Heinrich Boge

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Heinrich Boge (born March 6, 1929 in Osnabrück ; † May 13, 2020 in Hanover ) was a German police officer. From April 1981 to March 1990 he was President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

Life

Boge first attended the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium Osnabrück , where he passed the Abitur examination in 1949. After studying at the Law Faculty of the Georg-August University of Göttingen he put his there on April 14, 1964 dissertation about the administrative assistant in the police law before.

In the course of his police service, Boge was Police President of the Hanover Police Department from 1969 to 1978 (see also: Police Lower Saxony ).

From 1978 to 1981 he was Ministerial Director in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In the summer of 1979 he traveled in this function with a delegation led by the then head of the Federal Intelligence Service , Klaus Kinkel , to Iraq , led by Saddam Hussein , where an agreement on "scientific and technical cooperation" was negotiated, including German arms deliveries and police training and secret services, as well as surveillance of Iraqis in exile living in the Federal Republic. The police training was carried out in 1982 and is also said to have included the "use of various types of war gases".

Conflicts between then Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart Baum (FDP) and Boge's predecessor in office Horst Herold led to Herold's resignation "for health reasons" at the end of March 1981 and Boges' subsequent appointment.

His administration of office is characterized variously as "rather colorless" and associated with frequent "standstill".

In 1984 Heinrich Boge was the first to make the move to have an employee deal with the “burdensome and stormy development of the office” (Boge). The term “burdensome” refers in particular to the filling of a large part of the management positions of the office in the 1950s and 1960s, in some cases until the beginning of the 1970s, with management personnel from the time of National Socialism (including the Reich Criminal Police ).

Against the background of the experience with the RAF terrorism and at the same time new possibilities of electronic data exchange, Boge demanded in 1985 "a powerful European institution or police with the tasks of collecting and analyzing messages, planning and coordination powers and maybe even controlling investigations in serious international crimes" and “The establishment of a central Western European criminal investigation office”. During his term of office, liaison offices of the BKA were set up in several Western European capitals.

After the political change in the GDR , the still existing GDR interior ministry appointed Boge in 1990 as an advisor on building federal democratic structures.

In 1994 Boge retired. He lived in Wiesbaden .

Memberships and public functions

Boge was a member of the SPD , as well as the board of trustees of the DLRG ( German Life Rescue Society eV). In 1990 the “Europe 2000” foundation appointed him “Member of the Executive Board”, and in 1993 its vice-president.

Quotes

Boge regards "the overly critical attitude of various sections of the population towards the state and traditional values, the changes in legal awareness and the withdrawal of social control bodies" as the cause of increasing crime; It is important to counteract these developments "with all determination and at all levels in order to remove the ground from crime within the framework of primary prevention"

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice Dr. Heinrich Boge , signed The President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch ... , in: Family advertisements , supplement in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 30, 2020, p. 7
  3. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom : Snoopers without a nose. The BND - the uncanny power in the state . ECON Verlag, Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1993, ISBN 3-430-18004-X
  4. ↑ according to Hans Branscheidt, at that time working as a development worker for medico international in Iraq, quoted from Jörg Kronauer : The FDP Connection . In: Jungle World . No. 40 of September 22, 2004
  5. ↑ Klaus Weinhauer : Terrorism in the Federal Republic of the 1970s. Aspects of a social and cultural history of internal security . In: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in connection with the Institute for Social History eV (Hrsgg.): Archive for Social History . Volume 44, Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Braunschweig and Bonn 2004, p. 239
  6. ↑ Dieter Schenk : The boss. Horst Herold and the BKA . Hamburg 1998, p. 459, quoted from Weinhauer (see above, p. 239). Schenk was formerly the criminal director of the BKA.
  7. ↑ quoted from: Hans Leyendecker : Persecutors became hunters: The BKA and its Nazi past . In: now. the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Online edition from October 30, 2007, 7:00 p.m. [1]
  8. ^ Heinrich Boge: Complicated procedural rules and cumbersome business channels. Situation and perspectives of the international fight against crime . In: Criminology . 1985, No. 1, p. 45
  9. ↑ according to Reinhard Höntzsch: Kratological considerations on the interaction of ordinary violence and system opposition violence . Dissertation, Department of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrück, 1999, p. 315
  10. ^ Heinrich Boge: Situation report for internal security. The crime picture from a national perspective, including terrorism . In: H.-L. Zachert, H. Störzer and K. Koch (eds.): 40 years of the BKA . Stuttgart [et al.] 1991, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Boge, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (1981–1990)
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2020
Place of death Hanover