He was regarded as a symbolic figure in the fight against the RAF: The former head of the Federal criminal police office, Horst Herold, dead. The long-standing President died at the age of 95 years.
in mourning the former chief of the Federal criminal police office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA): The years of President Horst Herold has died. He was 95 years old. The BKA with.
Herold was from 1971 to 1981, the BKA-President. His term was dominated by the fight against the Red army faction (RAF). Herold is also regarded as the inventor of the computer-based police work, which resulted later in a controversial dragnet.
He built the Federal criminal police office in the 1970s, especially in technical terms is fundamental. So it could pass thanks to the so-called Inpol system, the BKA Headquarters in 1972 in a matter of seconds information to the investigators.
8. In may 1981, the term Horst Herald ended up as a BKA-chief. The former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) adopted him.
“Influential Criminologist of the post-war period,”
The Federal of German detective (BDK) described the Herald as “a symbol of the fight against the RAF”. Herold had driven the technical and human resources of the BKA during his term in office, successfully progressing and the authority in the field of forensic science will be strengthened.
“The German criminal police bows today one of the most influential and most innovative criminologists in the post-war period”, said the BDK’s Federal Chairman Sebastian Fiedler.
According to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, died Herold, after a short illness.