Siegfried Stumpf

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Siegfried Stumpf (born October 21, 1950 ) is a former German police officer . From 2006 to 2011 he was police chief at the police headquarters in Stuttgart .

Police career

Stumpf began his career in 1967 with the riot police in Lahr . In 1970 he moved to the Stuttgart police headquarters and two years later to the riot police in Göppingen . In 1973 he was transferred to the State Police Department in Stuttgart, where he rose to the position of Police Council . From 1984 to 1987 he headed the police in Tübingen and, after being reassigned to the state police headquarters in Stuttgart, he headed the southern police station there. After his appointment to the chief police officer in 1991, he moved to the state police headquarters in Baden-Württemberg . Appointed police director in 1993, from 1994 he was head of operations department and deputy head of the police force at the Tübingen state police department. In 1997 he returned to the State Police Department in Stuttgart, where he was initially head of the protective police and was appointed Chief Police Director in 1999 . In February 1999 he had the Greek Consulate General in Stuttgart, which was occupied in protest against Abdullah Öcalan's arrest, evacuated despite threats of self-immolation .

In 2000 he was promoted to head of police duties and three years later moved to Reutlingen as head of the police department . In 2004 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior and appointed State Director of Criminal Investigations . On May 1, 2006, he was appointed as the successor to Martin Schairer as police chief of Stuttgart and was thus responsible for around 2,600 employees.

Black Thursday

He became known nationwide in the course of the protests against Stuttgart 21 , when the evacuation of the palace gardens was brought forward by five hours on September 30, 2010 in order to counter suspected information leaks in the ranks of the police. It was not taken into account that a registered student demonstration was taking place at the time. Because of the violent clashes during this police operation, this day went down in the history of the protest movement as Black Thursday . Because of the numerous injuries - the best known among them the engineer Dietrich Wagner , who became almost completely blind from a water cannon beam - criminal charges for bodily harm were brought against Stumpf. A few days after the operation, he said he was sorry "that it went that way", but defended the action against the injured as "lawful". He denied political interference before the deployment and presented the deployment as proportionate and justified; Prime Minister Mappus ' request to allow “no consolidation” of the resistance had been the line “between town, country and police” for weeks. As a result, the Greens and the SPD first demanded his resignation in the state parliament and then with a city ​​council majority.

Investigation and penalty order

In connection with the use of the water cannon, the public prosecutor's office started investigations against Stumpf, which were closed in December 2011. On a video, evidence in a trial against other police officers in the summer of 2014, Stumpf can be seen in the afternoon in the palace grounds, noticing the use of the water cannon and not intervening. As a result, the public prosecutor's office re-investigated him. In March 2015, he received a penalty order in four cases for negligent bodily harm in office for 120 daily rates of 130 euros each. As the Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported the statement of the Stuttgart District Court , Stumpf could have "ended the rude actions of his police officers against protesters in the palace gardens and possibly prevented serious injuries with one instruction." Stumpf accepted the penalty order, "not least in order to spare his family and him further public disputes about the meaningfulness of the allegations" and is therefore considered to have a criminal record.

retirement

In February 2011, Stumpf was under discussion for the office of President of the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office , but was not appointed. In April 2011, for health reasons, he asked for a retirement, and this request was granted within a few days. The speed of this procedure met with astonishment and opponents of Stuttgart 21 and park guards criticized the retirement with full pay as a " pawn sacrifice ", which should distract from the other responsible persons. His successor was Thomas Züfle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Association internal information service of the DPolG Baden-Württemberg No. 21 of June 11, 2006 ( PDF; 98 kB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove it this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dpolg-bw.de  
  2. ↑ Police Headquarters Stuttgart; Organization. In: polizei-stuttgart.de. Archived from the original on May 16, 2013 ; Retrieved June 18, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Felling work for Stuttgart 21 begins at night.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Südwest Presse . September 30, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swp.de  
  4. ^ "Stuttgart 21" demonstration: Police chief did not trust his own officers. In: Spiegel Online . October 2, 2010, accessed June 23, 2010.
  5. ↑ Were the police surprised by the student demonstration?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Südwest Presse. October 4, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swp.de  
  6. ↑ Criminal charges against police chief. ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse. October 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann: We are sorry. ( Memento from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse . October 6, 2010.
  8. ↑ Christine Bilger: Stump meets victims of September 30th. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 6, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013.
  9. ↑ Police chief defends water cannons. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . online, November 29, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann: Stuttgart police chief testifies before the investigative committee. ( Memento from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse. November 30, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ Jörg Nauke: Majority of the council calls for resignation. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. January 29, 2011, accessed June 23, 2013.
  12. ↑ a b c d Siegfried Stumpf has to decide. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. March 9, 2015, accessed March 14, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Oliver im Masche: Ex-Police Chief Stumpf accepts a fine. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. March 18, 2015, accessed March 24, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann: Stump for LKA in conversation. ( Memento from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse. February 1, 2011.
  15. ↑ Bettina Wieselmann, Raimund Weible: Stumpf will not be LKA boss. ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse. February 10, 2011.
  16. ↑ Markus Heffner, Jörg Nauke: Stumpf is going into retirement. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. April 27, 2011, accessed June 23, 2013.
  17. ↑ Tatjana Bojic, DPA : Two top police posts vacant. ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Südwest Presse from April 28, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Stump, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1950