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Mourning a great Bavarian police officer

2020-10-25T05:17:45.822Z


Hermann Häring was important for the Bavarian and Munich police. Among other things, cleared up some kidnappings. Now he has died at the age of 93.


Hermann Häring was important for the Bavarian and Munich police.

Among other things, cleared up some kidnappings.

Now he has died at the age of 93.

Egling

- The Republic held its breath when Theo Albrecht was kidnapped by strangers in 1971.

The fact that the Aldi co-founder was released and the perpetrators could be caught is also thanks to a Eglinger: Hermann Häring.

In his capacity as a senior Bavarian police officer, his expertise in this and many other spectacular kidnapping cases of that time was highly valued.

The native of Upper Palatinate has now died at the age of 93.

On Wednesday he was buried in his beloved Ergertshausen.

The man who was to write Bavarian police history was born in Waldmünchen in 1927.

In the last days of the war, the son of an artist was drafted into the Navy.

After studying law and psychology, he was promoted to deputy head of the Straubing and Stadelheim correctional facilities, which were still called prisons at the time.

Here he dealt with the aspect of rehabilitation of prisoners.

In the troubled days of the student movement and the RAF terror, Häring headed the Munich criminal police.

During this time, from 1964 to 1973, he was by no means only working at his desk, but was also directly involved in the action, for example in spectacular kidnapping cases like that of Theo Albrecht.

This earned him great reputation in the professional world.

Elected Ergertshauser shaped the state capital's criminal investigation department into a modern and powerful instrument for combating crime.

It is also thanks to him that Munich is still considered a safe metropolis.

Haring worked in a time of terror

The experience as head of the Munich criminal investigation department qualified Häring from 1973 to 1981 in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior as head of the “Police Deployment, Organization and Operations” department.

The Ergertshauser was responsible for nationalizing the community police, a task that required as much sensitivity as it did with energy.

This time was also marked by terrorist attacks, squatting and demonstrations, some of which were brutal.

Häring responded to this with “attention, constant readiness for action and an extraordinary feeling for developments in the police force.” This is what the laudation on the occasion of the award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1984 said.

He loved his garden - and the sheep's head

Hermann Häring also felt committed to the issues of security and order during his time as President of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 1981 to 1987.

The last station of this remarkable civil servant career was again the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, this time the department “Public Safety and Order”, where he developed strategies against new forms of crime, such as drug crime.

How far-sighted Häring acted is also shown by the fact that he founded a central training institute for the Bavarian police in Ainring - a facility that is unique in Germany.

The fact that Hermann Häring was also a devout Christian, loving family man, enthusiastic Schafkopfer and devoted gardener became clear at the small group of funeral in Ergertshausen.

At the grave, the family read a letter to their beloved husband, father, grandpa, and great-grandpa.

It said, for example: “Have fun fooling around with the angels.

And take good care of us from up there. "

Source: merkur

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