Maren Brandenburger

Maren Brandenburger (* 1968 in Kiel ) is a German political scientist and was President of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 2013 to 2018 .

Life

Maren Brandenburger studied politics and history in Heidelberg and Hanover . In 1995 she wrote her thesis on the Stasi Records Act with Joachim Perels . In 1995 she joined the SPD . In 1996 she applied to the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution. "Dealing with extremism in a democracy was appealing to me, " she said in 2015 about her motives for choosing a career at the time. During the first few years she worked in public relations for the agency and became press spokeswoman in 2003. After the red-green victory in the state elections in 2013 , she replaced the incumbent Hans Wargel as the first female head of the authority on the appointment of Interior Minister Boris Pistorius ; the Greens had called for a fundamental reorientation of the state's protection of the constitution. Because an undercover agent was exposed through the authority's negligence, the Interior Minister replaced her as President in November 2018. She is said to have asked for her transfer and is now to fill a department head position for integration in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, which is paid four levels lower.

Brandenburger lives with her partner in the Hanover region .

Web links

Klaus Wallbaum: Maren Brandenburger becomes Head of the Protection of the Constitution in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 6, 2013
Brandenburger bei Celle Today as a YouTube video

Individual evidence

^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: A political scientist at the top - Maren Brandenburger becomes head of the constitutional protection - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
↑ Head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution loses her job after a spy breakdown. In: spiegel.de. November 21, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .
↑ Consequences of the series of breakdowns at the authorities - after the Göttingen undercover agent affair: Pistorius relocates the head of the constitutional protection agency Brandenburger. In: https://www.hna.de/ . November 21, 2018, accessed January 17, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brandenburger, Maren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist and President of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel

[1] Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: A political scientist at the top - Maren Brandenburger becomes head of the constitutional protection - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .

[2] Head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution loses her job after a spy breakdown. In: spiegel.de. November 21, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .

[3] Consequences of the series of breakdowns at the authorities - after the Göttingen undercover agent affair: Pistorius relocates the head of the constitutional protection agency Brandenburger. In: https://www.hna.de/ . November 21, 2018, accessed January 17, 2019 .