Carl Breuer

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Carl Breuer (born March 26, 1900 in Hamburg ; † October 26, 1990 there ) was a German detective director .

Life

Carl Breuer came from Hamburg, where he attended an elementary school in Ludwigstrasse in St. Pauli from 1906 to 1914 . He completed a Selekta for gifted students in the ninth year of school . He then did a three-year commercial apprenticeship at the Grossmann forwarding company. During the First World War he did military service in the 17th Infantry Division from 1918, which was disbanded near Flensburg in 1918/19 . He then moved to the Schleswig-Holstein Freikorps under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , with whom he went to Berlin , among others , and returned to Hamburg in the summer of 1919.

On October 1, 1919, the Hamburg Security Police, which from 1920 onwards were called "Ortspolizei", took over Breuer as a police subordinate in the civil service. In 1924 he joined the SPD and the Vereinigung Republik , which later became part of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In the Reichsbanner he worked since 1924 as the technical director of the Eimsbüttel district in the comradeship of the police. He passed the senior civil servant course in 1927/28 as the third-best in the class. On October 1, 1928, he was named police lieutenant and platoon leader. In 1930/31 he worked for some time in the state police and tried to systematically gain details about the structure of the NSDAP , which he was unable to do due to the resistance of older colleagues, including Peter Kraus . On July 1, 1931, Breuer was appointed lieutenant police officer.

On the day of the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , Breuer was supposed to protect the inner and outer areas of the Hamburg City Hall as "City Hall Commandant" . Shortly before taking up his duties, the task was withdrawn from him. That evening, SS and SA commandos took over the building without a fight. Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick appointed Alfred Richter as the new “Reich Commissioner” and “Police Lord” and made him head of the Hamburg police force. Carl Breuer was born on 6./7. Dismissed on March 1st and on leave, initially on the basis of Section 14 of the Hamburg Police Act, and on June 28, 1933, according to Section 4 of the Law to Restore the Civil Service . The service officially ended two days later.

During the time of National Socialism , Breuer was in close contact with people from the resistance movement such as Theodor Haubach . After his arrest in autumn 1933, he was interrogated in the town hall . Breuer spent some time in the remand prison and then several weeks in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . After his imprisonment, he worked as an insurance agent, accountant, commercial clerk and site manager. The Wehrmacht called him on November 1, 1939 for military service. Breuer worked in the Zeven army ammunition facility and achieved the rank of sergeant major. At the intercession of Adolph Schönfelders , British captivity in Schleswig-Holstein ended prematurely in the summer of 1945.

On August 1, 1945, Breuer was given a new position as captain of the security police. A month later he was appointed major, and on January 1, 1946, he was appointed police group chief. Breuer, whom friends and colleagues mostly called "Kuddel", initially headed the police school and from April 1, 1946 the criminal investigation department. A little later he was appointed police chief, in 1952 chief criminal director. In 1958 he took over the post of Deputy Police President. For reasons of age, his service ended on February 29, 1960.

Importance in office

Carl Breuer can be regarded as one of the most successful leaders in the history of the Hamburg criminal police. When he took office, he took over a police force, which largely consisted of people who had served at the center of National Socialist oppression during the Nazi era. Breuer designed the work of the police in a modern way and placed the technical work in the foreground, while he mostly did not include historical misconduct in his judgment. In this way, based on his own experiences during the Nazi era, he enabled the authority to work professionally.

In the police force, especially the criminal investigation department, Breuer deliberately and successfully involved the media, whose effectiveness he had been aware of since the late 1940s. From 1953 to 1956 he appeared in the television series Der Polizeibericht reports ... by Jürgen Roland and Udo Langhoff . He also worked purposefully with the press. Therefore he was one of the most famous Hamburg personalities in the 1950s and 1960s.

Since he was a member of the SPD, the Hamburg bloc tried after the mayor elections in 1953 to remove Breuer and other leaders of the police close to the SPD from their offices with forward - looking reasons. The Hamburg district court and the service supervisory chamber acquitted all civil servants in 1956. Breuer met regularly with former colleagues until shortly before his death and had a great influence on the further development of the agency. When the Criminal Police Office closed in the mid-1970s on the advice of the management consultancy Knight and Wegenstein as part of the police reform, Breuer criticized this sharply and highly praised the establishment of the State Criminal Police Office .

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SURNAME Breuer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal director
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1990
Place of death Hamburg