Hubert Wimber

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Hubert Wimber (* 1949 in Recklinghausen ) was police chief in Münster from spring 1998 to May 2015 .

Life

Wimber studied after high school and military service economies and social sciences at the University of Bochum and Göttingen University and graduated with a diploma Sozialwirt his studies. He has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since around 1987 . From 1995, Wimber was head of department at the Recklinghausen police headquarters.

Among other things, Wimber is also responsible for securing the transport of nuclear waste to the Ahaus nuclear waste storage facility . Wimber is considered a strict opponent of violence: "I am convinced that violence against things must not be played down as a form of peaceful resistance." He does not believe in a "lax approach to the monopoly of violence".

In January 2010, Wimber wrote to the German Hemp Association in favor of legalizing cannabis. Looking back on alcohol prohibition in the USA, Wimber says, “that actually rational drug policy must come to the conclusion that repression is counterproductive, does not bring anything and to this extent the end of the discussion about legalization would in fact be a drug store selling the relevant substances be sold under government licensing under control and government distribution; with the corresponding advice on the addiction potential of the respective active ingredients. ”
After his retirement in September 2015, he became the founding chairman of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition in Germany, which advocates an end to the so-called war on drugs and a reform of drug policy . During his active service, Minister of the Interior Ralf Jäger refused to attend him for legal reasons. He is also a member of the Schildower Kreis , which advocates the legalization of drugs .

In 2011, Wimber proposed compulsory labeling for cyclists so that “wrong-way drivers, red-light sinners and people who have escaped accidents” can also be identified retrospectively. In July 2012 he spoke out against such a labeling requirement because "the bureaucratic effort would be too great". At the same time, he called for the alcohol limit for the inability to drive for cyclists to be reduced from 1.6 to 1.1 and thus to be brought into line with the limit for motorists.

The police president's concept of the police’s approach to the Nazi demonstration and the simultaneous counter-demonstration in Münster on March 3, 2012 was criticized. Among other things, a 21-year-old counter-demonstrator suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of police measures . Ingrid Remmers , member of the Bundestag , was assaulted.

In August 2012, Wimber said that the police should reduce their tasks in certain areas, including no longer recording accidents in the event of sheet metal damage, for which he was criticized not only by the ADAC , but also from within his own ranks. Furthermore, Wimber suggested that the citizens should in future regulate night disturbances independently without police support, which was criticized by the CDU opposition in the state parliament and compared with a call for vigilante justice. From among the SPD also the proposal received criticism that order partnership Station put even the abolition of the police as well as the formation of a vigilante close.

In June 2014, Wimber was appointed by NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger (SPD) to an expert commission on demographic change in the police in North Rhine-Westphalia . The four-person commission, which, in addition to Wimber, a member of the Greens, included the then Cologne Police President Wolfgang Albers (member of the SPD), the district administrator of the Mettmann district Thomas Hendele (CDU) and Professor Jürgen Weibler from the Fern-Universität Hagen , submitted its final report a year later (see publication) with proposals for a police reform in NRW. The experts showed various savings potentials, but could not agree on a common model with regard to the police organization .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Beste, Christian Schwägerl: Two colors of green. Münster's police chief Hubert Wimber - a member of the Greens - is responsible for securing the Castor transport in Ahaus. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 20, 1998, p. 3 ( online ( memento of the original from September 6, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schule.de
  2. ^ A b Thomas van Zütphen: North Rhine-Westphalia: Kanther in green. In: Focus Online , September 1, 1997 ( online )
  3. ↑ German Hemp Association ( online )
  4. ↑ Focus ( online )
  5. ↑ Police chief for soft drugs clearance. In: TAZ . November 19, 2014, accessed November 19, 2014 .
  6. ↑ More liberal drug policy: Does Münster's police chief encounter resistance? In: Münsterschezeitung . November 19, 2014, accessed November 19, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Information about the individuals active in the Schildower Kreis. Schildower Kreis , accessed December 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Guido Kleinhubbert : Dangerous bustle. In: Der Spiegel , No. 23, June 6, 2011, p. 42 ( online )
  9. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Discussion about blood alcohol limit: "Taking cyclists out of circulation at 1.1 blood alcohol levels" , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, July 13, 2012 ( online )
  10. ↑ Münstersche Zeitung : Lower alcohol limit: Police demand tougher penalties for drunk cyclists , Münster, July 12, 2012 ( online )
  11. ↑ Marcus Meier: Participants in an anti-fascist demonstration in North Rhine-Westphalia raise serious allegations against the police. In: Neues Deutschland , March 8, 2012 ( online )
  12. ↑ Marcus Meier: Relatively beaten to the intensive care unit. In: Neues Deutschland , March 9, 2012 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marcusmeier.de
  13. ^ Police attack in Münster against MP from Bochum: Solidarity with Ingrid Remmers. In: Bochum alternative, March 5, 2012 ( online )
  14. ↑ Advance of the police president: Wimber: Police should ignore small accidents. In: Münstersche Zeitung , Münster, Thomas Thiel, August 13, 2012 ( online )
  15. ↑ Münster's Police President: Wimber: Citizens should regulate disturbances themselves. In: Münstersche Zeitung , Münster, dpa , August 15, 2012 ( online ( memento of August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
  16. ^ According to Wimber's demands: vigilante groups at the train station under discussion. In: Münstersche Zeitung , Münster, Helmut Etzkorn, August 15, 2012 ( online ( Memento from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
  17. ↑ Tobias Blasius: aging! NRW is losing more and more police officers. In: DerWesten.de . June 7, 2015, accessed January 13, 2016 .
  18. ↑ (dpa): 1130 positions: Experts see potential for savings in the police. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , June 9, 2015, accessed on January 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wimber, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police chief
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen