Rudolf Thomsen

Rudolf Thomsen (born April 27, 1910 ; † March 30, 1992 ) was a German lawyer, police officer and SS leader. In the Federal Republic of Germany he worked for the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

Life

After attending school, Thomsen completed a law degree , which he completed with the first state examination in law. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA in early July 1933 and from there moved to the NSKK in early October 1935 . At the beginning of May 1937 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,937,843).

From October 1938 to the end of June 1939 he completed a detective inspector's course at the Sipo and SD leadership school in Berlin-Charlottenburg , which the later BKA President Paul Dickopf also attended. After the end of the course he was accepted into the SS (SS-No. 327.258). He later also belonged to the SD . He rose to the position of SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Schutzstaffel.

During the Second World War he was employed by the criminal police in Kiel and from 1942 in Metz . In September 1943 he was assigned to the Gestapo in Krakow . According to his superior Rudolf Batz , the commander of the security police (KdS) in the Krakow district of the Generalgouvernement , “he was involved in investigating and combating gangs as a liaison to the management staff since November 1943. Both here and in the Sturmwind campaign, in which Th. Was actively deployed, he played an outstanding role in breaking up and destroying the gangs and thus in fulfilling important military tasks ”. The fight against gangs also included murders against Polish civilians who were considered hostile to Germany.

After the end of the war, from 1953 to 1955 he was assistant officer for criminal police matters in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and then in the Federal Criminal Police Office. When he reached the age limit, he retired in 1970 until he was promoted to the Government Criminal Police. Thomsen has been the subject of a criminal investigation, but no legal action has been taken against him.

literature

Dieter Schenk : Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03034-5 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Imanuel Baumann, Herbert Reinke, Andrej Stephan, Patrick Wagner : Shadows of the Past. The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic . Edited by the Federal Criminal Police Office, Criminalistic Institute. (Police + research, special issue). Luchterhand, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-472-08067-1 . (Download as PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Life data 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. 624.
↑ ^a ^b Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 274 f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 349.
↑ Rudolf Batz on August 9, 1944 in a written assessment of the proposal to award the War Merit Cross, 2nd class, to Rudolf Thomsen. Quoted from: Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 274.

personal data
SURNAME	Thomsen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1910
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1992

[1] Life data 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. 624.

[Schenk274f-2] Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 274 f.

[Schenk349-3] Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 349.

[4] Rudolf Batz on August 9, 1944 in a written assessment of the proposal to award the War Merit Cross, 2nd class, to Rudolf Thomsen. Quoted from: Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 274.