Jörg Tauss

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Tauss at the 22C3 Congress 2005 during his lecture on the law regulating access to federal information .

Jörg Tauss (born July 5, 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2009 . He was a member of the SPD from 1971 to 2009 and then from June 2009 to May 2010 a member of the Pirate Party .

Life

Job and family

After secondary school, Tauss completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman in the Allianz insurance head office . In 1973 he switched to the German Employees' Union (DAG) as a full-time employee , where he worked in youth work until 1984. He then trained to become a legal secretary and then worked briefly from 1984 as a freelance journalist, mainly for a Canadian airline . Tauss has been married since 1976.

Tauss was elected second representative of IG Metall in Bruchsal in 1986 and was press spokesman for IG Metall Baden-Württemberg from 1990 to 1994 .

Political career

Rise in the SPD

In 1971 Tauss joined the SPD. He was a member of the board of the SPD district association Karlsruhe-Land and was Secretary General of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg from 2005 to 2009 . In the general election in 1990 he applied for the first time for a mandate 1994-2009 Tauss was a member of the German Bundestag . In the SPD parliamentary group he was media officer from 1998 to 2002. From 2000 to 2009 he was spokesman for the parliamentary group's working group on education and research and a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. Since October 2002 he has also been chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the subcommittee on new media of the Bundestag committee for culture and media and previously its first chairman.

According to a study by the satirical magazine Helgoländer Vorbote from 2005, Tauss was by far the most frequent heckler in Bundestag debates, with 2736 heckling in 185 examined meetings.

Resignation and preliminary investigation

On March 5, 2009, in the course of a public prosecutor's investigation against Tauss on suspicion of possession of child pornography , the immunity committee of the Bundestag lifted his immunity as a member of parliament at short notice in order to allow a search of his home and office. Tauss resigned from his party offices a day later. He kept his mandate in the Bundestag, but decided not to run again.

Tauss stated that he had established contacts with the child pornography scene and for this purpose also owned “scene-typical material”. The reason for this, however, was solely his attempt to fathom new communication channels for the dealers. Tauss stated that he was "not guilty in the sense of the indictment" and represented the legal opinion that, as the competent politician in the Bundestag within the meaning of Section 184b of the Criminal Code , Paragraph 5, he was entitled to his research.

The investigating public prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe stated that “no objective evidence” had been found for the research activities cited by Tauss; his assertions to that effect are "refuted".

Change from the SPD to the pirate party

Tauss at a demonstration after his conversion to the Pirate Party , on the right the then Federal Chairman of the Pirate Party Jens Seipenbusch

On June 20, 2009, after 38 years of membership, Tauss resigned from the SPD due to the voting behavior of the SPD parliamentary group on the Access Difficulty Act and shortly afterwards became a member of the Pirate Party .

In the 2009 federal election , Tauss did not want to run for the Pirate Party, but he did support it publicly with his experience in the election campaign. The Pirate Party welcomed Tauss and referred to the presumption of innocence in view of the allegations made against him . The national board of the Pirate Party spoke of a "dirty campaign" by the public prosecutor's office against Tauss and criticized Tauss' unanimously suspended immunity as a "campaign maneuver".

Two days after his first instance conviction on May 28, 2010, Tauss resigned from the pirate party so as not to burden it with a "Tauss debate" caused by the "unanimous 'Tauss-hostile' and authoritarian-oriented press landscape in Baden-Württemberg" in the state election campaign in 2011 is to be expected. The Pirate Party rejected a re-entry of Tauss in October 2011 on the grounds that his membership was damaging to the party's peace and unity.

Criminal trial

On September 9, 2009, the Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor brought charges against the Karlsruhe Regional Court of possession, disclosure and obtaining of child pornographic material. She accused Tauss of having obtained this purely privately in order to sexually arouse herself. The day before, the Bundestag had followed a recommendation by the Immunity Committee and unanimously lifted Tauss' parliamentary immunity to enable charges to be brought. The trial opened on May 18, 2010 before the 2nd Large Criminal Chamber of the Karlsruhe Regional Court received widespread media attention.

On May 28, 2010, Tauss was prosecuted under Section 184b of the Criminal Code because of “possession of child pornographic writings etc. a. in a total of 102 cases “sentenced to a prison term of one year and three months probation . The probation period was set for two years. Tauss' admission that he had committed the acts to gain his own knowledge about the spread of child pornography on the Internet was not followed by the district court. On the question of whether there were sexual motives, the court made no determinations, as this was not necessary for the realization of the facts of § 184b StGB. The judgment was limited to the determination of an exclusively "private interest" in the material.

The judgment became final on August 24, 2010 , as the Federal Court of Justice rejected Tauss' appeal as “obviously unfounded”.

Political positions and activities

Toll Collect

After the introduction of a control system for truck tolls put Tauss 2005, citing the Freedom of Information Act at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing the request, after the procurement procedure for the truck toll in Germany with the consortium Toll Collect to see negotiated contracts. However, this request was rejected. Tauss filed a lawsuit against this decision, but it was dismissed in June 2008 on the grounds of ongoing arbitration and violation of trade secrets . This decision is final.

Network policy

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Tauss has focused on topics such as cryptography on the Internet and informational self-determination . In the 1990s he repeatedly criticized initiatives to introduce bans on private encryption and the systematic monitoring of information flows on the Internet. As early as 1995 he founded the virtual local association of the SPD, which is considered a pioneer of digital party organizations. Tauss is a member of the Chaos Computer Club .

In 1999, Tauss warned against using Microsoft Windows in the course of the NSAKEY affair , when it was unclear why the NSAKEY variable was present in the Cryptography API in Service Pack 5 of Windows NT 4.0.

Tauss is a critic of the plans of the former Family Minister von der Leyen to oblige German Internet service providers to “block” access to websites with child pornographic content through a contract with the Federal Criminal Police Office , without a legal basis for this intervention.

From these plans, the draft law for the Access Difficulty Act , which was passed in the Bundestag on June 18, 2009 with the votes of the SPD and CDU, developed. Tauss was one of three SPD MPs who voted against the controversial law of the grand coalition in the Bundestag. On July 1, 2009, he filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court against the Access Difficulty Act, since the Bundestag did not schedule a new first reading despite significant changes to the draft law during the legislative process.

Tauss had already campaigned against the blocking of websites in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2001 . At that time, three right-wing extremist websites and the shock website rotten.com should be blocked. Tauss described the locks in 2001 as "technically ineffective and legally highly controversial". They would also help "that the offending pages only become known".

Web links

Commons : Jörg Tauss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Jörg Tauss  - in the news
Wikiquote: Jörg Tauss  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne Seith: Ex-MP in court. Tauss is the anti-porn sheriff. In: Spiegel Online. May 18, 2010, accessed May 19, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Most eager heckler in the Bundestag ( Memento from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: RP Online , July 14, 2005.
  3. ↑ Investigative proceedings against a member of the German Bundestag on suspicion of possession of child pornography. Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office , March 6, 2009, accessed March 6, 2009 .
  4. ↑ a b Tauss resigns from party positions . heise.de, March 6, 2009.
  5. ↑ Speech by Jörg Tauss for the conference of the local chairmen of the SPD-Karlsruhe-Land ( Memento of April 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), p. 6, published on the MP's website.
  6. ↑ a b Jörg Tauss: Statement by the Bundestag member Jörg Tauss on the investigations of the Karlsruhe public prosecutor before the press on March 11, 2009. (PDF; 79 kB) In: Tauss.de. March 11, 2009, accessed May 28, 2010 .
  7. ^ A b Public prosecutor brings charges against deputy Tauss . In: Spiegel online , September 9, 2009.
  8. ↑ Homepage of www.tauss.de on June 27, 2009 ( Memento from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: Jörg Tauss resigns from the SPD due to the law on child pornography bans [update] . In: Heise online , June 20, 2009. See Jörg Tauss announces change to the Pirate Party for the first time (video, youtube.com).
  10. ↑ Jörg Tauss. The first “pirate” in the Bundestag . In: FAZ.net , June 21, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2010.
  11. ^ "First pirate in the Bundestag" ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Pirate Party press release, June 20, 2009.
  12. ↑ Ex-SPD politician should go to court for child pornography . Hamburger Abendblatt, July 22, 2009; see. Spiegel-TV from August 16, 2009 (video on youtube.com).
  13. ↑ Suspected child pornography. Public prosecutor brings charges against deputy Tauss . In: Spiegel Online , September 9, 2009.
  14. ↑ Jörg Tauss: Jörg Tauss declares his departure from the pirate party. Pirate Party, May 30, 2010, archived from the original on June 2, 2010 ; Retrieved May 31, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Public Pad Version 51 Saved Oct 27, 2011. In: piratenpad.de of October 27, 2011
  16. ↑ Tauss has to stay outside. In: sueddeutsche.de of October 28, 2011
  17. ^ Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office: Charges brought before the Karlsruhe Regional Court Press release of September 9, 2009
  18. ^ Public prosecutor's office demands suspended sentence ( Memento from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Stuttgarter Zeitung from May 27, 2010
  19. ^ Website of the Karlsruhe Regional Court : Former member of the Bundestag Jörg Tauss convicted of possession of child pornography, among other things. , accessed June 3, 2010
  20. ↑ Cf. § 184b (5) StGB : "Paragraphs 2 and 4 do not apply to actions that serve exclusively the fulfillment of legal official or professional duties."
  21. ↑ Website of the Federal Court of Justice: The judgment against former members of the Bundestag for procuring child pornography is legally binding , accessed on October 7, 2010
  22. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: The Tauss file is closed . August 31, 2010, accessed August 31, 2010
  23. ↑ Contracts for the truck toll remain secret . heise newsticker, May 22, 2006.
  24. ^ Toll contract: lawsuit rejected in the first instance - arduous path to freedom of information . MEP's press release dated June 13, 2008.
  25. ↑ Anonymized judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  26. ^ Jörg Tauss: Call for founding the 1st virtual local association ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). VOV.de, June 16, 1995.
  27. ↑ Claus Leggewie, Christoph Bieber: Interactive Democracy. Political online communication and digital political processes . In: From Politics and Contemporary History B 41-42 / 2001.
  28. ^ Podcast Congress Radio # 6 of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
  29. ↑ heise online: MdB Tauss warns against Windows. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Blocking orders only on a legal basis and as a last resort . MEP's press release on February 12, 2009.
  31. ^ Roll- call vote on the Access Difficulty Act ( Memento of July 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), German Bundestag, June 18, 2009.
  32. ↑ Tauss sues against "Zensursulas" network blocking ( memento of March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung , July 2, 2009.
  33. ↑ When the postman has to read all the letters . In: Berlinonline.de , November 23, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Tauss, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and was a member of the German Bundestag (1994–2009)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart