Police Museum Hamburg

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The Hamburg Police Museum in the Hamburg-Winterhude district is located on the restricted-access area of the Hamburg Police Academy . It gives an overview of about 200 years of work by the Hamburg Police and presents methods of forensic technology as well as selected Hamburg criminal cases since the beginning of the 20th century. The police museum is also looked after by the Hamburg police association .

Emergence

Teaching material collection

The teaching material collection from 1893 in the town hall on Neuer Wall was intended for police officers to illustrate various crimes. This collection was largely destroyed by Operation Gomorrah in 1943. In 1950 the teaching material collection was housed in the Eggerstedtstraße Police School in Altona-Altstadt and moved to Winterhude in 1958. The former teaching material collection of the state police school was closed in 2006 due to a necessary building renovation. The exhibits from the collection, which documents more than 100 years of criminal and police history, had to be relocated.

Museum building at Carl-Cohn-Strasse

The building was initially used as a canteen for the Wehrmacht in 1938 . After 1945 Danish and British military units moved into the building; In 1957 it was handed over to the Hamburg police. From 2006 it was used as the canteen of the state police school. The new Hamburg Police Museum was opened on February 28, 2014 in the former farm building on the grounds of the Hamburg Police Academy, Carl-Cohn-Straße 39, with an expanded exhibition area.

Structure of the museum

The information boards are labeled in German and English. Access is possible with ID and is barrier-free. The exhibition area is 1,400 square meters in 21 showrooms.

Ground floor: police history

The history of the police is presented from 1814 to the present. It is taken into account that the work of the police was subject to different political currents, events in history and different values ​​in society. Shown are, for example, forms of traffic control , the murders of Reserve Battalion 101 in court, the surrender of the city to the British occupation forces without a fight, the replica of a police station with a holding cell from the 1960s, the help of the emergency services in the flood disaster in 1962, a picture from Hamburg Kessel as well as the service headgear from the spiked hood to the shako to the white to the blue peaked cap .

After doubts were expressed in the public and parliamentary discussion in 2010, before the development of a conceptual concept for the history of the police began, as to whether the history of the police at the time of National Socialism was adequately presented in the police museum , the then police chief Werner Jantosch had a scientific advisory board convened to examine the conceptual drafts to be drawn up on the history of the police and to make recommendations. All recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Board have been incorporated into the museum concept.

First floor: forensic technology

In addition to a police emergency vehicle in a longitudinal section and a police helicopter in a cross-section, methods of securing evidence using fingerprints , DNA evidence , the reading of EDP data and search methods such as police photos , descriptions of perpetrators and the creation of phantom images on the computer are shown.

Top floor: selected criminal cases

Some criminal cases from the past are shown in the attic: the "St. Pauli killer" Werner Pinzner , the accidental discovery of corpses in a house fire (woman murderer Fritz Honka ), the forged Hitler diaries of Konrad Kujau , the forays of the "Lord von Barmbeck ”( Julius Adolf Petersen ), a hostage-taking and rescue at Steindamm , the attacks of the “ department store blackmailer Dagobert ” , the bullet holes in a life-saving notebook and a corpse in an oil drum.

Non-public teaching material collection in the basement

In the basement of the building to a collection of educational aids for police officers who will not be available to the public, be established. It should be based on an archive corpus of around 5,000 collection items that will be cataloged.

literature

  • Andreas Nusseck: A police museum as a courageous museum? In: Deutscher Museumsbund (Ed.): Museum Studies (Volume 83, 2/18). Holy-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISSN  0027-4178 , pp. 29-30.
  • Tuğrul Richter: Hamburg's new police museum. In: Association for Hamburg History (Hrsg.): Tiedenkieker. Hamburgische Geschichtsblätter, No. 7/2016, pp. 43–48.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!63072/
  2. ↑ Police Museum Hamburg . hamburg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ Police Museum Hamburg . hamburg.de. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Alexander Schuller: amazement, horror, learning. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from February 25, 2014, p. 6.
  5. ↑ This advisory board included Detlef Garbe, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Wolfgang Kopitzsch, police historian and later police chief (2012-2014), Ortwin Pelc, Museum of Hamburg History and Wolfgang Schulte, German Police University.
  6. ↑ Minutes of the constituent meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hamburg Police Museum on December 7, 2010.
  7. ↑ Printed matter of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 19th and 20th electoral period, Drs. 19/7507 of October 7, 2010, Drs. 19/8350 of January 5, 2011, Drs. 20/4441 of June 8, 2012.

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 11.2 "  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 21.9"  E