Günther Knecht

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Günther Knecht (born January 22, 1909 in Rotenburg an der Fulda , † January 19, 1995 in Münster ) was a German administrative lawyer. From 1964 to 1974 he was the police director in Neuss.

Life

Günther Knecht grew up in Dillenburg, Hesse . After graduating from the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule as an external student , he began to study law at the Hessian Ludwigs University in 1930 . As a member of the Corps Starkenburgia in 1931 he was deputy chairman of the Giessen suburb of the Giessen Senior Citizens' Convention . As an inactive , he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . He passed the legal traineeship in 1934 and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . As a trainee lawyer in Kassel he passed the assessor examination at the Court of Appeal in 1939 . As a government assessor he came to the province of Silesia and Erfurt . The district administrator's dream job remained unfulfilled.

From 1941 he was Councilor in Bydgoszcz , which after the occupation of Poland, the German Reich had been incorporated. Placed in Bromberg uk and therefore drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) late (on his own initiative) , he served in the western campaign with an anti-aircraft unit . As a private he was taken prisoner by the British and the United States . After his release he returned to Kassel and Dillenburg. In the post-war period he helped with the reconstitution of Starkenburgia (1947) and Borussia Bonn (1949), whose corps bow bearer he became in 1953 (ribbon awarded in 1963). In 1950 he joined the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as a non-tariff employee in Euskirchen . In 1950 he was one of the founders of the community of interests that was preparing the reconstitution of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . From 1951 to 1986 he was a member of the Statute Commission of the KSCV.

In 1951 he was reappointed to the government council in Cologne. In 1955 he came to Münster as a senior councilor . There he was elected chairman of the old man's senior citizens' convention , and he also took part in the reconstitution of the Corps Guestphalia Halle , which awarded him the ribbon in 1964. From 1961 he was government director and police vice-president in Bonn . In 1964 he became police director in Neuss, where he stood out in the following years for his extremely conservative administration. In 1968 Knecht caused considerable public attention in connection with the Nazi trial against a group of former police officers from Police Battalion 309 . The public prosecutor's office accused them of murdering Russian prisoners of war and 2,000 Jews. Hundreds of them were burned alive in the Bialystok Great Synagogue in 1941 . Several police officers from Neuss who were still on duty also appeared as witnesses during the trial . Some of them had incriminated themselves so severely by their testimony that the presiding judge issued arrest warrants ; but they were not carried out. Knecht, as employer of the accused police officers, justified this with the fact that his few cells were occupied by bicycle thieves and machine crackers. One of the accused is said to have managed to evade arrest by fleeing. After the public reporting on Knecht's behavior, the district president in the Düsseldorf administrative region , the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office and the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior were turned on. A preliminary investigation was initiated against Knecht . Since he could be credited with the duty of care for his subordinates, it was discontinued. When Knecht reached the age limit, he retired in 1974. The Neuss Police Department was dissolved and assigned to the Oberkreisdirektor in the Grevenbroich district.

Publications

  • Wilhelm Fabricius Starkenburgiae EM, Guestphaliae-Jena (xxx), Teutoniae- and Guestphaliae-Marburg . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 105-107. ISSN  0420-8870

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 37/775; 9/1117; 116/1228
  2. ↑ Dissertation: acting under a foreign name (1934)
  3. ↑ a b c Short biography Günter Knecht on corpsarchive.de (accessed October 11, 2013)
  4. ↑ Heiner Lichtenstein: Himmler's green helpers. The protection and order police in the »Third Reich«. Cologne 1990, pp. 13 f., 88.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Schulte: Political Education in the Police - Function Determination from 1945 to 2000. Phil. Diss. University of Essen 2003, p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, police director in Neuss
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg on the Fulda
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1995
Place of death Muenster