Jürgen Maurer

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Jürgen Maurer (born February 17, 1952 in Schwarzenholz ) was Vice President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) from February 2010 to March 2013 .

education

After training as a banker and completing military service with the parachute mortar company 260 in Lebach / Saar, Jürgen Maurer studied business administration at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences (1973–1976, graduate in business administration) and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main ( 1976–1980, qualified sociologist). From 1981 to 1983 he completed his training as a higher police enforcement service, including at the then police command academy (now the German Police University ) in Münster-Hiltrup .

Professional background

After completing his training, he took on a number of management positions in the Federal Criminal Police Office: speaker, section and group leader in the areas of counterfeit crime, covert investigations, white-collar crime and organized crime. In 1990 he spent three months as an exchange officer at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC and in various field offices. From 1997 to 2000 he was posted to the German Embassy in Washington, DC as a liaison officer for the German police force and worked closely with US and Canadian law enforcement agencies. From 2002 to 2005, Maurer headed the Department of Police State Security (ST) in Meckenheim as department president and from 2005 to 2010 as director at the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Serious and Organized Crime Department (SO) in Wiesbaden .

During this time he chaired the State Security Commission (KST), the Organized Crime Commission (KOK) and the Criminal Police Commission (KKB) of the Criminal Police Working Group (AG Kripo), a German federal-state criminal police coordinating body.

On February 1, 2010, Maurer was appointed Vice President of the Federal Criminal Police Office as successor to Bernhard Falk . He resigned from this office on March 31, 2013 for reasons of age. His successor was Peter Henzler .

Positions

On February 20, 2013, Jürgen Maurer gave a speech at the 16th European Police Congress and added the following sentence to his speech manuscript: "Anyone who is on the Internet has left private space and is more or less in public space." In addition, Maurer relies on Internet blocking in the fight against child abuse .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Inland in Brief, p. 4
  2. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the BKA from April 1, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.de
  3. ^ Civil rights: BKA vice chief rejects privacy on the Internet , Spiegel-Online from February 20, 2013
  4. ^ Committee on New Media Child Pornography , Golem, February 12, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, Vice President at the Federal Criminal Police Office
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Black wood