Hans-Ulrich Werner (police officer)

Hans-Ulrich Werner (born September 19, 1914 in Bromberg ; † May 5, 1989 , also Ulrich Werner ) was a German police officer . Werner was commander of the police in West Berlin from 1962 to 1971 and as such was involved in the events surrounding the death of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967 . In view of Werner's police career before 1945, the student movement and GDR propaganda put this in the context of Nazi continuities in the Federal Republic after 1945.

Life

Werner joined the police in 1936 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1938. Werner was a member of the NSDAP and served during the Second World War as a company commander and then as a staff officer of the Ordnungspolizei in the occupied Soviet Union and in Italy, especially in the fight against the armed resistance in these countries, which is qualified with the Nazi term as " fighting gangs ".

After the end of the war he worked as a lecturer at the Police College in Münster-Hiltrup. He was co-editor of the police journal Die Polizei .

In 1962 he was appointed commander of the protection police in West Berlin . In September 1962, the National Council of the GDR first spread accusations in a brochure that Werner, as a company commander in the "Gendarmerie-Einsatzkommando Bürger" in 1943 in the Soviet Union, was involved in extermination measures and in the cremation of the bodies of SS victims. In Italy, too, he was involved in murders with the same unit in 1944, and in one case in Verona he even shot two “partisan suspected” women with his own hands. With reference to Werner's NSDAP membership and system-compliant attitude as well as his work in the "Einsatzkommando Bürger", Werner was listed together with 1,800 business leaders, politicians and leading officials of the Federal Republic in the Brown Book published by the GDR in 1965 for propaganda purposes .

In June 1967 the Shah visited West Berlin, Benno Ohnesorg was shot and there were violent attacks by the police on demonstrators. At the end of 1967 Werner was considered a possible successor to Duensing , who had resigned as Berlin police chief in the summer of 1967. Werner was out of the question for this post due to his Nazi past, which was picked up by the GDR press.

At the end of February 1968, the first issue of the anarchist magazine Linkeck under the heading "SS Werner" took up the allegations against Werner published in the GDR and placed them in connection with Ohnesorg's death. Werner's membership in the NSDAP was documented with the membership number and reference was made to his alleged participation in mass extermination in the Soviet Union in the Stalino area .

In the summer of 1968, Hans-Ulrich Werner was given leave of absence for a cure due to a liver disease and then retired on June 30, 1971 at the age of 57 for health reasons.

Web links

• Images by Hans-Ulrich Werner in the Europeana archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publisher's note or imprint . In: "Die Polizei", Carl Heymanns Verlag, ISSN  0032-3519 .
2. ↑ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany (publisher): Strauss and Brandt mobilize the SS . Berlin 1962, p. 49ff. Quoted from: Stefan Klemp: Not determined - police battalions and the post-war justice system . Klartext, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-381-X , pp. 46–47. The exact publication date of the brochure was September 6, 1962 (Ullrich Kröger: The punishment of Nazi crimes before West German courts and their reception in the German public 1958 to 1965. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 1973, p. 220.)
3. ↑ Norbert Podewin (Ed.): "Brown Book". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Edition Ost, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-360-01033-7 (reprint of the 3rd edition from 1968).
4. ↑ Last choice  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   . In: “Der SPIEGEL”, No. 4/1968 of January 22, 1968, p. 25.
5. ^ SS Werner . In: "Linkeck", No. 1, p. 2, Berlin 1968. ZDB -ID 1123512-3
6. ↑ Black or red  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   . In: "Der SPIEGEL", No. 32/1968 of August 5, 1968, p. 28.
7. ↑ Biographical information on Hans-Ulrich Werner according to information from the archive of the police historical collection ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Berlin Police of June 30, 2009. The archive information is based on biographical information about Werner in various issues of the magazine "Die Polizei" ISSN 0032-3519 , whose editor was Werner.