Richard Siebke

Richard Siebke (born November 1, 1891 in Fürstenwalde , † 1978 in Bremen ) was a German detective director.

biography

After attending primary school, Siebke completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer . From 1910 to 1912 he worked in various places as a lithographer and also as a machine master. From 1912 to 1917 he served as a soldier, since 1914 in the First World War on the Western Front , where he was seriously wounded. He lived in Bremen since 1917 and worked as a technical draftsman at Atlas-Werke . At the beginning of 1919 he joined the Bremen City Armed Forces, founded by the Senate to ward off the revolution , and in November 1919 he became an employee of the Security Police (Sipo) as Department VI of the Bremen Police. He was active in the regional association of Bremen police officers and in 1927 joined the social democratically oriented Reichsbanner . He was in the 1920s as a sergeant in the New Town , and from 1931 as an assistant to the Criminal detectives used. For political reasons he was dismissed by the National Socialists in mid-1933 . From 1933 to 1938 he got by by finding accommodation in his wife's laundry and hot ironing company, then he worked again at the Atlas factories as a draftsman and designer.

After the Second World War , he was in May 1945 Kriminalsekretar, then in October 1945 police commissioner , then superintendent, and finally in 1947 Head of the Criminal Investigation Department in Bremen. In 1948 he was promoted to criminal director. In 1949 there was a conflict with a criminal inspector who denounced him over a political incident in 1933. In 1949 he resigned from the SPD . In 1952 he retired.

Works

• Herbert Schäfer, Carl Kramer, Richard Siebke: More than seven hours: A contribution to the history of the criminal police in Bremen . Verlag Herbert Schäfer, Bremen 1989, ISBN 3925730125 .

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .