Hans Eckhardt (police officer)

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Commissioner Hans Eckhardt during a vacation in Tragöß, Austria in 1969
Grave of Commissioner Hans Eckhardt, Hamburg Ohlsdorf

Hans Paul August Wilhelm Eckhardt (* 26 December 1921 in Hamburg , † 22. March 1972 ) was a German police officer in the service of the RAF - terrorists Manfred Grashof was murdered.

Life

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Hans Eckhardt was born the son of police officer Johann Eckhardt and his wife Käthe in Hamburg-Altona. He completed his secondary school leaving certificate at the 2nd boys' middle school in Altona and then did an administration apprenticeship in Hamburg. He was called up in 1940 and was taken prisoner as a radio corporal in Africa in 1943. On April 23, 1946, he was released from American captivity . Since Hans Eckhardt was never involved in party politics with the National Socialists , he was able to join the Hamburg police force on May 1, 1946 and was taken over by the criminal police in September 1946. Hans Eckhardt married on August 16, 1947. Most recently he headed the State Security Department in Hamburg as chief commissioner .

Exchange of fire on March 2, 1972

On the evening of March 2, 1972, the police arrested the two terrorists Wolfgang Grundmann and Manfred Grashof in a conspiratorial apartment on Heimhuder Strasse in Hamburg. While Grundmann surrendered immediately, Grashof shot Chief Inspector Eckhardt and hit him in the shoulder and stomach with two Dum-Dum bullets . These projectiles were filed down at the tip in order to cause as much damage as possible. Twenty days later, on March 22, 1972, Eckhardt died in the Hamburg University Hospital as a result of his gunshot wounds . Eckhardt was buried in Hamburg at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the honorary grave site "Revier Blutbuche".

Further happening

Manfred Grashof was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 2, 1977 for murder. Unofficially, he is said to have shown remorse, but never towards the relatives of the murder victim Eckhardt. The widow confirmed this in a Spiegel interview in May 2007, as did Grashof himself in the 2015 film Beyond Punishment .

When the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bernhard Vogel , pardoned Manfred Grashof in autumn 1988, he did not inform Hans Eckhardt's widow, although Vogel claimed so.

TV shows / films

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Krukow: Hans Eckhardt is the 18th victim , Hamburger Abendblatt, March 22nd, 1972
  2. ^ A b c Anne Siemens: For the RAF it was the system, for me the father , Piper Verlag (September 2008), ISBN 978-3-492-25263-8
  3. ↑ Stefan Aust: The Baader Meinhof Complex , Piper Verlag (2020), ISBN 978-3-492-23628-7
  4. ↑ When the RAF terror came to Hamburg , description of the incident in Hamburg, by Axel Franz (NDR), from March 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Bettina Röhl: The RAF loves you , Random House Publishing Group (2018), ISBN 978-3-453-20150-7
  6. ↑ Baader-Meinhof Report , Hase & Köhler Verlag, 1972, ISBN 3-7758-0840-X
  7. ^ The victims of the RAF , article by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, by Anne Siemens on September 24, 2007
  8. ↑ When the RAF terror came to Hamburg , description of the incident in Hamburg, by Axel Franz (NDR), from March 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Michael Grabenströmer: Remorse played no role for Bernhard Vogel. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 27, 2007
  10. ↑ a b How can you turn a person into a pig? , Spiegel Online, May 9, 2007
  11. ↑ Hubertus Siegert: Beyond Punishment , 2015, a co-production by ZDF / 3Sat and DOCDAYS Productions
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckhardt, Hans Paul August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman, murder victim of the terrorist organization RAF
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1972
Place of death Hamburg