Gerhard Boeden

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Gerhard Boeden (born February 10, 1925 in Gütersloh ; † May 26, 2010 in Bonn ) was a German police officer , Vice President of the Federal Criminal Police Office and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life

During the Second World War Boeden served as a soldier in the Navy . In November 1945 he joined the police service of the Police North Rhine-Westphalia one. In 1951 he moved to the criminal police as chief sergeant . From 1956 Boeden worked in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), where he was accepted into the higher service ("Senior Service in the BKA") in 1965 . In 1972 he joined the CDU . In 1974 he took over the management of the security group , which was responsible for protection and security issues. During this time there was a wanted maneuver with a failed arrest of three RAF terrorists in Hamburg, among them Adelheid Schulz and Christian Klar . As a reaction to the attacks by the Red Army faction , Boeden set up the Department for Combating Terrorism (TE) at the Bonn - Bad Godesberg site in 1975 , which was relocated to the headquarters of the BKA in Wiesbaden in 1978. He was significantly involved in the development of the later BKA site in Meckenheim near the Bonn government seat. There, the headquarters of the state security was built in a new building complex in the Merl district . In 1983 Boeden became Vice President of the BKA and retired in 1987 after reaching the age limit as a police officer, plus an extension of the period of service .

A few weeks after his retirement as a police officer, he was appointed President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on April 1, 1987 and headed the office until February 28, 1991.

The police union GdP , of which he had been a member since 1952, declared him an honorary member. Boeden has risen from a simple patrolman to the highest offices. After leaving the service, Boeden did not make any public statements for general reasons.

Honors

literature

  • Rainer Hofmeyer: Vice-President, President and GdP member . In: German police . No. 7 . Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur, 2010, ISSN  0949-2844 , p. 27 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died. Gerhard Boeden. In: Der Spiegel, May 31, 2010, accessed February 9, 2011
  2. ↑ Einar Koch: RAF hunter Boeden dead! In: Bild, May 26, 2010, accessed February 9, 2011
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  4. ↑ The Federal Criminal Police Office faces its history: Ceremony in Meckenheim to rename Paul-Dickopf-Straße to Gerhard-Boeden-Straße on June 25, 2012. Invitation for media representatives. (PDF; 179 kB) (No longer available online.) Federal Criminal Police Office, June 20, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Boeden, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (1987–1991)
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2010
Place of death Bonn