Klaus Steffenhagen

Klaus-Jürgen Steffenhagen (born April 21, 1947 in Schwerin ) is a retired German police officer . He was a long-time GdP functionary as well as police chief in Hagen from 1997 to 1999 and police chief in Cologne from 1999 to 2011 .

Life

After completing his school education, Klaus Steffenhagen initially trained as a saddler, upholsterer and decorator, which he completed in 1964 with the journeyman's examination. This was followed by training in the police service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Linnich from 1964 to 1967 . In 1967 he passed the specialist examination for the middle service and initially worked as a patrol officer in Cologne. From 1974 he attended the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia , where he passed the second technical examination for the senior service in 1979 . In the same year he was promoted to detective inspector. Until 1987 he performed various tasks as a clerk in the criminal police , most recently as chief detective . In 1981 he passed the examination as a graduate in administration .

Since joining the police in 1964, he has been involved in the police union (GdP) and was its state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1987 to 1997. In addition, he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the GdP from 1986 to 1997.

In 1997 Steffenhagen was appointed police chief in the independent city of Hagen in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Arnsberg . He headed the Hagen Police Headquarters until he moved to the office of Cologne Police President in 1999. As head of the Cologne Police Headquarters - the largest police authority in North Rhine-Westphalia - based in Cologne, he was responsible for the independent cities of Cologne and Leverkusen as well as for all motorways in the Cologne administrative district . There were 5,000 officers in his area of responsibility for the safety of around 1.2 million people.

Cologne Police Headquarters in the Kalk district of Cologne , 2007

In Cologne, he initially operated from the old police headquarters on Waidmarkt in the city center, which has since been demolished, and later from the new building erected in 2001 in the Kalk district (picture) , which received an extensive extension in a second construction phase in 2010. After moving to the new Presidium, Steffenhagen rearranged the authority, provided new technology, acquired leasing vehicles , introduced district teams for the Veedel and achieved a decrease in pickpockets . He was in charge of organizing the police work at several major events in Cologne, such as the World Youth Day 2005 and the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. (Bourgeois Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) or at the 2006 World Cup in Cologne , and received praise from the state government for this . The Kölnische Rundschau 2011 - shortly before Steffenhagen's departure - assessed his administration as positive: "During his service, Steffenhagen made a lot happen."

During his term of office, however, the Cologne police scandal of 2002 about the death of a detainee who had previously been mistreated by police officers from a Cologne police station - according to Spiegel, "one of the biggest police scandals in the republic". On instructions from Steffenhagen, the head of the responsible inner city police station was transferred to another office before the later criminal proceedings and dismissal proceedings were initiated against two police officers for attempted cover-up.

Steffenhagen asked the incumbent NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger ( SPD ) in August 2011 to take early retirement for health reasons . He left the agency on September 30, 2011 after around 47 years of police service at the age of 64. His successor in the office of Cologne Police President was Wolfgang Albers

He is a member of the SPD.

Klaus Steffenhagen has been married since 1970 and has two grown children.

Publications

Shaping modernization. Enable progress. A contribution to the implementation of the control and management system of the police at the police headquarters in Cologne. Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur, Hilden 2003, ISBN 978-3-801-10481-8 (edited by Klaus-J. Steffenhagen, with the collaboration of Uwe Blanek and others).

Web links

Literature by and about Klaus Steffenhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
Daniel Taab: Police chief of Cologne: Steffenhagen leaves earlier. In: rundschau-online.de . August 12, 2011, accessed January 11, 2016 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 46th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, p. 1272.
^ ^A ^b ^c (ta): Background: The career of Klaus Steffenhagen. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau , August 12, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Albers becomes the new police chief. In: welt.de . Die Welt , September 20, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
↑ See Klaus-J. Steffenhagen (Ed.) With the collaboration of Uwe Blanek u. a .: Shaping modernization. Enable progress. A contribution to the implementation of the control and management system of the police at the police headquarters in Cologne. Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur, Hilden 2003, ISBN 978-3-801-10481-8 .
↑ Daniel Taab: Police President of Cologne: Steffen Hagen is earlier. In: rundschau-online.de. August 12, 2011, accessed January 12, 2016 .
↑ Matthias Gebauer: Cologne police scandal: Chief of the beating officials must go. In: Spiegel Online . May 28, 2002, accessed January 12, 2016 .
↑ Cologne police scandal: two officers arrested after attempting to cover up. In: Spiegel Online . May 25, 2002, accessed January 12, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b (wgo): Steffenhagen successor: Albers is the new Cologne police chief. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau, September 20, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .

Remarks

↑ The 14-storey high-rise administration building of the old Cologne police headquarters on Waidmarkt in the city center was built in 1956 and was demolished in 2011. Due to asbestos contamination and a lack of space, the police had already moved to the new presidium building in Cologne-Kalk in 2001 (see Waidmarkt (Cologne) #Neuzeit ).
↑ In the following process, six police officers were sentenced to probation in 2003 for collective bodily harm in the office resulting in death, whereupon they lost their civil servant status after the judgments were unsuccessfully revised and the judgments gained legal force (see Cologne police scandal #Legal consequences of the police operation ).

↑ Steffenhagen's successor in Cologne, the lawyer Wolfgang Albers , was previously the police chief in Bonn from 2002 to 2011. As Cologne police chief, Albers became known nationwide in connection with the sexual assault on New Year's Eve 2015 at Cologne Central Station and subsequently lost his office at the beginning of 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Steffenhagen, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steffenhagen, Klaus-Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German police officer, GdP functionary and police president (Hagen, Cologne)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwerin

[Weristwer-1] Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 46th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, p. 1272.

[rundschau-2011-09-12-hintergrund-2] A ^b ^c (ta): Background: The career of Klaus Steffenhagen. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau , August 12, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .

[welt-13616466-3] Wolfgang Albers becomes the new police chief. In: welt.de . Die Welt , September 20, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .

[5] See Klaus-J. Steffenhagen (Ed.) With the collaboration of Uwe Blanek u. a .: Shaping modernization. Enable progress. A contribution to the implementation of the control and management system of the police at the police headquarters in Cologne. Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur, Hilden 2003, ISBN 978-3-801-10481-8 .

[rundschau-2011-08-12-6] Daniel Taab: Police President of Cologne: Steffen Hagen is earlier. In: rundschau-online.de. August 12, 2011, accessed January 12, 2016 .

[SPON-198290-7] Matthias Gebauer: Cologne police scandal: Chief of the beating officials must go. In: Spiegel Online . May 28, 2002, accessed January 12, 2016 .

[SPON-197820-8] Cologne police scandal: two officers arrested after attempting to cover up. In: Spiegel Online . May 25, 2002, accessed January 12, 2016 .

[rundschau-2011-09-20-11] (wgo): Steffenhagen successor: Albers is the new Cologne police chief. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau, September 20, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016 .

[4] The 14-storey high-rise administration building of the old Cologne police headquarters on Waidmarkt in the city center was built in 1956 and was demolished in 2011. Due to asbestos contamination and a lack of space, the police had already moved to the new presidium building in Cologne-Kalk in 2001 (see Waidmarkt (Cologne) #Neuzeit ).

[9] In the following process, six police officers were sentenced to probation in 2003 for collective bodily harm in the office resulting in death, whereupon they lost their civil servant status after the judgments were unsuccessfully revised and the judgments gained legal force (see Cologne police scandal #Legal consequences of the police operation ).

[10] Steffenhagen's successor in Cologne, the lawyer Wolfgang Albers , was previously the police chief in Bonn from 2002 to 2011. As Cologne police chief, Albers became known nationwide in connection with the sexual assault on New Year's Eve 2015 at Cologne Central Station and subsequently lost his office at the beginning of 2016.