Police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main

Police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, in the background the Frankfurt financial district

The police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main is the largest of the seven area headquarters of the Hessian police in terms of number of employees . It is located in the administration building of the police headquarters and is responsible for the city of Frankfurt am Main , the motorways surrounding Frankfurt and Frankfurt Airport, including individual areas in the Groß-Gerau district .

Seat

entrance

Since 2002 the police headquarters has been located in a newly built administration building on the corner of Adickesallee and Eschersheimer Landstrasse . The six-storey building complex was built between 1998 and 2002 on a site on Alleenring that had been used by the US armed forces as a PX shopping center . The building with a total area of 129,000 m² accommodates around 2500 employees, the administration management, the operations center, various special services and the criminal police . There is also a sports hall, a shooting range, police custody , a helicopter landing pad , a crime museum and the guard of a police station.

Management and organizational structure

Gerhard Bereswill has been the police chief since September 21, 2014 . The lawyer Walter Seubert has been the vice-president since February 1, 2015 . The Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarters consists of the Deployment Department, the Administration Department and the Central Services Department. The Deployment department is subordinated to the department staff, four police departments (north, center, south, airport), the criminal investigation department, the SE / SK department, the special services department and the traffic safety department. Around 3,700 people (civil servants and employees) are employed at the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters.

Criminal Investigation Department

The criminal investigation department, with its six criminal inspections, deals centrally with violence , sexuality , property , fire , weapons, explosives, counterfeiting, environmental protection , state protection , as well as drug offenses and offenses in the area of organized crime and computer crime . Outside the regular working hours, there is a permanent detective service (KDD), which is responsible for the initial processing of capital crimes , fires, missing items as well as official offenses and processing of arrest warrants as part of the First Attack .

Directorate SE / SK

The SE / SK directorate is the directorate for special units and special forces in Frankfurt. the SEK , the MEKs and the negotiating forces . These are locally responsible throughout the state of Hesse.

Special Services Directorate

The Special Services Directorate is responsible for the entire area of the Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarters. The management includes the operational unit with the service dog command, the attack command and an operational unit, the central property protection , the AG Social Crime, the Joint Investigation Group on Foreigners Law, the BFE Frankfurt and the central police custody .

Traffic Safety Directorate

The Traffic Safety Directorate is responsible for the entire city area, on the Frankfurt motorway ring ( A 3 , A 5 , A 66 , A 648 , A 661 ) and the federal highways B 40a and B 43 .

The management is divided into a search group, the traffic monitoring service, the central traffic accident service, the traffic education and clearing-up and the police motorway station Frankfurt am Main.

Police headquarters and police stations

Map of the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters

17 police stations are assigned to the four police departments :

District	address	Location	Responsible for
Directorate center
1.	Line 33	Downtown	Downtown
2.	Mercatorstrasse 50	Northrend	Northrend (eastern part)
3.	Adickesallee 70 (in the police headquarters)	Northrend	Northrend (western part), Westend (northern part)
4th	Gutleutstraße 112 (in the administrative center)	Gutleutviertel	Bahnhofsviertel , Gallus (eastern part), Gutleutviertel (eastern part)
13.	Schlossstrasse 88-90	Bockenheim	Bockenheim (southern part), Westend (southern part), Gallus ( Europaviertel )
Airport Directorate
19th	Building 194	Airport	Airport
Directorate north
6th	Turmstrasse 7-9	Bornheim	Bergen-Enkheim (northwestern part), Bornheim, Seckbach
7th	Pfortenstrasse 1	Fechenheim	Fechenheim
11.	Westerbachstrasse 37-43	Rödelheim	Bockenheim ( Industriehof ), Hausen , Praunheim ( Westhausen ), Rödelheim
12.	On the dovetail 3	Eschersheim	Dornbusch , Eckenheim , Eschersheim , Ginnheim , Nordend (northern part), Preungesheim , Westend (Carl-Schurz-Siedlung)
14th	Marie-Curie-Strasse 32	Mertonviertel	Heddernheim , Niederursel , Praunheim (northern part) Berkersheim , Bonames , Frankfurter Berg, Harheim , Kalbach-Riedberg , Nieder-Erlenbach , Nieder-Eschbach
18th	Florianweg 8	Bergen-Enkheim	Bergen-Enkheim, Riederwald
Directorate south
5.	Ferdinand-Happ-Strasse 32	Ostend	Ostend
8th.	Offenbacher Landstrasse 29	Sachsenhausen	Oberrad , Sachsenhausen
10.	Goldsteinstrasse 126	Niederrad	Niederrad, Schwanhein
16.	Frankenallee 365	Gallus	Gallus (western part), Griesheim , Nied (eastern part)
17th	Gebeschusstrasse 10	Maximum	Höchst, Nied (western part), Sindlingen , Sossenheim , Unterliederbach , Zeilsheim

Clearance rate

The clearance rate for 2017 was 64.2%.

Resolution rate and number of cases at the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters since 1983
year	Case numbers	Change to the previous year	in percent	enlightened	AQ in percent
1983	103.773			40.194	38.7
1984	110.114	6,341	6.1	32,321	29.4
1985	116,268	6.154	5.6	35,361	30.4
1986	126.905	10,637	9.1	37,154	29.3
1987	144,476	17,571	13.8	40,898	28.3
1988	130.293	−14.183	−9.8	49,515	38.0
1989	134,472	4.179	3.2	58,418	43.4
1990	131.143	−3,329	−2.5	49,412	37.7
1991	130,517	−626	−0.5	50,669	38.8
1992	140.276	9,759	7.5	53,334	38.0
1993	140.838	562	0.4	60,484	42.9
1994	133,375	−7,463	−5.3	53,434	40.1
1995	130,706	−2,669	−2.0	57,446	44.0
1996	127.425	−3.281	−2.5	59,270	46.5
1997	125,537	−1,888	−1.5	57,701	46.0
1998	123.083	−2,454	−2.0	64.204	52.2
1999	113.040	−10.043	−8.2	55,454	49.1
2000	104.094	−8,946	−7.9	54,885	52.7
2001	97.089	−7.005	−6.7	49.211	50.7
2002	99,864	2,775	2.9	47.127	47.2
2003	111,875	12,011	12.0	54,884	49.1
2004	118.120	6,245	5.6	63,662	53.9
2005	113,657	−4,463	−3.8	65,022	57.2
2006	106,769	−6,888	−6.1	61,077	57.2
2007	107.078	309	0.3	62,609	58.5
2008	105.288	−1,790	−1.7	62,753	59.6
2009	109,100	3.812	0.3	65,979	60.5
2010	107,356	1,744	−1.6	64,406	60.0
2011	109,678	2,322	2.2	66,261	59.5
2012	112,789	3.111	2.8	67,515	59.9
2013	112.049	−740	−0.7	67.506	60.2
2014	118,796	6747	5.7	72,359	60.9
2015	118,766	−30	−0.0	72,412	61.0
2016	114,819	−3,947	−3.3	70.032	61.0
2017	109,458	−5,361	−4.7	70,312	64.2

Social networks

The Frankfurt am Main police headquarters have been using social networks on the Internet since 2014 . In February 2014, the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters started using Twitter as the first police authority in Hessen to use this medium. The Frankfurt police use Twitter to provide up-to-date, timely and up-to-date information on the job. This is particularly the case with large-scale operations such as demonstrations or Eintracht Frankfurt home games . In January 2015, the offer was expanded to a Facebook page . The Frankfurt police have been present on Instagram since January 2016 .

Body cam

On May 30, 2013, the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters started a one-year pilot project for the use of mobile video surveillance ( body cam ) as the first police authority in Germany . In a final report by the Frankfurt a. M. from October 1, 2014 reported on the experience gained.

After the successful pilot project from the point of view of the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU), camera systems are being procured for further police stations in Hesse, also in Offenbach and Wiesbaden.

history

The first seat of the Frankfurt police headquarters was the medieval Clesernhof (right in the picture)

Police headquarters on the corner of Neue Zeil and Klingerstraße, around 1888

Second police headquarters on Hohenzollernplatz, today Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage

The first written records of the police in Frankfurt am Main date from the 14th century. They report on a health police who monitored food hygiene in the markets and the port on the Main. In addition, there was a market police who monitored compliance with weights and measures. Around 1620, at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, 60 police soldiers were employed, who were referred to as piquets because of their armament with pikes and who were stationed in the main guard and the constable guard .

At the beginning of the 19th century, during the time of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , a police force was created based on the French model, which was separated from the general administration. The management of the police was housed in the Palais Thurn und Taxis as the seat of the Grand Duke. During this time around 1812 there were only eight constables and 27 police officers in the city of Frankfurt . In the country, a gendarmerie corps with 117 former soldiers fought the robbery. After the end of the Grand Duchy in 1813, Frankfurt became a Free City and abolished administrative reforms. Only with the Prussian occupation of 1866 did the city regain a modern police system. With the move into the new police headquarters in 1886, the Frankfurt police created the criminal investigation department as a new department . After Frankfurt had over 400,000 inhabitants through incorporation in 1910, the police were considerably strengthened. In 1918 it had a total of almost 600 employees. During the November Revolution, a newly established workers 'and soldiers' council created an auxiliary police of 1,800 men and a marine security service of 120 sailors. With the proclamation of the Weimar Republic , the councils dissolved and the police were reorganized. In 1930 the workforce was around 1,400.

After the seizure of power in 1933, the police chief was replaced by the National Socialists with an SA standard leader. The law to restore the civil service led to a wave of purges against politically unpopular civil servants. As a result of the reorganization of the police in 1936 into an order and security police, a Frankfurt Gestapo office with its own office building was created. In 1941 the police chief Adolf Beckerle , a leading member of the SA, was replaced because the post was to be replaced by a senior SS leader. Towards the end of World War II , the Frankfurt police were deployed to defend against American units that took the city on March 29, 1945.

In the immediate post-war period , the US military government decentralized the police in the American zone of occupation . A municipal police force was established in Frankfurt with a protective and criminal police. It was under strict control by the military government, which initially only equipped the police with rubber truncheons. It was not until October 1945 that each agency received a firearm. In 1946 the police force was around 1,600 police officers and around 170 detectives.

Police chief

1867–1872 Guido von Madai
1872–1888 August von Hergenhahn
1887–1889 Ernst-Matthias von Köller
1889–1904 Wilhelm von Müffling
1904–1911 Fritz Scherenberg
1911–1918 Karl Rieß von Scheurnschloß
1918–1919 Hugo Sinzheimer
1919 Leopold Harris
1919–1925 Fritz Ehrler
1926–1929 Josef Zimmermann
1929–1933 Ludwig Steinberg
1933 Reinhard von Westrem zu Gutacker
1933–1943 Adolf Beckerle
1945 Ferdinand Mührdel
1946–1951 Willy Klapproth
1951–1952 Hanns Jess provisionally (Police Vice President)
1952–1970 Gerhard Littmann
1970–1980 Knut Müller
1980–1994 Karlheinz Gemmer
1994 Klaus Krumb (interim president)
1995–1999 Wolfhard Hoffmann
1999-2005 Harald Weiss-Bollandt
2005-2014 Achim Thiel
since 2014 Gerhard Bereswill

building

From the 1860s, the Clesernhof, a no longer existing part of the building on the Römer , served as the first police headquarters. In 1886 a new police headquarters was built on the former Klapperfeld on the Neue Zeil , the police custody of which was in operation until 2002. Because of the increasing spatial confinement on the Zeil, a newly built police headquarters were moved into in 1914 at Hohenzollernplatz . The building was built in the historicist style in a mixture of neo-baroque and classicism . During the air raids on Frankfurt during World War II, almost half of the building was destroyed in 1944. By the time it was restored in 1954, a large part of the police had been relocated to other locations in the city. Since the police moved into the police headquarters, which was built in 2002, the building, which is protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act, has been mostly empty and is only partially used for commercial purposes. In 2002 the police moved into the new administration building of the police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main am Alleenring .

Spectacular criminal cases

Destruction of the headquarters of the 5th US Corps after the RAF bombing on May 11, 1972

1882 Explosives attack on the police headquarters in Clesernhof with dynamite

1885 Killing of the head of the Frankfurt criminal police by a knife attack by a 20-year-old anarchist

1957 murder of Rosemarie Nitribitt

1968 Frankfurter department store arson

1972 Start of the “ May Offensive ” of the left-wing terrorist RAF with a bomb attack on the headquarters of the 5th US Corps with a dead person

1972 Arrest of RAF members Andreas Baader , Holger Meins and Jan-Carl Raspe

1985 Explosives attack on Rhein-Main Air Base with three dead by the RAF and Action directe

1985 Explosives attack on Rhein-Main airport with three dead by a Palestinian terrorist squad

1981–1987 protests against the West Runway with the killing of two police officers

1982 Explosives attacks by the right-wing terrorist Hepp - Kexel group on vehicles belonging to American military personnel

1990 series of murders by the hammer murderer of six sleeping homeless people using a hammer

1994 Sixfold murder in a noble brothel in Kettenhofweg 124 / 124a in Westend

1996–1999 Blackmail attempt against the Thomy company through food poisoning

2000 Arrest of four Algerian Islamists of the Meliani group for preparing a bomb attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market

2002 kidnapping and murder of Jakob von Metzler

2009–2010 Arson attacks on banks by the Morgenlicht movement

2011 Islamist assassination attempt on American soldiers at Frankfurt Airport, killing two people

literature

Dieter Bartetzko : Police Headquarters Frankfurt am Main / Police Headquarters Frankfurt / Main , (de./en.). Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-88506-553-3 .
Frank B. Metzner, Jörg Lang: Police Frankfurt am Main. 24 hours a day. , Frankfurt / Main, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942921-10-7