Dierk Henning Schnitzler

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Dierk Henning Schnitzler (born June 16, 1937 in Remscheid ) is a German lawyer and retired police officer . From 1986 to 1993 he was police chief of the waterway police in North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1994 to 2002 police chief in Bonn .

Life

Dierk Henning Schnitzler grew up predominantly in the Rhineland , with a few longer, war-related stays in Hesse during the Second World War . His father was the lawyer and police officer Heinrich Schnitzler (1901–1962). He graduated from high school in Neuss and then studied law at the universities in Freiburg , Bonn and Munich . In 1963 Schnitzler passed his first state examination in law in Munich and then went to Düsseldorf , where he completed his legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in 1967 . Schnitzler then worked in the public service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from 1968 until he reached retirement age in 2002 .

He is a member of the CDU and a corresponding member of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. Schnitzler writes literary texts in retirement. He is a member of the Kreative Schreibwerkstatt Bonn and has so far published several short stories in a second edition anthology published by the Schreibwerkstatt . Together with his brother Klaus Michael Schnitzler he gave in 2014 the diary whose father, Heinrich Schnitzler, about whose experiences as a prisoner of war (Engl., Prisoner of War ') in 1945 out.

Dierk Henning Schnitzler lives in Bonn. He has been married since 1970, is now widowed and has one grown son.

Professional career

After passing his second state examination, Schnitzler joined the North Rhine-Westphalian state service in 1968 and initially worked as an administrative lawyer . At first he worked for the Münster district government , where he held a departmental position from 1968 to 1969. From 1970 to 1976 he worked as a department head at the Düsseldorf district government . In 1977 he became the deputy chief of police in Mönchengladbach . In 1978 he moved to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior and took on a position there, which he held until 1986. From 1986 to 1993 Schnitzler served as police chief of the NRW water protection police.

Police chief in Bonn

At the end of 1993, Schnitzler was appointed Police President in Bonn by the then North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor ( SPD ). At the beginning of 1994 he succeeded Michael Kniesel . As head of the Bonn Police Headquarters , Schnitzler was responsible for the independent city of Bonn as well as for the cities and communities of Bornheim, Rheinbach, Meckenheim, Königswinter, Bad Honnef, Swisttal, Alfter and Wachtberg from the Rhein-Sieg district . Initially 2,300 and most recently 1,600 officers were responsible for the security of around 540,000 people in his area of ​​responsibility.

The state authority building in Bonn-Gronau - together with other state authorities, the headquarters of the Bonn Police Headquarters from 1974 to 2006 (photo from 2014)

He acted from the state authorities in the federal quarter in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1974 and has since been the seat of the Bonn Police Headquarters. Further North Rhine-Westphalian state authorities were housed in the monumental exposed concrete building. Since Bonn was the seat of government until 1999 , the Bonn Police Headquarters also had the " Personal and Property Protection " (POS) unit until October 2000 , which at the time was the largest police station in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 700 officers. After their dissolution and the further general downsizing, the seat in the state authorities remained until 2006 - four years after Schnitzler's term of office - the police headquarters moved to a new building in the Ramersdorf district on the right bank of the Rhine .

Schnitzler was responsible for adapting the Bonn police to the changed security requirements after the government and parliament moved from Bonn to Berlin . After reunification and the Bonn / Berlin resolution of the German Bundestag in 1991, the seat of parliament and government were relocated to the new federal capital Berlin in 1999/2000, and numerous federal authorities to Bonn in return. According to the Berlin / Bonn Act since the have Bundesstadt different Bonn federal agencies like the Federal President , the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Council a second service seat, six federal ministries their first official residence and the other eight a second seat. In addition, 19 United Nations (UN) organizations remained or became resident in Bonn. Schnitzler organized the Bonn police from a “capital city authority to a ?? normal ?? District Police Authority ”and cut staff accordingly.

Other focal points of his office in Bonn were - in addition to the remaining protective tasks for politicians, the partly still resident embassies and occasional state guests - the fight against drug crime and preventive measures in various areas. Schnitzler supported the pilot project of controlled heroin distribution to severely addicted people , in which the city of Bonn participated, was committed to “preventive action against increasing brutality, especially among young people and towards old people” and advocated a “good social policy ”. During his term of office, however, the scandal of 1998 about the armed escape of the felon and police undercover agent Mehmet K. from a patrol car while being transported from custody for interrogation also fell. The circumstances of an unsuccessful large-scale manhunt and the disappearance of evidence and the question of the procurement of the weapon attracted nationwide attention and aroused at that time the "urgent suspicion of companionship between police officers and a criminal". Ultimately, the matter was never resolved.

Schnitzler retired at the end of June 2002; his successor was Wolfgang Albers .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 16th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-2034-4 , p. 1281.
  2. ↑ a b c Author biography - Dierk Henning Schnitzler. In: geest-verlag.de. Geest-Verlag , accessed on January 17, 2016 (short biography).
  3. ↑ a b Ariane Barth: A taboo is broken . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1997 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Schnitzler, Dierk. In: vbw-ev.de. Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V., Duisburg, accessed on January 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c (ta): The best prevention is a good social policy. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 1, 2002, accessed on January 17, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Dagmar Blesel: Terror, Castor, Euro and fewer and fewer people. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger , Bonn, October 22, 2001, accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Leyendecker: Bonn group buys the state authority building. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger, Bonn, July 29, 2006, accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Dagmar Blesel: A "Tschö" and a "Glück auf". In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger, Bonn, July 1, 2002, accessed on January 17, 2016 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schnitzler's successor in Bonn, the lawyer Wolfgang Albers , was police chief in Bonn from 2002 to 2011 and then from 2011 to early 2016 police chief in Cologne. There he became known nationwide in connection with the sexual assault on New Year's Eve 2015 at Cologne Central Station and subsequently lost his office (see Sexual Assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 ).
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzler, Dierk Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitzler, Dierk-Henning; Schnitzler, Dierk-H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, policeman and chief of police (Water Police NRW, Bonn)
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid , Germany