Egbert Bulles

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Egbert Bülles (* 1946 in Langenfeld ) is a former senior public prosecutor in Cologne .

Life

Bülles grew up as one of six children of a government director in Aachen , attended the ancient language Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium before he completed a law degree in Bonn .

Bülles has two sons and lives with his wife in Bonn . He is a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Alania Bonn in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations .

activity

In the mid-1990s, Bülles supported the local public prosecutor's office in Potsdam for a few months and compiled incriminating documents there relating to alleged Stasi contacts of the former Brandenburg Prime Minister / Federal Minister of Transport, Manfred Stolpe, into a 154-page file.

For two decades, Bülles has been involved in the fight against organized crime as a lawyer . His specialty is human trafficking , where he enjoys an international reputation. In September 2001 he was involved in the investigation of the Federal Border Police against Ukrainian smugglers from Cologne-Kalk. Bülles and his team of ten finally managed to convict a Ukrainian smuggler and a person who had provided the controversial Carnet des Passages to obtain the visa.

During these trials in 2004 and 2005, Bülles severely criticized what he saw as the inadequate cooperation between the Foreign Office and his department. The documents requested were only forwarded to him after several months and the threat of a house search . The employees of the Foreign Office received only very limited permission to testify from their office. In a television interview, he then criticized the operations with the remark: "quasi under the eyes and with the help of government departments have been carried out in the largest style smuggling." . Thereupon the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Lutz Diwell, complained to the Cologne Public Prosecutor Georg Linden and asked for a disciplinary review. The disciplinary proceedings were discontinued shortly afterwards due to numerous facts presented by Bülles.

In 2005, Bülles appeared as a witness before the visa investigation committee of the German Bundestag in Berlin .

Out of anger at the then General Secretary of the CSU , Gerold Tandler , Bülles resigned from the CDU in 1983 because Tandler insulted the prosecutors in Bonn who uncovered the Flick party donation scandal as terrorists. In front of colleagues, Bülles commented on the proposal of the CSU chairman of the Visa investigation committee, Hans-Peter Uhl , to propose to Bülles for the Federal Cross of Merit because of his moral courage in dealing with the politically powerful : "I won't let anyone instrumentalize me."

Bülles retired in March 2012 . In 2013, in his book “Germany - Verbrecherland? My commitment against organized crime “is a summary of his more than 30 years of work as a public prosecutor.

literature

  • Germany, criminal country ?: My work against organized crime . Econ, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-430-20159-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview with Egbert Bülles - "One must not keep the facts secret" . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . December 16, 2013 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed October 13, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Does Germany make it too easy for criminals? Die Welt, October 19, 2013, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bülles, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chief public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenfeld