Hansjörg Geiger

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Hansjörg Geiger (born November 1, 1942 in Brno ) is a former German civil servant and lawyer .

Life

Geiger comes from a ku k civil servant family, grew up in the Allgäu , graduated from high school in 1962 and, after completing his military service, studied law in Hamburg and Munich from 1964 . From 1968 Geiger worked at Siemens as a freelance scientist in electronic data processing . In 1971 he was at the Ludwig-Maximilians University with a thesis on the subject to constitutional problem of the influence of political parties at top federal bodies doctorate .

From 1972 he worked in data processing at the Bavarian State Chancellery , in 1974 he became a public prosecutor and in 1975 a judge at the Munich District Court . From 1977 he also worked as a consultant in the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice and from 1980 as head of the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection . After German reunification , in 1990 he became director of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR . In 1995 he became President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , in 1996 President of the Federal Intelligence Service . On October 30, 1998 he became a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice . In this capacity he was involved in stopping the trial of a Syrian spy in 2002 . In October 2005 he was put into temporary retirement due to the formation of a new government in 2005.

Since December 12, 2003, he has been teaching constitutional law, European law and international law as an honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Geiger is a board member of the Alexandra Lang Foundation for Patient Rights .

Geiger reported to the first commission of inquiry to come to terms with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship (1992 to 1994) on the role of sport in the GDR and the involvement with the Ministry for State Security . The BStU documentation “MfS and competitive sport. A research report ”.

Since 2012 he has been honorary chairman of the independent committee for the clarification of Stasi questions of the German Olympic Sports Confederation . He thus succeeded Joachim Gauck , who had chaired the honorary body since 2007 and who left the office when he took office.

Volunteering

Hansjörg Geiger is a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pullach Insights. The new head of the BND relies on transparency , Die Welt, May 15, 1996
  2. ^ Joachim Gauck: Winter in Summer - Spring in Autumn. Memories . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2009, pp. 254–263.
  3. ↑ Assad's prominent spy enjoys asylum undisturbed in Mainz - Federal Prosecutor's Office withdrew indictments after government intervention in 2002 - Panorama from 23 August 2012
  4. ↑ http://www.alexandra-lang-stiftung.de/alsfp-6_Impressum-0.htm
  5. ↑ The GDR, the Stasi and top sport , Thüringer Allgemeine , November 19, 2014
  6. ↑ PR of the DOSB from April 25, 2012 . Retrieved April 25, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, constitutional protection and BND president
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno