Hartwig Möller

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Hartwig Möller (* 1944 in Abtsbessingen in Thuringia ) was from 1999 to 2009 the head of Department 6 of the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia responsible for the protection of the constitution .

Möller studied law and economics at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich and Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1969 in Göttingen with a thesis on "Inheritance Tax Law and Foreign Inheritance Law".

Möller worked in the administration of the University of Konstanz for several years . Between 1978 and 1980 he was an advisor for the departmental coordination “Health, Social Affairs, Environment, Nutrition, Agriculture and Forests” at the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1980 to 1983 he was the office manager of the state parliament president and then took over the management of the administration department of the state parliament.

In 1987 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior as group leader for legal matters. In 1991 he took over the management of the police department, which he held until the end of September 1999.

From 1999 Möller headed the Department for the Protection of the Constitution in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior. It got into the headlines nationwide when the Federal Constitutional Court ruled after years of legal dispute that the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit should no longer be listed under the heading right-wing extremism in the authority's report ( Junge Freiheit judgment ). Möller retired at the end of June 2009.

Fonts

  • Inheritance tax law and foreign inheritance law. Göttingen 1970 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1969).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Shorthand record. Final version of the 31st meeting of the 2nd committee of inquiry on Thursday, September 27, 2012. German Bundestag, 17th electoral term, November 19, 2012, p. 2 (PDF) .
  2. "Young Freedom" still in sight. In: The daily newspaper . June 29, 2005.