Paul Anlauf

Paul Anlauf (* April 9, 1882, † August 9, 1931) was a human being and head of the police station in Hankestraße (today Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße) who was responsible for the Platz was responsible, and father of two daughters. Anlauf was not considered very charming in his area and was blamed by the residents for the somewhat `tough approach of the police. This explains his (rather not meant to be dear) nickname Schweinebacke (“pig face or pig cheek”). 
On August 9, 1931, Anlauf, like the police captain Franz Lenck, was killed by two members of the party self-protection of the KPD, Erich Mielke and Erich Ziemer, in front of the Babylon shot. Anlauf was 49 years old at the time. 60 years later Mielke was sentenced to six years in prison for this act.
In 1934 the Memorial to the Police Officers and Sergeants Who Fallen and Wounded at Work was inaugurated in his honor. Today a plaque commemorates the two police officers.
His daughter Dora Zimmermann remembers the crime in Berlin Ecke Volksbühne.
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