Matthias Seeger

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Matthias Seeger (born June 11, 1955 in Bremen ) is a German lawyer . From March 2008 to July 2012 he was President of the Federal Police Headquarters in Potsdam .

Life

Matthias Seeger grew up with his older sister and younger brother in the rectory in Osterholz-Scharmbeck . His father's family came from Western Pomerania . Two older siblings perished at the end of the Second World War .

After graduating from high school at the local grammar school , he did military service in the German Armed Forces as a reserve officer candidate from 1974 to 1976 . He is currently a lieutenant colonel in the reserve in the paratrooper troops .

After completing his military service , he studied law in Berlin and Tübingen . After his legal clerkship at the Rottweil Regional Court , he passed the second state examination in 1986 and initially worked as a lawyer . When he joined the Federal Border Guard in 1986, Matthias Seeger took over the management of the legal affairs department in the Northern Border Guard Command. In 1989 he moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a staff officer and in 1993 as a consultant for border and air security. From 1996 he was head of the Cologne Railway Police Office. In 2000 he was appointed President of the Western Border Guard Presidium.

After the reorganization of the Federal Police, Matthias Seeger was appointed as the first President of the Federal Police Headquarters in March 2008. Before that, he was in charge of the development team for the establishment of the Presidium.

Matthias Seeger is married and has two children.

Transfer to temporary retirement

On July 30, 2012, Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich put him into temporary retirement . His two deputies were also removed from their posts. Friedrich was then heavily criticized for this process, especially because those affected first learned of their dismissals from the press before they were informed themselves. The domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Michael Hartmann , called the recall of the police leadership "factually unnecessary, superfluous and harmful". The Bundestag Vice- President Petra Pau from the party Die Linke said that she had "no conclusive explanation for Friedrich's actions, except that he obviously cannot do it at all". The Greens chairwoman Claudia Roth spoke of a "stylish expulsion", which is indicative of the interior minister's personnel policy and "once again illustrates his helplessness". The chairman of the German Police Union , Rainer Wendt , described the change in leadership as "shabby and humanly indecent". The chairman of the police union , Bernhard Witthaut , rated the style of dismissals as "completely unacceptable". Seeger himself also criticized the way he was treated in an interview with Bild and described the behavior as “dishonorable and downright shameful”. Seeger's successor was Dieter Romann on August 1, 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the father Erwin Seeger in: Ernstheinrich Meyer-Stiens: Heimliche Hauptstraße ", The Bahnhofstraße in Osterholz-Scharmbeck , Verlag H. Saade, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 2000, ISBN 3922642403 .
  2. ↑ Florian Gathmann: Personalzoff in the Ministry of the Interior: Your enemy and helpers. In: Spiegel Online July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Replacement of the Federal Police Chiefs: Sharp criticism of Interior Minister Friedrich. In: Spiegel Online July 29, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Die Welt: "Undignified, dishonorable, downright shameful", July 31, 2012
  5. ^ Der Tagesspiegel: "Opposition finds the top of the Federal Police to be kicked out of style", from July 29, 2012
  6. ^ Die Zeit: "Discharged Federal Police Chief attacks Friedrich", from July 31, 2012
  7. Jump up ↑ Federal police storming their boss's expulsion. Derwesten.de , July 29, 2012, accessed on August 4, 2012 .
  8. ^ Serious allegations against Interior Minister Friedrich. Image , July 30, 2012, accessed August 4, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Seeger, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Federal Police Headquarters
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen