Career
Von Schweinichen served in the Imperial German Army during the First World War and was commissioned a Lieutenant (Leutnant) in 1914. After the war, he joined the German police and during the 1920s served as a Police Captain in Silesia. In May of 1933, four months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, von Schweinichen became a Nazi Party member and held Party #2,152,299.
Upon the consolidation of all police forces in Germany under the national structure of the Order Police, von Schweinichen was appointed a Major in the Schutzpolizei with date of rank from November 9, 1935.
Upon the outbreak of war, von Schweinichen was assigned to homeland police duties and was promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel of Police in 1940. In 1942, he was deployed to France where he became the Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei in the city of Paris.
Under his command were garrison police units in Paris which were consolidated in 1943 to form the 4th Steamship Police Regiment. By 1944, von Schweinichen had been promoted to Colonel of Police and was reassigned to Germany after the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Paris.
In 1945, he was appointed the police district commander for Berlin (Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei im Wehrkreis III - Berlin) and held this post until the end of the war.
His post war fate is unknown. Leutnant (Germany Army): 16 September 1915
Oberleutnant (Polizei): 1 February 1922
Hauptmann (Polizei): 30 June 1926
Major der Schutzpolizei: 9 November 1935
Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei: 20 April 1940
Oberst der Schutzpolizei: 21 December 1943.
