Ernst Brückner (lawyer)

Ernst Brückner (born February 9, 1909 , † 1976 ) was a German lawyer. From 1964 to 1967 he was Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life

The doctorate lawyer resigned after the transfer of power to the Nazis in 1933 as Sturmmann in the SA -Nachrichtensturm 212 in Itzehoe one. In 1936 he became a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association , the following year he became a member of the NSDAP and the NSV . From 1937 he worked for various public prosecutors until he became a public prosecutor in Itzehoe in 1939. The attorney general in Kiel saw in an assessment of August 8, 1939 Brückner "absolutely the guarantee that he will always stand up for the National Socialist state." From September 1939 to spring 1945 Brückner was deployed as a flak officer in World War II .

When the war ended he fell into Allied prisoner of war and was interned until the 1946th Under the code name CARPETMAKER he helped the CIA to expose Soviet agents among the returning prisoners of war from the Soviet Union and acted as an advisor to the CIA against Soviet electronic surveillance in West Germany. After his release and denazification , he resumed his work as a public prosecutor in Itzehoe. In the Federal Republic of Germany he headed the security group in Bad Godesberg in the Federal Criminal Police Office from 1952 to 1964 . From 1964 to 1967 he was Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

literature

Ernst Klee : Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
Dieter Schenk : Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03034-5 .

Web links

Brückner, Ernst at www.bundesarchiv.de
Shadows of the Past - The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic Page 169

Individual evidence

↑ Quoted from Klee, Personenlexikon , p. 77
^ Yasha Levine: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet . PublicAffairs, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-61039-803-9 , Future War.
^ Central Intelligence Agency: Memorandum for the Record: Subject: Meeting with CARPETMAKER. In: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. June 27, 1956, accessed May 15, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brückner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1909
DATE OF DEATH	1976

[1] Quoted from Klee, Personenlexikon , p. 77

[2] Yasha Levine: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet . PublicAffairs, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-61039-803-9 , Future War.

[3] Central Intelligence Agency: Memorandum for the Record: Subject: Meeting with CARPETMAKER. In: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. June 27, 1956, accessed May 15, 2020 .