State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg

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State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg

position Higher authority
Supervisory authority Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
Headquarters Stuttgart
Authority management Beate Bube
Servants 376 (as of 2019)
Budget volume € 22,800,000
Web presence State Office website
Main entrance of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg in Bad Cannstatt

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg (LfV) is the state authority for the protection of the constitution in the German state of Baden-Württemberg . The State Office observes right- wing and left-wing extremism , foreign extremism and religious fundamentalists . His tasks also include counter-espionage and monitoring the Scientology Organization (SO). The seat is in Stuttgart . Beate Bube has been President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution since January 1, 2008 .

structure

The LfV is divided into five departments and a management team with press and public relations work:

  • Department 1 - Central Department
  • Division 2 - International Extremism and Terrorism
  • Division 3 - Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism, Left-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
  • Department 4 - Counter-espionage, secret and sabotage protection , collaborative tasks, Scientology organization
  • Department 5 - Operational Department

household

Legal basis

The legal basis for the work of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg is the Act on the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg (LVSG - State Protection of the Constitution - Baden-Württemberg) in the version of December 5, 2005 (Journal of Laws of 2006 p. 1).

control

The LfV is subject to technical and service supervision by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior . Parliamentary monitoring is carried out by the interior minister and the so-called G 10 commission (Section 15 LVSG) informing the state parliament's standing committee every six months.

President

Period Surname comment
1951-1962 Hans-Heinrich Picht
1962-1973 Peter Lahnstein
1973-1986 Dieter Wagner From 1986 to 1989 President of the then Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution

He initiated the installation of monitoring microphones for the members of the RAF imprisoned in the Stammheim prison .

1986-1988 Ralf Kruger
1988-1995 Eduard Vermander From August 1, 1995 to July 1, 2000 President of the then Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
1995-2005 Helmut Rannacher (CDU)
2005-2007 Johannes Schmalzl (FDP) Since January 2008 regional president of the Stuttgart administrative district .
since 2008 Beate Bube (independent)

history

After the Basic Law came into force in 1949, the states set up special authorities or agencies to protect the constitution. In what later became Baden-Württemberg, these were the states of Württemberg-Baden , Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern . In 1951 the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Württemberg-Hohenzollern was founded in Tübingen . This was followed by the information center of the Baden State Chancellery in Freiburg and the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Württemberg-Baden in Stuttgart.

After Baden-Württemberg was founded, these authorities merged in December 1952 to form today's State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg.

criticism

The LfV put the Heidelberg librarian Walter Felzmann out of work in 1979. This documented a scuffle between police officers and civilians with a camera, whereupon the police officers followed up Felzmann, took away his recordings and reported him. In July 1978 Felzmann received a penalty warrant for resisting the enforcement officers on the grounds that he had photographed the police officers "in disregard of the law in their own pictures" while they were clearing an unauthorized information booth of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW), and he have resisted the seizure of the film. He appealed and was finally acquitted. Felzmann was later placed by the employment office at the Heidelberg University library and was selected from seven applicants. The acceptance for the job came in mid-1979, but then nothing came for a long time and then an interim notification that the recruitment process had "unfortunately been delayed". In June 1979 Felzmann made a regular query to the LfV because the university position would have meant a position under public law. This memo for the protection of the constitution read: “On December 11, 1976, Mr Felzmann was in charge of an unauthorized KBW information desk in Heidelberg. When the information desk was closed, he resisted. [...] "As a result, the university's personnel department said:" These incidents caused us to hire another applicant assigned by the employment office. "Felzmann's Heidelberg lawyer Wolfgang Stather wanted the university to pay compensation for" culpable failure to hire "his client and said:" It is incomprehensible how state authorities could spread such false information without even hearing the person concerned. ”It was not until July 30, 1980 that the university's personnel department thanked the university for the acquittal sent in June 1979. After a further three months, the Stuttgart Ministry of the Interior admitted the breakdown and promised that the knowledge about Felzmann would be "withdrawn" because it could in fact "not be maintained".

A technology expert from the Baden-Württemberg constitutional protection is said to have warned the leader of the German branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Schwäbisch Hall , Achim S. , about telephone surveillance.

As part of the first NSU investigative committee in the Bundestag , statements by a V-woman from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution with the code name "Krokus" became known. She said that in May 2007 she passed on information to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution about right-wing extremists who are said to have tried to find out via a nurse whether a seriously injured colleague von Kiesewetter remembers details of the murder after the coma. The V-man leader codenamed Oettinger did but, asked to stay out of the matter. The V-woman stated that she had already reported regularly to Oettinger at this point in time. This denies this on the basis of the file situation, according to which the V-woman was officially listed as a source only from June / July 2007.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heilbronn voice of April 10, 2019: "Strobl: The protection of the constitution needs more support"
  2. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Constitutional Protection Report 2017 (PDF, 3.8 MB) Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, p. 21 , accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ "The last act of rebellion" Der Spiegel, issue 37/2007 of September 10, 2007
  4. ↑ Berlin: Eduard Vermander leaves office at the end of June because he has been accused of various scandals in: Der Tagesspiegel, January 4, 2000.
  5. ↑ Verfassungsschützer died at the age of 71. Ex-chief of the secret service is dead in: Berliner Zeitung, April 17, 2008.
  6. ↑ Protection of the Constitution: Miserable quality in: Der Spiegel, issue 47/1980 of November 17, 1980.
  7. ^ Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg: Officials warned the Ku Klux Klan against surveillance in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ NSU investigation committee: "We did the work of the police". In: Spiegel Online from June 24, 2013.