Samuel Meffire

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Samuel Njankouo "Sam" Meffire (born July 11, 1970 in Zwenkau , GDR ) is a former German police officer who became known as part of a campaign against xenophobia.

Life

Samuel Meffire was born to a Cameroonian father and a German mother. His father died on the day he was born under circumstances that were not conclusively clarified. After sports school, secondary school leaving certificate and completing his apprenticeship, Meffire made his way through various jobs in 1989. He worked as a night watchman, in a garbage sorting facility, as a carer for the disabled in anthroposophical camphills and for a social project with right-wing youth. In the meantime made Meffire his military service in the being liquidated Kasernierten People's Police , he joined the service in the eighth VPK in Dresden and participated in a multi-week counterterrorism course at the 9th VPK inPotsdam - oak part.

The generally difficult upheaval situation in East Germany and the condition of the weakened East German post-reunification police forced the politically responsible to hurriedly recruiting new staff, it seems to be due to these extraordinary circumstances that Meffire was allowed to study criminology as a lateral entrant , to then work as a criminal investigation officer in the police state security and to work in the crime service. Meffire gained nationwide attention in 1992 when he was available as a model for a campaign against xenophobia. As a result of this campaign, he appeared on numerous television programs. He also took part in public meetings with the then Minister of the Interior of Saxony, Heinz Eggert .

At the end of 1994 he quit the police , slipped into criminality and served almost 7 years in prison. As part of the relaxation of the prison system, he was allowed to leave the prison by the hour, and for a year he took part in a training course to become a media designer.

After his release from prison, Meffire worked for more than ten years for various experiential educational measures, in which he worked with delinquent and highly suspicious young people. From 2015 Meffire also worked with children and young people in refugee aid.

Meffire has been a trainer for dangerous situations since 2015, including for teams in refugee aid, for paramedics and university employees.

The documentary Dreckfresser (D 2000) by Branwen Okpako describes his career.

In 2006 the film format “Black Deutschland” by director Oliver Hardt, produced by Arte Germany, was released, in which the latter, along with other Afro-German protagonists, also lets Meffire have his say.

After his release from prison, Samuel Meffire worked as an author and published the four-part crime series "Unser Feinde", an end-of-time crime thriller set in Germany, as well as the political crime thriller "Kunduz" with co-author Marc Lindemann, a political scientist and journalist and former officer of the field intelligence service, who is active as an author with controversial non-fiction books.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Hartwig, Bonn: Interview with Samuel Meffire: There are things that I have no answer . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 30, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Portrait - Are you sure? Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ "Everything collapses" . In: Der Spiegel . tape 32 , August 6, 1990 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ mdr.de: Volkspolizei 1990: Hear nothing, say nothing, see nothing | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed September 30, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes: Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 . University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-24894-6 ( google.de [accessed September 30, 2018]).
  6. ↑ The page changer . In: Deutschlandfunk Nova . ( deutschlandfunknova.de [accessed on September 30, 2018]).
  7. ↑ The hard way . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . January 4, 2004, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 30, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Strong self-esteem helps against attacks. Accessed October 1, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Civil protection . Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, accessed on September 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Help for the helpers. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  11. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Refugees in Darmstadt: Help for the helpers . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed October 1, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Filth eater. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Branwen Okpako | filmportal.de. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  14. ↑ nose dust: Under Attack: Why Germany fails in Afghanistan. January 30, 2010, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  15. ^ Raphael Zehnder, Joachim Salau: Marc Lindemann: Can killing be allowed? Swiss Radio and Television SRF, May 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  16. ↑ New crime series "Our Feinde" , Buchfunk-Verlag, December 12, 2014.
  17. ↑ STEFFEN KÖNAU: Crime: Warriors in the rabbit hutch . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed October 1, 2018]).
  18. ↑ eigenarten_meffire_201204.pdf. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Musiques-Opéra-Danses. Retrieved October 1, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Meffire, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meffire, Samuel Njankouo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwenkau