Ullrich Panzer

Ullrich Panzer (* 1944 in Witzenhausen ) is a former German police officer from Bremen . He became known for his massive and controversial use of force.

biography

Panzer comes from a family of police officers: his father was also a police officer and a trainer at the Bremen police school. During World War II, his father was in Police Battalion 303 . According to his own statement, it was easier for Panzer in the Bremen police service, as many old police officers knew his father. Panzer began his training with the Bremen riot police in 1963 and became police chief inspector .

As a sports officer, he complained in 1975 about the lack of fitness of many police officers. He introduced intensive courses in hand-to-hand combat and fitness rooms in the guards. Bremen officials had to regularly take off their sports badges. In 1975 Panzer became the leader of a 31-man so-called "Einsatzgruppe", which was mainly used in demonstrations. He led this group of police officers, which the Spiegel in 1984 referred to as "Panzers Putz-Kolonne". In 1983 the Bremen Special Operations Command (SEK) was set up under his leadership . The group initially had little to do with the professional police work of today's SEK Bremen. The orders for the group came directly from the Bremen police headquarters and most of the operations involved physical confrontations among demonstrators . In addition to their normal pay , Panzer and his men received two hundred marks for each . Since the group mostly appeared in civilian clothes, it was also known as the "Panzers sneaker group".

On May 1, 1984, Panzer's SEK men mingled with union demonstrators . "We have no business there," commented Panzer in the mirror, "but of course we were there."

In 1984, Bremen's police chief Ernst Diekmann justified the fact that Panzer's group was allowed to act so unabashedly on the streets of Bremen by stating that hostage dramas and terrorist hunts were very rare in Bremen: " Mogadishu is not every day." After all, "they must not get out of practice" .

In June 1984 Panzer was transferred to the 16th district in Bremen-Walle by the new Interior Senator Volker Kröning (SPD) . All other SEK sneaker policemen were placed “under the strictest supervision” by Kröning. The aim of the new Interior Senator was to lead the high-handed behavior and the uncontrolled operations of the civil group back into the police work.

After the violent clashes on Sielwallkreuzung ( eastern suburb ) on New Year's Eve of 1988/89, Panzer, who was seriously injured in the riots, told a journalist that the police chief had "pulled his tail" during the clashes. In order to save itself from attacks by demonstrators, Panzer jumped through a closed glass door into the trendy bar in March .

In 1990 Panzer became deputy district manager in Bremen-Huchting . After a two-year illness, Panzer was given early retirement at the age of 49.

In the course of his service disciplinary offenses he was accused, including bodily harm , incitement to forgery of documents , abuse of official cars . He was on trial for alleged assault . Panzer himself speaks of "long-drawn-out intrigues " against himself and of the fact that he was a pawn of politics.

rating

In a detailed article in 1984, Der Spiegel called Panzer “Bremen's most famous racket”. In mid-2015, BILD called him “Bremen's toughest cops ”.

Works

• Ulrich Panzer: Police intern - My years of service in Bremen 1963-1993 , self-published in 2015.

Web links

Klaus Wolschner: The helpers of the Babij Yar massacre , TAZ.de, October 9, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/print-archiv/printressorts/digi-artikel/?ressort=hi&dig=2010%2F10%2F09%2Fa0087&cHash=810d86b7c7
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Police: Mogadishu practiced , Der Spiegel 27/1984, July 2, 1984.
3. ↑ Ralf Michel: Faces of the City: Policeman Ullrich Panzer - Controversial Policeman , Weser Kurier , May 27, 2015.
4. ↑ Holger Blöhte: Bremen's toughest cop counts , picture, June 15, 2015.