Commissioner Finke

Commissioner Finke
Channel	NDR
active	1971-1978
place	Kiel
cases	7 (5 guest appearances)
successor	Klaus Borowski
team
Assistant Jessner Assistant Franke Assistant Dressler		(1971-1975) (1974) (1977/1978)
Place of investigation Kiel ( Schleswig-Holstein )

Commissioner Finke was one of Herbert Lichtenfeld invented character of the ARD - crime series Tatort . Finke was embodied by the German actor Klaus Schwarzkopf . Finke was the second crime scene investigator for the NDR and worked in Schleswig-Holstein . He starred in seven Tatort episodes that aired between 1971 and 1978. The first six of these episodes were shot by director Wolfgang Petersen . Herbert Lichtenfeld wrote the scripts for all seven Finke crime scenes .

In addition, Commissioner Finke had guest appearances in five other Tatort episodes in 1974 and 1976 .

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The figure of Chief Detective Finke has her office in Kiel , but is ordered to the Schleswig-Holstein province in almost all episodes. His younger colleague Jessner often acts as a sidekick , who apparently approaches the cases with more enthusiasm, but often has to be slowed down by Finke, who ultimately clears up the cases with his many years of experience and knowledge of human nature. Finke passed the police school with an average grade of 3.1, but is a good expert on people. In the course of his career with the criminal investigation department, he was transferred to the theft department to investigate murder.

Finke's first name remains unknown to the viewer. He is married and has a son. His character is polite and reserved, but sometimes he also reveals an ironic-biting streak. Finke is a philanthropist and does not make fun of the residents of the small villages and towns in which he investigates, nor does he make fun of the local police officers whom he supports in the murder investigation.

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case	title	First broadcast	episode	author	Director	particularities
1	Sheet metal damage	Jun 13, 1971	8th	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen	With Götz George in a leading role, 10 years before he made his first appearance as Tatort Commissioner Schimanski. (Guest appearance  Trimmel )
2	Flotsam	Jun 25, 1972	19th	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen	(Guest appearance  Konrad )
3	Hunting ground	May 13, 1973	29	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen	(Guest appearance  Kressin )
4th	Night frost	Jan. 20, 1974	36	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen	(Guest appearance  Lutz ), achieved the highest known household reach with 76 percent
5	Short circuit	07th Dec 1975	58	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen
6th	Secondary school leaving certificate	27 Mar 1977	73	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Wolfgang Petersen	Debut of the young Nastassja Kinski , who undressed several times for the film. With 25.05 million viewers when it was first broadcast, it was the second highest number of all crime scene episodes.
7th	Ascension	Aug 13, 1978	90	Herbert Lichtenfeld	Rainer Wolffhardt

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• 027 Cherchez la femme or the ghosts of Mummelsee
• 037 A surefire thing
• 039 Eight years later
• 042 poison
• 045 pub acquaintance
• 061 Two lives

Trivia

The fame of the investigator Finke was based at that time on the fact that Schwarzkopf was known as the dubbing voice of Columbo and had already portrayed the detective in the crime film Fluchtweg St. Pauli - Großalarm für die Davidswache .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Achim Neubauer: Inspector Finke. In: Tatort-fundus.de
2. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: "Rot - rot - tot": The record "crime scene" at SWR , accessed on December 27, 2011.