Adminstrative police in Nazi Germany
Verwaltungspolizei, the administrative police of the Third Reich, was not only responsible for the internal administration of the police services, but also for many administrative functions which in other countries were performed by purely civilian agencies.
State police departments
The police commissioners of the state police departments in cities were police lawyers of the administrative police with the grades of Polizeidirektor or Polizeipräsident. The staff of the administrative police consisted of police lawyers, police administrative officials, as well as the jailers of the police jails.[1]
Mission
The administrative police of the state police departments handled the following type of matters:[2]
- Financial administration of the state police department.
- Passports, control of aliens, civil registration (including the Nuremberg Laws), registration of conscripts.
- Traffic regulations, waterways and fire inspection.
- Control of trade establishments and their licences.
- Regulations on punishable offences, welfare matters, health inspection, food and veterinary inspection.
Municipal police departments
The municipal police departments handled the same type of business as the state police departments. In addition in handled the type of police duties that was reserved for the municipal authorities, such as building inspection, forest police, housing inspection, homelessness, and school attendance. Only the larger cities without a state police department had a special staff of Gemeindeverwaltungspolizeibeamten, municipal administrative police officials. In smaller cities and in towns the administrative police functions were handled by the regular civil municipal administration.[3]
Grade and pay
| Pay grade | Annual pay Reichsmark |
Lower career | Middle career | Upper career | Higher career or Police lawyers |
Corresponding rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A10b | 1700–2400 | Amtsgehilfe Botenmeister Hausmeister | – | – | – | Wachtmeister |
| A10a | 1759–2550 | Betriebsassistent Oberbotenmeister | – | – | – | Revieroberwachtmeister |
| A9 | 1800–2700 | Polizei- Gefängnisoberwachtmeister Vollziehungsbeamter | – | – | – | |
| Polizei- Gefängnishauptwachtmeister Erste Polizeigefängnis-hauptwachtmeister | – | – | – | Hauptwachtmeister | ||
| A8a | 2100–2800 | – | Polizeiassistent Kanzleiassistent Regierungsassistent Verwaltungsassistent technischer Assistent | – | – | |
| A7a | 2350–3500 | Polizeigefängnis- Verwalter | Polizeisekretär Kanzleisekretär Regierungssekretär technischer Sekretär | – | – | Meister |
| A5b | 2300–4200 | Polizeigefängnis- Oberverwalter | Polizeiobersekretär Kanzleiobersekretär Regierungsobersekretär techn. Obersekretär Waffenmeister | – | – | Obermeister Revierleutnant |
| A4c2 | 2800–5000 | – | – | Polizeiinspektor Waffeninspektor Waffenrevisor | – | Oberleutnant |
| A4c1 | 2 800–5300 | – | – | Polizeinspektor Polizeirentmeister | – | |
| A4b2 | 3000–5500 | – | – | Polizeioberinspektor Polizeirechnungsrevisor | – | Hauptmann |
| A4b1 | 4100–5800 | – | – | Polizeioberinspektor Polizeioberrentmeister Waffenoberrevisor Oberbuchalter | – | |
| A3b | 4800–7 000 | – | – | Polizeirat Polizeiamtmann (with less than 3 years in the grade) | – | |
| – | – | Polizeirat Polizeiamtmann | – | Major | ||
| A2d | 4800–7800 | – | Amtsrat Polizeioberamtmann | – | ||
| A2c2 | 4800–8400 | – | – | Regierungsassessor | Hauptmann | |
| – | – | – | Regierungsrat (with less than 3 years in the grade) | |||
| – | – | Regierungs- und Kassenrat | Regierungsrat | Major | ||
| A2b | 7 000–9700 | – | – | – | Polizeidirektor Oberregierungsrat Oberstleutnant der Polizei | Oberstleutnant |
| A1b | 6200–10600 | – | – | – | Polizeipräsident (cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants) Regierungsdirektor | Oberst |
| A1a | 8400–12600 | – | – | – | Polizeipräsident (cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants) Polizeivizepräsident (Berlin) Ministerialrat Oberst der Polizei | |
| B8 | 14000 | – | – | Polizeipräsident (cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants) | Generalmajor | |
| B7b | 15000 | – | – | – | Polizeipräsident (Hamburg) | |
| B7a | 16000 | – | – | – | Polizeipräsident (Wien) Ministerialdirigent | |
| B6 | 17000 | – | – | – | Polizeipräsident (Berlin) | Generalleutnant |
| B4 | 19000 | – | – | – | Ministerialdirektor |
References
Literature
- Boberach, Heinz (1997). Ämter, Abkürzungen, Aktionen des NS-Staates. München.
- Mollo, Andrew (1971). Uniforms of the SS - Volume 5 - Sicherheitsdienst und Sicherheitspolizei 1931–1945. London.
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (1945). The German Police. London.