Gerhard Bode (policeman)

Gerhard Bode (born January 1, 1897 in Görlitz , † after 1940) was a German lawyer and police officer.

Life

Bode, who grew up in Neusalz an der Oder , studied law and political science after attending school . 1919 doctorate he attended the University of Breslau for Dr. jur. in order to then enter civil service with assessor seniority on June 13, 1922.

In December 1932 / January 1933 Bode was appointed as a member of the government to head department 2c (international communism, communist youth organizations) in department 1A of the Berlin police headquarters .

After the National Socialists came to power , Bode was a member of the police department in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior under Kurt Daluege .

By decree of December 14, 1933, Bode was sent to the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa), to which he was permanently accepted on May 1, 1934. On the recommendation of Reinhard Heydrich , he was promoted to the senior government council in the same year and appointed head of Department I (organization and administration) of the office. Nominally, Bode was one of the three highest officials of the Gestapa alongside Heydrich - who was responsible for the overall management of the office and Main Department II - and Günther Patschowsky as the head of Main Department III.

In the spring of 1935, Bode, who, according to Christoph Graf, was “politically uninterested and most likely to be German-national”, was replaced as head of the Gestapa administration by Werner Best . The NSDAP he resigned on May 1, 1937 at ( membership number 5716670).

In 1938 Bode can be found in the regional council of Frankfurt an der Oder and from 1940 in the upper council 8 in Stettin .

Fonts

• Can a birthday letter be the subject of a forgery? 1919. ( dissertation )

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. Berlin 1983, p. 335.