Rolf Holle (detective)

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Rolf Bernhard Holle (born January 21, 1914 in Leipzig ; † October 25, 2004 ) was a German criminal investigator. He was one of the founders of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden .

First years, political activity, detective inspector

Rolf Bernhard Holle, born as the son of the businessman Erich Holle, joined the National Socialist movement at an early age. At the age of 16, he joined the National Socialist Student Union in October 1930 , the Hitler Youth from November 1930 to October 1932 , the SA from July 1933 March 1935 , and the NSDAP from the beginning of May 1937 ( membership number 5.977.213). After graduating from high school in his hometown in 1933, Holle studied law for four semesters at the University of Leipzig , but without completing his studies. Afterwards he did a two-year military service in the Wehrmacht as part of a service obligation . At the end of 1937 he joined the criminal police in Halle (Saale) . In 1938/39 he was the youngest participant in the " Security Police Leadership School " in Berlin-Charlottenburg and successfully completed a course to become a detective inspector. With the completion of the driving school he was accepted into the SS (SS-Nr. 327.259). Initially, Holle was the head of the commissariat in Erfurt . Holle joined the NSV in 1941 and the comradeship association of German police officers the following year.

Second World War

After the beginning of the Second World War , he did military service in the Wehrmacht from October 1939 to March 1940 . In January / February 1941 Holle completed a guide course at the Italian Colonial Police School in Tivoli, as he had applied for police colonial service in 1940.

From 1941 he was employed as head of the commissariat in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From May 1942, he was in charge of a detective office with the criminal group M (murder) at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters . Here Holle resolved a sensational criminal case: at the end of 1943, a Reichsbahner murdered the Jewish slave laborer Vera Korn and her daughter Eva and scattered the body parts during a night air raid in downtown Berlin. In constant contact with the Gestapo, Holle investigated the perpetrator, who was sentenced to death by a special court in 1944 and executed in Plötzensee. The two Jewish witnesses from Vera Korn's area were interned in the Theresienstadt ghetto and in labor camps.

In April 1943 he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer . At that time he was listed as an employee of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), but cannot be found on any business distribution plan or telephone directory. There is also no indication of an activity in the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA). According to him, he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class, by the Berlin Police Department in 1944 . In mid-1944, Holle resigned from the homicide squad and was entrusted with uncovering military economic crimes. On April 24, 1945, Holle was dispatched from the embattled Berlin to head the search commissioner's office in Schwerin . When the Allied troops approached here too , in early May 1945, a few days before the surrender, he received the order to take over police duties in the unoccupied Kiel .

Post-war period - In the Federal Criminal Police Office

In Kiel he was dismissed by the military authorities as head of the burglary commissioner after the end of the war on June 27, 1945. Holle then worked as a construction worker and from September 1945 as an employee of a tax consultant. Holle went through a denazification procedure and was classified as "exonerated" on October 20, 1946. On March 15, 1947, the British authorities hired him as Chief Detective Inspector. When the British set up a central criminal police office based in Hamburg for their zone of occupation , Holle became the strategic head of the office. From the beginning he worked towards making the Hamburg office the core of a new central federal police. He succeeded in doing this with a team of six other participants (i.e. 7 of the 36 participants) of the 13th detective commissioner trainee course in 1938/39. His fellow trainee Paul Dickopf became President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in 1965 , and Holle was his deputy.

Holle was promoted to government and criminal councilor on September 1, 1951, on September 1, 1953 to senior government and criminal councilor, and he headed the domestic department. His career in office continued uninterrupted. On July 7, 1961, he was promoted to government criminal director, on August 30, 1966 to senior government criminal director and on June 1, 1970 to department president. Most recently he worked for the Criminal Investigation Institute at the BKA. After a serious illness, Holle retired early on June 30, 1972 as part of the restructuring of the Federal Criminal Police Office at the age of 58. With his resignation, an official "Vice President" position was established for the first time at the BKA, which was filled by Werner Heinl .

Works

  • Forensics. Hagedorn, Hanover no year (1948). New edition: 3 parts. Wiesbaden 1956-1958.
  • The moral offenses as reflected in the police crime statistics (1953–1962). Wiesbaden 1964.
  • Theft and robbery as reflected in the police crime statistics. Wiesbaden 1966.
  • Criminal police news collection and evaluation. Wiesbaden 1966.
  • with Paul Dickopf: The Federal Criminal Police Office. Boldt, Bonn 1971, ISBN 3-87086-036-7 .

literature

  • Dieter Schenk : The brown roots of the BKA. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15782-X .
  • Michael Klein: Vera and the brown lucky man. How the Nazi state executed a murderer of Jews. A true story. Neuer Europa Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86695-480-8 .

Web links

Web links to the Eckert murder case

personal data
SURNAME Holle, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holle, Rolf Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, co-founder of the Federal Criminal Police Office
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2004