Hans Schneppel

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Hans Schneppel (* 1903 ; † 1973 ) was a German police officer and lawyer. Schneppel signed the arrest warrants against KPD members after the Reichstag fire and worked as a civil servant in high positions long after the Second World War.

Life

After attending school, Schneppel studied law . After passing the Grand State Examination, he was accepted into the civil service with assessor age on February 8, 1930. According to Shlomo Aronson , Schneppel worked in Department IA ( Political Police ) of the Berlin Police Headquarters before 1933 .

In the course of the investigation after the Reichstag fire of February 1933, Schneppel signed the arrest warrants against the KPD politician Ernst Torgler and the journalist Egon Erwin Kisch .

After the Secret State Police Office was founded in the spring of 1933, Schneppel was one of the first officers to be transferred to the new authority. He took over the management of Department III (international Bolshevism, general communist matters). By decree of November 23, 1933, Schneppel was called up to serve in the Reich Ministry of Aviation , where he was responsible for public safety . Later he was superintendent at Luftgaukommando XI in Hamburg.

After 1945, Schneppel was Ministerial Director of the Police Department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In the 1961 Pocket Book of Public Life , he is listed as Head of Department VI (Public Security) of the Ministry.

On June 26, 1968 Schneppel got occasion of his retirement by the then Interior Minister Ernst Benda , the Federal Cross of Merit presented that he had been awarded by the Federal President.

Fonts

  • First law on measures to protect the civilian population , Kohlhammer, 1957

literature

  • Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. 1983, p. 380.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Brack: " History legend for a protection of the constitution ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )", Netzeitung , January 11, 2001.
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel of April 9, 2001, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Schneppel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH 1973