Zörgiebel Karl Friedrich

Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel (30 September 1878 in Mainz, 14 March 1961 ebenda) was a German politician and chief of the police in Cologne and Berlin. The learned Küfer became 1901 member of the social-democratic party and belonged to 1919/20 of the Prussian state meeting and from 1920 to 1924 Reichstag . From 1922 to 1926 he was a chief of the police in Cologne and from 1926 to 1930 chief of the police in Berlin. In its function as a citizen of Berlin chief of the police he knows before the traditional May demonstrations on to 21. March 1929 issued demonstration prohibition for Prussia, since he feared and forbade arguments between members of the NSDAP and the communist party of Germany (KPD) the communist red front fighter federation (RFB), whereby this prohibition was expanded a little later since the entire realm area.

When ten thousands followed the call of the KPD nevertheless, it came to unrests on the occasion of the May demonstration, which entered as blood May 1929 history. The security police of Berlin proceeded on instruction Zörgiebels and the Prussian Minister of the Interior Albert Grzesinski radical against the demonstrators and killed in the following days 32 demonstrators and indifferent adjacents resident. Of the 3. - 6. May 1929 imposed also a “traffic and a light prohibition” to Zörgiebel over the citizens of Berlin of districts Wedding and Neukölln. Zörgiebel acquired itself in addition, earnings/services around of Berlin modern traffic regulations. For example the introduction took place from traffic lights during its term of office. After the war it was involved in the reconstruction of the police, became 1945 SPD chairmen in Mainz and was from 1947 to 1949 police force president of Rhineland-Palatinate. it received the large Order of Merit to 1953. The Zörgiebelweg in Berlin Spandau and the Karl Zörgiebelstrasse in Mainz and Pulheim are designated after it.