Black sheriffs

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The ZSD - Ziviler Sicherheitsdienst Carl Wiedmeier GmbH was a private security service that existed until 2015 and was based in Grünwald near Munich . The employees of the ZSD were mostly referred to as black sheriffs because of their uniforms . The ZSD had trademark protection for this term.

history

The ZSD, founded by the martial artist Carl Wiedmeier at the beginning of the 1970s, was the first security service in the Federal Republic of Germany to consistently rely on guards and personal protection with armed guards trained in Asian martial arts. He recruited her primarily from his Oh-Do-Kwan martial arts school for karate , judo and ken-jitsu. The uniforms with black trousers, leather jackets and peaked caps as well as star-shaped badges resembled those of the American police officers, as Wiedmeier had met them in the United States . The Munich police chief Manfred Schreiber criticized the “cowboy-like behavior” and the “pseudo- police presentation” of the private security service.

The ZSD was in Bavaria a. a. with the monitoring of the site of the Olympic Village in Munich and the guarding of the nuclear power station Isar I entrusted. The Munich subway was also monitored by the Black Sheriffs until April 1, 1989, who came under fire in the 1980s due to several scandals. The establishment of its own underground station was based on a city ​​council resolution in the summer of 1988. However, the ZSD company was still present in and around Munich. Two employees of the ZSD were convicted in 2010 of mistreating homeless people in the Stachus basement . The company was in 2013 the beginning of 2015 after the death of Carl Wiedmeier on May 31 liquidated .

Image of the black sheriffs

The martial demeanor and the numerous scandals have led to the fact that the term "black sheriffs" is associated with tough crackdowns and sometimes with assaults.

ZSD was also the name of a punk band from Munich that was founded in 1980. The name is an allusion to the civil security service, which earned its reputation at the time of its founding through numerous fights in the Munich subway. The punk band Die Toten Hosen released the song Black Sheriffs on their album A Little Bit of Horror Show in 2007 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime: Already your neighbor. Der Spiegel 9/1975, accessed on May 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Stremel: As in the Wild West. The Black Sheriff's methods are a constant nuisance. The time of March 13, 1987, retrieved on May 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Alexander Krug: Black sheriffs condemned: "Tormented for fun and frustration" . Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 19, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Die Toten Hosen: A Little Bit of Horror Show, CD, 2007 , musik-sammler.de, accessed on December 17, 2018