Volker Kluwe

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Volker Kluwe (* 1956 in Salzgitter ) is a German criminal investigator and has been the police chief of the Hanover police department since 2013 .

Life

Career

After graduating from high school in 1975, Volker Kluwe joined the police service of the federal state of Lower Saxony as a detective . There he served in Braunschweig , Salzgitter, Delmenhorst and Hanover in various criminal investigation areas, partly also in the staff of the Hanover Police Department. In 1986 he began studying for the higher police force in the Westphalian city of Münster at what was then the Police Leadership Academy , today's German Police University .

Back in Lower Saxony, Kluwe headed several police stations from 1988 to 1999, before he initially worked in 2000 as a consultant for “International Police Cooperation”. He was then appointed to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior , where he was responsible for "strategy and organization of the police". For four years he then represented - with a mandate from the German Federal Council - the German federal states in Brussels on issues of organized crime in the European Union .

From 2005 to 2011, Volker Kluwe initially headed the “ Organized Crime ” department at the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) before he was appointed Vice President of the LKA. In December 2011, Kluwe took over the position of State Police Director and at the same time became Deputy Head of Department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport .

Oswald Marschall , senior adviser from the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg , here in front of the memorial plaque unveiled on May 4, 2015 in front of the main building of the Hanover Police Department

Since April 10, 2013, Volker Kluwe has headed the Hanover Police Department as Chief of Police.

At the beginning of May 2015, Kluwe and Hanover's mayor Thomas Hermann unveiled an information and memorial plaque next to the former main entrance to the police headquarters in Hardenbergstrasse , commemorating the crimes of the police during the Nazi era . After the unveiling of the plaque, which was initiated in 2013 by the Hanoverian Forum for Sinti and Roma , the touring exhibition Order and Destruction, which was planned until June 14, 2015 , was held in the building on Waterloostrasse . The police in the Nazi state opened.

Others

Volker Kluwe is President of the Hanover Police Sports Club . He is married and has a grown daughter.

Media coverage

Web links

Commons : Volker Kluwe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Cernak (responsible): Police President of the Hanover Police Department on the pd-h.polizei-nds.de page , last accessed on May 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Christian Bohnenkamp, ​​Andreas Krasselt: The commemoration and the preservationists / Neue Tafel commemorates crimes of the police. But the city wants to replace them soon , in: [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] from May 5, 2015, p. 13
  3. ^ NN : order and destruction. The police in the Nazi state , leaflet for the traveling exhibition from May 5 to June 14, 2015 in the Hanover Police Department , ed. from the Lower Saxony Police Museum , [oO, o. D., 2015]
  4. ↑ Monika Crone: Board of Directors on the page psv-hannover.de , last accessed on May 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kluwe, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police chief in Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH May 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter