Criminal terror

From cross-country skiing talent to Carinthia’s top investigator

"Tracker" Reinhold Wiedergut at one of his main workplaces on the south highway

(Bild: Klaus Loibnegger)

When Reinhold Wiedergut isn't training colleagues abroad or protecting the EU's external borders, he's catching criminals in Carinthia.

"Number 1 sleuth" - this is how Carinthia's Police Officer of the Year 2014 is referred to by his colleagues. In fact, Reinhold Wiedergut from Villach is probably one of the most successful investigators in the country - and is sent all over the world "on the side" on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior as a red-white-red model officer. And this despite the fact that the husband and father of a son who has just graduated from high school actually had completely different plans as a teenager.