Friedrich Fehrmann (Chief of Police)

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Friedrich Helmut Paul Charon Fehrmann (born November 8, 1920 in Münster ; † August 27, 2015 in Aachen ) was a German administrative lawyer and police chief.

Childhood and school days

Friedrich Fehrmann was the third of four children of the Prussian state official and later district administrator of the Meppen district, Friedrich Fehrmann . The lawyer Wilderich Fehrmann was his brother.

He spent most of his childhood and school days in the Emsland , where he grew up in Meppen together with Anton Veltrup, who later became entrepreneur and head of the Catholic youth resistance in Emsland against the Nazis, with whom he was close friends until his death. When his father was dismissed, he went to the Paulinum grammar school in Münster , where he graduated from high school in 1939 .

Military service and studies

Immediately afterwards he joined the Wehrmacht and was involved first in the French and then in the Russian campaign, where in autumn 1942 he was seriously injured as a radio operator by a shrapnel and transferred to the hospital in Westphalia before his 126th infantry division was on its way to Stalingrad was crushed.

After a long convalescence and finding that he was unfit for war, he began studying political science and law at the University of Münster in the autumn of 1943 under difficult conditions , while at the same time becoming involved in the banned Catholic student union Tuiskonia . At the end of the war he was found to be fit for military service again and shortly before the surrender he was sentenced to death in absentia, which he escaped at the end of the war.

Employment

He completed his studies after the first exam and a long legal traineeship in 1948 with the second state examination at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . In 1948 he joined the general administration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and, after several assignments in the Ministry of the Interior, in Beckum in Westphalia and at the Aachen district government, he became Deputy Police President in Gelsenkirchen in 1954. In the same year he married Marlene Keimes from Aachen, with whom he had been married for 61 years. The marriage had eight children.

In 1958 he was transferred to the Arnsberg district government and headed various departments there. In 1962 he was transferred to the Aachen district police authority as deputy president, in 1964 he came to the Aachen district government, which was later dissolved and where he was most recently the chief government director . There he directed a. a. the commercial and police department. In this function, he and the then Police President Dundalek had the idea of ​​expanding the cooperation between the police authorities in the Aachen border region and, in particular, of enabling pursuit across national borders. This resulted in the NeBeDeAC Pol working group , of which he was chairman and committed pioneer from 1971 to 1985. Several of the rules drafted at the time were enshrined in law.

In December 1971 he succeeded Police President Dundalek, who died suddenly, and chaired the Commission for Public Safety and Order of the Euregio Rhine-Meuse . During his tenure, left-wing terrorism , assassinations of Iranian exiles and the squatter scene as well as the construction of the police headquarters in the Aachen Soers were the main focuses of his activities. In addition, cross-border and international police work (he was also involved with Interpol and the worldwide police association IPA) was a particular concern of his. Towards the end of his term he received his services in addition to the recognition in the Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Officier van Oranje-Nassau of the Netherlands. Belgium appointed him Officier de l'ordre Léopold II. He ended his professional career with a lecture at the Council of Europe in which he spoke out against the abolition of border controls due to security concerns.

In addition to international understanding, interdenominational exchange and reconciliation, peacekeeping was particularly important to him, which is why he has been working for the German war graves service and its district chairman in Aachen since it was founded and well after his retirement . There he defended himself with verve against honoring SS officers. In addition, he was involved in various functions in the Catholic Church throughout his life.

During his retirement, in addition to his duties as the grandfather of 13 grandchildren, he devoted himself in particular to genealogy. Only in the last two years of his life did he struggle with increasing old age.

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SURNAME Fehrmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehrmann, Friedrich Helmut Paul Charon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and police chief
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2015
Place of death Aachen