Michael Sika

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Michael Sika (born June 2, 1933 in Vienna ) is a former general director for public security in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and was thus the highest-ranking official in the Austrian security administration from 1991 to 1999 .

Career

After graduating from high school, Sika completed a law degree at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna and then did a legal internship for a year and a half. He did not pursue his original plan to become a judge. Instead, he joined the Federal Police Directorate in Vienna in 1959 as a concept officer , where he served in the Mariahilf District Police Department from 1960 to 1979 . On February 1, 1979 he became the youngest city ​​governor in the area of ​​the Margareten district police department , and from January 1, 1987, he held the office of city governor in the Leopoldstadt district.

After the unexpected death of the Director General for Public Security Robert Danzinger , Sika was appointed as his successor by Interior Minister Franz Löschnak and thus became the highest official superior of 32,000 police and gendarmerie officers. During his term of office there were spectacular criminal cases such as the serial murders of Jack Unterweger and the letter bomb attacks by Franz Fuchs, as well as the introduction of the DNA database for crime investigation . On January 1, 2000, he handed over his role to Erik Buxbaum .

From 2000 to 2010 Sika was President of the Safe Austria Board of Trustees (KSÖ).

Awards

Fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.club-carriere - Interview with Michael Sika
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Sika, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police officer, general director for public security
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna