René Allonge

Vita

René Allonge is a Chief Detective Superintendent and has headed the Specialist Unit for Art Crime at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office since 2009. His responsibilities include, in particular, investigating art thefts, including break-ins at museums. His unit gained nationwide attention through the investigations that led to the conviction of the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi in 2010. In 2015, as part of an investigation in Bad Dürkheim, Allonge tracked down numerous monumental sculptures by the Nazi sculptors Josef Thorak, Arno Breker and Fritz Klimsch. In 2019, he was involved in the recovery of the five Old Masters that were stolen from Friedenstein Castle during the famous Gotha art heist in December 1979.