Mathilde Koller

Mathilde Koller (* 1950 in Saarbrücken ) is a non-party lawyer and former political official . From 1992 to 1996 she was President of the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution , from 2000 to 2002 State Secretary for the Interior in Berlin and from 2009 to June 2012 head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia .

life and career

After her second state examination in law , she worked at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne. From December 1992 to April 1996 she was President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony . She was the first woman to head an agency for the protection of the constitution in Germany. Its declared aim was to set up “a fine analysis agency” for “differentiated policy advice”, placing particular emphasis on the separation of intelligence and police . It was characterized by parliamentarians as very open, and they readily provided the Parliamentary Control Commission with information. Koller spoke out against an intelligence service observation of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). On April 15, 1996, Koller moved to the Saxon State Chancellery .

From January 2000 to January 2002 she was State Secretary under Eckart Werthebach (CDU) in the Senate Department for the Interior of the State of Berlin. In this position, she mainly dealt with the restructuring of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which during her tenure was transferred from an independent state office to a department of the Senate Administration. After leaving as State Secretary, she worked as a lawyer.

From 2009 to the end of June 2012, Koller was head of the constitution protection authority in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Among other things, she had the Salafist scene in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Pro NRW party, which is suspected of right-wing extremism, observed, but also dealt with the defense against industrial espionage . In February 2012 she gave the Federal Prosecutor a hint about the possible perpetrator of the racially motivated bomb attack on a Cologne store in 2001 . She identified on the basis of the Federal transmitted (BKA) phantom image a V-man of the NRW Protection of the Constitution and a member of the far-right camaraderie Walter Spangenberg . However, like the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the BKA, Koller saw no “evidence of involvement” of the man. On the other hand, victims claim to have recognized him as an offshoot of the bomb. Koller asked for her retirement in June 2012, for which she gave personal reasons.

In August 2015 she was questioned as a witness before the NSU investigative committee in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . She answered further questions that she could not remember.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weirdly stuck. In: Der Spiegel , No. 16/1994, pp. 61–62.
2. ↑ Christine Richter : Mathilde Koller appointed State Secretary. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 26, 2000.
3. ↑ Five new state secretaries appointed. Senate Chancellery Berlin, January 22, 2002.
4. ↑ Holger Stark: Berlin Secret Service - New Leadership for the Protection of the Constitution. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 17, 2000.
5. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian constitutional protection gets a new boss. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. Press release from the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, December 1, 2009.
6. ↑ Press releases from June 21, 2012 by the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Terror suspects caught in England are Salafists. In: Die Welt (Online), August 2, 2011.
8. ^ Stefan Laurin: Right-wing populism without anti-Semitism? In: Cicero (Online), September 14, 2011.
9. ↑ Ilka Kopplin, Ina Karabasz: Technologieklau - data thieves in the company network. In: WirtschaftsWoche (Online), November 26, 2011.
10. ↑ Jörg Diehl: NSU attack in Cologne - undercover agent under suspicion. In: Spiegel Online , June 14, 2015.
11. ^ Tobias Blasius: Was an undercover agent involved in the NSU bomb attack in Cologne? In: WAZ (Online), August 25, 2015.