Magnus Heimannsberg

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Heimannsberg (1931)
Heimannsberg at a funeral service for murdered police officers (1931)

Magnus Heimannsberg (born August 15, 1881 in Neviges , † May 10, 1962 in Bad Driburg ) was a German police officer. He became known as the commander of the Berlin Police during the Weimar Republic .

Life

Heimannsberg initially worked as a trainer at the police school in Münster. After positions as first lieutenant in Potsdam, he rose to one of the leading police officers in the service of the Free State of Prussia in the rank of colonel under the protection of the SPD Interior Minister Carl Severing . As a republican climber from a humble background, he embodied the type of the new republican police officer for many inside and outside the Prussian state police, in contrast to the former police chiefs who were predominantly made up of aristocratic circles . Politically, he was a functionary of the Center Party .

From 1927 until his impeachment in 1932, Heimannsberg was commander of the Berlin Police . In this capacity, he was responsible for implementing the de-escalation strategy in the Reich capital introduced by State Secretary Wilhelm Abegg as part of the reorganization of the Prussian police force , which, however, did not always succeed in view of the escalating violence of political groups. In particular, the assessment of the actions of the Berlin police during the unrest in 1929, known as the Blutmai , is still controversial in this context. In the immediate aftermath of the events, Heimannsberg and Police President Karl Zörgiebel were sharply criticized, especially in the camp of the political left for the dead and injured these days. The KPD press attacked the two police leaders as the "executioners hired by the capitalist system".

On July 20, 1932 Heimannsberg was deposed as commander of the police force in the course of the violent removal of the Prussian government by the Reich government in the context of the so-called Prussian strike. In this context he was arrested together with his superiors, the Berlin police chief Albert Grzesinski and his deputy Bernhard Weiß , on the morning of July 20, 1932 and taken to the officers' detention center in Moabit, but released the next day after himself all three had signed a commitment not to undertake any official acts. The commander of the Higher Police School Potsdam-Eiche, Georg Poten, was appointed as Heimannsberg's successor as commander of the police force . On January 25, 1933 Heimannsberg was elected chairman of the Association of Prussian Police Officers. Heimannsberg was arrested in 1933 and again in 1944 during the Nazi regime.

After the Second World War, Heimannsberg was appointed head of the German police in Greater Hesse by the US military government from 1945 to 1948 . The rank of Police General a. D. was awarded to him retrospectively. From 1948 until his retirement he served as police chief of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden .

Honors

  • 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

  • The police as educators of the people! , in: Germania of January 5, 1927.
  • Schutzmannschaft - Sicherheitswehr - Sicherheitspolizei - Schutzpolizei , in: Die Polizei , Vol. XXV, No. 7 (April 10, 1928), pp. 200–201.
  • The importance of the police vocational school for the protection police , in: Die Polizei , Vol. XXVI, No. 14 (July 20, 1929), pp. 343–347.
  • Report by the former Berlin police commander, Magnus Heimannsberg , in: Karl Dietrich Bracher: The Dissolution of the Weimar Republic , 1955, pp. 735–737.

literature

  • Hsi-Huey Liang: The Berlin Police in the Weimar Republic. Berlin 1977
  • Henri Schmidt: Ein Nevigeser in Berlin (Heimannsberg biography), magazine of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , published in the issue of historical contributions No. 23

Web links

Commons : Magnus Heimannsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hsi-Huey Liang: The Berlin Police in the Weimar Republic, p. 176 ff.
  2. ↑ Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-421-05392-8 , p. 720
  3. ↑ Christopher Clark : Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 733.
  4. ↑ Magnus Heimannsberg in the Federal Archives: files of the Reich Chancellery Retrieved on February 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Braun, in WAZ from March 9, 2012: The trail leads from Neviges to Argentina ( Memento from February 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Heimannsberg, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Commander of the Berlin protection police (1927–1932), police chief of Wiesbaden from 1948
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Neviges
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1962
Place of death Bad Driburg