Dieter Schenk

Dieter Schenk (2018)

Dieter Schenk (* 1937 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German criminalist and author . He has been a freelance journalist since 1990.

activities

From 1963 to 1971 Schenk worked in the Hessian State Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden . From 1971 to 1972 he studied at the Police Leadership Academy . From 1973 to 1979 he was head of the criminal investigation department at the Giessen Police Headquarters . He then worked from 1980 to 1988 as a criminal director in the Interpol department of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden.

In 1989 he left the BKA because of irreconcilable differences and in 1992 became a founding member of the police coordination group at Amnesty International . The reason for the differences with the BKA was his view of the inadmissibility of the BKA's cooperation with injustice and torture regimes. In 1991 he founded (together with Hans See ) the Business Crime Control association , which deals with white-collar crime, and the quarterly magazine BIG Business Crime. Until 2006 he was vice chairman of the BCC. Schenk has been researching the field of National Socialism since 1993 . Since 1998 he has also been an honorary professor at the University of Łódź / Poland.

Until 2001, Schenk was also a member and on the board of the Federal Working Group of Critical Police Officers .

About some publications

A trip to Beirut (1990)

In this first volume of his BKA studies, Schenk describes the connections between the BKA and unjust regimes in the 1980s.

The Boss (1998)

In this volume of the trilogy, Schenk focuses on Horst Herold and the fight against terrorism of the 1970s.

Blind in the Right Eye (2001)

In his historical analysis of the formation of the BKA, Schenk shows that in 1959 45 of the 47 senior officials were former members of the NSDAP, and almost half had actively participated in criminal acts. Five of them were desk perpetrators in the Reich Criminal Police Office, fifteen members of Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Paul Dickopf's careers and the "Charlottenburger Kreis" are particularly at the center of his investigations.

SOKO Munich

The TV series SOKO Munich is based on Schenk's memories, which Schenk put down in 1975. This also resulted in his novel "Der Durchläufer". During his time at the Hessian State Criminal Police Office, Schenk had the extension number 5113.

Schenk also wrote episode scripts until 1986 and stayed with the series as a consultant.

reception

In the self-portrayal of its history, the BKA pays tribute to Schenk's work: It was only through his fundamental research that it was possible to come to terms with the history of the BKA and the significance of its processing became clear.

Awards

• 1997: St. Adalbertus Medal of the City of Gdansk
• 1998: Medal 1000 Years of the City of Gdansk
• 1998: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2000: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
• 2002: Honorary Citizenship of the City of Gdansk
• 2003: Fritz Bauer Prize of the Humanist Union
• 2012: Custodian of National Remembrance, Prize of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) Warsaw
• 2017: Award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Łódź / Poland
• 2017: Award of the bronze honorary plaque from the community of Schenklengsfeld for social merits

Publications (selection)

• BKA. The trip to Beirut - a political factual novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-498-06243-3
• The post office of Gdansk. History of a German judicial murder . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-498-06288-3 .
• The boss. Horst Herold and the BKA . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-455-15022-3 .
• Hitler's husband in Danzig. Albert Forster and the Nazi crimes in Danzig-West Prussia . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-8012-5029-6 .
• Blind in the right eye - the brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03034-5 .
• How I made Hitler legs. A Danzig Polish woman in the resistance . Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-570-30255-5 .
• Hans Frank. Hitler's crown lawyer and governor general . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-073562-1 .
• The Lviv murder of professors and the Holocaust in East Galicia . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-8012-5033-1 .
• Krakow Castle. The power center of Governor General Hans Frank 1939–1945 . Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-575-1 .
• Gdansk 1930-1945. The end of a free city. Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-737-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dieter Schenk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Dieter Schenk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nasze Miasto (Polish)
• Homepage of Dieter Schenk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BKA history. (No longer available online.) In: bka.de. September 5, 1950, archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ BKA Police + Research. (No longer available online.) In: bka.de. Archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.dieter-schenk.info/Anhang/Publikationen/BKA/braunesbka.jpg
4. ↑ BKA history. (No longer available online.) In: bka.de. September 5, 1950, archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ publisher: BKA BKA history. (No longer available online.) In: bka.de. May 13, 2014, archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ The brown roots of the BKA ( Memento of July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), netzeitung, August 8, 2007, accessed on May 27, 2008
7. ^ Award for author Dieter Schenk. November 3, 2017, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Review by Andreas Kunz in Military History Reports 59/2000, Issue 2. [1]
9. ^ Review Friedemann Bedürftig in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 10, 2000. [2]
10. ↑ Review by Magnus Brechtken in the historical magazine special issue 19/2001 . [3]
11. ^ Ulrich Schlie review in Die Zeit , March 23, 2000. [Ulrich Schlie]
12. ↑ Bernd Asbrook, Kritische Justiz 1, 2004, p. 196.
13. ^ Kurt Schneider review in the Leipziger Zeitung , December 7, 2013. [4]