Hans-Martin Tillack

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Hans-Martin Tillack (* 1961 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a German investigative journalist . He uncovered a number of political affairs in Germany and was also known for his work as an EU correspondent in Brussels .

Life

After studying sociology and political science in Marburg and Berlin, Hans-Martin Tillack worked as an editor for the daily newspaper in Berlin and later in Bonn since 1988 . Since 1993 he has been an editor at Stern magazine , first as a correspondent in Bonn, then from 1999 to 2004 in Brussels and since 2005 as a reporter in Berlin.

Services

In 2001 he uncovered the so-called “dance partner” affair, for which the then Minister of Labor Walter Riester (SPD) was responsible. Since 2002 Tillack has made financial irregularities public in the EU statistical office Eurostat in a series of articles in Stern and on stern.de . The Eurostat scandal resulted in the transfer of the Director General and all Directors of the Statistics Agency in 2003.

In 2005, Tillack uncovered the scandal surrounding the sideline activities of former Minister of State Ludger Volmer ( Greens ) for Bundesdruckerei , who contributed to the debate about the visa affair at the time. In a detailed article in 2005, Tillack first raised the suspicion that bribery practices were widespread at Siemens .

At the end of 2006 he made the hitherto unknown case of the US rendition victim Abdel-Halim Khafagy, who lived in Germany, public. In 2007 Tillack succeeded in getting the names of the private sponsors of the federal ministries by invoking the Freedom of Information Act. The report resulted in the federal government officially publishing the names of the grantors from now on. Since 2009, Tillack has published a number of articles on the federal government's bank bailout policy and revealed several questionable payments to managers of Hypo Real Estate and, in 2011, the calculation error at HRE and its bad bank, FMS Wertmanagement , over 55.5 billion euros.

In February 2010, Tillack and Johannes Röhrig revealed the spying affair surrounding the Berlin agency CMK, which worked for Bunte . However, in 2011, the Bunter succeeded in getting a court through that the Stern was no longer allowed to give the impression that Bunte editors knew of questionable methods.

In 2017, Tillack, together with Laura Himmelreich and Ulrich Neumann, was nominated for the Nannen Prize in the "Investigative Achievement" category for his investigative research on precarious working conditions at the Rossmann drugstore chain , which appeared in 2016 under the title Rossmanns Tagelöhner im Stern .

From 2009 to 2013 Tillack was a member of the jury of journalismfund.eu. The fund awards grants for cross-border research in various European countries.

Conflicts with authorities

In March 2004, the Belgian police raided Tillack's apartment and Stern's Brussels office. The police confiscated extensive documents. Tillack had repeatedly cited internal papers of the office in critical reports about the EU anti-fraud office OLAF . At the request of OLAF, the Belgian investigating magistrate opened an investigation against unknown persons for a possible corruption offense. Actions by Tillack - including at the European Court of First Instance - that he filed following the Belgian search operation were initially dismissed. Finally, in November 2007, Tillack's lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights ended with the conviction of Belgium to pay 10,000 euros in damages for violating the freedom of the press. The preliminary investigation was closed in 2009. The search sparked a discussion about freedom of the press in the EU; many journalists viewed this as a restriction on free reporting. The European Ombudsman also criticized OLAF for this matter in a special report to the European Parliament.

In December 2006 it became known that the Munich public prosecutor's office had eavesdropped on telephone calls made by Tillack and another Stern editor, which they had conducted with the lawyer of the CIA kidnapping victim Khaled el-Masri.

Triggered by an authorization by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert (CDU), the Hamburg public prosecutor's office temporarily investigated Tillack and two other Stern editors in 2007 on suspicion of aiding and abetting the betrayal of secrets in connection with articles about the BND investigative committee of the Bundestag.

Awards

Works

  • Hans-Martin Tillack: The lobby republic . Hanser Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3446247772
  • Hans-Martin Tillack: The corrupt republic: About the lucrative mingling between politics, bureaucracy and economy. Hoffmann and Campe, 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-50109-4 .
  • Hans-Martin Tillack: From Brussels to Burma. In: David Dadge (Ed.): Silenced - International Journalists expose Media Censorship. Prometheus Books, 2005, ISBN 1-59102-305-X .
  • Andreas Oldag, Hans-Martin Tillack: Spaceship Brussels. How democracy fails in Europe. Argon, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87024-578-6 .

literature

  • Ingmar Cario: The Germany Investigators: Investigative Journalism and the Methods of the Doers. Lit Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-0080-6 .
  • Silvana Koch-Mehrin: The news rat - Hans-Martin Tillack. In: Maybrit Illner, Hajo Schumacher: lubricants - politicians on journalists. Heyne, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-62037-7 .

Web links

  • [1] stern blog by Hans-Martin Tillack

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: hoffmann-und-campe.de
  2. ↑ STERN PORTRAIT: Riester retired? (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . January 9, 2002, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  3. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: Affair: Get rich! In: stern.de . July 15, 2003, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  4. ^ Ludger Volmer: Green and business-minded. In: stern.de . January 20, 2005, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Visa affair: Volmer resigns from office. In: stern.de . February 12, 2005, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  6. ^ Hans-Martin Tillack: Siemens: suitcase full of money. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . September 14, 2005, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  7. Jump up ↑ Counter-Terrorism: The government knew about US torture. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . October 24, 2006, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  8. ↑ German ministers 'knew about CIA torture cells'. In: independent.co.uk. October 25, 2006, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Case Khafagy: 'Who did this to me?' In: stern.de . May 8, 2008, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: On the trail of government sponsors from January 18, 2007
  11. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: Sponsors: Where beer and euros flow. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . July 8, 2007, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  12. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: Hypo Real Estate: Half a million extra for HRE boss. In: stern.de . August 11, 2009, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Ex-HRE boss Wieandt: Luxury pension sweetens the farewell. In: stern.de . May 5, 2010, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: Huge risk of failure: HRE rescue will be even more expensive. In: stern.de . August 3, 2011, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack: Bad Bank of the HRE: The 55 billion calculation error. In: stern.de . October 28, 2011, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Offset - Billions and the HRE ( Memento of November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: ndr.de
  17. ↑ Johannes Röhrig and Hans-Martin Tillack: Spying at Müntefering and Lafontaine: The wrong denials of the CMK. In: stern.de . February 26, 2010, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  18. ^ Journalist: Hans-Martin Tillack on Buntegate. In: journalist.de. April 15, 2010, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  19. ↑ FAZ: What remains of the "spy affair"? In: FAZ.net . May 27, 2011, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  20. ↑ The nominees for the Nannen Prize 2017 have been announced . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on November 9, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Apply for a European cross-border research grant . In: Journalismfund.eu vzw . March 30, 2018 ( wordpress.com [accessed June 2, 2018]).
  22. ↑ Money from the foundation . In: stern.de . November 11, 2013 ( stern.de [accessed June 2, 2018]).
  23. ^ Raid in the stern office: 'Massive attack on freedom of the press'. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . March 19, 2004, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  24. ^ For EU Critics, a Cautionary Tale (). In: washingtonpost.com. August 15, 2004, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  25. ↑ PRESS RELEASE No. 83/06 In: europa.eu of October 4, 2006
  26. ↑ HUDOC Search Page. In: echr.coe.int. Retrieved December 24, 2014 .
  27. ↑ German reporter es out on top in EU bribery case. In: euobserver.com. January 5, 2009, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  28. ↑ European Ombudsman: Special report from the European Ombudsman to the European Parliament following the draft recommendation to the European Commission. In: ombudsman.europa.eu. March 7, 2002, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  29. ^ El Masri case: wiretapping against stern editors. (No longer available online.) In: stern.de . December 5, 2006, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  30. ^ El-Masri case - public prosecutor's office eavesdropped on journalists. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 19, 2010, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  31. ↑ Investigations: Bundestag does not leave journalists alone. In: taz.de . April 4, 2011, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  32. ↑ Awards given for cleaning up Eurostat. In: com. March 29, 2004, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  33. ↑ netzeitung.de Leipzig Media Prize for Petersen and Tillack ( Memento from January 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tillack, Hans-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH King Wusterhausen