Herwig Haidinger

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Herwig Haidinger (born January 24, 1954 in Linz ) is a high-ranking Austrian police officer. Haidinger was director of the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office from 2002 to 2008 . As a project manager, he was responsible for setting up the Federal Criminal Police Office from 2000 onwards.

Career

Haidinger comes from a working class family in Linz. After secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle apprentice. After completing his apprenticeship, he served as a UN soldier on the Golan Heights - he described this time abroad as a “school for life” because there he “learned a lot about people” . Then he went to the police, where, in addition to his job as a detective, he made up his Matura at the Federal High School for Working People and studied law at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz . From 1989 to 1992, Haidinger was a lawyer in the criminal department of the Linz police, then head of the Federal Asylum Office in Upper Austria, head of the state, personal and property protection department of the Upper Austria Security Directorate . In 2002 he was Deputy Director General for Public Security ; In August of the same year he was appointed director of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BK) by Interior Minister Ernst Strasser .

conflict

On February 3, 2008, he was dismissed from his position as director of the BK. He then charged officials from the Interior Ministry and politicians with influencing investigations based on party interests. He was replaced "because I did not allow myself to be corrupted," said the criminalist in an APA interview . In his allegations, he referred to attempted political influence in the course of the investigation into the BAWAG affair and also to investigation mishaps in the search for the kidnapped Natascha Kampusch .

On November 4, 2008, he was temporarily suspended from his service at the Security Academy. The reason given by Interior Minister Maria Fekter was the " continued and sustained violation of official duties " and " continued behavior that was massively damaging to trust ". Immediately before the suspension, an interview with Haidinger was published in the news magazine Profil , in which he made serious allegations against the Ministry of the Interior. He said he had listed the grossest mistakes in the police reform in a letter to the interior minister. In response, he was threatened that if he did not shut up, further action would be taken against him. He also said that the Federal Criminal Police Office had degenerated into a "branch office of the ÖVP ".

A trial brought by Haidinger against the ÖVP, which is said to have described him in a broadcast as a guarantor of lies , failed in January 2009 because he was not exempted from his duty of confidentiality as an official . In September 2009, the People's Party was finally not, legally , before the Vienna Regional Criminal Court under § 6 media law for defamation condemned. The judge stated that the extensive evidence procedure “did not reveal any evidence that Haidinger lied, said a falsehood or blamed it” .

The responsible disciplinary commission in the Ministry of the Interior lifted Haidinger's suspension on February 5, 2009 and suspended the disciplinary proceedings against him on five of eleven points.

Also in February 2009, the Vienna Public Prosecutor dropped its proceedings against the former head of cabinet in the Ministry of the Interior, which were based at least in part on Haidinger's allegations. In some cases, the evidence [was] more than scanty, in some cases [...] the allegations were clearly refuted .

Awards

In 2001 he received a Big Brother Award for being a great advocate of surveillance technology and interfaces .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Standard , February 2008
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Why are you only now unpacking, Mr. Haidinger? , February 17, 2008
  3. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of the Interior , August 6, 2002: Dr. Herwig Haidinger appointed director of the Federal Criminal Police Office
  4. ^ Die Presse , February 5, 2008: Politics in the police swamp
  5. ↑ Der Standard , March 3, 2008: FAQ: A Ministry in Twilight
  6. ^ Vienna Online , February 14, 2008: Chronology of the Haidinger affair
  7. ↑ Der Standard , February 2008: BK boss Haidinger: Transfer, "because I did not allow myself to be corrupted"
  8. ^ Die Presse , November 4, 2008: Critical ex-BK boss Haidinger suspended
  9. ^ Profile , November 1, 2008: Ex-BKA boss Haidinger raises serious allegations: Weather against the Ministry of the Interior
  10. ↑ a b c http://www.vienna.at/news/chronik/artikel/causa-haidinger---chronologie/cn/apa-114730712  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vienna.at
  11. ↑ Defamation - ÖVP loses trial against Haidinger. Krone.at , September 30, 2009, accessed October 1, 2009 (grammatical errors adopted).
  12. ^ "Guarantor for lies": ÖVP has to pay Haidinger compensation. DiePresse.com , September 30, 2009, archived from the original on October 3, 2009 .;
  13. ↑ http://www.apa.at/cms/site/news_item.html?channel=CH0071&doc=CMS1234266670262  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.apa.at
  14. ^ One year of the Haidinger cause. In: oesterreich.orf.at. February 10, 2009, accessed November 26, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Public prosecutor's office closes proceedings against Ita. In: derStandard.at. February 13, 2009, accessed December 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Big Brother Awards , 2001
personal data
SURNAME Haidinger, Herwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz