Alfred Einwag

Alfred Einwag (born March 18, 1928 in Ebern ) is a German lawyer . From 1988 to 1993 he was Federal Commissioner for Data Protection .

Life

Einwag was born the son of a farmer and master glazier . His school education was interrupted by his service as an air force helper and subsequent American captivity; In 1947 he graduated. He then studied philosophy and modern philology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg before switching to law . From 1950 he studied at the University of Munich , where he graduated with the 1st state examination in the same year . He received his doctorate in 1952 and passed the second state examination in 1955.

Alfred Einwag then began his administrative career in the district government of Lower Franconia in 1956, but already moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in October 1956 , where he became a consultant for public service law. In 1964 he became head of the department for policy, legal and organizational matters of the Federal Border Guard .

In 1989, during his tenure as Federal Commissioner for Data Protection, he criticized the uncontrolled collection of information by the State Security Department of the Federal Criminal Police Office in the Apis file. In 1992 there was a dispute with Eckart Werthebach , the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the time , because the Protection of the Constitution was passing on information without authorization.

Work (selection)

• Alfred Einwag, Gerd-Dieter Schön: Commentary on the Federal Border Guard Act. Verlag für Verwaltungspraxis Rehm, Munich 1983.

Web links

• Alfred Einwag in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Echt so, Ehrlich , Der Spiegel , issue 7/1989 of February 13, 1989.
2. ↑ Blaues Wunder , Der Spiegel , issue 15/1992 from April 6, 1992.