Ender, Karl

Chief of Police

Born: 18.05.1921 in Rastatt

died: 15.07.1995 in Wiesbaden

After completing his labor service in 1939, Ender began basic training as a police constable in Fürstenfeldbruck. He later moved to Weimar, Dresden and Berlin and was transferred to Bremen in 1941. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was seconded several times from his police station to serve at the front and was briefly taken prisoner by the Russians. From May 1945 onwards, having been released by the military government in the meantime, he returned to police duty in Bremen - initially as an auxiliary officer and later as deputy district manager.

Ender studied law from 1949-52 and taught at the state police school between 1953 and 1956. After passing his first state law examination in December 1953, he initially worked as a police inspector and clerk at the Bremen City and Police Office and, following his second legal clerkship, as a clerk at the Bremen District Court in the management of the police force. In 1957, he completed his doctorate with a dissertation on "Sovereign and private law actions of the police when requesting assistance from an uninvolved third party in emergencies". Shortly afterwards, he passed the Second State Examination in Law and was appointed Deputy Head of the Bremen Criminal Investigation Department in July 1958.

In 1963, he was selected for the post of Wiesbaden police chief and was in the public eye, particularly during the student protests at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. Afterwards, he also introduced the office of "Police Commissioner for Foreigners", which still plays an important role in the process of integration in the police force today. He retired in 1985.

Ender became a well-known public figure and distinguished himself through his civic commitment. In 1972-94 he was chairman of the police sports club Grün-Weiß Wiesbaden and in January 1977 he founded the association "Bürger und Polizei e.V." (Citizens and Police), which shaped the relationship between society and the police as a dialog and continues to do so today.