Reuter Electronic

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Reuter Electronic GmbH & Co.
legal form GmbH & Co.
Seat Haiger , Germany
management Hans-Hermann Reuter
Branch Software development , telecommunications , welding technology , control technology
Website www.reuter-electronic.de

The Reuter Electronic GmbH & Co. is a company from Haiger in Hesse Lahn-Dill-Kreis . It previously traded under the name of Funktechnischer Gerätebau Reuter & Co. and Reuter Electronic KG and, according to its own information, specializes in welding technology , control technology , safety technology and telecommunications .

Reuter affair

The managing director bribed officials from the Customs Criminal Police Office until 1999 , who had preferred to order technology from his company. He was in custody for this in 1999. In 2002 he was sentenced by the Cologne Regional Court for bribing officials from the Cologne Customs Criminal Police Office and granting advantages to a fine of 1.5 million euros and a suspended prison sentence of 21 months. This corruption scandal has since been known as the Reuter affair and was partly charged with the then President of the Customs Criminal Police Office, Karl-Heinz Matthias, as favoring non-official supervision. DigiTask , which has its headquarters in the immediate vicinity and was founded under the company Reuter Leiterplatten GmbH , took over part of the customer base .

Big Brother Award 2009

In October 2009, the company and DigiTask were awarded the negative “ Big Brother Award ” in the business category, which is awarded for improper use of technology and information. The presenter Frank Rosengart called DigiTask as " top dog in the German monitoring business" and said: "Together with the company Reuter electronic develops DigiTask specialized listening devices for the police and intelligence services." DigiTask in 2011 by the affair of the State Trojans known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commercial register : Local court Wetzlar HRA 5025. Accessed on December 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Harald Schumacher: Listening technology: Where 007 buys. In: Wirtschaftswoche . June 23, 2008, accessed on October 11, 2011 (German).
  3. ↑ Focus article on the progress of the Reuter corruption affair , Focus, No. 30, 2001
  4. ↑ Affair: Trail to the Top . In: Focus , 49/1999, December 6, 1999. Retrieved December 22, 2011
  5. ↑ Customs Criminal Police Office: Special leave for 007 . In: Focus 38/2002, September 16, 2002. Retrieved December 22, 2011
  6. ↑ Konrad Lischka, Ole Reißmann and Christian Stöcker: Trojan manufacturer supplies numerous authorities and federal states. October 11, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2011 (German).
  7. ↑ Laudation from Frank Rosengart: The BigBrotherAwards 2009 Economy : German companies that offer surveillance technology for Internet and telephone, accessed on October 12, 2011