Franz Still

Franz Noch (born February 3, 1886 in Brust near Subkau ; † December 2, 1961 in Bremen ) was a German police director and politician ( SPD ).

biography

Family, education and work

Was still the son of a worker. From 1892 to 1900 he attended elementary school in Brust and Dirschau . From 1908 to 1911 he completed an apprenticeship as a moulder . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War. He then entered the police service ( middle service ). From 1924 to 1933 he was the chief police officer of the regional association of Bremen police officers . As a police officer, he was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933.

After the Second World War he returned to the police force. From May 1945 until 1951 he was first lieutenant, district captain and captain of the protection police and from December 1945 police director and head of the protection police and from November 1947 head of the entire Bremen police force . In April 1949 he was promoted to Chief Police Director. His successor was Erich von Bock and Polach in 1951 with the new official title of Police President .

politics

Still became a member of the union and in 1920 the SPD.

After the First World War he was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1927 to 1933 . He was a leading member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold von Bremen, an alliance dominated by the Social Democrats in the Weimar Republic .

During the Nazi era , he was temporarily imprisoned in a concentration camp ( Mißler and Farge concentration camps ) in 1933 and 1944 .

swell

• Biography of Franz Noch . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)