Wilhelm Richter (Chief of Police)

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Wilhelm Richter (born December 10, 1881 in Charlottenburg , † May 4, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German precision mechanic and police chief of Berlin.

Life

In 1904 Richter became a member of the SPD and in 1911 a city councilor in Berlin-Charlottenburg. From November 1918 he was commissioned as people's commissar for security, which also included the control of the Charlottenburg police. A few weeks later he worked as police chief of Charlottenburg until 1919. In 1919 Richter became deputy chief of police in Berlin and from 1920 acting chief of police in Greater Berlin and from 1920 to 1925 chief of police in Berlin.

After the failed Kapp Putsch in March 1920, the Berlin police chief Eugen Ernst was replaced in his office by Wilhelm Richter in the same year. Carl Severing had previously taken over the office of the Prussian Interior Minister in March. As the new police president, the social democrat Richter, who had previously served as police president of Charlottenburg since 1918, energetically reoriented the Berlin police from a republican-democratic point of view.

In the summer of 1920, Richter complained in a letter to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior about an alleged "Eastern Jewish plague" which Berlin brought "extremely dangerous foreigners". He described the Jews living in Berlin's Scheunenviertel as “foreign parasites” with “Bolshevik views” that had to be housed in prison camps or, more correctly, rendered harmless. The letter was followed by a major raid ordered by Richter in the Scheunenviertel, during which around 300 Jewish men, women and children were picked up by the police and interned in a "Jewish camp" near Zossen .

In 1925 he was recalled as police chief because he, like his vice-president Moll, was embarrassingly, if not seriously, involved in the scandal surrounding the Barmat brothers . Before that, Kurt Tucholsky, among others, had suggested that he resign in a satirical article.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Archives, Edition files of the Reich Chancellery, biographies, Internet
  2. ↑ Joachim Rott: "I walk my way straight ahead unhindered". Bernhard White [1880–1951]
  3. ↑ Martin H. Geyer: Capitalism and Political Morality in the Interwar Period or: Who Was Julius Barmat? Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86854-319-3 .
  4. ^ MDR time travel: Buchenwald - A concentration camp in the middle of us . MDR television, 2020.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Friedensburg: Lebenserinnerungen (1969), p. 140
  6. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky - Works, paperback edition, Vol. 4, pp. 21f
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German precision mechanic and police chief of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1976
Place of death Berlin