Fritz Goehrke
Friedrich "Fritz" Goehrke (* 1869 ; † March 17, 1946 ) was a German police officer.
Life
Goehrke entered the police service around 1887, where he rose to the middle of the civil service career. From 1920 he worked in the IA (Political Police) department of the Berlin police headquarters . From 1922 to 1931 he was head of the foreign office in the police headquarters and, from 1924, he was also Ernst Wündisch's deputy head of department I A.
On January 23, 1931, Goehrke was appointed government director to head department IA. According to Graf, the appointment of Goehrke, who belonged to the German Democratic Party (DDP), was made for the purpose of the sharpest fight against right- wing and left-wing extremism , which he is said to have carried out in a “strict, objective and constitutional manner”. In this capacity, Goehrke played a key role in the fight against the National Socialists , who were increasingly emerging through street battles and other riots at the time .
On the occasion of the forcible removal of the Prussian state government by the Reich government in the course of the so-called Prussian strike, Goehrke was replaced in July 1932 by the German national officer Friedrich von Werder as head of the political police and deported to Department II.
After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Goehrke, who was particularly hated by the new rulers due to his role as the main “persecutor of the freedom movement”, was dismissed from his office at the instigation of the National Socialist Police President Magnus von Levetzow . The Nazi press triumphed over this:
“Now fate has overtaken him. Yesterday morning the police chief von Levetzow forbade him to continue his official duties. Mr. Goehrke had to leave his office immediately, which was sealed. [...] Mr. Goehrke was never a friend of our movement. But he did have her with the detective, Dr. Stumm and the criminal director Scherler pursued to the best of their ability. "
He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Friedrich the Great , to which Gustav Stresemann also belonged.
literature
- Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. 1983.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Graf: Political Police, p. 412.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goehrke, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goehrke, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1869 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1946 |