Hildebrandt was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer, and on 16 November he was named Reich Defense Commissioner for his Gau. After World War II ended, he was arrested and interned by U.S. forces, and tried in the Allied Dachau Trials. He was sentenced specifically in the Airmen's Trial, for contraventions of the Hague Conventions by issuing orders to shoot parachuting U.S. aircrewmen. Friedrich Hildebrandt was then put to death by hanging at Landsberg am Lech on 5 November 1948. References Bibliography External links 1898 births 1948 deaths Dachau trials executions Executed people from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Gauleiters German Army personnel of World War I German National People's Party politicians German people imprisoned abroad German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany National Socialist Working Association members Nazi Party officials Nazi Party politicians People from Parchim People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin SS-Obergruppenführer 20th-century Freikorps personnel German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States