Friedrich von Werder
Benjamin Marquardt Ludwig Friedrich von Werder (born January 4, 1891 in Neu Buckow , † July 1, 1968 in Munich ) was a German police officer and police chief.
Live and act
Werder was the son of the general and estate owner Dietrich von Werder. After attending school, he studied at the University of Goettingen law . In 1911 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After participating in the First World War , in which he was used as a dragoon officer , he completed his legal clerkship. In 1924 he passed the assessor exam.
After Werder worked as a government officer in Merseburg, he was referred to the district administrator in Merseburg. In February 1925 he came to the government in Stade . There he was promoted to government councilor (rapporteur on police matters) in June 1928.
In December 1930 Werder was transferred to Department IA of the Berlin Police Headquarters, where he took over the management of Departments 5 (party and club affairs) and 8 (treason and espionage).
After the events of the so-called Prussian strike of July 20, 1932, in the course of which the Reich government had the Prussian state government forcibly removed, and the accompanying reorganization of the Prussian police, Werder was appointed deputy head of Department I of the police headquarters. In this capacity he was responsible for the search of the KPD parliamentary group rooms in the Reichstag building on the night of the Reichstag dissolution on September 12, 1932, for which the Prussian Landtag demanded the dismissal of the KPD and SPD and the opening of criminal proceedings against Werder. However, this did not materialize.
Instead, Werder was appointed provisionally on November 1, 1932 and finally on March 25, 1933 as the police chief of Bielefeld . In this position, in the opinion of the Gauleiter there, he succeeded in calming the communist stronghold of Bielefeld through his energetic crackdown in the National Socialist sense. In the autumn of 1933, however, he warned former Interior Minister Carl Severings of an SA attack in Bielefeld.
At the end of March 1934 Werder was put into temporary retirement and transferred to the government in Stettin on April 1, 1934 . In October 1937 he was transferred to the government in Potsdam , where he was still employed as police chief on disposition in mid-1943.
According to contemporary information from Grzesinski , Werder used to be a member of the state party or the German Democratic Party (DDP) before becoming a German national in 1932, i.e. moving to the Papen camp. The Swiss historian Christoph Graf therefore labeled Werder as
- "Example of under von Papen been engaged and taken over by the Nazi regime in important function and thereby the continuity of Papen and Hitler characterizing higher officials of the Republican political police."
literature
- Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. 1983, p. 390.
- Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia. 2004, p. 308.
- Friedrich von Werder in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47 , 629
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werder, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werder, Benjamin Marquardt Ludwig Friedrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer and police chief |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Buckow , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1968 |
| Place of death | Munich |