Franz Friedrich Laufer

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Franz Friedrich Laufer (born June 16, 1858 in Kaydann , Gerdauen district ; † March 21, 1937 in Fulda ) was a Prussian police commissioner . As " Jules Verne of the German police", as he was also known, he made a significant contribution to reforming police work.

With the Great Dane Caesar, Laufer de facto introduced the police dog in Germany, which as the German Police Dog became a well-established concept worldwide.

Growing up as an orphan under the guardianship of the prison chaplain Carl Heinersdorff in Elberfeld , Laufer became a professional soldier in 1877 and served as a sergeant until 1888. He then entered the police force and began a fourteen-month activity as a sergeant in Elberfeld. He spent the following legal traineeship in Saxony.

Laufer took up the post of chief police commissioner in Schwelm in 1890 . Schwelm was then a district town in the Prussian province of Westphalia with 15,000 inhabitants.

As a police commissioner, public prosecutor and founder of the 1st Communal Police School in Prussia , he was considered a pioneer of the transnational policing that later became known as Interpol . Through his work as a co-author of the Austrian police laws, he was instrumental in reforming the local police. He was also the author of numerous books on the work of the police in Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Laufer, Pioneer of a Modern Police , p. 22

literature

  • Bernhard Laufer: The man who invented the police dog. Franz Friedrich Laufer - visionary and police reformer . Quadrate bookstore, Mannheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-924704-34-6 .
  • Bernhard Laufer: pioneer of a modern police force. Franz Laufer - commissioner, lawyer and reformer. Quadrate bookstore, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 3-924704-43-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Laufer, Franz Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian police commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaydann , Gerdauen district
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1937
Place of death Fulda