Jörg Ziercke

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Jörg Ziercke (2013)

Jörg Ziercke (born July 18, 1947 in Lübeck ) is a German police officer . From February 2004 to November 2014 he was President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

Life

education

After his high school at the high school to the cathedral in Lübeck Ziercke 1967 went as police recruits to riot ; from 1968 to 1970 he completed training for the higher service of the criminal police .

Professional background

From 1970 to 1975 he worked in the operational area at the police, criminal police and also at the Schleswig-Holstein State Criminal Police Office . After his training for the higher police enforcement service at the former Police Leadership Academy (now the German Police University ) in Münster , he became head of the Neumünster Criminal Police in 1979 . In the following years he also acted as the head of the criminal police department in Kiel and in 1981 was seconded to the criminal police department in Itzehoe . In 1985 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior in Kiel , where he was initially a personnel, training and further education officer for the Schleswig-Holstein state police . From 1990 to 1992 Ziercke was head of the Schleswig-Holstein State Police School and supported (as part of reunification) the establishment of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Police School. From 1992 he switched to the police in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior and in 1995 took over the management of the police department. In February 2004 Otto Schily (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2005, made him President of the Federal Criminal Police Office after Ulrich Kersten had been released early.

Ziercke retired at the end of November 2014. His successor is Holger Münch , who was previously a State Councilor for the Senator for the Interior and Sports in the state of Bremen .

Other activities, offices and memberships

Ziercke is a member of the SPD . He has been a member of the board of the German Forum for Crime Prevention since 2001 and has been Deputy Federal Chairman of the White Ring since October 21, 2012 . Ziercke has been federal chairman of the White Ring since September 2018.

Private

Ziercke is married and has two children.

criticism

Online searches

In early 2007, Ziercke came under criticism for advocating controversial secret online searches . The German computer magazine Chip awarded him the negative award "Brake of the year 2007". Ziercke described the statements on this topic in the press as technically unsustainable; his specialists are not " hackers ".

According to a report by Spiegel in July 2007, at an event for parliamentarians, among other things, he presented content from so-called "shock pages" (video excerpts from executions in the form of beheadings, brutal child abuse, BDSM ) in order to convince the invited MPs for the planned law advertise secret online searches.

Internet blocking

For years, Ziercke demanded the implementation of the regulation initiated by the then Federal Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen to block websites . He repeatedly emphasized that the BKA would not be able to effectively combat illegal content on the Internet simply by deleting it. Under his leadership, the agency issued several statements which underlined this position and urged the introduction of network blocking. Ziercke explained that “in any case 1,000, possibly also up to 5,000 pages with child pornographic content must be blocked. [...] It's about hundreds of thousands of hits that are prevented every day and should be redirected to stop pages ”.

On April 5, 2011, the federal government ( Merkel II cabinet ) decided to repeal the Access Restriction Act. The then Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger explained the reasons for the decision with the words: "According to current figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office, 93 percent of child pornographic content is deleted after two weeks, and after four weeks it is even 99 percent".

Drone attacks

In January 2011 a judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court filed a criminal complaint against Ziercke for aiding and abetting the murder of a German Islamist . The public prosecutor's office in Wiesbaden refused to initiate investigations against Ziercke.

Edathy affair

In the Edathy affair , Ziercke was charged with misconduct in the office of President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office and his resignation was requested. The Interior Committee of the Bundestag determines.

On December 18, 2014, Sebastian Edathy (SPD) declared before the investigative committee of the German Bundestag under the leadership of Eva Högl (SPD) that Ziercke (SPD) in the office of President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office was the source of information for his informant Michael Hartmann (SPD), which warned him, among other things, of searches.

Ziercke announced via a BKA spokesman in Stern magazine that he had not informed Hartmann directly.

On January 15, 2015, Ziercke was invited to be questioned by the committee of inquiry.

In the absence of initial suspicion, the Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office headed by Volkmar Kallenbach has not taken any measures to prevent punishment in the office.

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Sigrid Averesch: Policeman of Trust. In: berliner-zeitung.de. February 6, 2004, accessed March 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Holger Münch becomes the new BKA boss. In: Zeit Online . September 23, 2014, accessed October 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Germany's top police officer is now called Holger Münch. In: RP-Online.de. November 19, 2014, accessed October 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Ex-BKA boss Ziercke is federal chairman of the White Ring. In: The world . Axel Springer SE , September 15, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ CHIP awards the CeBIT Oscars 2007: Brake of the Year ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) March 17, 2007, accessed on July 7, 2019
  6. ↑ Detlef Borchers: BKA boss Ziercke: Online searches are highly professional. heise online, March 26, 2007, accessed on July 7, 2019
  7. ↑ Digital divide . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 2007, ( Online - July 2, 2007 ).
  8. ↑ BKA: Blocking of child porn sites is effective heise.de, on March 28, 2009, accessed on July 7, 2019
  9. ↑ cf. z. B. Fight against child pornography coalition overturns internet blocks , tagesschau.de, April 5, 2011 ( memento of April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and coalition of child pornography overturns "Zensursula" law , spiegel.de, April 5, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Richter reports the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office for a drone attack. Spiegel Online, January 8, 2011, accessed January 14, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Steffen Hebestreit: Lawsuit about US drone attack: BKA boss Ziercke remains unmolested Frankfurter Rundschau , February 3, 2011, accessed on July 7, 2019 . (archived version)
  12. ↑ FAZ.net March 30, 2014: Pedophile BKA official - gently disposed of .
  13. ↑ bundestag.de: Big contradictions - 2nd committee of inquiry (Edathy) - December 19, 2014, from December 19, 2014
  14. ^ Spiegel Online: Polit affair: Edathy reveals alleged tipsters. , dated December 13, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014.
  15. ↑ focus.de: Social Democrats in Distress - Member of the Edathy Committee: “The SPD was definitely not neutral” , from December 20, 2014
  16. ↑ welt.de: The risk for the SPD grows with every detail , from December 19, 2014
  17. ↑ BMI Austria
  18. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  19. ↑ Bul le mérite - 2012. Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, October 18, 2012, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Ziercke, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, former President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck