Wuppertal Police Headquarters

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View along the facade in west direction

The Wuppertal Police Headquarters is the district police authority responsible for the Bergisch city triangle of Wuppertal , Remscheid and Solingen . It is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia . The seat of the authority is the police headquarters at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 228 in Wuppertal , which opened on August 31, 1939 . Markus Röhrl has been the police chief since January 2018 . The predecessor in office was Birgitta Radermacher from January 4, 2010 to September 1, 2017 . The police headquarters in Wuppertal is also the main crime center .

tasks

The tasks of the police result from § 1 PolG NRW:

“ The task of the police is to ward off dangers to public safety ( averting danger ). As part of this task, it has to prevent criminal offenses as well as to take precautions for the prosecution of future criminal offenses (preventive fight against criminal offenses) and to make the necessary preparations for providing assistance and acting in dangerous situations. "

This assignment of tasks is reflected in the structure of the authority.

structure

Like most district police authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia , the Wuppertal Police Headquarters is divided into four directorates:

Security Directorate (Dir. GE)

The Security Directorate includes:

  • the Wuppertal police station with the continuously manned police stations Vohwinkel , Elberfeld and Barmen as well as the police stations downtown and old market . Various district offices are also subordinate to the police stations.
  • the Remscheid police station with the continuously manned Remscheid police station and the Lennep police station . Various district offices are also subordinate to the police stations.
  • the Solingen police station with the Solingen police station and the Ohlig police station, which is continuously manned . Various district offices are also subordinate to the police stations.
  • the riot police with department leadership, 9th and 10th Hundreds , the 2nd Technical Operations Unit (TEE), and the 1st BFE Wuppertal.
  • the special police services ( police custody service , service dog handler unit and task force)

Crime Directorate (Dir. K)

These include the criminal inspections 1 to 3 and the criminal inspection police state security. The criminal inspectors are subordinate to the criminal inspectors, which deal with different areas of crime.

Traffic Directorate (Dir. V)

The Traffic Directorate consists of:

  • Traffic inspection 1 ( traffic service ) with the
    • Monitoring group 1 (motorcyclists)
    • Monitoring group 2 (combating main causes of accidents )
    • Monitoring group 3 (special traffic)
  • Traffic inspection 2 with the traffic commissariats
    • 1 (responsible for Wuppertal)
    • 2 (responsible for Remscheid and Solingen)
    • 3 (Central processing of traffic offenses)

Central Tasks Directorate (Dir. ZA)

This directorate is responsible, among other things, for administration, budget, weapons / equipment, training and further education and human resources.

building

The building with the street address Friedrich-Engels-Allee 228 is bordered on the side by Druckerstraße and Kothener Straße and to the rear by Wittensteinstraße . It is a rectangular building complex with a central building that separates the two atriums from each other and an auxiliary building. There are four full floors above the raised plinth with basement windows, with the top one having significantly smaller windows. Above this is the slightly inclined flat roof that clearly extends over the facade. The entrance on the raised ground floor, which is now equipped with a security gate, can be reached via an outside staircase. The facade is clearly structured with overlying window sections and clad with stone slabs.

The building was built from 1937 (the topping-out ceremony was on October 15, 1937) under the influence of National Socialism and thus also its "understanding of art" at the former Adolf-Hitler-Strasse 390 . In the corridors, staircases and the Great Hall, some monumental wall paintings with “heroic images of the new German elite”, which were mostly hidden in the post-war period, bear witness to this. B. an equestrian and standard painting by Hans Kohlschein . They were uncovered in 1999 and have since been restored in accordance with the listed building standards. On September 1, 1939, significantly on the day of the German invasion of Poland and thus on the first day of World War II , the Gestapo began its service here.

The building's architect was government building officer Alexander Schäfer (1887–1954), who had previously designed the Remscheid police building (1926) and the Düsseldorf police headquarters (1932). In his style, he followed the abstract classicism , which was common in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in government buildings. Originally, the building had almost 600 rooms, including a ballroom, which was very modern at the time, and a "house prison". The original tuff facade had to be renewed in 1978. The interior of the building was designed very elaborately; For example, the stairwell was provided with mosaic floors designed by the Wuppertal artist Ernst Oberhoff as well as the windows.

During the air raid on Wuppertal-Barmen on the night of May 29th to 30th, 1943, the building was largely spared both from direct bomb hits and from the subsequent firestorm . Since the Barmen town hall was largely destroyed that night, both the Allied military government and, in the second half of 1945, the city ​​council and large parts of the city ​​administration moved into the building after the end of the war . This temporary arrangement lasted (in sections) until the restoration of the Barmen town hall in 1959. Robert Daum was elected first post-war mayor in room 300. The Wuppertal Bialystok trial against 14 Wuppertal police officers, including Heinrich Schneider , took place there.

Since June 14, 1985, the police headquarters with the ancillary facilities has been recognized in its entirety as a monument and was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

The building will soon have to be refurbished, and alternative quarters are being sought for the renovation, which will take around two years.

Lore

The files of the police headquarters in Wuppertal, which are no longer required for current tasks, must be offered to the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland Department for acceptance. The state archive decides on the archiving or destruction of these files according to technical criteria. At the moment, the "Wuppertal Police Headquarters" inventory (finding aids 217.09.01-03) consists of approximately 1,100 files, but is growing steadily through taxes. The life of the files begins in the second half of the 19th century (and thus also includes police matters from the time before the establishment of the police headquarters) and currently ends in the 1990s. In terms of content, the inventory covers the entire breadth of police activity with a focus on associations and assemblies and the fight against political extremism. The files can be used in accordance with the requirements of the North Rhine-Westphalian Archives Act , whereby personal protection periods in particular must be observed.

Authority manager

The management of the police headquarters was under:

literature

  • Christoph Heuter: The police headquarters in Wuppertal. A building from the 1930s. In: Geschichte im Wuppertal ( ISSN  1436-008X ), 9 (2000), pp. 88-104.
  • Michael Okroy : Committed to “keeping the German national body healthy”. The Wuppertal Police Headquarters as the regional headquarters of the National Socialist persecution authorities 1939–1945. In: Geschichte im Wuppertal ( ISSN  1436-008X ), 9 (2000), pp. 104–115.
  • Ders .: The Wuppertal Police Headquarters as a historical place of learning. In: History, Politics and their Didactics, Journal for Historical and Political Education ( ISSN  0343-4648 ), 32 (2004), H. 3/4, P. 281–285.
  • Ders .: "After 26 years now a mammoth trial against police officers." The judicial processing of Nazi crimes by the regulatory police using the example of the Wuppertal Bialystok proceedings , in: Jan Erik Schulte (ed.): Die SS, Himmler and die Wewelsburg , Paderborn u . a. 2009, pp. 449-470. ISBN 978-3-506-76374-7 .
  • The police headquarters in Wuppertal. Historical place of dictatorship and democracy. (Information brochure with numerous illustrations, 16 pages, published by the sponsoring association for the meeting place of the Old Synagogue Wuppertal eV, Wuppertal 2010).

Web links

Commons : Wuppertal Police Headquarters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greetings. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, February 2, 2018, accessed on October 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ District government Düsseldorf: District government Düsseldorf: Birgitta Radermacher. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ PP Wuppertal organization chart. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Mondorf.de ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wolfgang-mondorf.de
  5. ↑ Ministry for Schools and Further Education North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schulministerium.nrw.de
  6. ↑ A house with many faces on gedenkstaettenforum.de, accessed on August 25, 2012
  7. ↑ The police headquarters in Wuppertal - a building from the 1930s (pdf)
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Mondorf.de ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wolfgang-mondorf.de
  9. ↑ Streife 11/2005, page 2
  10. ↑ Wuppertal Police Headquarters
  11. ^ A journey through Wuppertal's dark time Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from December 4, 2007
  12. ↑ Redevelopment: Police relocation burst Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from December 8, 2008
  13. ^ Police move: Barmen or Brill Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from September 8, 2009
  14. ↑ 2.4.1.11. Wuppertal Police Headquarters. German Digital Library , accessed on January 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Police Union : Police Union. In: gdp.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '45 "  N , 7 ° 10' 36"  E