SOKO 5113 is a long running German

Germany

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 police

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 television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO

SOKO

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 is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" (Special [Police] Commission - meaning special investigation team) in German.

Longest serving cast

• Wilfried Klaus
  Wilfried Klaus
  Wilfried Klaus is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 3, Episode 12: "Risiko" * Derrick - Season 5, Episode 13: "Abitur"...
  
   as Kriminalhauptkommissar Horst Schickl (381 episodes, 1978–2008)
• Hartmut Schreier as Kriminalkommissar Manne Brand (278 episodes, 1992–2008)
• Michel Guillaume as Kriminalkommissar Theo Renner (261 episodes, 1993–2008)
• Werner Kreindl
  Werner Kreindl
  Werner Kreindl was an Austrian television actor.He appeared in around 75 TV programmes between 1966 and his death in 1992. He was probably best known for his appearances in SOKO 5113 from 1978 to 1992.- Filmography :...
  
   as Kriminalhauptkommissar Karl Göttmann (126 episodes, 1978–1992)
• Christine Döring as Kriminaloberkommissarin Susanne von Hagenberg (118 episodes, 2000–2008)
• Bernd Herzsprung
  Bernd Herzsprung
  Bernd Herzsprung is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 3, Episode 3: "Angst" * Derrick - Season 6, Episode 9: "Ein Kongreß in Berlin"...
  
   as Kriminalobermeister Fred Less (115 episodes, 1978–2008)

Spin-offs

The first spin-off series was a twelve-part series named "Solo für Sudmann" in 1997, followed by SOKO series based in other cities in Germany and Austria:

• SOKO Leipzig
  SOKO Leipzig
  SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on the 31st of January 2001, on German television channel ZDF...
  
  (since 2001)
• SOKO Kitzbühel
  Kitzbühel
  -Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
  
  (since 2003)
• SOKO Köln
  Cologne
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  (since 2003)
• SOKO Wismar
  Wismar
  Wismar , is a small port and Hanseatic League town in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,about 45 km due east of Lübeck, and 30 km due north of Schwerin. Its natural harbour, located in the Bay of Wismar is well-protected by a promontory. The...
  
  (since 2004)
• SOKO Donau
  Danube
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  (in Germany SOKO Wien
  Vienna
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  ; since 2005)
• SOKO Rhein-Main (since 2006; initially titled Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main)
• SOKO Stuttgart
  Stuttgart
  Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
  
  (since 2009)