Klaus Hiller

Klaus Hiller (* 1951 in Reutlingen ) grew up in Schmieheim .

Hiller joined the Baden-Württemberg riot police in 1971 and began his training in Lahr . After completing his training, he first worked at the Freiburg- Nord police station before he was transferred to the criminal police in Freiburg in 1975 . From 1975 he completed the training for the higher criminal service at the State Police School Baden-Württemberg (now Academy of Police Baden-Württemberg ). After graduation he was appointed detective inspector. After several uses, he was admitted to the higher criminal service at the Police Command Academy in Münster-Hiltrup in 1982 . After his appointment to the criminal councilor, he was a consultant for the fight against crime, then head of the data processing department in the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg , state police headquarters. From 1995 to 2000 he was the head of the criminal police at what was then the state police department in Freiburg, chief investigator in the Freiburg administrative region . From 2000 to 2005 he was head of the Offenburg Police Department before being appointed President of the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office in Stuttgart in July 2005 . Hiller retired in January 2011.

A classic quote in a press conference in connection with the so-called cotton swab affair in response to a question put in a rather biting tone by a journalist: "We were looking for an Eastern European woman and we have found an Eastern European woman."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New chiefs for the State Criminal Police Office and the police headquarters in Stuttgart and Mannheim, new police inspector. Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, May 31, 2011, archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; Retrieved June 7, 2011 .