Carl Friederichs (politician, 1879)

Carl Friederichs (born April 18, 1879 in Unna , † March 20, 1947 in Pfronten ) was a German police officer and member of the Hamburg citizenship .

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Carl Friederichs attended a grammar school, which he left with the Abitur in 1899. He then went to the Prussian army as an active officer and was appointed lieutenant on August 18, 1899. From March 31, 1898 to September 30, he served in Jägerbataillon 8, then from October 1, 1902 to July 19, 1914 in MG division 10. There he was appointed first lieutenant on September 17, 1908. October 1913 to captain.

During the First World War he served from July 20 to August 3, 1914 as a company commander in the “Hamburg” infantry regiment and from August 4, 1914 to January 15, 1915, headed the 1st replacement machine gun company of IX. Army Corps . From January 16, 1915 to April 20, 1920 he was a company commander and battalion commander of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 and the infantry regiment "Graf Bose" . Since he lived in a transit camp in Cuxhaven from April 10 to May 31, 1920 , it can be assumed that he was a prisoner of war. Further details are not documented.

After the end of the war, Friederichs went on June 1, 1920 as a captain to the security police in Hamburg . He headed the 5th Hundred of the State Protection, since October 1st, 1920 as a police major. From September 16, 1920 to January 31, 1921 worked for the staff of the port protection, whose III. He then headed the department until August 31, 1922. On July 9, 1924, he was appointed lieutenant colonel and chief of staff of the Ordnungspolizei, whose personnel officer he was thus. When he was appointed as the newly appointed police colonel to commander of the port security on July 1, 1928, he took on the second highest position in the Hamburg regulatory police after Lothar Danner .

Friederichs took over the chairmanship of the senior civil servants' association of the Ordnungspolizei until 1932, in which almost all senior civil servants (police officers) were members. When the National Socialists gained increasing influence and members of democratic parties threatened to be expelled, he left the association. Friederichs campaigned publicly for the Weimar Republic and professed democracy. As a personnel officer, he also supported democratic processes and in individual cases contradicted the promotion of National Socialist police officers.

As an SPD member, Friederichs represented the party from 1924 to 1933 in the Hamburg Parliament, where he was a respected speaker. From 1927 to January 27, 1932 he took over the office of secretary in the citizenry. In 1932 the National Socialists wrote a memorandum in which they allegedly listed preferred social democratic officials, including wrongly Friederichs. He had acted as a "technical" Gauleiter in the Reichsbanner , which was not true, however, since Friederichs had only been a member without a management position.

After the seizure of power , the National Socialists withdrew from service in March 1933 in accordance with Section 14 of the Police Officer Act. On April 3, 1933, he resigned from the citizenry. On June 28, 1933, he was dismissed on the grounds of "political unreliability" under section four of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service . After 1933, the Friederichs moved to Pfronten , particularly due to health problems , where he managed Robert Bosch's hunt .

literature

• Wolfgang Kopitzsch: Friederichs, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 99-100 .