Georg Sieber

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Georg Sieber (born April 3, 1935 in Münster / Westphalia) is a German psychologist and organizational consultant who became known to a broader public as a Munich police psychologist , especially because of his work for the Munich police in the run-up to the 1972 Olympic attack .

Life

After graduating from high school in Büren , Sieber studied homiletics in Rome and, from 1958, psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing his studies as a psychologist, Sieber initially worked in market research . In 1964 he founded the study group for political psychology and communication research (Poko) in Munich, which on behalf of various federal states dealt in particular with selection and training issues for the police.

From this emerged in 1979 Intelligence System Transfer GmbH, Munich - a psychological consulting company that has since developed into a network with 14 locations in Germany and Western Europe and, based on applied psychology, deals with issues in a wide variety of areas of business and administration. In addition to the development of psychological measurement methods , the work areas are particularly in the areas of management , safety , product, control and utility space design.

In addition, Sieber offers historical-psychological seminars in which the participants deal with classics such as Niccolò Machiavelli's “ The Prince ” (Il Principe) from a psychological perspective with regard to modern management.

Police psychologist

In 1968 Sieber was hired as a psychological advisor by the then Munich Police President Manfred Schreiber . Rolf Umbach previously held this position . One of Sieber's tasks was to train the security police psychologically for use in student demonstrations. After Sieber had been a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) during his studies , he was familiar with this situation. Its premise was that in a " democratic state the police have a fundamental duty to protect demonstrators ."

Munich line

At the end of the 1960s, Sieber developed an operational concept for the Munich police for controlled de-escalation during demonstrations, parades and similar events, which became known far beyond Munich as the Munich Line - also within the police force: integrated operations. The concept is based on the analysis of police operations in connection with confrontations between the police and demonstrating citizens. Sieber came to the conclusion that operations in which a front is formed with barriers and cordons provoke assault and violence. He therefore consistently avoided such fronts and referred, among other things, to Mao Tse-tung's "theory of guerrilla warfare". According to this concept, police officers should infiltrate the demonstration and become a part of it. A police that does not meet the demonstrators head-on, but rather individually, could replace violence with conversation, said Sieber.

Munich Olympic assassination attempt and Sarah Morris "1972"

In the run-up to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Sieber developed 26 situations for the organizers of the Games, for which the security forces were supposed to prepare. Scenario 21 ingress described a group of Palestinian terrorists in the accommodation of the Israeli delegation in the Olympic village and the murder of one or two hostages to the demands for the release of prisoners in Israeli jails and an airplane for the flight to an Arab country vigorously to lend.

This described pretty exactly what actually happened on September 5, 1972 and shook the world as the "Munich Olympics assassination attempt". However, Sieber's scenario did not fit the concept of the "cheerful games" (official motto) and a "festival of peace". Instead of adjusting the security measures, the organizers downgraded the foreseeable risks. The result was a completely inadequate preparation of the security measures and, as a result, the fiasco of a failed liberation operation with 17 dead - eleven Israeli athletes, one police officer and five terrorists. Since Sieber “quickly felt superfluous in view of the takeover of the negotiations by German politicians, the Munich police and the Israeli secret service, who adopted a strategy contrary to his proposals and solution models,” he terminated his cooperation with the Munich police on the same day. The Munich police chief Schreiber subsequently admitted that the police were “not at all prepared” for such a situation.

In her film, which premiered in 2008 in 1972, the American artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris worked up the events surrounding the Olympic assassination attempt as an “attempt to make something optimistic that was unfortunately shattered by reality.” The focus of her 38-minute film is an interview with Georg Sieber, in which he describes his view of the events.

In a ZDF film adaptation from 2012 under the title Munich 72 - The Assassination , Sieber's role is also discussed. He is played by Kai Lentrodt .

Honors

Wilhelmine Lübke Prize of the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe (KDA) 1974 for the book "The Age Revolution".

Publications (selection)

  • Attention test. Psychological testing procedures - what to expect from them. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1971. ISBN 3-499-16683-6 .
  • Nursing Report. Beds lined up. Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1974. ISBN 3-8046-8487-4 .
  • The age revolution. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1974. ISBN 3-499-16882-0 . Published in the Netherlands under the title: Ouder haben, Morgen zal het anders zijn, Callenbach, 1972
  • The Struwwelpeter principle. Success strategy for managers. The desire for self-confidence. Munich: Wirtschaftsverlag Langen-Müller / Herbig, 1976. ISBN 3-7844-7038-6 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Georg Sieber: Machiavelli helps to understand. Foreword to: Ralf Lisch : Ancient Wisdom for Modern Management - Machiavelli at 500. Farnham: Gower Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4094-5464-9 .
  2. ↑ a b fish in the water. Der Spiegel 15/1968, 56-57, accessed on November 23, 2018.
  3. ^ Munich 1968: The police as guardian angels. Karl Stankiewitz, Abendzeitung München from January 26, 2018, accessed on November 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Mao Tse-tung: Theory of the guerrilla war - or strategy of the third world. Reinbek near Hamburg: rororo aktuell. 1966. ISBN 978-3499108860 .
  5. ^ "Murder in Munich": A Terrorist Threat Ignored. Jennifer Latson, Time Magazine, September 5, 2014, accessed November 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ The Psychologist and the Terrorists. Alexander Kluy, Welt Print, April 26, 2008, accessed November 29, 2018
  7. ↑ Munich Olympics assassination 1972: Avoidable bloodbath? Matthias von Hein, Deutsche Welle, September 6, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ 1972 Olympia assassination attempt - authorities covered up the extent of their failure. Spiegel Online from July 22, 2012, accessed on November 29, 2018.
  9. ^ Sarah Morris website with biography and information about the 1972 film
  10. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 25, 2008.
  11. ↑ Sarah Morris: 1972. Richard Bailey, Glasstire.com, November 7, 2014, accessed November 28, 2018.
  12. ^ "Munich 72": Psychologist predicted the attack. tz of March 20, 2012, accessed on November 23, 2018. '
  13. ↑ The dust jacket of an edition of this book published by Ostendorp Verlag, Rhauderfehn in 1975 shows a photo of the award ceremony in the presence of u. a. Wilhelmine Lübke and the then Federal President Walter Scheel.
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and organizational consultant
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Westphalia