Karl Kiehne

Karl Kiehne (born April 10, 1909 in Hilden , † after 1968) was a German SS leader and criminal investigator .

Life

Kiehne was the son of an architect. He entered the police force in 1927. From 1932 he was involved in the working group of National Socialist police officers in Dortmund . In 1934 he switched to the criminal investigation department, where he worked as a detective inspector after passing his exam in 1935. From 1939 he was a criminal inspector in Hanover . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP and in November 1938 the SS (SS-No. 375.136), within which he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1944 .

During the Second World War he joined the Reich Main Security Office in 1940 and was a member of the Office V's Einsatzgruppe. In 1941 he was promoted to the criminal councilor and from 1942 was responsible for fighting corruption in the Reich Criminal Police Office.

After the war, Kiehne was probably Allied internment and was the Nazification court in Bielefeld as part of the denazification acquitted. At the beginning of May 1950, he returned to the police force in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where he became head of the criminal investigation department. In 1954 he took over the management of the criminal police in Gelsenkirchen and, as Oskar Wenzky's successor, from 1959 until his retirement in 1969 in Cologne. Kiehne was a speaker at meetings of the Federal Criminal Police Office .

Kiehne is listed in the GDR Brown Book . Kiehne was known to the director Jürgen Roland because he worked with him on the crime series Stahlnetz . His memoirs appeared in 1972, but without any reference to his Nazi past.

Fonts

Not just roses from Klingelpütz: a police chief reports from his life , Schneekluth, Munich 1972

literature

Stefan Noethen: Old comrades and new colleagues: Police in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945-1953 , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2002, pp. ISBN 3-89861-110-8 .
Dieter Schenk : Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03034-5 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ben Witter : A daily ration of murder . In: Die Zeit , issue 9 of February 28, 1969
↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 316
↑ ^a ^b ^c Stefan Noethen: Old comrades and new colleagues: Police in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945-1953 , Essen 2002, p. 330f.
↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 316
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 306.
↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 278
↑ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany - Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (ed.): Braunbuch - War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin , State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1968, p. 103f.

personal data
SURNAME	Kiehne, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS leader and criminal investigator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hilden
DATE OF DEATH	after 1968

[Witter-1] Ben Witter : A daily ration of murder . In: Die Zeit , issue 9 of February 28, 1969

[2] Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 316

[Noethen330f-3] Stefan Noethen: Old comrades and new colleagues: Police in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945-1953 , Essen 2002, p. 330f.

[4] Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 316

[Klee306-5] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 306.

[6] Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 278

[7] National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany - Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (ed.): Braunbuch - War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin , State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1968, p. 103f.