A few of the characters accompany him throughout the series, the pension owner Pia Kleinholz, which is later his stepmother, when she marries his father.
Subjects were truancy, drugs, career pressures on students, divorces, pranks, kidnappings, extortion, evil and good caretakers and much more.
Specht itself is under some relationships, loses his beloved but increasingly due to the fact that it's more important than his students are often very demanding women.
Specht is in every season and every change of school, first hated by his students, but then builds on a relationship of trust that sets it apart from other teachers.
In this context, he once remarked: People will always see the teacher in me, I wish he would have died the serientod, or the corpse in my first Tatort is found with the cry "The Specht is dead!