Norbert Juretzko

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Norbert Juretzko (born October 8, 1953 in Salzgitter ) is a German author. He became known through his disclosure books about the German foreign intelligence service BND , of which he worked from 1984 to 1999.

Juretzko is married. He is the father of two sons and a daughter.

Book publications and legal proceedings

Juretzko is co-author of the disclosure books "Conditionally ready" (2004) and "Im Visier" (2006), which deal with events in the Federal Intelligence Service. In this context, the BND initiated proceedings against Juretzko for treason in 2006 , which ended in a defeat for the secret service and an acquittal of the accused.

Juretzko describes the following processes, among others:

  • In order to “gain a picture of the situation”, the BND read letters from GDR citizens to Western citizens at random while they were still in office , although the breach of the confidentiality of the letters was consistently unjustified.
  • The supervised by the BND stay-behind organization was the Stasi fully known, and due to numerous gross errors (connecting leaders did not give radios to the "sources" - the hidden forces on the ground - on, etc. empty equipment hiding) has never been operational.
  • The BND ignored the betrayal of its stay-behind "sources" and thus unnecessarily endangered them.
  • The BND continued to use "burned" real estate - ie known to opposing services - for operational purposes.
  • When cooperating with American services, the BND tolerated an inappropriate distribution of the information obtained, and accepted bribery and wiretapping actions by the partner services without complaint.
  • The professionalism at the BND was generally poor, sometimes chaotic conditions prevailed - overall, the service was not a serious opponent, especially for the Stasi.

A court case over the allegations made in the book ended in November 2004 with an out-of-court settlement between the author and the ex- Chancellery Minister Bernd Schmidbauer , after which two sentences were deleted from the book.

Before the book was published, Juretzko was involved in the investigation of the former head of department Volker Foertsch within the security department of the BND . Through material from a Russian source of the BND (code name Rübezahl), he was suspected of being a double agent of the Russian domestic secret service FSB . These allegations came from Juretzko, among others, and were also considered well-founded by research by the MAD and the BfV , but are said to have later turned out to be invented. The Federal Public Prosecutor investigated the case and closed the proceedings against Foertsch on May 12, 1998, as the suspicion had been dispelled (Section 170 (2) StPO). Foertsch retired early in 1998 at his own request, six and a half months before he would turn 65.

Juretzko was sentenced on January 21, 2003 for fraud in connection with the information allegedly provided by "Rübezahl" in a closed court case by the Munich District Court I to 11 months probation because he had manipulated files while working for the BND and confided in him Misappropriated funds. He himself denies the allegations and describes them as a punitive action for his investigations against Foertsch.

In the course of an administrative dispute between the BND and Juretzko, Judge Kugele of the Leipzig Administrative Court on April 18, 2007 also questioned the judges from the criminal proceedings in Munich about the judgment against Juretzko. The proceedings involved 359,000 euros, which the BND had reclaimed from him. On April 20, 2007, the Federal Administrative Court closed the proceedings pursuant to Section 92 (3) VwGO.

In May 2005 it became known that the Hanover public prosecutor was investigating Juretzko. Although he was accused of withholding official documents of the BND, the investigation was discontinued in June 2007 .

In May 2006 Juretzko published another disclosure book about the BND. Numerous other mishaps and alleged embarrassments from the intelligence community were made public under the title In Visor .

On June 7, 2006, after a five-week trial, Juretzko was acquitted by the Berlin Regional Court on a joint application by the public prosecutor and the defense on charges of treason. The BND had accused Juretzko of having disclosed official secrets in the book Conditionally Ready for Service by publishing secret aliases, secret properties and secret meetings. The presiding judge of the 25th Large Criminal Chamber of the Berlin Regional Court accused the BND of inadequately preparing the proceedings. The public prosecutor stated that exonerating material was only obtained through the defense, which the BND should have already had. Juretzko was defended by lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach .

Local politics

Juretzko campaigned against the building of the poultry slaughterhouse in Wietze . Juretzko is chairman of the citizens' initiative Wietze for the preservation of the Aller-Leine-Tals e. V., which turns against the object. He was a member of the SPD for 39 years , but left it and belongs to the party Die Linke . In the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2011 , Juretzko ran for the office of mayor of the municipality of Wietze . He received 11.4 percent of the vote and had to admit defeat to the CDU candidate Wolfgang Klussmann.

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  1. ↑ a b The candidates of the WuW. Archived from the original on September 7, 2011 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 5th criminal chamber of the LG Munich I on January 21, 2003, Az. 5 Kls III OJs 202/2000
  3. ↑ Silke Looden: Mayor is looking forward to up to 1000 new jobs. Wietze defends himself against the chicken factory . In: Weser-Kurier , August 24, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
  4. ^ Hans Brinkmann: Pirates board local parliaments . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 12, 2011. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
  5. ↑ A look back in anger - the revelations of the BND captain Juretzko Review by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom
personal data
SURNAME Juretzko, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter