Police headquarters in South Hesse

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The police headquarters in South Hesse , based in Darmstadt , is one of seven regional headquarters in the state of Hesse . It is directly subordinate to the State Police Headquarters (LPP) in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sport. The authority was formed as part of an organizational reform in 2001 from the former Darmstadt police headquarters and the police stations of the Bergstrasse, Groß-Gerau and Odenwald districts.

The authority, divided into three departments (administration, central services and operations), has around 1900 employees. The presidential office with the main subject area press and public relations is located directly at the management of the authorities, as well as special functions such as the equal opportunity officer and the migration officer.

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Organization chart of the police headquarters in South Hesse

Administration department

The administration department is responsible for data protection, legal affairs, organization, internal operations, property management and management, budget, cash and accounting of the authority, postal center, personnel administration, personnel matters for civil servants as well as for employees and wage earners and education and training Assigned training to staff.

Central Services Department

The central services are the internal service center of the police headquarters in South Hesse and are subdivided into three main subject areas: information services, information and communication technology and procurement / vehicle management

The main subject area of ​​information services is responsible for the maintenance of all electronically stored data and the associated files. In addition to process management and the collection of criminal files, the constant updating of personal and material search data as well as the input, modification and deletion of case, personal and material description data in the POLAS police information system are among the most important tasks. This is also where unresolved and resolved criminal cases are released for the police crime statistics.

The main subject area information and communication technology is responsible for the administration and functionality of the control center, all guard areas at the police stations as well as for the maintenance and repair of the associated telecommunication devices and connections, also with regard to the radio traffic of the patrol and service vehicles. The regional user service with the tasks of PC service, teletype control, operations control system and digital image information system ensures the operation and functionality of the networked workstations.

The main subject area procurement / vehicle engineering is responsible for the procurement, administration, storage and issuing of all vehicles, weapons, devices, as well as office and consumable materials required for the range of police tasks. Maintenance, care and maintenance of the vehicle fleet are also part of the task area. The training and further education of the staff of the prison service is the responsibility of highly qualified shooting instructors and operational trainers from the decentralized integrated further education.

Deployment department

The Deployment department regulates fundamental issues relating to operations and organization. This is where deployments are prepared, strategies are developed, deployment concepts are developed and the deployment of personnel and equipment is planned as part of daily duty and for special occasions. The head of the Deployment department is supported by a department staff for these tasks. The Deployment Department includes the directorates (Criminal Police Directorate, Special Service / Traffic Directorate, Bergstrasse Police Directorate, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Groß-Gerau, Odenwald).

Criminal Investigation Department

The criminal investigation department is responsible for the entire area of ​​the police headquarters in South Hesse and works with central commissioners. It is based in the building of the South Hesse Police Headquarters in Darmstadt.

ZK 10 - Police State Security Processing of politically motivated crimes as well as weapons and explosives offenses.

ZK 20 - Economic and environmental crime / corruption Processing of competition, corruption and economic offenses according to GVG, centralized fight against environmental offenses.

ZK 30 - Organized Crime Combating organized crime and crime that is suspected of being organized.

ZK 41 - Identification service Support of the commissariats, districts and stations in their daily work, technical supervision of identification measures of the police headquarters, search for and securing of evidence at crime / incident sites and in the laboratory, evaluation of the secured dactyloscopic, forensic and DNA traces, digital image and video processing, identification services of persons, securing comparison material from suspects, participation in autopsy orders ordered by the court, cadaveric dactyloscopy, decentralized training and further education measures

ZK 42 - Central Service Center The ZK 42 offers various internal services for other organizational units of the South Hesse police headquarters. These include a. Analysis and evaluation activities in the field of financial investigations.

ZK 43 - Observation and Search Group Observation and arrest of criminals in particularly dangerous situations, search for people and things

ZK 50 - Internet commissioner The commissioner is divided into the regional data processing group (RDVG) and internet investigations and mainly offers services for other organizations of the police headquarters in South Hesse in the areas of electronic data processing (EDP) and the internet. The RDVG mainly conducts the analysis and evaluation of storage media. The investigators fight Internet crime and are also the service point for the other departments.

ZK 60 - Evaluation / Analysis Center of Operational Evaluation Group - local analysis centers for state security and organized crime: ASTAK, ASTOK, AST-ST, ZAST, situation picture

Bergstrasse Police Department

The Bergstrasse Police Department at the foot of the Heppenheimer Starkenburg is responsible for security and order in the 719 km² Bergstrasse district with around 262,500 inhabitants. Coming from the Hessian Ried , along the mountain road into the Odenwald to the Hessian Neckar Valley, one crosses the unmistakable landscape of the service district. Due to the special location in the three-country triangle, in the middle of the Rhine-Main and Rhine-Neckar economic areas, cooperation with offices outside of Hesse is also very important. The Rhein-Neckar security partnership includes - in addition to the Bergstrasse Police Headquarters - the Ludwigshafen and Mannheim police headquarters and the Mannheim Federal Border Guard. The nuclear power plant in Biblis is located in the service district and is of particular importance to safety . The following police stations are attached to the directorate:

Bensheim police station locally responsible for: Bensheim , Lautertal , Lindenfels , Zwingenberg

Heppenheim police station locally responsible for: Heppenheim , Birkenau , Einhausen , Fürth , Lorsch , Mörlenbach and Rimbach

Police station Lampertheim-Viernheim locally responsible for: Lampertheim , Viernheim , Biblis , Bürstadt , Groß-Rohrheim

Police station Wald-Michelbach locally responsible for: Wald-Michelbach , Abtsteinach , Gorxheimertal , Grasellenbach , Hirschhorn , Neckarsteinach

Police Department Darmstadt-Dieburg

The Darmstadt-Dieburg Police Department is the largest police department in the area of ​​the South Hesse Police Department. 420 employees (employees, police officers) ensure the safety of around 435,000 citizens in the city of Darmstadt and the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . The following police stations and stations are attached to the directorate:

1st police station and 2nd police station responsible for: the city of Darmstadt

3. Police station responsible for: Darmstadt- Arheilgen , Darmstadt- Wixhausen , Erzhausen , Messel , Weiterstadt

Police station Dieburg responsible for: Babenhausen , Dieburg , Eppertshausen , Groß-Umstadt , Groß-Zimmer , Münster (Hesse) , Otzberg , Schaafheim

Police station Griesheim responsible for: Griesheim

Police station Ober-Ramstadt responsible for: Fischbachtal , Groß-Bieberau , Modautal , Mühltal , Ober-Ramstadt , Reinheim , Roßdorf

Pfungstadt police station responsible for: Alsbach-Hähnlein , Bickenbach , Pfungstadt , Seeheim-Jugenheim , Darmstadt-Eberstadt (Eberstadt police station)

Groß-Gerau police department

The Groß-Gerau Police Department is responsible for 257,300 residents in the 453 km² district of the same name. It is based in Rüsselsheim am Main . The management includes the police stations Bischofsheim, Gernsheim, Groß-Gerau, Kelsterbach, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Rüsselsheim and the regional criminal investigation department Groß-Gerau (RKI):

Police station Bischofsheim responsible for Bischofsheim and Ginsheim-Gustavsburg

Police station Gernsheim responsible for: Gernsheim , Biebesheim am Rhein , Stockstadt am Rhein , Klein-Rohrheim , Crumstadt and Philippshospital

Police station Groß-Gerau responsible for Groß-Gerau with the districts Dornheim and Wallerstädten , Büttelborn with the districts Klein-Gerau and Worfelden, Nauheim , Riedstadt with the districts Goddelau, Erfelden and Leeheim , Trebur with the districts Geinsheim, Astheim, Hessenaue and Kornsand . The police station in the district town of the same name with numerous authorities such as the district office, district court and tax office is the second largest station of the Groß-Gerau police department. In the area of ​​responsibility with a predominantly rural structure, there are extensive excursion areas in the Rhine meadows.

Police station Kelsterbach responsible for the city of Kelsterbach

Police station Mörfelden-Walldorf responsible for Mörfelden and Walldorf

Police station Rüsselsheim responsible for: Rüsselsheim with the districts Königstädten and Bauschheim, Raunheim . The Adam Opel AG ( GM ) production site and numerous small and medium-sized businesses are in the area of ​​responsibility of the largest police station in the district .

Odenwald Police Department

The Odenwald Police Department is responsible for 96,200 inhabitants in the approx. 624 km² Odenwald district . It is based in Erbach . The management includes the police stations in Erbach and Höchst and the Regional Criminal Inspectorate (RKI).

Police station Erbach responsible for: Erbach , Michelstadt and Bad König , Mossautal , Brombachtal , Reichelsheim , Fränkisch-Crumbach and Oberzent

Police station Höchst responsible for: Höchst im Odenwald , Breuberg , Lützelbach and Brensbach .

Regional Criminal Inspection (RKI)

With the organizational adjustment FOKB (further development of the fight against crime), the regional criminal inspection was separated from the criminal investigation department and integrated into the structure of the Darmstadt-Dieburg police department. This achieved that RKI commissariats for the classic fields of work of the criminal police are involved in all four regional directorates.

K 10 - Violent crimes, missing persons, robbery and investigation of the causes of fire, sex crimes / child pornography The employees are on call around the clock. Investigations into all types of homicides and processing of all missing persons cases; Robbery and arson offenses, criminal offenses with a sexual background and proceedings relating to child pornography.

K 21/22 - Gang-like property crime, motor vehicle theft, home burglary Central property crime , serial and gang offenses, motor vehicle property offenses , theft of high-quality motor vehicles, international vehicle movement, theft from cars.

K 23 - Property and forgery offenses Processing of property and forgery offenses with a focus on counterfeit money, economic and ICT crime (information and communication technology). Insolvency or bankruptcy offenses as well as violations of trademark and copyright law.

K 24 - Social crime Social crime, crimes to the detriment of the elderly, trickery and pickpocketing.

K 34 - Drug crime Fighting drug crime (acquisition, possession, trade, smuggling) with the support of other organizational units.

K 35 - Regional Cross- Section Commissariat Joint Working Group on Foreign Intensive Offenders, Multiple Offenders and Intensive Offenders (MIT), Particularly Conspicuous Offenders Under 21 Years (BASU21)

Traffic Safety / Special Services Directorate (DVS)

The Traffic Safety / Special Services Directorate is responsible for the entire administrative area and primarily takes care of all types of traffic monitoring measures. The management is responsible for the Darmstadt police autobahn station, the traffic service with its offices in Darmstadt and the branch in Erbach, the security guard and the service dog system.

History of the Darmstadt police

First sources, the years 1500 to 1800

  • Little is known about the facilities of the police in Darmstadt from earlier times, but the history of the gendarmerie is presented in detail in the book "Großherzoglich Hessisches Gendarmeriekorps" (1763–1905) . The word police can be found in Hessen for the first time in 1524. As everywhere in Germany, the concept of good order and police also included practically the entire administration in the Landgraviate of Hesse and thus also in Darmstadt . For the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , the word appears for the first time in the court order of George I (1547–1596). The police guard duty in the residential city of Darmstadt was then provided by the citizens. Because the guard and gate hat brought considerable burdens, the citizens asked in 1591 that soldiers should be acquired for this and that their maintenance should be transferred to the community . The Jews living in the city were exempt from guard duty, but in the 17th century they had to deliver the oil for the guards .
  • In 1634 Landgrave Georg II (1605–1661) issued an ordinance on health care and cleanliness in the city. Theft and begging were very common back then. To combat the beggar nuisance in Darmstadt, there were so-called beggar bailiffs, who were repeatedly urged to crack down on cracks. In 1660 they received a kind of uniform consisting of a skirt made of blue-gray cloth with a white lily. In the interests of the rest of the night and the safety of the residents of the residence, George II issued several ordinances. The city ​​sergeant was instructed to use at least eight well-fortified men with half pikes or similar rifles to enter streets and squares and inns and to arrest offenders against peace and security, or even those who were suspicious. Resistance could also be broken in extreme emergencies with turned guns and dry strokes . The night watchmen were told exactly where to blow and sing. The fire police were also handled very strictly.
  • In order to better combat the increasingly prevalent field thefts, under Landgrave Ernst-Ludwig (1667–1739) the district of the residence was divided into six districts in 1699, each of which was committed alternately by two field riflemen. The immigration police were particularly precise, as the service instructions for the gatekeepers around the middle of the 18th century show. Strangers, with the exception of notable persons, were always referred to the "New Gate" (today Luisenplatz), where they were recorded centrally. In addition to class and trade, everyone had to state the reason for their visit and where they were staying.

The edicts of organization of 1803

  • While the Darmstadt city regulations of 1721 do not yet mention the word police, detailed information can be found at the beginning of the 19th century in the First and Second Organizational Edicts of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt of October 12, 1803 by Landgrave Ludwig X. (since 1806 Grand Duke Ludwig I) Provisions of what counts as the police entrusted to the Minister of the Interior and the government colleges.
  • At that time the police were almost the entire internal administration of the state. The physical force of the police was limited only by the so-called vested rights. The local police in Darmstadt was in the hands of a police deputation in 1820, which consisted of seven honorary members who were civil servants in their main occupation. The police inspectorate and secretariat was subordinate to her. It consisted of a police council, a police inspector and an archive council, along with eighteen police officers. The police authority was directly subordinate to the Grand Duke. The police also included several field riflemen and night watchmen as well as the town church tower man as fire alarms and the fountain masters appointed to protect the drinking water supply. The department of the Landdragoner and Landschützen Corps (1811-1822) stationed in Darmstadt around 1820 was intended for police service outside the city. The two corps were renamed the Gendarmerie in 1822.

The new police law and establishment of the police headquarters

  • The EGPolStrG of November 2, 1847 led to the separation of judiciary and administration for the entire Grand Duchy of Hesse and largely summarized the substantive police law. The law on internal administration and representation of counties and provinces , which was passed on June 12, 1874, brought about a profound change in the material and formal police law . With regard to the organization, it was determined within significantly narrower action limits that the city mayor or the state official, who is responsible for the exercise of the city police, is subordinate to the district office in the exercise of the local police. By ordinance of August 22, 1874, the Grand Ducal Police Office in Darmstadt was created as an independent authority. Instead of the district office, he was assigned the management of the local police in Darmstadt. This is the beginning of the history of the Darmstadt police headquarters. The office moved into the building Hügelstrasse 31/33, in which in 1882 in the II. And III. The Grand Ducal District Court Darmstadt I was housed on the 1st floor. The lost property office was also located there, which was administered by a constable. This building has been used by the police since 1840. There was another service building later at Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse (Steinstrasse) 21/23, which also housed the registration office, passport office, military service and the command of the police in 1940.
  • As early as December 31, 1875, a change in the police organization came into force. In the course of the modernization and improvement of the prison police, a protection team was formed from the previous prison police in Darmstadt , which initially consisted of four police officers and forty-two policemen, three of whom were responsible for investigating and dealing with criminal cases. The city was divided into four districts, each of which had a district of around 10,000 inhabitants. The officials were urban. Only the field service manager, who was subordinate to the administrative board, was a state official. The weekly service time was 77 hours. Around 21 hours of this was spent on night duty. The work of the police officers was very extensive in addition to the general post and patrol service. In 1879, for example, there were: 500 arrests, 1500 police reports, 200 reports, 4000 registration certificates, 1089 loads, 21 662 tax slip withdrawals, 590 vaccinations and 4925 other orders.
  • In 1888, after the incorporation of Bessungen , there were five districts. In 1892, with around 60,000 inhabitants, the prison police had 98 officers. After the field police had already been transferred to the mayor in 1878 to relieve the enforcement officers, who were very busy due to the extensive service, the mayor was transferred to the mayor in 1898 to further relieve the local police and, for technical reasons, also with the construction police, the fire police in structural aspects as well as the housing police. How heavily the police office was burdened can be seen from the annual report from 1897: The 98 enforcement officers had to deliver 79,023 summons, letters, tax slips, statements, etc. 1270 criminal cases were processed. 1115 people were sent to the police prison. Furthermore, the office was responsible for extensive tasks relating to registration and servants, missing persons, demonstration of school children, school penalties, travel authorization, certificates of good repute, records of criminal records, concerts, dancing amusements, public presentations, forced upbringing, cruelty to animals, cohabitation, prostitution, evening hours, traveling trade licenses, work books, company audits Market traffic, chimney sweeps, cabs, restaurants, street police, aliens police, fire extinguishing and fire police, building police, medical police and slaughter.
  • The telephone had become an essential and indispensable tool in the police force . In 1897 there was a headquarters in the official building on Hügelstrasse with a connection to the facilities of the Reich Telegraph Administration. Because of the strong population growth, a 6th police station had to be set up as early as 1901. The prison police now consisted of 121 district police officers and six registration clerks.
  • The year 1921 saw the nationalization of the police in Darmstadt as a particularly important event, as a result of which the policemen, who had since been part of the city officials, became state officials.
  • In 1926 the city of Darmstadt had a population of 217 police officers who were spread over 7 districts.

The first permanent crime department

  • The establishment of an independent crime department at the Darmstadt Police Office in accordance with the decree of June 29, 1907 brought about a significant improvement in the enforcement police service. The Kraemer Police Council was appointed to the department head under the supervision of the chief officer. In addition to him, the department consisted of two constables and five policemen, one of whom was responsible for the moral police.
  • Due to the enactment of the law relating to the town order of June 8, 1911, there was practically no change compared to the legal status of 1874. (The police procedural law laid down here applied to the former Hessian-Darmstadt part of the country essentially until the Hessian Police Act of November 10, 1954, the organizational law largely even until the Hessian law on public safety and order came into force on January 1, 1965).
  • In October 1911 a 7th police station was established. A total of 138 employees were now employed in the prison service. During the First World War , the strength of the office changed frequently. The tasks increased more and more. Increased use was made of the establishment of an auxiliary protection team. In 1917 the board received the title of Police Director. However, nothing changed in the organization until the military collapse of the German Reich in 1918.

Former locations of the police stations and other offices

  • 1. District: 1874–1887 Old Town Hall at Marktplatz 8, 1887–1889 Kirchstrasse 22 (in 1880 the Grand Ducal Local Court of Darmstadt was also located in this building), 1890–1933 Kirchstrasse 9 (today Hotel Bockshaut ), 1934–2010 Residenzschloss Darmstadt , since 2010 Bismarckstrasse 16.
  • 2. Revier: 1874–1880 Hügelstrasse 31/33 (police office), 1880–1935 Alexanderstrasse 26 (Jägertor), 1935–1972 relocated to Heinrichstrasse 127, as the property at Alexanderstrasse 26 was occupied by the NSDAP district Darmstadt-Schloßgarten. The department was later renamed the 3rd Police Station; then again in the 2nd police station and has been housed in the police headquarters at Klappacher Strasse 145 since 1992.
  • 3. Revier: 1880 Bleichstrasse 1 (in the prison building), 1888 Grafenstrasse 9 (1882 there was the pawn shop and the hospital administration), 1900 Lagerhausstrasse 23 (today: Julius-Reiber-Strasse ), 1915–1927 Lagerhausstrasse 5, 1933–1944 Landgraf- Philipps-Anlage 9 (with police post forest colony: Rabenaustraße 31), 1944 Viktoriastraße 31 (Goethe School). The department was renamed the 2nd police station in 1972.
  • 4. District: 1880–1900 Wilhelminenstrasse 35, 1900–1905 Kirchstrasse 22, 1905–1934 Waldstrasse 21 (Adelungstrasse), 1934–1949 Robert-Schneider-Strasse 66 (formerly Schwanenstrasse).
  • 5. Revier: 1880–1933 (Bessunger Ludwigstrasse 4, formerly Bessunger Rathaus) today: Ludwigshöhstrasse, 1933 Heidelberger Strasse 47, 1941–1949 Noackstrasse 9 (with police station Heimstättensiedlung, Am Kaiserschlag 44). In 1944, the armory and clothing store was located at Noackstrasse 5.
  • 6. Revier: 1901–1924 Nieder-Ramstädter Strasse 51, 1927 Heinrichstrasse 127, 1944 Dst.-Arheilgen, Messeler Strasse 16, 1949 Dst.-Arheilgen, Dieburger Strasse 16. Renamed the 3rd Revier and until 2015 at Messeler Strasse 20 . Since 2015 at Röntgenstrasse 20.
  • 7th district: 1911–1934 Schwanenstraße 66 (today: Robert-Schneider-Straße), (changed to 4th district in 1934).
  • 7th district: 1944 Eberstadt - Oberstrasse 11.
  • 7th district: 1949 Eberstadt - Oberstraße 9.
  • Station guard: 1892–1912 Steubenplatz ( Main-Neckar-Bahnhof and Ludwigsbahnhof ).
  • Railway police station: At the main train station 20. The head was the head of the 3rd district (1915–1927) in Lagerhausstrasse 5.
  • Gendarmerie Corps: 1763–1905, Schloßgartenstrasse 61 (1900).
  • State Gendarmerie Directorate: Schloßgartenplatz 14 (1924).
  • Police post in the northern district: 1903–1911, Frankfurter Strasse 69 (Schlachthof), the police post belonging to the 2nd district was closed in 1911 due to the establishment of the 7th police station in Robert-Schneider-Strasse.
  • Police post forest colony: Rabenaustraße 31 (part of the 3rd district, 1933–1944 Landgraf-Philipps-Anlage 9).
  • Heimstättensiedlung police station: Am Kaiserschlag 44 (in 1941 part of the 5th police station at Noackstrasse 9).
  • Hessian State Police School Darmstadt: Holzhofallee 36 (1924/1927).
  • Police air station: 1927–1934 airfield Nieder-Ramstädter Straße 110–120 (light meadow).
  • Police station: Bessunger Straße 125 (1924–1933).
  • Riot police: Holzhofallee 25 (1933).
  • State Criminal Police Office: Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse (Steinstrasse) 21/23 (1933).
  • Administration of the protection police: Altes Palais, Luisenplatz 5 (1924).
  • After 1972, a branch of the 1st district was set up in Heinrichstrasse 127 (formerly the 2nd district), which later housed the central radar command and the photo laboratory.

The time of National Socialism 1933–1945

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Situation after the air raid on September 11, 1944

The property at Nieder-Ramstädter Strasse 177 belonged to the Alice Hospital , was dissolved in 1933/34 and rented to the NSD student union as their "parent company". At the end of 1939 the police reserve, including the cavalry squadron, was housed there. After the destruction of the old police headquarters at Hügelstrasse 31/33, the office was relocated to Nieder-Ramstädter Strasse 177 (1944–1992). Only the basement of the old police headquarters could still be used by the air raid protection line. The news relay was from September 12, 1944 to March 25, 1945 in the Traisaer Straße, in a barrack that was set up in a local quarry. The truck squadron was stationed from September 12, 1944 to November 19, 1945 at Nieder-Ramstädter Strasse 177 and then at Soderstrasse 29. The second district, in the completely destroyed building at Heinrichstrasse 127, moved into the basement and from December 1944–1949 a barracks set up on the corner of Heinrichstrasse / Nieder-Ramstädter Strasse there. The 3rd police station was initially set up in a gatehouse at Julius-Reiber-Strasse 15 (previously Lagerhausstrasse), from there to the Diesterweg School at Julius-Reiber-Strasse 9 and then to the Goethe School at Viktoriastrasse 31 for a few days. On the orders of the then Police President Buechl, all police headquarters had to leave Darmstadt on March 22, 1945 after the files had been destroyed and head south. On March 25, 1945, the police chief inspector Krauth, who had 30-40 police officers available, was commissioned by an officer of the US Army to carry out police duties. The official business was handed over in the rooms of the 1st police station in the residential palace . On April 7, 1945, Mr. Georg Reibold was appointed by the US military government as police chief.

The post-war history of the Darmstadt police, from 1945 to 1974

  • In 1945, while the Second World War continued, the American military authorities tried to rebuild a functioning administration and police force immediately. Police officers who were still prisoners of war resumed police service in the areas occupied by American troops before Germany's surrender. The new law enforcement officers performed their duties in civilian clothes with a white armband and no firearms. Inadequately equipped in this way, the police faced an almost impossible task. Former forced deportees enjoyed their newfound freedom, sometimes in cruel ways. There were numerous looting, assaults and murder and manslaughter. The American military had to put a stop to this chaos and imposed night curfews. After Germany's final defeat on May 8, 1945, the US military government created the first conditions for the establishment of a functioning administration. The occupying power set up the first state government in Darmstadt. With the new territorial division, however, the provinces of the old people's state of Hesse, founded in 1918 (Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen) were not taken over in full.
  • To prevent a renewed concentration of power in the state apparatus, as was the case during the Nazi era, the military government ordered the police authority to be decentralized according to the American model in its zone of occupation with the areas of Bavaria, northern Baden, North Württemberg and Hesse. At the same time, the police were released from tasks that did not directly serve to maintain public safety and order. The police measures were limited exclusively to the prison service. All administrative tasks fell under the responsibility of a general administration. From the area of ​​the administrative police, the law enforcement police only had traffic monitoring tasks as well as foreigners and registration systems. The municipalities with over 5000 inhabitants were ordered to set up their own municipal police. All other communities, however, were free to get their own police force. If this did not happen, the tasks were carried out by the state police, which were temporarily called the Greater Hessian Police .
  • After the decentralization, which had been carried out down to the lowest municipal level, the Hessian state police were set up according to a fixed scheme: A gendarmerie was formed in the Darmstadt administrative district. The authorities remaining under state responsibility were subordinate to Department III at the Hessian Ministry of the Interior. The establishment of the new state gendarmerie was largely completed on October 16, 1945 after the formation of the new Greater Hessian state government . At the same time, a gendarmerie department was set up in the Ministry of the Interior, to which the Darmstadt gendarmerie district leadership was subordinated. At the same time, the gendarmerie officers received their first uniforms; in Darmstadt the police wore gray-brown. The armament consisted of rubber truncheons and American carbines.
  • It took until September 1, 1948 for the gendarmerie to be fully integrated into the general administration. In the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, the Public Security Department was set up , which exercised service and technical supervision over the entire state police in Hesse. With this organizational change, the state criminal police, which until then belonged to the state gendarmerie, became an independent department in Darmstadt with the state criminal investigation department .

Nationalization of the local police force in 1974

Organization of the Darmstadt Police Headquarters from 1974 to 1995
  • The organization of the police force in many decentralized police agencies along the American lines had not worked as intended and was therefore changed over the years. The big goal was the nationalization of the entire Hessian police. This took place in several stages from 1958. Initially, the police departments of independent municipalities with up to 5,000 inhabitants became the responsibility of the state. In 1962, municipalities followed with up to 10,000 and in 1965 up to 20,000 inhabitants. In 1967, with a view to nationalization, uniform green uniforms were introduced across the country (also for the still local police authorities). Between 1967 and 1971 all police stations in communities with over 20,000 inhabitants were transferred to the state of Hesse. They were followed in 1972 by cities with over 100,000 inhabitants. The final step was the incorporation of the city of Darmstadt on January 1, 1974.
  • The files of the police headquarters remaining after the air raid in 1944 until the nationalization of the municipal police headquarters are preserved in the Darmstadt City Archives. From 1974 the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt is responsible for the administrative records of the police headquarters in South Hesse. The records of the tasks remaining with the Citizens' Office and Public Order Office, Department of Local Police are also in the city archive.
  • The completed nationalization now offered the possibility of creating a new police organization that took account of the geographic crime scene. Initially, a uniform line for the protection and criminal police was introduced on the lower level. While this form of organization already existed in the nationalized cities, the district administrators of the Erbach , Groß-Gerau and Heppenheim districts now also took on the role of command posts for the protection and criminal police. The authorities of the three regional presidents retained their function as coordinating and supervisory bodies.
  • In 1979 the Hessian police received the uniform national uniform in the colors green and beige, which, however, was initially not provided with a rank badge in Hesse. These were only reintroduced in 2002.

The reorganization in 1995

  • In the first decade after nationalization, there was a dramatic increase in mass crime. It became necessary to counteract the development in the areas of narcotic and violent terrorist crime, as well as the new fields of activity, such as environmental and organized crime, without increasing the number of personnel in the criminal police. In 1987 the Hessian Minister of the Interior set up a working group made up of experienced police practitioners to improve the security situation. The concept presented in 1988 contained as a central point the abolition of the rigid division between the police and criminal police in order to achieve integrative cooperation in management and staff functions as well as in processing.
  • The so-called reorganization in December 1995 brought about significant changes in police processing within the then Darmstadt Police Headquarters . The criminal police processing was relocated to the area through decentralization in order to shorten the journeys of the citizens to the police or the police to the scene of action and to implement a holistic processing in the offenses of mass crime close to the offense and notification. No more differentiation between investigative responsibility of the police and criminal police, but only between central and decentralized or regional processing. Assuming that the bulk of the crimes were committed by local perpetrators, the theft commissariate and the permanent detective service (EFKO = investigation and search commissioner) were disbanded, the officers were assigned to the already spatially restricted police stations and stations in decentralized investigation groups . The international development after reunification and the Eastern European affiliations due to the immigration of supra-regional perpetrators was underestimated.

The police reform in 2001

  • With the introduction of the police reform in 2001, the last major changes were made to the structure of the authorities. In the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, Department III became the State Police Headquarters . Including seven area presidia; the police headquarters in South Hesse was formed from the police headquarters in Darmstadt and the police headquarters in Bergstrasse, Groß-Gerau and Odenwald. The district administrators lost their responsibility for the police enforcement area. The operational management at the regional presidents (intermediate level) was omitted without replacement. Their employees were assigned to the police stations. After Schengen 1995 and the subsequent enlargements of the EU, the necessary adjustments were made in the organization of process processing - especially in the so-called decentralized processing - towards regionalization and the strengthening of operational units .

Authority manager

Head of the police department in Darmstadt from 1874 until today:

Authority manager title Term of office
Wilhelm Haas Police Council 1874-1886
Konrad von Grolman Government Council 1886-1889
Adolf Morneweg Police Council 1889-1892
Friedrich Fey Police Council 1892-1897
August Weber Government Council 1897-1900
Hermann Kratz Police Council 1900-1908
Eugen Kranzbühler Government Council 1908-1911
Heinrich Gennes Government Council 1911-1915
Nikolaus Reinhart Government Council 1916
Nikolaus Reinhart Police Director 1917-1920
Wilhelm Wehner Police Director 1920-1922
Hermann Usinger Police Director 1922-1932
Gustav Dittmar Police Director 1932-1933
Otto Ivers Police Director March to September 1933
Daniel Hauer Police Director Sept. 1933 to Feb. 1934
Ernst Pope Chief Government Director 1934
Karl Geppert Police Director 1935-1939
Karl Geppert Chief of Police 1940-1944
Wilhelm Portmann come over. Chief of Police 1944
Felix Buechl come over. Chief of Police Dec. 1944 to March 1945
Georg Reibold Chief of Police 1945-1959
Hans Kiskalt Chief of Police 1959-1963
Peter C. Bernet Chief of Police 1963-1994
Rudolf Kilb Chief of Police 1994-2003
Gosbert Dolger Chief of Police 2003-2016
Bernhard Lammel Chief of Police since 2016

Building of the police headquarters in Darmstadt and South Hesse

Development until 1945

As early as the 1840s, the police office, later the police headquarters, then the Darmstadt police headquarters was housed in the Darmstadt service building , Hügelstrasse 31/33, until 1876 together with the district administration. Starting in 1929, individual departments were relocated to the buildings on the Wilhelm-Glässing-Straße 21/23 property; after the fire on September 11, 1944 , the accommodation was relocated to Nieder-Ramstädter Straße 177.

In addition to these municipal facilities, Darmstadt housed:

  • the Ministry of the Interior, State Commissariat for Police (Department II), Luisenplatz 2 in the college building, moved to Neckarstrasse 17 in 1939,
  • the criminal investigation center, later the state criminal police office at Steinstrasse 21, renamed in 1929 to Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse 21, from 1933 in the police department in Hügelstrasse 31/33, from September 1944 in the Rundeturmschule, Rundeturmstrasse 11,
  • Command of the Schutzpolizei (State Police) Luisenplatz 5 (Altes Palais), after the fire on September 11, 1944 the accommodation was moved to Nieder-Ramstädter Straße 177,
  • Head of the field service and the riot police at the Darmstadt Police Office, Hügelstrasse 31/33, for the command of the protective police from 1938 Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse 23,
  • State gendarmerie until 1924 in the Gendarmeriekaserne Schloßgartenplatz, after 1936 Rheinstraße 10, from 1939 at the headquarters of Police Department II, Neckarstraße 17.
  • State Police Office Wilhelm-Glässing-Straße 21, from April 1940 in the new Palais Wilhelminenplatz 1, from September 1944 in Bensheim with a provisional branch in Darmstadt, Dieburger Straße 80.

The years after 1945

The former police headquarters in Hügelstrasse and Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse were completely destroyed by the heavy air raids on Darmstadt. After the end of the war they looked for a new "place to stay" and found it in the building complex of the former insane asylum at Böllenfalltor in Nieder-Ramstädter Straße 177. The buildings had been erected from 1869 onwards and some of them had also suffered from the effects of the war. The repairs to these buildings actually lasted in various forms until the police moved out in late autumn 1992 and cost the city of Darmstadt millions by the end of 1973. After the nationalization of the police in 1974, the state of Hesse also invested millions more in these ailing buildings .

The chief of police, the staff of the protection police department, the presidential department, the criminal department, the emergency call command, the rider and dog squadron, the technical department and the repairs for motor vehicles and radio / telecommunications equipment "resided" in the historical walls and in temporary barracks since 1946 . The registration office, immigration office, passport office, ID card office, driver's license office and lost property office were also located there. Other organizational units of the police force were "scattered" in various properties in the city of Darmstadt and structurally just as badly housed. The 1st police station in the Residenzschloss was a "shining relic" of this kind of accommodation for the Darmstadt police after the Second World War until 2010!

New building planning

In the 1960s, the city of Darmstadt had some planning approaches for a possible new building of a police headquarters, but they were never seriously pursued because of the immense costs that were emerging for the financially weak municipality. At the beginning of the 1970s, the city of Darmstadt lost interest in this planning project, as the nationalization of the police in the state of Hesse had already been announced. During this time, the professional representatives of the police, after their consolidation within the police, increasingly spoke up and demanded continuously better accommodation and increased staff.

In 1974, the new employer of the Darmstadt police, the state of Hesse, took up the new building project for the police headquarters in Darmstadt and, with the preliminary planning, zoning and development plans begun in cooperation with the city of Darmstadt were examined and finally, after lengthy negotiations for a new building in Klappacher Feld, legally changed in 1979 and approved. In 1978 the space requirements plan for the new police headquarters was drawn up, which became the basis of the 1981 functional paper in order to be able to carry out an architectural competition. In 1983 more than 40 architects took part in this competition. The requirement was the protection of the landscape and the required economic efficiency, embedded in the existing environment and neighboring buildings. The jury decided in favor of the design by the architects Rohrbach and Schmees from Gießen, who were later also given responsibility for building construction. This construction project was the first new construction of a police headquarters in Hessen since 1914!

Construction phase and move to the Darmstadt property, Klappacher Straße 145

The first phase of construction began in October 1986, when the buildings for the rider and dog squadron were tackled. The foundation stone for the main building was laid on November 10, 1988 by the then Hessian Minister of the Interior, Gottfried Milde . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 4, 1989. Then, however, the construction progress slowed down. The popular opening dates have been postponed for years! On August 17, 1992, the employees of the presidential department, the police administration office, the criminal police advice center and the chairman of the staff council and his representative surprisingly moved from the previously rented rooms at Julius-Reiber-Straße 17.

This move acted on the half-finished construction site among the construction companies operating there as a signal of hectic activity. The lease terminations that have since taken place, other properties previously used by the police, inevitably terminated further partial relocation dates for the new building. By December 15, 1992, most of the organizational units had moved into the new building. The last outsiders from Heinrichstrasse 127 finally found accommodation in the new building in mid-February 1993. On March 1, 1993, the new police headquarters in Darmstadt, Klappacher Strasse 145, were officially opened by the Hessian Minister of the Interior and for European Affairs, Herbert Günther .

Building description

The space requirement is around 40,000 square meters, of which 7,650 square meters were built on and comprise 14,000 square meters of usable space. On the parking pallet there is space for 50 vehicles for visitors in front of the main entrance. There are 100 company vehicles and 200 vehicles for employees in the underground car park. 25 more parking spaces are provided above ground for special evictions (disabled spaces, business services, etc.). The total cost framework for the new building was around 98 million marks. The police headquarters contains the central radio and telecommunications workshops for the entire southern Hessian region. Car workshop. Indoor shooting ranges and police custody.

Klappach oak

On the south side of the property at Klappacher Straße 145, there is the approx. 400 year old, approx. 30 m high, Klappach oak ( Quercus robur ), which is probably the oldest oak in the Darmstadt urban area is to be regarded as unique. The tree has trunk circumference at a height of 4.10 m and a crown diameter of 29 m. On the northern side of the oak at the base of the trunk there is a large granite block with a diameter of 2.3 m. The oak ensemble with granite rocks has been listed as a natural monument since 1938 because of the beauty and age of the plant, as well as its geological significance as a weathering residue from the Ice Age.

architectural art

To promote the fine arts and handicrafts, an amount for artistic and handicraft work was generally provided for all state building contracts in the 1980s, insofar as their peculiarity justified this, which as a rule was 3% of the building contract sum. This regulation came from a distant, long-gone time in which the state saw it as a public task to promote art and artists, to create a field of activity for them and at the same time to counteract the desolation and objectification of public space through buildings that were only built according to cost considerations. The art advisory board of the state of Hesse was dealt with the task at hand. Under the chairmanship of Ministerialdirigent Dipl.-Ing. (THD) Günther Rotermund, the decision was made for a supra-regional, restricted tender.

  • The sculpture by the Frankfurt group Formathaut around the sculptor Ottmar Hörl (* 1950 in Bad Nauheim ) with its seven colored, inclined umbrellas was selected as an art contribution in the area of ​​the main entrance . The pictorial means of coloring, especially the colors blue and green, establishes the relationship to the local, very sensitive landscape (air - water - forest - plants). The red and yellow accents bring life and a bright serenity. The number seven refers to mythology, and the inclination of the wands suggests that life is not just in carefree, straight tracks. During the presentation of this plastic group to the public on September 9, 1992, Ottmar Hörl declared: “We all need an umbrella from time to time for our protection. An umbrella has the advantage that you can close it after use; the bulky thing can be put back in the corner. There is probably no object that is forgotten and left lying around more often. We have a certain love-hate relationship with the umbrella: if we take it with us, it won't rain, and if it rains we won't have it with us. But even if it goes well with him for a while, at some point the thing disappears. For us privately, this has no more consequences than getting wet or losing some money. But in the case of the police, it would have fatal consequences for citizens if the protective function were to jam or somehow be lost. The umbrellas in front of the police headquarters are of course only symbolic, but in their symbolism they show certain improvements to our little private umbrella problems. They are too big to be forgotten, too many to be overlooked and they are constantly tense. Admittedly, they are a bit crooked and have strong colors, but a certain joie de vivre and a little humor has never harmed anyone. "
  • The design of the sculpture was left to Christfried Präger , whose representational Lichtenberg figure with its additional abstract elements also and especially for the police has important references: We have always done this or we have never done it through lateral thinking and the advance into new worlds of thought without fear of the vastness of the horizon. The installation of this sculpture on the occasion of the philosopher's 250th year of birth shows that the Darmstadt police are not closed to complicated modern works of art. At the presentation of his work, also on September 9, 1992, Christfried Präger stated: “The starting point for the two-part work 'Horizonte' is the point in the new building where the architectural axis changes direction. A flat metal strip, reminiscent of the horizon contours of landscape formations, cuts through the inner courtyard at the kink of the glass connecting corridor. It also spans the water surface. Opposite the kink, placed in front of the wall, is the second part of the sculpture, the approx. 10 m high vertical arch made of metal, at the foot of which sits a small human figure on a natural stone block. The metal band takes up the shapes of the horizon that are presented to the viewer when he looks from the casino over the Rhine plain over the hills of Rheinhessen. An element of the surrounding landscape is released from it and brought into the shielded area of ​​the inner courtyard. The figure of the philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), who was born in Ober-Ramstadt and stayed here for several years as a student of the Darmstadt teacher , is located at the point where the directional axes of ribbon and bow meet . Lichtenberg is shown as a ponder. In his train of thought, he kept breaking new horizons. His critical mind was not afraid of new ideas. For him, the horizon, which can be described as the meeting of earth and sky, was not a limit, but a new beginning. "
  • The foyer is decorated with three paintings by Gerd Winter from Roßdorf (* 1951 in Groß-Gerau ). The beautiful colors liven up the large white wall surfaces and create a contrasting color to the green inner courtyard, which is connected to the foyer by large glass surfaces. There is a diptych on the north side . Both images relate to each other. The balanced colors run in blue-orange chords. Scriptural abbreviations send a secret message to the viewer. They associate the term communication, without which the police cannot do either. On the south side opposite is Winter's large-format “frame picture” from 1992. The frame, painted using the spatula technique, with its many layers of paint on top of one another, draws the cheerful play of color strands of formal skin from the outside into the interior of the building. Another painting by Gerd Winter is in the light corner at the 2nd police station on the first floor north side ( the blue frame ).
  • The foyer also contains a two-tier, interior-lit structure designed by our architect Heiner Schmees. It consists of concrete block and Plexiglas (which in turn symbolizes the close relationship with the city of Darmstadt) and serves to hold the foundation stone cassette that protrudes from the stone.
  • On the 3rd floor, south side, there is now space for three paintings by Ralph Fleck from Freiburg . They represent the typical ground plant paintings by the well-known artist in their relief-like colors applied with a strong brush, which are reminiscent of impressionism and from which one does not want to detach oneself.
  • A sculpture by Jindrian Zeithamel from Düsseldorf was installed in the canteen, a typical sculpture made of composite wooden parts in the shape of drops.
  • In 1994, the metal sculpture "1/4 cylinder, square" by the sculptor Matthias Will (* 1947 in Kahl am Main ) was purchased for the depot at what was then the paddock . It is an impressive feast for the eyes in the rather remote area of ​​the spacious property.

At the inauguration on March 1, 1993, the then police chief Peter C. Bernet stated in his ceremonial address with regard to the umbrellas in the driveway: “The umbrellas are like the police: when you need them, they are not there! "

Special events, projects and awards

  • Bomb attack on the 1st police station in Darmstadt Palace in 1974.
  • On March 1, 1983, the RAF terrorist Gisela Dutzi was arrested in Darmstadt. She carried a large-caliber pistol, a $ 100 banknote from the Palmer kidnapping ransom, a forged federal ID card, and paperwork with conspiratorial notes.
  • The RAF terrorist Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong was arrested after a tip from a guest on August 2, 1986 in an ice cream parlor in Rüsselsheim together with the then 23-year-old Luitgard Hornstein and the 26-year-old Christian Kluth. She was carrying a fully loaded pistol with 80 rounds of ammunition, but allowed herself to be arrested without resistance.
  • Plane crash on November 8, 1991. At 7:21 pm, a Cessna 177 crashed into the Darmstadt building, Karlstrasse 85. A 54-year-old woman from Darmstadt and her 80-year-old mother died in the rubble; the pilot and his companion were also killed. The engine hum of the machine could be heard over Darmstadt for a long time. The crash sparked a discussion about whether flying over densely populated areas should be prevented - unsuccessful.
  • The explosives attack against the Weiterstadt prison took place on March 27, 1993 and was the last widely sensational action by the Red Army faction before its dissolution in 1998. At the time of the attack, the Weiterstadt prison had not yet been officially opened and was occupied with prisoners. Ten members of the guards were there. On the night of March 26-27, 1993, shortly after 1:00 a.m., at least three men and one woman climbed over the 6.5 m high outer wall. The perpetrators then took several hours, searched the site for other people and then deposited five loads with a total of 200 kg of commercial explosives. The charges exploded at 5:12 a.m. Three accommodation buildings and the administration wing were destroyed, the rest of the complex was more or less badly damaged. The material damage was initially estimated at 100 to 120 million DM, later at 80 to 90 million DM. People were not harmed in the attack. The perpetrators had abandoned the guards in a transporter in a forest before the explosion. Three days later, on March 30, 1993, the "Katharina Hammerschmidt Command" published a statement on the attack on Weiterstadt prison .
Wine from the police headquarters in South Hesse
  • In 1995, a vineyard with 99 vines was laid on a fallow land in the south-western area of ​​the police headquarters with the approval of the Eltville wine-growing authority, which has since been delivering 200-300 bottles of excellent quality white burgers a year. The expansion takes place at the Groß-Umstadt winegrowers' cooperative. The wine, known as special prevention , is used for events by the Presidium, visits to sick people and honors. This means that the PP South Hesse should be the only police station in the world with its own vineyard. In the immediate vicinity of the vineyard, employees built a barbecue hut in the following years with donations from the management of the authorities, unions and other sponsors, which can accommodate forty people. The so-called Rudolf-Kilb-Hütte is used for official purposes and for social events of the authority and its individual departments.
  • At the Darmstadt Police Headquarters, the PUMO (Professional Dealing with Victims and Witnesses) project was implemented as early as 1998 with the unprecedented project in police circles . The project was designed and carried out in collaboration with the Criminalist Institute of the Federal Criminal Police Office Wiesbaden. A scientific evaluation was carried out by the Institute for Psychology at TU Darmstadt. The study was supported by the victims' aid Südhessen e. V. The aims of the project were to bring about a more humane treatment of victims and witnesses, to increase the professional and social competence of the employees, to streamline internal work processes and to initiate networking with local and regional victim support facilities and advice centers. The PUMO project was completed in June 2001. With the end of the project, victim protection officers were appointed who take care of victim protection issues within the authority, conduct internal training and are available as contact persons for all questions relating to victim protection and victim support, both internally and externally.
  • The Police Headquarters South Hesse was honored with the Golden Magnifying Glass for the years 2007 and 2008 for the excellent crime scene work and the implementation of identification work . State Police President Norbert Nedela awarded the prize for the second time in a row on December 14, 2009 in Darmstadt. The award resulted from comparisons and evaluations of several forensic areas as well as the identification work of the Hessian police stations.

Literature and media

Official representations

  • Fritz Beck: The history of the Grand Ducal Hessian Gendarmerie Corps 1763–1905 . Darmstadt 1905, H. Hohmann, court book and stone printing.
  • W. Bernauer: The Darmstadt Police until 1926 , commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Darmstadt police force , January 6, 1926.
  • Peter C. Bernet: Darmstadt and its police . In: Polizei Technik Verkehr, No. 6, June 1967.
  • Peter C. Bernet: Darmstadt Police Headquarters - information leaflet on the handover of the Darmstadt service building, Klappacher Straße 145, Darmstädter Echo printing house, Darmstadt, November 1992.
  • Rudolf Kilb: Fingerprints . A documentation about the police in and around Darmstadt and a task that never ends, Frotscher Druck, Darmstadt, 1998, ISBN 978-3-928865-24-1 .
  • Otto Schlander: Hessian Police History 1763–1933 - From the becoming of a profession . In: Hessische Polizei Rundschau 1986, Issue 2-7.
  • Werner Vogel: The police in Darmstadt . In: Festschrift for the 15th anniversary of the IPA liaison office in Darmstadt, from May 24th to 27th, 1979.

The Darmstadt and South Hessian police in fiction

The Darmstadt police in the film

Through the Darmstadt screenwriter Robert Stromberger (* 1930, † 2009), the police in his hometown were repeatedly used in his television films, usually after expert advice and with police officers as extras, for example in many episodes of the series:

Individual evidence

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