Police Institute Charlottenburg
The Police Institute Charlottenburg was the training and research facility for the Prussian police in Berlin- Charlottenburg , established in 1927, next to the Higher Police School in Eiche . The graduates were considered the elite of the police, "the Charlottenburgers".
The institute was initially located in Charlottenburger Soorstrasse 83 and then in the western " Stüler building ". The first head was Max Hagemann , later the first head of the Federal Criminal Police Office . The institute's five departments comprised: Police Law, Professional Psychology and Education, History and Sociology, Organization and Use, Criminology and Forensics . In addition to the training and further education of the police commissioners and officers, the institute was responsible for the training regulations for the police.
On August 22, 1933, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior under Hermann Göring declared the institute to be the central training facility for the criminal police . There were also Kriminalkommissar courses and advanced training courses for the Gestapo . As a result of the centralization of the police across the empire, the institute was renamed the Security Police Leadership School in 1937 , and at the end of 1939 after the Security Police and SD Leadership School were merged .
On June 17, 1936, a decree by Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick brought together all police forces in the Reich under the Reichsführer SS , Heinrich Himmler , who was appointed "Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior". The so-called “attainment” of the police was largely welcomed in police circles. Himmler divided the police into the main office of the Ordnungspolizei under Kurt Daluege (protection police, police battalions, gendarmerie) and the main office of security police under Reinhard Heydrich (criminal police and Gestapo).
The driving school was directly subordinate to Heydrich. In a military organization, it was headed by a commander to whom an adjutant was assigned, as well as a staff leader and the teaching staff. The curriculum aimed to merge SS and police leadership. In 1937 Heydrich spoke of the “racially and characteristically human selection of the trainees, of their ideological and technical training”. The curriculum of the candidate course comprised four areas: national political training, leadership training, criminal science and practice, and law. The program included a visit to the Reich Security Main Office and a tour of a concentration camp . In addition, there were other SS, SD and security police leadership schools for various police departments .
The commanders were SS officers, Otto Hellwig from 1937 to March 1941 , Erwin Schulz in the spring of 1941 , and Rudolf Hotzel in 1942 , all of whom then switched to the security police and SD task forces . Hellwig's adjutant was Kurt Zillmann .
One of the Charlottenburg graduates in 1938/39 was Paul Dickopf , who later became the central officer in the Federal Criminal Police Office.
literature
- Patrick Wagner: National community without criminals. Concepts and practice of the criminal police during the Weimar Repulibk and National Socialism . Wallstein, Hamburg 1996 ISBN 978-3-7672-1271-8
- Ders .: Hitler's criminalists. The German criminal police and the National Socialism , Beck, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-406-49402-1
- Stephan Linck: Committed to order. German police 1933.1949. The Flensburg case , Paderborn 2000
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information (barracks of the Garde du Corps [former])
- Dieter Schenk: The leadership school of the Nazi security police and the "Charlottenburger" in the Federal Criminal Police Office. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
- German Police University: Exhibition on police history. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
- Berlin theme year 2013: Nazi leadership school in the Stüler building - table unveiling. November 20, 2013, accessed July 23, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '9 " N , 13 ° 17' 43" E