State Police School Lower Saxony

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Entrance of the former Lower Saxony State Police School, today Lower Saxony Police Academy

The Lower Saxony State Police School (LPSN) was a police school with its headquarters in Hann. Münden , which ran the police training and advanced training of the state police in Lower Saxony from 1946 to 1997 . In 1997 it was converted into the Educational Institute of the Police (BIP NI), which in 2007 became the Lower Saxony Police Academy based in Nienburg / Weser . Despite the reorganization, the property in Hann. Münden has been the central location for basic and advanced training for the Lower Saxony police since the Second World War, and is now a busy branch of the Police Academy.

property

Entrance area 1976
View of the site in 1976

The police school was established in 1946 in the former Gneisenau barracks of the Wehrmacht in Hann. Münden. The military installation built in 1934 was built on the Gimter field near the Gimte district . Because of its proximity to the Weser, it was used by pioneer units , which in Hann. Münden have a long tradition. Towards the end of the Second World War , part of the Army High Command was quartered in the barracks. On March 30 and 31, 1945 Hann. Münden The target of air strikes by US bomber units , in which 32 people were killed and 50 were seriously injured. The buildings of the Gneisenau barracks were also severely damaged by bombs.

Established on the instructions of the military government

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, a regional police school was set up in Hanover on the instructions of the British military government . It was intended for the then Hanover region within the British occupation zone , which roughly corresponded to the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony. The school began teaching in September 1945 as the "School of the Ordnungspolizei-Region Hanover", which took place in a Wehrmacht barracks on Welfenplatz . Since the British pursued municipalization during the reconstruction of the German police, there were further local police schools in the administrative districts (RB) in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony from the end of 1945 . These were teaching locations in Aurich (RB Aurich), Querum (city and RB Braunschweig), Eldagsen (RB Hannover), Bad Salzdetfurth (RB Hildesheim), Steinhorst (RB Lüneburg), Oldenburg (RB Oldenburg), Bramsche (RB Osnabrück), Neuhaus (Oste) (RB Stade).

In May 1946, on the orders of the British military government, police training was centralized in what is now Lower Saxony and transferred to Hann. Münden relocated. 27 cities in the British occupation zone had applied for the seat as a police school. Main criterion for the selection in favor of Hann. Münden were the generous spatial conditions in the Gneisenau barracks. A British battalion evacuated them so that the Hanover Police School could move in in May 1946. The other local training centers in the administrative districts were closed in 1946.

Start of teaching

Old welcome sign for police students

On June 11, 1946, the first police trainee course began in Hann. Münden. Teaching started under the bad external conditions of the post-war period . The buildings showed damage from American bombing and looting by the population. After the state of Lower Saxony was founded in November 1946 , the police school was called the Police School of Lower Saxony from January 1, 1947 . In the first few years of its existence, courses were frequently interrupted for longer periods of time. In 1947 the school closed for two months because there was no heating material. In the same year, operations were shut down again because up to 500 police candidates were deployed at the first Hanover Fair , which was of great importance for the economic upturn in the newly founded state. In 1948 there were temporarily no classes because many officials were doing traffic checks at the " zone border " in connection with the Berlin blockade . It was not until 1951 that the school was called the Lower Saxony State Police School for many years .

Establishment

Housing building from the 1970s
Naming of the accommodation buildings after cities in Lower Saxony, here: House Emden

At the beginning still under British supervision and control, the police school developed over time into a modern training facility for the Lower Saxony police. The extensive training and further education tasks included, among other things:

  • Basic training for police trainees
  • Career courses
  • Promotion training
  • Advanced training courses

The courses were mainly for members of the Protection and Criminal aligned. They also affected other groups of people, such as takeover courses for members of the Federal Armed Forces and Federal Border Police . The instruction of camp leaders for the camps of displaced persons shortly after the end of the Second World War was an extraordinary training .

The buildings of the former barracks were adapted to police requirements over time. Among other things, new classroom buildings, additional accommodation, a sports hall, a shooting range , sports fields, a library and a large dining room were built. The Lower Saxony Logistics Center was built on an adjacent property in 1996 to supply the police and other Lower Saxony authorities.

In the 1970s, the state police school had its highest occupancy rate in the training and advanced training of police officers. Food strengths of up to 1400 people per day were not uncommon. The total number of people trained at the LPSN is not known due to the large number of courses offered, but it should be in the range of tens of thousands of people. Between 1950 and 1976, 14,000 police officers completed their basic training in a basic course, which 12,500 passed.

More locations

Due to the high occupancy of the state police school in Hann. Münden from the 1970s onwards branches were set up in Lower Saxony in order to be able to train the large number of police officers. At times there were other locations in:

Dissolution while maintaining the location

The Lower Saxony State Police School was dissolved on April 30, 1997 after 51 years of existence and converted into the Lower Saxony Police Training Institute (BIP NI). The headquarters of this new police facility remained in Hann. Münden. She took over the entire training of the approximately 22,500 police officers in Lower Saxony. The new training went to the "Police Faculty" of the Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Hildesheim. Hann. Münden acted as their branch office.

During the reform of police training in Lower Saxony on October 1, 2007, another reorganization took place. The university of applied sciences and the educational institute were merged to form the Lower Saxony Police Academy with headquarters in Nienburg / Weser . Since then, Hann. Along with Oldenburg, Münden is one of two branches of the academy.

literature

  • June 13, 1946 - 30 years of the State Police School in Hann. Münden, Hrsg .: Mündener Community for police specialist literature at the State Police School, 1976
  • Hans-Joachim Bartholdt: The "Lower Saxony State Police School" - a modern training and further education facility in: Lower Saxony and its police: Published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. Police-Technik-Verkehr-Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiesbaden 1979, pp. 192–196.
  • 40 years of the Lower Saxony State Police School Hann. Münden 1946–1986, Ed .: State Police School Lower Saxony
  • 50 years of the Lower Saxony State Police School in Hann. Münden 1946–1996, publisher: Landespolizeischule Niedersachsen
  • Heinz-Joachim Brauleke: LPSN Hannoversch Münden: Weather lights of a democratic police institution - Documentary insights into the history of the development of today's State Police School Lower Saxony in the Archive for Police History , 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ June 13, 1946 - 30 years of the State Police School in Hann. Münden

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 40.5 ″  E