Josef Wilfling

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Josef Wilfling at an author reading in November 2017
Josef Wilfling and Wolfgang Eisenmenger in an interview at Bayern 1 (March 2019). Interviewer: Thorsten Otto.

Josef Wilfling (* 1947 in Münchberg ) is a former German police officer (most recently Kriminaloberrat ) and author .

Career

Wilfling was born as a child of displaced persons from the Egerland in the Upper Franconian town of Münchberg, where he grew up with four siblings. He joined the middle service of the Bavarian police on October 3, 1966. After a year with the Würzburg riot police , he was transferred to Munich . During the arson attack on the old people's home of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Munich in 1970, he was deployed as a riot policeman. a. the task of leading a rabbi to the completely charred corpses of the victims. From 1976 he worked as a civil investigator and from 1983 as a detective inspector. In 1987 he joined the Munich homicide squad as an investigator and became its head in 2002. He was involved in investigating the murders of Walter Sedlmayr and Rudolph Moshammer and the murders of the serial killer Horst David . In addition, he investigated the case of the actor Günther Kaufmann .

After the staff council had objected to a further extension of his term of service, he was retired on January 30, 2009. Wilfling, who had already written glosses and analyzes for the in-house police newspaper, processed the experiences from his service as a book author and became a sought-after speaker.

In February 2013, he testified as a witness in the Bavarian committee of inquiry into the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground , as he led the investigation into the murders of Habil Kılıç Munich-Ramersdorf in 2001 and of Theodoros Boulgarides in Munich's Westend in 2005 (see Ceska series of murders ).

In the case of Günther Kaufmann , Wilfling was the lead investigator. Even after Günther Kaufmann's death in 2012, he held onto his guilt and also expressed this in the retrial, despite his proven innocence.

When he testified on July 11, 2013 about the Ramersdorf murder in the NSU trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court , he protested against the charge that the investigators were blind in the right eye. Rather, the way in which the crime was carried out, which he described as “professional execution”, was untypical for right-wing violent offenders and could only be associated with organized crime. The homicide squad investigated possible connections between the victim and the PKK , the gray wolves , as well as the gambling, drug and red light milieu, the police had ransacked the widow's apartment during a search and the victim's daughter had to leave school because it was feared that perpetrators from these milieus could storm the school. He also stated that none of the 40 or so Turkish whistleblowers suspected right-wing extremism. He was also unable to imagine the cyclists named by a witness as perpetrators. The attempt to win the alleged perpetrators as witnesses was unsuccessful.

Wilfling is married, has a son (born 1970) and lives in Munich.

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Susi Wimmer: "I just thought, escape, cover, away". When the investigators were still in the thick of it: About the eventful life of Josef Wilfling. The longtime head of the homicide squad is retiring. In: Süddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Dorita Plange: Munich's top murder hunter. His toughest cases. In: tz. January 23, 2009, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c Karin Truscheit: The respect for evil. In: Faz.net. July 12, 2010, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Susi Wimmer: Write that down! In his book, Josef Wilfling looks into the depths of the human soul. He is familiar with them as the ex-head of the Munich homicide squad. In: Süddeutsche.de. March 14, 2010, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  5. ^ Susi Wimmer, Christian Mayer: Investigators without self-doubt. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 8, 2012, Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ ebu: Wilfling in NSU trial in Munich: "This was an execution." In: tz. July 11, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  7. ^ Anna Fischhaber: NSU murder in Munich in court Heated verbal battles. In: Süddeutsche.de. July 11, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Tom Sundermann: As if Habil Kiliç was a mafioso. The widow of the murdered Kiliç testifies in the NSU trial. Their anger is also directed against the police, who never thought of right-wing extremist perpetrators. In: Zeit Online. July 11, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  9. ^ Frank Jansen: Heated verbal battles and strange testimonies. In: tagesspiegel.de . July 11, 2013, accessed February 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilfling, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchberg