Eavesdropping grape
The Traube eavesdropping affair , also known as the Traube scandal or - among lawyers - the Traube case , was an illegal wiretapping by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) aimed at Klaus Traube , who was then employed in companies that dealt with nuclear energy .
Under the name Operation Müll , the Office for the Protection of the Constitution began on December 30, 1975 by installing bug bugs in the apartment, a comprehensive bugging attack on Traube, which the BfV suspected of being in contact with wanted terrorists of the Red Army Faction (RAF) , which was not covered by the laws of the time to stand. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution also contacted Traubes' employer, Kraftwerk Union AG (KWU), who then fired Traube. The wiretapping, which was ordered by the then President of the BfV Richard Meier and approved by the Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer ( FDP ), did not provide any indication of the suspected contacts with the terrorist scene. The eavesdropping became public in 1977 when documents from the authority were passed on to the journalist Hans Georg Faust, who forwarded the papers to the news magazine Der Spiegel . When on February 28, 1977 the cover story Verfassungsschutz breaks Verfassungs - bugging attack on Citizen T. appeared, a scandal developed, in the course of which Maihofer finally announced his resignation on June 8, 1978 - after it had emerged that one of the people from Spiegel im Facsimile published papers also found a ministerial submission dated January 9, 1976 with handwritten notes from the minister. According to these ministerial files, by the way, the term “eavesdropping” did not come from critics of such measures, but reflected the intelligence and ministerial language usage customary at the time.
The " whistleblower " Karl Dirnhofer, an official at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , and Hans Georg Faust were charged with betrayal of secrets or aiding and abetting. Dirnhofer's main proceedings were not opened because the evidence presented for his conviction also came from inadmissible telephone surveillance by the intelligence service. Faust's main proceedings were opened, but he was acquitted by the Bonn Regional Court . The public prosecutor's revision aimed at this was unsuccessful. The Federal Court of Justice decided on April 18, 1980 that the evidence brought against Faust was also obtained using illegal methods and was therefore not usable.
The bugging attack on Traube was justified by the feared RAF attacks on nuclear power plants .
Movies
- Video land under control. The history of the surveillance of the FRG: The Federal Republic is a monitored country, as the NSA scandal proves . And it was never any different; a production by 3sat , Kulturzeit extra, first broadcast: January 27, 2014 in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 20, 2014. (offline) Available on October 18, 2018 in the 3Sat mediathek .
literature
- Klaus Traube: Do we have to switch? From the political limits of technology. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1978
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Minister and the "Bug" . In: Der Spiegel 10/1977
- ↑ OLG Cologne, NJW 1979, p. 1216
- ↑ BGH, NJW 1980, p. 1700