Until the beginning of the 1990s, only few German-speaking historians and social scientists took an interest in police development and history. Before that time, police history in Germany had taken place more or less in the writings of scholars from law history and in the memoirs of former policemen only. In 1990, Alf Lüdtke convinced the German Historical Association to include a session on police history in the program of the Associations Annual Meeting, which took place that year at the Un..
