Sicherheitspolizei

The main office of the Security Police ( Abbreviation: Sipo, or Security Police ) was in the time of National Socialism a person responsible for the entire German Reich Security Authority, were summarized in the Gestapo and Criminal Police. Reporting directly to the Security Police was the Reichsführer- SS Heinrich Himmler. It was headed by Reinhard Heydrich and from January 1943 by his successor, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, in his function as Chief of the Security Police and the SD.

History

Himmler immediately after his appointment on 17 June 1936 " RFSS and Chief of the German Police " (although he already figured since 1934 under this title ), the Association of Political Police, that is the police departments and offices that are already before the Nazi dictatorship had to take care of political and subversive crime, and criminal investigation has a unit with close proximity to the Schutzstaffel (SS). Criminal police and the Gestapo were together from then on the Security Police.

Previously had Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich taken 1933-1934 head of the offices or departments of the political police in the countries of the German Reich, while the Political Police usually already under the name " Secret State Police " ( Gestapo ) from the jurisdiction interior ministries solved. Thus, they were removed by a closer bond to the SS and the influence of the Sturmabteilung (SA ), as the SA had often asked the chief of police in countries and communities of the German Empire after the Nazi seizure of power.

Himmler had the SD in July 1939, the opponents of the Gestapo and determination to fight against the enemy. As part of the centralization process, this division was established in 1940 lifted, so that the mixing of the political police and the CID was driven even further with the SD and SS.

The entry of police officers of the Criminal Investigation Department in the SS was funded, coercion, or an automatic transfer did not exist, however. They got there a corresponding her police rank SS - rank.

The creation of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on 27 September 1939, the Security Police was with the Security Service (SD) merged and thus almost fully integrated into the SS.

The official seat was in Berlin -Kreuzberg. The property now belongs to the Topography of Terror memorial.