Helmut Rannacher

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Helmut Rannacher (born June 1940 in the Ore Mountains ) is a German political scientist . From 1995 to 2005 he was President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Rannacher fled the GDR to West Germany in 1957 . He studied political science , history and Russian at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1970 he presented at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences / Education at the University of Tuebingen his dissertation for Dr. phil. one on the subject of the denominational balance as a structural problem of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany .

From 1971 he worked for the Baden-Wuerttemberg protection of the constitution. Among other things, he headed the Evaluation / Extremism / Terrorism department. From 1995 until his retirement in summer 2005 he was President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg. His predecessor was Eduard Vermander , his successor Johannes Schmalzl .

On July 18, 2012, the Minister of the Interior of Saxony , Markus Ulbig , appointed Rannacher to an independent commission to reorganize the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which was set up as a result of serious mishaps during the investigation into the terrorist neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground (NSU). A few days before the commission was appointed, the President of the Saxon State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Reinhard Boos , resigned. In addition to Rannacher, the committee includes the former Federal Public Prosecutor Monika Harms and the former President of the Saxon Court of Auditors, Franz Josef Heigl .

Rannacher is honorary chairman of the advisory board of the project "With civil courage against extremism" of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation . He is a member of the CDU .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change of philosophy in the protection of the constitution: Interior minister appoints independent commission , media release of the Saxon interior ministry, 19 July 2012
personal data
SURNAME Rannacher, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg (1995-2005)
DATE OF BIRTH June 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ore Mountains