Higher Police School Potsdam-Eiche

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The Prussian Higher Police School in Potsdam-Eiche was the central training facility for the Prussian police officers of the Schutzpolizei during the Weimar Republic . It was founded in 1921 and supplemented in 1927 by the Charlottenburg Police Institute for specialization for detective officers .

Insurgents are led away in an exercise by the Prussian police, Brandenburg (Havel) , 1924

Many police officers came from the army during the German Empire. In the Weimar Republic , the Prussian police should have their own spirit, as the Social Democratic Interior Minister Carl Severing wanted . Police officers should therefore be specially trained. The training took place in a former infantry barracks in Potsdam. Initially, there were many dismissed army officers looking for jobs in the police. They brought the old officer mentality with them to the police and ensured a military, not civilian orientation. The reason for this was the numerous uprisings in the early days of the young democracy. Police Colonel Georg Poten was in command from 1925 until the " Preußenschlag " in July 1932 , followed by Dr. Karl Leon (1885–1968), from March 1933 to 1934 Alexander Andrae . When the police were "attained", the Higher Police School was dissolved as a Prussian institution in 1935 and moved to the building on Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 143 (today Police Headquarters Potsdam) moved into an Army NCO school in 1936.

The training of the officers of the Ordnungspolizei created by the police reform in 1936 under Kurt Daluege was reorganized, and courses were also held in the barracks of Eiche. Two police officer and protection police schools existed from February 1, 1936 in Fürstenfeldbruck and in Berlin-Köpenick (commander until 1938: Reiner Liessem ), moved to Oranienburg in 1943 (commander Arthur Bahl ) and in March 1944 to Mariaschein .

Ordinary police candidates were trained in ten police schools in Prussia .

A successor institution initially in the British zone was the Police Leadership Academy in Münster-Hiltrup .

literature

  • Karl Leon: The organization of the protection police with special consideration of the Rheinisch-Westfälischen industrial area , dissertation Münster 1923
  • Alexander Andrae: Police and Army , Berlin 1929
  • Johannes Buder: The reorganization of the Prussian police 1918-1923 , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Peter Leßmann: The Prussian Police in the Weimar Republic , Düsseldorf 1989
  • Peter Leßmann-Faust: The Prussian Police in the Weimar Republic - patrol duty and street fighting , Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, 2016 ISBN 978-3-86676-196-4
  • Karl Lambrecht: From the barracks to the headquarters of the authorities: From the history of a military and police accommodation in Potsdam-Eiche , Node-Verlag, Potsdam 2010 ISBN 978-3-939090-07-6
  • Daniel Schmidt: No commissioners. Prussian police officers between soldierly self-image and police professionalism 1919 to 1935 , In: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 69 (2010), pp. 37–58 online