Hans Josef Horchem

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Hans Josef Horchem (born August 26, 1927 in Erp ; † August 3, 2004 in Mechernich ) was a German lawyer , President of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution and an expert on terrorism .

Horchem came from a Catholic family in Mechernich in the Eifel. In 1943 he was drafted into the home flak , in the last years of the war he was still in the Wehrmacht. From 1955 to 1957 Horchem was a judge in Aachen. In the sixties he was head of department at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne and negotiated the ransom of a trade unionist from GDR imprisonment during this time. From 1969 to 1981 he was head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg and dedicated himself primarily to combating terrorism in the Red Army faction . During his leadership, eleven RAF terrorists were arrested in Hamburg. In 1977 the Hamburg Senate loaned Horchem to Spain for four months to advise the police there against the Basque terrorist organization ETA . Horchem was co-editor of the periodical Terrorism.

The Social Democrat Horchem was a constant Warner his party, in the detente to underestimate the dangers of orthodox communism. After his early retirement, he headed the Institute for Terrorism Research in Bonn together with Rolf Tophoven from 1986 to 1992 and was President of the Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP).

Works

  • Terrorism in a Confident Democracy. 1974
  • The lost revolution. 1988
  • The decline of the RAF and the development of new mechanisms of violence. 1989
  • Spies are also being retired. Mittler, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-8132-0410-3 .
  • Children at war - childhood and youth in the Third Reich. Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0716-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of Horchem's book Children in War. Childhood and Youth in the Third Reich. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 17, 2001
  2. ↑ Terror expert Horchem is dead. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. August 5, 2004, accessed September 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Died: Hans Josef Horchem. Der Spiegel, August 16, 2004
  4. ↑ http://sowiport.gesis.org/search/id/fes-bib-203003
personal data
SURNAME Horchem, Hans Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution and terrorism expert
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Erp (Erftstadt)
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2004
Place of death Mechernich