Anton Heigl

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Anton Heigl (born October 8, 1904 in Munich ; † April 15, 1963 there ) was a German lawyer . From 1952 to 1963 he was police chief of Munich.

Life

After primary school, the son of a businessman attended the Rupprecht-Kreisoberrealschule in Munich and from 1923 studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing the judicial preparatory service (1928–1931), he worked for a short time as a court assessor and then from 1933 to 1934 as the second public prosecutor at the Munich District Court II . For political reasons he resigned this office and worked as an insurance agent. During the Second World War he served as a non-commissioned officer in an interpreting company from 1942 to June 1945. After the end of the war, Heigl returned to the Bavarian judicial service and worked until 1948 as a public prosecutor and first public prosecutor (from 1948 then as senior public prosecutor) at the Munich II district court.

On June 4, 1952, Heigl, who belonged to the SPD , was elected police president of Munich by the Munich city council with 43 of 60 votes. In 1958 he was confirmed in his office with the intensive support of the staff council . Under Heigl's aegis, the concentration camp doctor Hans Eisele was able to flee to Egypt. Heigl has been the subject of public criticism at least since the Schwabing riots in 1962, after which the Munich police were referred to as “by far the rudest police in the Federal Republic, even beyond the German borders”.

On April 5, 1963, Heigl suffered a broken leg in a truck accident in Riederau . He died on April 15, 1963 in the Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich of the consequences of the accident.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munich: Colleagues . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1958 ( online - 17 December 1958 ).
  2. ↑ G 'quickly through . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1964 ( online - Jan. 22, 1964 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Heigl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and police chief
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1963
Place of death Munich