Georg Moch

Georg Moch (born May 22, 1920 in Deutsch-Rasselwitz , German Reich , † after 1968) was a German lawyer, police officer and in 1968 in West Berlin the chief of police in Berlin .

Life

Georg Moch was born in Deutsch-Rasselwitz in the Upper Silesian district of Neustadt OS in what is now Poland as the son of a Reichsbahn official and attended the humanistic grammar school in Leobschütz between 1930 and 1938 . He then began in 1938 to study theology and law at the universities of Breslau , Vienna and Göttingen , which he had to interrupt due to the war. During the Second World War , he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht between 1940 and 1945 , most recently as an officer in the tank force, and was seriously wounded.

In 1946 he completed his studies by taking both state legal exams and became a member of the CDU . Following his legal preparatory period, he was employed by the Cologne District Government as a civil servant in the higher service in 1951/52 . Subsequently, Moch was employed as an assistant in the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia and between 1954 and 1957 he was the deputy chief of police , first in Aachen and then in Duisburg . In 1957 he became a consultant in the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1959 he went to Berlin to take up the position of police vice-president. After he had held this office for eight years, he became police chief in West Berlin in December 1967, succeeding Erich Duensing .

However, he only held the post of police chief briefly. In August 1968, Moch was in hospital with a circulatory collapse and asthma symptoms and had to be represented by Senate Councilor Hans-Joachim Prill (SPD). In 1969, Klaus Huebner took over the Berlin police headquarters as his successor.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Georg Moch in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Last choice . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1968 ( online ).
3. ↑ Black or red . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1968 ( online ).