Claudia Schmid (lawyer)

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Claudia Schmid (* approx. 1956 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer . Between 2001 and November 2012 she was the head of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Education and career

Schmid graduated from high school in 1975 and studied until 1984 at the Free University of Berlin and in Auckland, New Zealand. She worked in the Senate School Administration, for the House of Representatives, in the justice department of the financial administration and from 1990 in the data protection authority. Until 2000 she was the deputy of the Berlin commissioner for data protection and inspection of files .

Destruction of files at the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution

In the process of coming to terms with the NSU terror in 2012, deficiencies in various Berlin security authorities became apparent. At first it became known that the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) had an undercover agent in the immediate vicinity of the murderer trio, but did not inform the NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag.

At the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution, headed by Claudia Schmid, important files on the case of the racist series of murders were destroyed at least twice. The documents also concerned the right-wing extremist organization Blood and Honor , which had been banned since 2000 . Contrary to the regulations, the files were not offered to the State Archives for assessment, but were destroyed by one or two employees in their own authority. The management of the house described the destruction as a "regrettable oversight". Claudia Schmid was informed about the destruction of the files during her vacation, but only informed the responsible interior senator Frank Henkel after her return . On November 14, 2012, immediately after the announcement of the destruction of the files, Schmid resigned from her position as head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Structure / organizational chart. ( Memento from November 18, 2012 on WebCite ) Verfassungsschutz Berlin on Berlin.de, November 18, 2012, retrieved from WebCite on January 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv/claudia-schmid
  3. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/datenschuetzerin-leitet-ab-sofort-den-verfassungsschutz-claudia-schmid-wechselelt-die-seiten,10810590,9862170.html
  4. ↑ NSU affair: the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution destroyed further files  ( 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. , rbb-online.de, November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rbb-online.de  
  5. ↑ Berlin's highest constitutional protector throws down. Spiegel Online , November 14, 2012, accessed November 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin