Bernhard Witthaut

Bernhard Witthaut (2011)

Bernhard Witthaut (born July 20, 1955 in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald ) is a German police officer and has been President of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution since 2019 . From 2010 to 2013 he was Federal Chairman of the Police Union (GdP). After the red-green victory in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 , he was appointed Police President of the Osnabrück Police Department by Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) . In 2019 he succeeded Maren Brandenburger as President of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Police career

Witthaut carried the official title of First Police Chief Inspector . After the state elections, Boris Pistorius also recalled the police presidents of Hanover and Oldenburg (and thus 3 out of 6 police presidents). The taxpayers' association demanded that after state elections these posts (which, as political officials, can be put into temporary retirement at any time) should be dispensed with. The now opposition CDU criticized in particular the salary jump from A 13 to B 4 .

Union activity

Witthaut succeeded Konrad Freiberg (SPD) as federal chairman of the police union in 2010, who was no longer up for re-election at the 2010 federal congress. He had already been represented on the GdP's federal executive board as deputy federal chairman since 1998, and he was also chairman of the Lower Saxony state association. He is a member of the Lower Saxony police .

Witthaut took the attacks in Norway in July 2011 as an opportunity to demand the creation of a new file in which people who had become suspicious should be registered. The federal chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG), Rainer Wendt , rejected these demands as a "total overreaction".

In May 2013 he was replaced by Oliver Malchow .

Private

Witthaut is a father of two and is a member of the SPD .

Quotes

"Anyone who decides on longer running times for nuclear power plants shouldn't be surprised at longer running times for Castor transports "

- Handelsblatt.

“Doesn't the tense view of the daily“ political correctness ”obscure the view of the essentials, of that which seriously threatens our society? [...] Nobody should rub their eyes at the extent of the parallel societies brought to light by the police raids. It's late, but not too late, to break them up. "

- Commentary on raids against rockers, Salafists and neo-Nazis in the journal German Police of the Police Union.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Vita von Witthaut on the GdP website ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Bernhard Witthaut elected as the new GdP boss. Spiegel Online , November 22, 2010, accessed November 23, 2010 . 
3. ^ "Red-Green Banana Republic"; in: FAZ of April 18, 2013, page 4
4. ↑ An assassination attempt can also happen here at any time. welt.de, July 25, 2011, accessed on July 28, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Ole Reissmann: The misconceptions of the agitators. Spiegel online , July 27, 2011, accessed July 28, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Wendt criticizes the proposal for a new file for suspicious people. (No longer available online.) Net-tribune.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 28, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Peter Carstens: Portrait: Bernhard Witthaut. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 24, 2010, accessed on November 24, 2010 . 
8. ↑ The new plain language speaker of the police. Handelsblatt , accessed on November 24, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Late, but not too late. (PDF) In: German Police. Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur , July 1, 2012, p. 4 , accessed on July 7, 2012 .