Max Hagemann

Max Hagemann (born June 28, 1883 in Hanover , † January 12, 1968 in Bichl in Upper Bavaria ) was the first President of the Federal Criminal Police Office .

Prussian State Service

Hagemann attended a humanistic high school that he graduated from high school in 1902 . He then studied law and political science in Lausanne , Munich and Göttingen . After his doctorate as Dr. jur. and the assessor exam in 1910 he was assigned to the public prosecutor's office in Verden an der Aller and in 1915 moved to Berlin as a public prosecutor . After several years with the Berlin Justice Department, he moved to the state administration in February 1920, where he became the deputy head of the criminal police . At the same time he was appointed to the government council.

In 1925 he was appointed deputy chief of the police in Essen , connected with his promotion to the senior government council. As early as 1926, he moved back to Berlin, where he headed the newly established Police Institute in Charlottenburg . In March 1927 he became head of the criminal police in Berlin. At the beginning of 1929 Hagemann was seconded to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior , where he was involved in setting up the Prussian state criminal police.

At his own request, Hagemann moved to the Prussian Higher Administrative Court in November 1930. In addition to his work as an administrative lawyer and judge, Hagemann had received a teaching position from the University of Berlin ("Criminology and criminal law auxiliary sciences"). He exercised this until February 1945.

time of the nationalsocialism

As the chief editor of the journal Kriminalistik , Hagemann propagated a "merciless fight to the point of annihilation" against alleged hereditary criminals in the Third Reich. In a review he praised Hans Globke's comment on the Nuremberg race laws .

On September 22nd, 1941, Hagemann, who was not a member of the NSDAP or a subsidiary organization, was put into temporary retirement together with the entire Senate of the Higher Administrative Court . As early as March 1942, he was reappointed to the Reich Ministry of Justice to work as a consultant in the "Reich Commissioner for the Treatment of Enemy Property" . The Reichskommissariat first moved to Bad Schandau and later to Berneck , where Hagemann was taken prisoner after the occupation by British troops. The files of the Reichskommissariat were brought to Stadthagen , Hagemann - together with the other staff - were transferred to a US military camp. The authorities' documents were needed to clarify ownership, which is why it was later named " Central Office for Asset Management " .

After the war

After his release from American captivity, Hagemann returned to work at the Central Office for Asset Management. After the Adenauer government had decided to set up a Federal Criminal Police Office, Hagemann applied for a management position. Since the BKA could not be founded at that time due to the lack of a corresponding law, Hagemann moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in November 1949 , where he was entrusted with the establishment of the BKA as a sub-department head. He paved the way for the law on the Federal Criminal Police Office and federal and state cooperation in criminal matters and the transition of the Criminal Police Office for the British Zone (KPABrZ) to the new BKA.

When the KPABrZ was taken over by the Federal German administration on October 31, 1951, Hagemann became its first director, but remained in the Ministry of the Interior.

Activity at the BKA

Hagemann had already reached the age limit for civil servants in June 1948 and should have retired because he had reached the age of 65. In April 1951, Hagemann moved to the future Federal Criminal Police Office. He remained a civil servant until November 1951, after which he was employed as a clerk until he retired on March 31, 1952. When he passed, he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit in the name of the Federal President by Ministerialdirigent Hans Egidi for his services in setting up the BKA.

Private

He was married, but the marriage remained childless.

Web links

• The presidents of the Federal Criminal Police Office

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• Horst Albrecht: In the service of internal security. The history of the Federal Criminal Police Office . BKA, Wiesbaden 1988, IDN: 891273719.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Bösch , Andreas Wirsching : Final report ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the preliminary study on the subject of the post-war history of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) with regard to possible personal and material continuities at the time of National Socialism , p. 57