Günther Bögl

Günther Bögl (born August 29, 1932 in Vienna ) was police chief from 1988 to 1995 and thus head of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate . Bögl was previously inspector general at the Vienna Security Guard from 1972 to 1987 .

Life

Regarding the events before Bögl's appointment as police president, the Viennese journalist Gerald Freihofner recalled in 2007, on the occasion of new problems in the Viennese police, that Bögl and "Kripo chief" Walter Schubert were "knighting" for the position. Bögl, nephew of the first social democratic governor of Burgenland , Hans Bögl , was untruthfully said that he was "hopelessly over-indebted and therefore open to blackmail". His opponent was accused of not having “under control” of his "criminalist management team", which was often drunk on duty, and of being a Freemason .

During Bögl's tenure, the Viennese police had to do with the rush of hundreds of thousands of curious Czechs and Slovaks on Vienna after the opening of the Iron Curtain and the " Velvet Revolution " in 1989 and with the fundamentally changed security situation after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc from 1990 onwards.

Bögl lived in an official apartment on the top floor of the building of the Federal Police Directorate Vienna, 1st, Schottenring 7-9 , which was called a "penthouse" and was later used for representative purposes. In 2001 the news magazine “profil” reported that a painting had been discovered in these rooms (on loan from the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna since the early 1970s) that had been confiscated from its rightful owner during the Nazi era. The report was entitled "Nazi looted art hung in the police headquarters".

When the Ministry of the Interior was unable to provide enough money for the necessary technical upgrade of the police station in Vienna in the early 1990s, Bögl reached out to Mayor Helmut Zilk in 1991 that the City of Vienna could raise funds through the “ Association of Friends of the Vienna Police ” provided by over 220 workstations.

In 1994, Günther Bögl's wife and daughter were involved in the so-called “ Matura scandal”, which involved illegally issued school leaving certificates. Bögl took this as an opportunity to apply for retirement two years before the statutory retirement age for men.

After his retirement on June 30, 1995, he was employed by the Ministry of the Interior as a coordinator for training and further education. In this capacity, he and a team investigated the training and further education situation of the police in Bosnia in 1996 . In 1997 he initiated a security campaign at schools in Lower Austria together with Governor Erwin Pröll . He was also involved in the “Weißer Ring” association and in the Austrian Social Medical Service (SMD).

Fonts

• Günther Bögl and Harald Seyrl: The Vienna Police in the Mirror of Times. A Chronicle in Pictures [1547–1992] , 408 pages. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7046-0357-0

Awards

• 1998: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Schnabl , Harald Seyrl: 133 Years of the Vienna Police: a richly illustrated walk through the history of the security guard , Echo-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901761-18-7
2. ↑ Wiener Zeitung of March 24, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ APA Original Text Service, November 25, 2001
4. ↑ Control Office Report 2008 on the Association of Friends of the Vienna Police, p. 9 f. (PDF; 213 kB)
5. ↑ Inquiry from National Council member Helene Partik-Pablé (PDF; 14 kB)
6. ^ Website of the White Ring Association ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)