Josef Menke (police officer)

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Josef Menke (born November 12, 1905 in Herzfeld , † May 2, 1996 in Würzburg ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Life

After attending school, which he completed with the Abitur, Menke studied law . 1933 doctorate he attended the University of Wuerzburg to Dr. jur . Then he entered the civil service. On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP (3,152,619) and the SA . A year later on July 4, 1934, he was accepted into the criminal police and ended his SA membership on July 12, 1934. Until 1942 he was promoted to government and criminal councilor. On December 17, 1939, he joined the SS (351.096), in which he reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer on April 20, 1943 .

In 1941 Menke became head of Section V A 1 (legal issues, international cooperation and criminal research) and representative of group leader Paul Werner of the Office Group V A (criminal policy and prevention) in the Reich Criminal Police Office of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and personal assistant to Reich Crime Director Arthur Nebe and worked there as part of his Responsibility for criminal research on the draft of the Community Aliens Act. In accordance with the biologistic criminological view that prevailed in the RKPA, he spoke out in favor of "exterminating hereditary crime".

After 1945, Menke was head of the Kripo in Coburg from 1950 , then from 1954 in Aachen and later from 1959 in Dortmund and was promoted from criminal adviser to criminal director.

In 1959, following the intervention of the ÖTV trade union , his promotion to director of the State Criminal Police Office, planned by the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia , was withdrawn because of his Nazi past.

Fonts

  • The conversion of merchant ships into warships , Würzburg 1933. (Dissertation)
  • The security police and the special police . In: Bulletin of the RKPA 1943, Series C Sp.501–506.

literature

  • George C. Browder: Hitler's Enforcers , 1996, p. 95.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 403.
  • Norbert Podewin : Brown Book. War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West) , 2002, p. 96.
  • Patrick Wagner in: The Federal Criminal Police Office faces its history , 2008, pp. 100, 109.
  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional , 2002, p. 316, 769.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the drafts for a community alien law cf. Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "Community strangers". Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933–1945 , Koblenz 1998.
  2. ^ Josef Menke, Die Sicherheitspolizei und die Sonderpolizeien , in: Mitteilungsblatt des RKPA 1943, Series C Sp. 501–506, here Sp. 501, quoted from Wagner, The Federal Criminal Police Office faces its history , 2008, p. 100
  3. ↑ Michael Wildt: Generation des Unbedingten , 2002, p. 769; Norbert Podewin: Brown Book. War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West) , 2002, p. 96.
  4. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 227
personal data
SURNAME Menke, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1996
Place of death Wurzburg