Erich Liebermann von Sonnenberg

Erich Liebermann von Sonnenberg (born December 17, 1885 in Kassel ; † March 11, 1941 ) was the National Socialist head of the Berlin criminal police since 1935.

After studying law in Berlin since 1905 and taking his legal traineeship in 1908, the son of the anti-Semite Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg joined the criminal police in 1910. In the First World War he was an infantryman and lieutenant d. R. and received the Iron Cross 1st Class in 1915.

At the time of the Weimar Republic he published as a detective commissioner in specialist journals and developed the theory of born professional criminals , who had to be sorted out from society. He also spoke out in favor of the compulsory sterilization of criminals, alcoholics and epileptics . In 1923 he was part of the German delegation when the International Criminal Police Commission (Interpol) was founded in Vienna. In the Berlin police headquarters , he headed the German Central Office for Combating Counterfeiting .

In the Nazi state promoted by Kurt Daluege , he went in 1933 to head the Prussian State Criminal Investigation Office (LKPA) and deputy head of the Berlin criminal police, succeeding Willy Gay on June 8, 1935 Head. He saw to it that preventive detention was introduced in November 1933, and in 1936 he had a track record of fighting crime. As early as 1937, as part of the police reform, he was assigned to the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . In this position, he developed together with Artur Kääb , the Reich Registration Regulations of 1938 and the novel " Volkskartei " in 1939 with all the people from 5 to 70 years. In 1941 he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor, but he died that same year after a brief illness.

From 1904 to 1914 he belonged to the anti - Semitic German Social Party , from 1919 to 1931 to the DNVP . On December 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP.

Trivia

Von Sonnenberg ascribes the invention of the slogan "The Police - Your Friend and Helper", first used in 1926. Reference is also made to the then Prussian Minister of the Interior, Carl Severing , who used it in a slightly modified form in the opening speech at the Berlin International Police Exhibition. What is certain is that the then Berlin police chief Albert Grzesinski officially used the slogan in the foreword of a book for said police exhibition for the first time. The slogan was also the motto of the exhibition ("The police, your friend and helper - please come closer!"). In 1937 Heinrich Himmler used it in a preface to the book "The Police - once different" (Franz-Eher-Verlag, Munich) by Helmuth Koschorke .

Fonts

• Jewelery burglars and gold ware stealers, in: ArchKrim 70 (1918), pp. 200-214.
• On burglars and their ways, in: ArchKrim 77 (1925), pp. 13-18.
• with Otto Trettin: criminal cases , Berlin 1934
• Balance of the criminal police, in: KM 10 (1936), pp. 97-101.
• Kurt Daluege with the assistance of Government Director Liebermann v. Sonnenberg: * National Socialist Struggle against Criminality , Rather, Munich 1936
• Translator: Law in the wild according to reports from Canadian Police v. T. Morris Longstreth, Henry Vernon, Scherl, Berlin 1938
• with Artur Kääb : The Reich Registration Order of January 6, 1939 , Munich 1938
• The people's index , Kommunalschriften-Verlag, Munich 1939, etc.

literature

• Götz Aly , Karl Heinz Roth : Complete coverage: censusing, identifying, sorting out under National Socialism , Rotbuch, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-282-7 .
• Patrick Wagner : Hitler's Criminalists. The German criminal police and National Socialism , Beck, Munich 2002
• Marc Zirlewagen: Biographical Lexicon of the Associations of German Students , Vol. 1 A – L, BoD, Norderstedt, p. 507f

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Götz Aly , Karl Heinz Roth : The complete collection: census, identification, sorting out in National Socialism , Rotbuch, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-282-7 .
2. ↑ Wolf Dieter Lüddecke: How times change: Police history in the mirror of caricature and satire , Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur GmbH, Hilden 1988, ISBN 3801101568 , p. 7.
3. ↑ Marion Bremsteller: Friends and helpers in front of empty petrol cans - On the benefits and disadvantages of labeling for the police professional life , in: Carsten Star (Ed.): Sociology and Police: For sociological occupation with and for the police , series administrative sociology volume 4, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-1997-3 , pp. 71-92, p. 74.