Dirk-Martin Christian

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Dirk-Martin Christian (* 1962 in Bonn ) is a German protection officer and has been President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony since July 1, 2020 . Christian has been a civil servant in the Saxon civil service since 1993.

Career

Christian studied from 1983 to 1989 at the University of Bonn law . He did his legal clerkship from 1990 to 1993 at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne . He then moved to the service of the Free State of Saxony and was employed by the Dresden Regional Council until 1997 as head of department for immigration and nationality law as well as for local government and savings banks. In 1997 he went to the Saxon State Ministry for Culture as a consultant for personnel matters for teachers . In the same year he took on a position as a consultant for municipal constitutional law at the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior . Between 1998 and 2006 he was again Head of Department for Municipal and Savings Banks at the Dresden Regional Council. From 2007 Christian worked at the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony as head of the central department. In 2012 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior as head of the local finance and local tax law department; In February 2019, he was transferred to the position of Head of the Constitutional Protection and Security Division.

With a cabinet decision of June 30, 2020, Christian was appointed as the successor to Gordian Meyer-Plath as President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony.

Deletion of data on members of the AfD at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony

According to Interior Minister Wöller, the change in leadership at the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is intended to take more effective action against extremist efforts in order to remove the ground from extremism in the Free State of Saxony.

At the same time, it became known through the media that in the run-up to Meyer-Plath's replacement, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had been given a deletion instruction by Christian, who is responsible for the technical supervision in the State Ministry of the Interior, for data from members of the Alternative for Germany , including four members of the state parliament, one MEP and three members of the Bundestag , including party chairman Tino Chrupalla , who opposed Meyer-Plath for weeks. Christian considers the deletion to be necessary because of the special protection of mandate holders . He had previously refused to declare the Pegida an observation case by the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Editorships

Together with Helmut Weidelener, Dirk-Martin Christian was the editor of the loose-leaf collection of municipal law in Saxony. Legal collection with explanations for municipal practice

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk-Martin Christian becomes the new President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , media information from June 30, 2020
  2. ^ Allegations against the new head of the protection of the constitution in Saxony Deutschlandfunk, July 1, 2020
  3. ^ Saxony wants to delete data from AfD politicians , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 1, 2020
  4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Christian, Dirk-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional protector and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn