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Rudolf Leichtweiß , called Rudi (born February 26, 1908 in Mainz ; † 1987 ) was a German criminal police officer and SS leader during the Nazi era . In the Federal Republic of Germany he worked at the Federal Criminal Police Office in the Criminal Investigation Institute.

time of the nationalsocialism

After finishing school, Leichtweiß began studying law . In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the SS (SS no. 116.187) while he was still a student in mid-March 1933 and later achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer in this Nazi organization . After dropping out of his law degree, he instead joined the criminal police in Darmstadt in 1936. He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5.117.871) in May 1937. In 1937/38 he successfully completed the course to become a detective commissioner at the driving school of the security police in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He then worked as a detective inspector at the criminal police in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main . After the beginning of the Second World War , he switched to the criminal police in Braunschweig, where he headed the 1st Commissariat (capital crimes) from 1940 and worked until 1945. In personal union he was deputy head of the criminal police in Braunschweig and personnel clerk at the SD agency. In addition, he trained administrative staff on “ideological” issues on the instructions of the local police chief .

post war period

After the war, Leichtweiß was for one year in Allied internment and was after his release in Lüneburg employed as town clerk and assistant at the local theater. In 1954 he was able to return to the police service at the Federal Criminal Police Office. He worked in the research and evaluation department of the Criminal Investigation Institute under the direction of Bernhard Niggemeyers . The fight against "professional and habitual criminals" was also part of his research field. Together with the BKA official Eberhard Eschenbach , he published in Volume 3 of the Federal Criminal Police Office's series of publications in 1955 a contribution to the preventive fight against crime in which the planned police surveillance measures practiced at the time of National Socialism were rated as meaningful. In 1955 he was promoted to the criminal councilor. Probably due to his early entry into the SS, he was seconded to the Institute for Applied Geodesy in Frankfurt am Main at the beginning of April 1964 as part of the seconding of eleven BKA officials charged with Nazi responsibility to other authorities . Shortly after his promotion to the Government Criminal Police Officer in December 1967 (still a BKA official despite being seconded), he retired when he reached retirement age in February 1968.

Dieter Schenk explains the following about Leichtweiß: “The man, who was small for a police officer with a height of 1.69 m, still used his old business cards from the Third Reich with the rank of criminal director in the BKA. At that time it was said internally that old business cards could be used up, which clearly underlined the tradition in which one saw oneself. However, Leichtweiß was known to have the old business cards reprinted. He was always funny, but was also considered cunning and cunning - and was silent in the right places. Only once did he make a spiteful remark that in 1941 he had accompanied his Jewish teacher, whom he hated, to the train station. The trip went to Minsk ”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of birth according to: Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . , P. 364.
  2. ^ Year of death after Imanuel Baumann, Herbert Reinke, Andrej Stephan, Patrick Wagner: Shadows of the past. The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic , Cologne 2011, p. 114.
  3. ↑ a b c Imanuel Baumann, Herbert Reinke, Andrej Stephan, Patrick Wagner: Shadows of the past. The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic , Cologne 2011, p. 114 f.
  4. ↑ a b Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 198 f.
  5. ↑ Quoted from: Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 199
personal data
SURNAME Slightly white, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leichtweiß, Rudi (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 1987