Berndt Georg Thamm

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Berndt Georg Thamm (* 1946 in Berlin ) is a German social worker and author .

Life

Berndt Georg Thamm studied social work in Berlin from 1970 and graduated in 1973 with the title of Diplom-Sozialpädagoge . He is said to have been shaped by an encounter with drug addicts Vietnam veterans during a kibbutz stay in Israel in 1968. This led to his participation in Germany's first drug research group under forensic doctor Friedrich Bschor .

From 1971 to 1984 he was a street worker and subsequently also head of drug prevention at the Caritas Association in Berlin. From 1974 he lectured on drug aid at various educational institutions and until 1992 held teaching positions for drug counseling and therapy as well as drug policy at various universities.

From 1985 to 1995 he advised members of the European Parliament and was an expert there on drug investigation committees and other hearings. He has also been advising the police union for many years.

Since 1984 he has published numerous books and specialist articles on the subjects of social work, drug aid, drug and organized crime and terrorism. He also gives lectures, also on further training in state police schools and in the armed forces .

He lives with his wife Monika, who is a co-author of several books, as a freelance specialist journalist and publicist in Berlin-Schöneberg. There he maintains, according to his own description a “bibliophile fool”, an extensive archive relating to his work. He is consulted and published as an expert by numerous media of all genres.

Thamm is a member of the “Clausewitz Society” . and the " Discussion Group for Intelligence Services in Germany eV " (GKND).

Opinions and positions

He sees the goals of "jihad terrorism" in the establishment of an Islamic state of God.

In September 2004, he advocated consideration of the use of torture in police interrogations. A year later, however, he saw the results that could be obtained as sham confessions .

In addition to violent attacks and ideological propaganda in the target country, he sees the “economic war” as a third path for Islamist forces. Terrorist attacks on tourists in secular states are said to affect the economy there. Targeted attacks on technical equipment would also drive up the price of oil .

Publications

  • The cartel. About drugs and markets - a modern fairy tale
  • Drug Release - Surrender or Way Out? , Verlag Dt. Police literature, Hilden 1989, ISBN 3-8011-0183-5
  • Mafia global: organized crime on the move into the 21st century , together with Konrad Freiberg, Verlag Dt. Police literature, Hilden 1998, ISBN 3-8011-0354-4
  • Terrorism: a handbook about perpetrators and victims , Verlag Dt. Police literature, Hilden 2002, ISBN 3-8011-0457-5
  • Terror base Germany - The Islamist threat in our midst , Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7205-2525-2
  • Al Qaeda - The Network of Terror , Diederichs / Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen 2005, ISBN 3-7205-2636-4
  • Jihad in Asia , DTV, Munich 01/2008, ISBN 978-3423246521
  • Terror target Germany - strategies of attackers, scenarios of defense , Rotbuch 02/2011, ISBN 978-3-86789-130-1

Essays

  • The drug situation in the Federal Republic of Germany with Berlin (West) at the turn of 1980-81 , In: Social Work, 30 (1981) 2, pp. 68-73
  • Tomorrow's Snow - Cocaine , In: Psychologie heute, 11 (1984) 10, pp. 56-59
  • The gloomy alliance - civil war, organized crime and terrorism , GdP magazine, special supplement 8/1999
  • Fundamentalism - God's warriors carry terror to Europe (PDF; 72 kB) , GdP magazine, 9/2001 (written before the 9/11 attacks)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berndt Georg Thamm: Forging plans in prison Die Zeit, November 27, 2003, No. 49.
  2. ↑ Berndt Georg Thamm: Germany Remains Opponent of Jihad Terrorism (PDF; 4.9 MB), Journal of the GdP, 9/2004, p. 22.
  3. ↑ How the USA is trying to circumvent the ban on torture Welt am Sonntag (online edition), December 11, 2005.
  4. ↑ Berndt Georg Thamm: Ideological and economic wars are also ways to a 'state of God'. Sicherheit-heute.de, November 23, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Thamm, Berndt Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin