Wilhelm Tegethoff (Chief of Police)

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Requiem for Police President Tegethoff in Bonn (Federal Archives 1962)

Wilhelm Tegethoff (born February 6, 1901 in Warburg ; † March 29, 1962 in Tyrol ) was a German lawyer and police chief .

Life

Wilhelm Tegethoff graduated from high school Marianum in Warburg, studied law and economics at Philipps University in Marburg and the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . In 1924 he received his doctorate in law . After the Grand State Examination in Berlin in 1926, he worked at courts in Bielefeld, Breslau and Recklinghausen. In 1928 he became head of the traffic department in the Altona-Wandsbeck police headquarters. In 1930 he moved to the Berlin police headquarters as a department head, where he was appointed government councilor in 1934. He was the representative of the police chief in Waldenburg, Upper Silesia.

In 1954, Tegethoff became President of the Senate at the Regional Social Court of Celle, and shortly afterwards he was appointed Police President in the federal capital of Bonn.

Tegethoff was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Ripuaria Bonn .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sascha Stienen: "Bonn mourns the popular police president Tegethoff" , General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , November 24, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tegethoff, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and police chief
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Warburg
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1962
Place of death Tyrol