Thomas Wenner

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Thomas Wenner (* 1947 ) is a German police officer and former police chief of Bochum .

Career

Wenner was police chief in Bochum from 1993 to 2009. In October 2009, at the age of 62, he was given early retirement against his will by the NRW state government at the suggestion of Interior Minister Ingo Wolf . According to media reports, the background to this was allegations of disloyalty to the state government. The police union regretted his dismissal, the police in North Rhine-Westphalia are losing "one of their most distinctive heads". The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in Bochum criticized Wenner for banning several NPD demonstrations and welcomed his retirement.

During his tenure, Wenner was largely responsible for the cancellation of the Love Parade planned in Bochum in 2009 , as he did not consider an event with so many participants to be feasible due to the circumstances. In an open letter, Wenner justified the rejection of criticism from the state government and accused the critics of irresponsibly neglecting security aspects. When the following year in Duisburg there was a serious accident at the Love Parade in 2010 with 21 dead, Wenner's criticism again attracted strong attention. As a result, Wenner filed a complaint against Duisburg's Lord Mayor Adolf Sauerland and other senior Duisburg officials.

Trivia

In 1999 Wenner had a brief media encounter with the punk musician Wolfgang Wendland . During a “punks meeting” in Bochum, he was sent off, against which he lodged a complaint before the administrative court. Wendland's band Die Kassierer therefore later released a song entitled Thomas Wenner on the album Musik für Zwei Ears .

Wenner supported the production of the police report Toto & Harry .

Web links

  • "It's enough ..." . Open letter from Police President Bochum Thomas Wenner on the "Love Parade" from January 23, 2009. Documented by Spiegel Online, July 26, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minister shows Police President Wenner the red card . The West, October 7, 2009
  2. ↑ GdP-NRW regrets the dismissal of the Bochum Police President Wenne ( memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Announcement by the NRW Police Union, October 7, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gdp.de
  3. ↑ NPD: At last - Bochum's police chief Wenner apparently shortly before being kicked out  ( 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. . NPD press release, October 5, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.news4press.com  
  4. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/wr/westfalen/Polizeichef-wirft-Ppolitern-Wichtigtuerei-vor-id277409.html . The West January 23, 2009
  5. ^ Ex-police chief sued colleagues and Loveparade organizers . Tagesanzeiger, July 26, 2010
  6. ^ BO Geflüster , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, February 5, 2000 (copy of the article on www.kassier.de)
  7. ↑ "Toto and Harry" - the TV police celebrity from Bochum . dbb magazine 1-2, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Wenner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, former police chief of Bochum
DATE OF BIRTH 1947