Heinz Fromm

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Heinz Fromm (born July 10, 1948 in Frieda ) is a German lawyer and was State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Director of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse . From June 2000 to July 31, 2012 Fromm was President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life and work

After a study of the jurisprudence at the University of Giessen , which he in 1975 after a clerkship at the district court of Kassel completed her second state examination, entered Fromm in 1979 as an official of the Professional category in the administration of justice in the country Hessen one. From 1991 to 1993 he was director of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse . Then he was State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior , when he initiated the Telecommunications Monitoring Ordinance , the predecessor of the Telecommunications Monitoring Ordinance . From 1999 to 2000 Fromm headed the Kassel I correctional facility . He is a member of the SPD .

President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

In 2000, Fromm became President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution under the then Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily (SPD). In 2006 he turned against the merger of the departments for the observation of left and right-wing extremism by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble ( CDU ) and called it a “neglect” of the main task of right-wing extremism . It was only after the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) was exposed in 2011 that responsibilities for political extremism were separated again.

Fromm asked on July 2, 2012, at its displacement in the early retirement of 31 July 2012. Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich ( CSU ) accepted the request. Fromm's request was related to the role of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution during the long unrecognized existence of the NSU, despite a number of V-persons in their immediate environment, who had been guided through the Federal Office among others. As a result of the work of the first NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag , it had previously become known that a head of division of the Federal Office had had files on V-persons in the NSU environment destroyed from November 11, 2011, i.e. a few days after the NSU was discovered (see the Shredding section in the main article ). Before the NSU committee of the Bundestag , Fromm therefore stated a "serious decline in the reputation of the BfV, the consequences of which for the functioning of the office could not be foreseen". He had been "duped" by his own employees and did not rule out the possibility that the head of department wanted to cover something up. Fromm's withdrawal was the beginning of a series of personal consequences at the top of various offices for the protection of the Constitution because of the NSU scandal (see the section in the main article ).

Subsequent activities

Since 2015 Fromm has been a member of the board of the German War Graves Commission .

In October 2016, Fromm was appointed by the Saxon state government to the expert commission “Police investigative work and the execution of sentences in terrorist suicide bombers in the Albakr case” under the direction of former constitutional judge Herbert Landau . This was used to clarify the entire process from identification to the failed access to the suicide of terror suspect Jaber Albakr on October 12 in a cell in the prison in Leipzig . After three months of work, numerous site visits and almost 100 hearings from federal and state officials, the four-person commission presented its final report on January 24, 2017 in Dresden, in which it identified a “culture of incompetence” as well as numerous wrong decisions and rule violations by authorities Federal and state level criticized.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution : Head of Office: President Heinz Fromm ; Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Wolf Schmidt: Dismissal of Heinz Fromm: The shredder affair gave him no choice. The daily newspaper , July 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ Jörg Diehl: Verfassungsschutzskandal: Shredded trust. Spiegel Online , July 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ M. Bröcker, G. Mayntz: President of the Protection of the Constitution resigns: Federal Minister of the Interior dismisses Fromm. In: Rheinische Post , July 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ Fromm: My employees deceived me. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 5, 2012.
  6. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: peace , October 2015.
  7. ↑ Christian Bommarius : Experts should clear up the al-Bakr case. Ex-judge heads commission. In: Weser courier . October 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ Stefan Locke: The Albakr case: "An abundance of wrong decisions". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fromm, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (2000–2012)
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Frieda