Academy for the Protection of the Constitution

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The Academy for the Protection of the Constitution ( AfV ), until 2014 the School for the Protection of the Constitution (SfV), is maintained by the federal government and the federal states as a joint educational institution of the constitution protection authorities in Germany (including the Military Counter- Intelligence Service (MAD)) in Swisttal - Heimerzheim . As a federal institution with no legal capacity, it is incorporated into the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).

Tasks and funding

The Academy for the Protection of the Constitution has the task of training the candidates in the specialist preparatory service for the career of the middle non-technical administrative service, introducing employees of the constitution protection authorities to their tasks, carrying out basic training for employees newly appointed to the MAD, offering further training and carrying out applied intelligence research .

The federal government bears 70 percent of the costs of the academy, the states together 30 percent. The budget is shown separately in the business plan of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

history

The School for the Protection of the Constitution was established in 1982 and followed on from the tasks of the school in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had existed since 1955 and was set up for the training and advanced training of the protection of the constitution and was housed in a villa in the Cologne city forest . With the “Agreement on the Establishment of a School for the Protection of the Constitution” between the federal and state governments, which came into force on January 1, 1980, the organizational and financial foundations for the joint educational institution were laid. At the beginning of 1982, the new school for the protection of the constitution (SfV) began teaching. It was financially supported by the federal and state governments and organizationally affiliated to the “Public Security” department of the then federal university of applied sciences .

Under the long-standing leadership of Andreas Hübsch, who played a key role in building up the school and retired in 2007, the facility developed into an overarching educational platform for the German intelligence services, on which, in addition to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the state authorities for the protection of the constitution, since the merger of the SfV with the "Lehrgruppe MAD" of the school for communications of the Federal Armed Forces (SNBw) in the year 2000 also the Federal Armed Forces is involved.

The facility has had its current name since May 1, 2014. The renaming from school to "Academy" was intended to document the increased orientation of the training towards science and research and was also a consequence of the reworking of the NSU complex .

Management, supervision and board of trustees

The Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (BMI), the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) and the interior ministers / senators of the federal states jointly carry out technical supervision . Supervision is the responsibility of the President of the BfV and the MAD within their respective areas of responsibility. The BMI, in agreement with the BMVg and the interior ministers / senators, appoints a director to head the AfV. The head of the AfV is Ralf Frauenrath.

A board of trustees is set up at the AfV . In particular, it has the tasks of exercising technical supervision, determining the guidelines for the technical work of the school, helping to determine the principles for admission to career courses, approving learning objectives, content, methods and resources, and issuing examination regulations and the examination committees to approve the annual course schedule, to select the full-time lecturers, to define the principles for the granting of part-time lectureships and lecturers, to approve the estimates for the business plan and larger research projects, and to submit statements on administrative agreements that affect the Academy. The Board of Trustees comprises 20 members (2 each from the BfV and MAD, 1 each from each country), has rules of procedure and elects a chairman and his deputy from among its members for a period of two years. The federal government and each state each have one vote on the board of trustees. The AfV leader takes part in an advisory capacity. Meetings take place every six months, mostly in Heimerzheim. Every year the board of trustees submits a report on the activities of the AfV to the conference of interior ministers , the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Defense.

education

The in-service training measures are geared towards the specific activities at the BfV, the state authorities for the protection of the constitution and the MAD. Introductory courses, basic and advanced courses, seminars and special courses on special topics are held, which are intended to enable effective cooperation between the security authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany. The following training focuses are taught:

The career courses or the introductory courses are intended to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills necessary for fulfilling the tasks of their career or their activities in the protection of the constitution / MAD. The achievement of the goals is determined by career tests.

Full-time lecturers are sent by the federal government and the federal states. The posting should not exceed five years. The academy has to bring in guest lecturers from practice and science.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Agreement on the School for the Protection of the Constitution (SfV). In: http://transparenz.bremen.de/ . Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, January 1, 2000, accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  2. Herbert Kloninger: Continuity in turbulent times - comments on the professional life of Andreas Hübsch . In: Armin Pfahl-Traughber , Monika Rose-Stahl (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the School for the Protection of the Constitution and for Andreas Hübsch (=  Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration [Hrsg.]: Series of publications by the Public Safety Department . Volume 31 ). Brühl 2007, ISBN 978-3-938407-20-2 , pp. 620–631 (= http://edoc.vifapol.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1253/pdf/band_31.pdf#620 [PDF]).
  3. ^ Heinz Fromm : Foreword by the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In: Armin Pfahl-Traughber , Monika Rose-Stahl (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the School for the Protection of the Constitution and for Andreas Hübsch (=  Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration [Hrsg.]: Series of publications by the Public Safety Department . Volume 31 ). Brühl 2007, ISBN 978-3-938407-20-2 , pp. 12 f . (= http://edoc.vifapol.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1253/pdf/band_31.pdf#12 [PDF]).
  4. Stefan Mayer: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution - School for Protection of the Constitution is now the Academy for Protection of the Constitution. Ceremony: New name and new orientation of the central training and further education of constitutional protection officers in the federal and state levels. In: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. www.verfassungsschutz.de, May 14, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2015 .
  5. see foreword to the published diploma theses of the AfV: https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/das-bfv/akademie-fuer-verfassungsschutz/pb-diplomarbeiten
  6. ^ Academy for the Protection of the Constitution. In: https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/ . BfV, November 2, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 55.2 ″  E