Hans Schneickert

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Hans Schneickert (born September 20, 1876 in Wattenheim , † October 19, 1944 in Baienfurt ) was a German lawyer, criminologist , criminalist and head of the identification service of the Berlin police .

Life

As the son of the teacher Johannes Schneickert and his wife Katharina Maltry, he attended high school in Mannheim . This was followed by studying law in Würzburg , Munich , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Üechtland . In 1904 he worked as an assessor in a court in Munich . In the same year he gained in Tübingen the Promotion Dr. jur.

After that he left the legal service and turned to criminology and criminalistics . In July 1904 he joined the Berlin criminal police , where he took on various tasks until June 1931. From August 1914 to December 1927 he headed the identification service department. Most recently he was in the service of a criminal inspector.

Since March 1920 he gave lectures as a lecturer at the University of Berlin in the subject of criminology. His outstanding fields of work were handwriting , fingerprinting , comparison of scripts and the psychological classification of the perpetrators. For the collections of manuscripts and fingerprints, he proposed a special method of classifying them according to certain graphical features, which was introduced by several criminal authorities in large cities.

He also undertook various trips abroad that took him to Turkey, the United States and Egypt, where he was able to broaden his horizon. Through his publications, he gained a great deal of attention abroad within the criminal authorities with regard to his practical knowledge. He also became known in connection with the International Police Exhibition in Berlin in 1926 , which he helped design.

After his active service from 1931 onwards, he devoted himself to the activity of a court-approved expert for script analysis. In making the proposals, which were intended to clarify the identity, was the 1922 concept of a so-submitted identification book , which should be applied by every citizen. In this proof, which was twenty pages long, several identification numbers including a fingerprint of each citizen were to be entered in such a way that unambiguous recording was possible. However, this preventive measure met with widespread public rejection.

His collection of manuscripts, which he created in 1920, has, however, established itself as a forensic aid to this day. In 1927 he dealt with the question of the death penalty in a publication. He pointed out the problem if a government abolished the death penalty and reintroduced it later. Such a course of action would be the clear indicator of a government's weakness or a need to increase its power .

Since Schneickert left active police service in 1931 before the NSDAP “came to power ” , he was not forced to join the NSDAP as an official. Nonetheless, he welcomed the measures that the Nazi government had taken in November 1933 and then in February 1934 against “ professional criminals ” in the form of preventive detention and admission to concentration camps , as can be seen in his introduction to the sociology of crime and crime prevention from the In 1935. Hsi-Huey Liang assesses his new view in this regard as follows: "He spoke with contempt of the cowardice of the old Kripo to take action against every single lawbreaker only within the framework of legal limits." Schneickert had expressed this decisively in his writing: "Such tolerance naturally stands in the way of combating professional crime in the present".

In 1915, on May 8th, he married Hildegard Thiede, the daughter of city administrator August Thiede and his wife Sidonie Reisser, in Ilmenau. In 1935 he lived in Zeuthen at Fontane-Allee 10.

Fonts

  • Modern secret scripts , 1900.
  • The protection of photographs and the right to one's own image , 1903.
  • On the psychology of the testimony , in: Archive for criminal anthropology and criminalistics, 13 (1903), pp. 193-211.
  • The importance of manuscripts in civil and criminal law , 1906.
  • Secret scripts in the service of business and traffic , Leipzig, 1905.
  • Reform of the Budapest Moral Police , in: Journal for Combating Venereal Diseases, 1911, p. 437.
  • On the psychology of ransom letters , in: Zeitschrift fuer psychotherapie und Medizinische Psychologie, 1912, p. 35.
  • Guide to judicial comparisons , Berlin 1918.
  • The woman as blackmailer and instigator - criminal psychological study , Bonn 1919 (also in: Treatises in the field of sex research, I (1918/1919), 9).
  • The woman under male solidarity protection , in: Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft, from April 1919 to March 1920, Volume VI, Bonn.
  • The burglar and his fight against technical, police and other measures with engineer Nelken, Potsdam 1920.
  • Social misery, crime, and the social instinct for self-preservation , 1921.
  • Introduction to Forensic Science , 1921.
  • Practical textbook in criminology and criminalistics , Potsdam 1921.
  • Signal element theory. Handbook of personal description for police authorities, gendarmerie and police schools , Munich 1922.
  • The criminal duties of the police , 1923.
  • Aptitude test for the criminal service , 1923 b.
  • Concealed facts and their research , Berlin 1924.
  • Preschool for judicial comparison of scripts , extension of the script by Georg Meyer, Jena 1925.
  • Criminal evidence collection , 1925.
  • The adjustment of the handwriting and its graphonomic proof , Jena 1925.
  • The criminal investigation department , in 2 volumes. Volume 1: Criminal Studies and Criminal Law with Commentary on the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. From Dr. jur. J. Kley; Volume 2: Criminal tactics and forensic technology, Lübeck 1926.
  • For and against the death penalty . In: Kriminalistische Monatshefte, 1st year, 1927, Issue 3, pp. 50–52.
  • On the doctrine of the types of criminals . In: Monthly journal for criminal psychology, 1927, 17th year, p. 495.
  • Introduction to the sociology of crime and crime prevention , Jena 1935.
  • Hereditary dactyloscopy, especially in identical twins , in: International Journal of Legal Medicine, Volume 30, Numbers 2-3 / September, 1938.
  • Handwriting in legal and traffic life: Legal studies for writing experts , Berlin 1939.
  • Criminal tactics with special consideration of criminal psychology , 5th completely revised edition, Berlin 1940.
  • The scientific foundations of graphology , extension of the font by Georg Meyer, Jena 1940.
  • Guide to criminalistic character studies , Jena 1941.
  • The secret. His protection and betrayal , Jena 1941.
  • Fingerprint evidence. Guide to judicial dactyloscopy , Jena 1943.
  • Mysterious letters. Crime stories. Publishing house for police specialist literature, Lübeck. Printing: Geraer Druckerei Karl Basch & Co., Gera 1943.
  • Criminal evidence collection: collection of official instructions and expert advice for official use and for police schools , as publisher, Berlin 1944.

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SURNAME Schneickert, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, police officer, criminologist and head of the identification service of the Berlin police
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattenheim
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1944
Place of death Baienfurt