Achim Thiel (lawyer)

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Achim Thiel during an interview in Frankfurt am Main on the Zeil

Achim Thiel (* 1953 ) is a German lawyer . Between September 2005 and August 2014 he was police chief in Frankfurt am Main .

After studying law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , he was employed in 1981 as a lawyer by the public prosecutor's office at the Frankfurt am Main regional court . In the same year his doctorate Thiel on "problem areas of the residence and expulsion in the case law of the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate" . In 1990 Thiel moved to the Hessian Ministry of Justice , where he was deployed in the fight against organized crime , among other things . In 1993 he moved to the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main , where he set up the Central Office for Combating Organized Crime and headed it until 2005. In July 2005, Thiel was seconded to the United Nations International Independent Inquiry Commission (UNIIC) in Beirut for three months, which investigated the attack on the vehicle convoy of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri on February 14, 2005.

On August 26, 2014, Thiel received his retirement certificate from the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth at a ceremony . His successor was Gerhard Bereswill .

Thiel is married and has two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. https://archive.today/20120719152102/http://wm2006frankfurt.onm.de/main.php?bereich=wm_stadt_frankfurt&content_id=20&tl=25
  2. a b Oliver Teutsch: Frankfurt Police President: More lawyer than police officer. Frankfurter Rundschau , August 26, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2014 .
  3. Dr. Achim Thiel is to become the new police chief of Frankfurt. PP Frankfurt press office, 23 August 2005, accessed on 19 December 2010 .
  4. Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library