Walter Pauli (police officer)
Walter Pauli (born January 16, 1953 in Ochtendung , † May 9, 1975 in Cologne ) was a German police officer who was murdered in a shootout between people from the terrorist organization Movement June 2nd and the police. In autumn 2001, the Walter-Pauli-Ring in Cologne-Kalk was the first street in Germany to be renamed after a police officer killed on duty. The Cologne Police Headquarters is on the street .
Life
Pauli grew up in Gebhardshain . After graduating from secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship in chimney sweeps and then obtained his technical college certificate. Due to his own opinion better opportunities for advancement, he applied to the police in North Rhine-Westphalia instead of the Rhineland-Palatinate police close to his home . On October 1, 1973, he began his training at the Carl Severing State Police School in Münster , which he was able to shorten to 15 months as a result of his previous career. On February 1, 1975, he was transferred to the south-east protected area of the Cologne police headquarters as police chief sergeant.
death
In the early morning hours of May 9, 1975, three married couples on their way home in a parking lot in Cologne-Humboldt / Gremberg observed an NSU Prince from whom three unknown men had got out. Since there had been several vehicle break-ins in the area in the past and the people looked suspicious due to their behavior, they informed the police. Immediately after the emergency call, three emergency vehicles arrived. While the suspects were being checked, Pauli arrived in an additional patrol car . Werner Sauber , the NSU's co-driver, suddenly threw open the door of his vehicle and fired two shots at Walter Pauli. As a result of a bullet in the chest area , Pauli died defending himself at the scene of the crime .
The escaping passenger fired further shots at a 21-year-old police officer, which hit him in the stomach and thigh . One of the shots fired by Sauber hit the driver of the car, the then 32-year-old doctor Karl Heinz Roth , as a ricochet and seriously injured him. Sauber was hit by six police bullets during his attempt to escape and died on the way to the hospital . The third vehicle occupant, Roland Otto , an inmate who had fled since 1974 , was arrested by the police without resistance. In retrospect it turned out that all three people belonged to the environment of the terrorist movement June 2nd .
Walter Pauli was buried on May 14, 1975 in his home parish Gebhardshain ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). Thousands of police officers from all over Germany attended the funeral . The community failed to declare his resting place as an honor grave , it has meanwhile been leveled.
Since Roth and Otto could not prove complicity in the murder of Pauli, they were only convicted in 1977 for violating the weapons law .
Appreciation
Since the building of the old police headquarters on Waidmarkt in Cologne's old town had readings that were harmful to health due to the use of asbestos as an insulating material and a renovation for the 1950s building did not seem economical, those responsible decided to build a new building on the fallow site of the former chemical factory Lime . In an urgent decision on October 5, 2001, the Cologne City Council decided to rename Eisenbahnstraße to Walter-Pauli-Ring on October 25, 2001 - the day the new Presidium was inaugurated. In the inauguration speech for the first street in Germany named after a police officer killed on duty, the Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma pointed out that the name Walter Pauli stands for all other police officers killed on duty.
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- Walter Pauli on the official website of the NRW Police , accessed January 27, 2019 (with photo)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pauli, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German policeman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Attention |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1975 |
| Place of death | Cologne |