yugoslav partisans in which many war crimes against civilians took place.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt served as a company commander until June 1943, and as the divisional adjutant from June to 23 August 1943.
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On 20 April 1944, Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was promoted to SS-Oberfuhrer and named SS and Police Leader in "Oberitalien-Mitte" with his headquarters in Bologna and, later, Desenzano del Garda.
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt was the only holder of this post and reported directly to the Supreme SS and Police Leader in Italy, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Wolff.