Police Museum Lower Saxony

Museum seat in Nienburg

The Lower Saxony Police Museum is a police museum in Nienburg / Weser and part of the Lower Saxony Police Academy . With around 700 m ^{2 it} is one of the largest exhibitions on this topic in Germany. The museum shows the development of the police since antiquity and focuses on the development of the Lower Saxony state police after the Second World War . The museum, founded in 2000, was based in Hanover until 2011 .

subjects

Former exhibition hall of the museum in Hanover

Presentation of an anti - nuclear power demonstration in the 1970s, Trabbi on the left

The exhibition consists next picture and text panels from about 1,000 historical exhibits Police as uniforms , equipment, police vehicles, police station, equipment of recognition service . Outstanding are the documents and photos from the police files in the case of the Hanoverian serial killer Fritz Haarmann, as well as his instrument, a cleaver .

The main topics of the presentation are:

Police through the ages
Police vehicles
Criminal police work

There are also traveling exhibitions on police issues.

From police assistant to manager. The historical development of the police profession for women.
Order and destruction. The police in the Nazi state .
Soko S - The hunt for the bomb bomber in Bremen and Eystrup 1951 .

deals

Further offers of the museum are:

Library
Image and text archive
Educational events

history

"Schupo" with a pimple hood on bicycle patrol

Former headquarters on the former Telefunken factory premises in Hanover

The Lower Saxony Police History Collection was compiled from 1987 onwards and in 2001 it was housed on a 1,400 square meter exhibition area in Hanover-Ricklingen in a former production hall on the factory premises of the former radio manufacturer Telefunken and made accessible to the public. It was open two days a week and on request. According to its own information, the museum had around 7,000 visitors a year, and 1,000 guests on Hanover's Long Night of Museums alone. Entry is free. The operator was originally the Educational Institute of the Lower Saxony Police (BIP NI), which was transferred to the Lower Saxony Police Academy in 2007 , both police authorities of the state of Lower Saxony. The exhibition is ideologically and materially supported by the support group of the Police History Collection of Lower Saxony eV , founded in 2001 . The chairman of the association is the state police director a. D. Andreas Schiefer.

In 2010 it was announced that the museum was to be partially closed in 2011 for financial reasons (almost EUR 300,000 annual costs). According to the first plans a core exhibition of scientific research in the Government House should be on Waterloo Square are housed in Hannover, while the larger exhibits in a magazine in the Police Academy of Lower Saxony at the site Hann. Münden (former Lower Saxony State Police School ) should hike. In June 2011 the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sports announced that the museum would be relocated to Nienburg / Weser and linked to the operation of the Lower Saxony Police Academy.

The former Lower Saxony Police History Collection started operations in November 2011 under its current name in the pedestrian zone in the city center of Nienburg. While the exhibition area has been reduced from 1,400 m ² to 700 m ² compared to the previous headquarters in Hanover , the opening times in Nienburg have been extended to five days of the week.

Over the Christmas holidays of 2018, an unknown intruder broke into the museum, but did not steal anything.

Other police museums

There are several similar collections of police history in the Federal Republic of Germany ( see also: List of crime museums ). These collections each have the history of the respective state police as their content. The German Society for Police History was founded in 1989 in what was then the Police Leadership Academy in Münster-Hiltrup (now the German Police University ). The approximately 370 members of the supraregional association deal with the history of the police at home and abroad and also support the police history collections and police museums in Germany.

literature

Klaus Mlynek : Police Department MA a. Modern times up to the 18th century. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 504f.
Robert Heindl: Police and Crime. The crime on the Ratcliff Highway , Hanover: Police History Collection Lower Saxony (PGS), 2003
Writings of the German Society for Police History