(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Theodor Herbert
Born: 10 Aug 1897 in Klein-Steinheim, District Offenbach, Main
Died: 22 Sep 1988 in Bonn
Promotions:
Gefreiter (03 Oct 1914); Unteroffizier (31 Dec 1914); Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (06 Feb 1915); Fähnrich (04 Mar 1915); Leutnant (08 Jul 1915); Charakter als Oberleutnant (30 Sep 1920); Polizei-Oberleutnant (11 Jun 1920); Polizei-Hauptmann (30 Jun 1926); Polizei-Major (21 Jul 1934); Charakter als Major (01 May 1935); Major (01 Jan 1936); Oberstleutnant (01 Jan 1939); Oberst (01 Jan 1941); Generalmajor (01 Jan 1944)
Career:
Entered the Army as Recruit in the Replacement-Battalion of the 88th Infantry-Regiment (07 Aug 1914-01 Oct 1914)
Soldier, Officer-Aspirant and Platoon-Leader in the 88th Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (03 Oct 1914-26 Jul 1915)
Officer-Aspirant-Course in Döberitz (07 Feb 1915-30 Apr 1915)
Temporary-Battalion-Adjutant in the 88th Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (27 Jul 1915-19 Sep 1916)
Platoon-Leader in the 88th Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (20 Sep 1916-18 Apr 1917)
Detached to Field-War-School Mousson near Sedan (15 Nov 1916-18 Jan 1917)
Company-Leader in the 88th Reserve-Infantry-Regiment (19 Apr 1917-17 Oct 1918)
Detached to Weapons-Officer-Course at Spandau (03 Jul 1918-31 Jul 1918)
Detached to the 168th Infantry-Regiment (18 Oct 1918-26 Nov 1918)
Company-Leader in the 88th Infantry-Regiment (27 Nov 1918-05 Feb 1919)
Adjutant of Garrison-Command Hanau (06 Feb 1919-01 Mar 1919)
Temporary-Adjutant of the 88th Infantry-Regiment (02 Mar 1919-06 Apr 1919)
Recruitment-Officer with the Recruitment-Central of Freikorps Hessen-Nassau in Schlüchtern (07 Apr 1919-17 Apr 1919)
With Border-Protection Baltenland (18 Apr 1919-30 Apr 1919)
MG-Officer, Court and Signals Officer with the Staff of 51st Volunteer-Battalion Baden, Freikorps Diebitsch, Border-Protection-Command Suwalki (01 May 1919-30 Nov 1919)
At the same time, Weapons and Munitions Officer of the 51st Volunteer-Battalion Baden (01 Jul 1919-30 Nov 1919)
At the same time, Temporary-Adjutant 51st Volunteer-Battalion Baden (10 Aug 1919-06 Sep 1919)
Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the II. Volunteer-Battalion Baden (01 Dec 1919-08 Dec 1919)
Company-Leader in the II. Volunteer-Battalion Baden (09 Dec 1919-05 Mar 1920)
Adjutant of the Baden Volunteer-Battalion (06 Mar 1920-11 Apr 1920)
Leader of the Processing-Office of the Baden Volunteer-Battalion (12 Apr 1920-10 Jun 1920)
Placed to the Disposal of the 14th Infantry-Regiment and Granted Leave (11 Jun 1920-30 Sep 1920)
Retired (30 Sep 1920)
Entered Police Service as Platoon-Leader in the 7th Unit of the Security-Police Hanau (11 Jun 1920-15 Sep 1920)
Leader of the 5th Unit with the Security-Police Hanau (16 Sep 1920-31 Dec 1920)
Platoon-Leader with the 2nd Unit of the Security-Police Hanau (01 Jan 1921-30 Sep 1921)
Platoon-Leader with the 3rd Unit of the Security-Police Frankfurt, Main (01 Oct 1921-31 Aug 1922)
Personnel-Specialist and Leader of the Interior-Service with the I. Protection-Police-Inspection Frankfurt, Main (01 Sep 1922-31 May 1925)
Platoon-Leader with the 2nd Unit of the Protection-Police Suhl (01 Jun 1925-12 Aug 1925)
Leader of Motor-Transport Technical and Signals Technical Special-Personnel with the Protection-Police Suhl (13 Aug 1925-01 Dec 1925)
Leader of the Signals Technical Special Personnel of the Protection Police Suhl (02 Dec 1925-07 Jan 1926)
District-Training with the Protection-Police Suhl (08 Jan 1926-07 Apr 1926)
Chief of the Police-District Suhl (08 Apr 1926-26 Jul 1926)
Leader of the 1st Police-Unit, Frankfurt, Main (27 Jul 1926-05 Apr 1927)
Personnel-Administrator with the Command of the Protection-Police Frankfurt, Main (06 Apr 1927-20 Jun 1927)
Leader of the 1st Police-Unit, Frankfurt, Main (21 Jun 1927-14 Jun 1928)
Placed for Information with the Criminal-Inspection-Departments I, II, III and IV, Frankfurt, Main (15 Jun 1928-31 Oct 1928)
Leader of the 1st Police-Unit, Frankfurt, Main (01 Nov 1928-31 Oct 1931)
Chief of the 1st Police-District, Frankfurt, Main (01 Nov 1931-15 Nov 1932)
1st Adjutant of the Chief of Protection-Police in Prussia, at the same time Assistant with Organisation and Training Affairs in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior (15 Nov 1932-09 Jun 1934)
Subsidiary-Leadership-Training at the Higher Police School Eiche (08 Mar 1933-13 Apr 1933)
1st Adjutant and Leader of Staff-Office of the Chief of the Prussian State-Police in Office of the Prussian Prime Minister (10 Jun 1934-30 Apr 1935)
Transferred to Luftwaffe Service as Advisor in the Luftwaffe-Personnel-Office, RLM (01 May 1935-31 Oct 1935)
With the Staff of Flak-Battalion Berlin-Lankwitz (I./12th Flak-Regiment) and Detached to Courses at the Air War School Gatow and to Course for Battalion-Commanders of Flak Artillery (01 Nov 1935-30 Sep 1936)
Battery-Chief in the I. Battalion of the 12th Flak-Regiment (01 Oct 1936-30 Sep 1937)
Battalion-Commander in the 54th Flak-Regiment (01 Oct 1937-30 Jun 1938)
Commander of the 31st Fortress-Flak-Battalion, Trier, at the same time Commander of Section I of Air-Defence-Zone West (01 Jul 1938-25 Aug 1939)
Commander of the 31st Fortress-Flak-Regiment (26 Aug 1939-14 Jul 1942)
Commander of the 59th Flak-Regiment (15 Jul 1941-15 Nov 1942)
Commander of Air-War-School 8 (Flak), Göppingen (16 Nov 1942-21 Jun 1944)
Führer-Reserve OKL (22 Jun 1944-08 Sep 1944)
Commander of the 15th Motorised-Flak-Division (09 Sep 1944-18 Jan 1945)
Commander of the 20th Motorised-Flak-Division (19 Jan 1945-12 Apr 1945)
Commander of Catch-Staff East with Air-Region-Command VII (13 Apr 1945-06 May 1945)
In US Captivity (06 May 1945-06 Mar 1947)
Released (06 Mar 1947)

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