Hubertus Andrä

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Hubertus Andrä, 2017

Hubertus Andrä (born March 8, 1956 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German police officer and has been the police chief in Munich since July 2013 .

Hubertus Andrä came from a family of police officers, his father was with the border police , he died in a traffic accident. Andrä wanted to become a teacher until his father's death, but joined the police force in 1975 and became police chief sergeant in 1976, chief police commissioner in 1982 and chief police commissioner in 1986. Andrä became deputy chief of the Traunstein police department in 1992 and was its head from 2005. In 1995 he was appointed Chief Police Officer and in 2000 Police Director. From October 2003 to December 2004 he was an advisor in the Ministry of the Interior and responsible for police reform. In January 2006, Andrä led the large-scale operation in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall ice rink , one year later he was appointed chief police director and in April 2008 took over the management of the police department in the Ministry of the Interior. In August 2012 he became head of the newly established Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Cyber ​​Security in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior . Andrä focused on the observation of right-wing extremism in Bavaria, the modernization of the protection of the constitution and communication between the authorities.

Since July 2013, Andrä has succeeded Wilhelm Schmidbauer as police chief in Munich and thus head of the largest Bavarian praesidium with around 7,000 employees. At the beginning of his work as police chief, he focused on the fight against right-wing extremism and against burglary . In view of the terrorist attacks in Paris , he spoke out in favor of data retention . The G7 summit and the 2016 attack in Munich , which, with 2,300 forces, was one of the largest police operations in the Bavarian capital in recent decades , fell during his tenure as police chief . In 2015, the total number of crimes in Munich fell by 4.2 percent to 104,134 offenses. In contrast, cybercrime is on a growth path.

Andrä is married and has two children. He lives in Germering in Upper Bavaria .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Peter Fahrenholz: Police President Hubertus Andrä. Police target neo-Nazis . In: sueddeutsche.de , July 30, 2013.
  2. ^ After the attacks in Paris. This is how the police chief sees the security situation in Munich . In: Merkur.de , January 30, 2015.
  3. Crime statistics for Munich 2015