Richard Meier (lawyer)

Richard Meier (born January 6, 1928 in Munich ; † June 19, 2015 in Kaufbeuren ) was a German lawyer and from September 15, 1975 to April 22, 1983 President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

After studying law from 1947 to 1954, including his doctorate , Meier began his professional career in 1954 as a public prosecutor in Wuppertal ; In 1957 he was transferred to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a civil servant. There he rose in February 1964 to head Division IV (counter-espionage). After he had held this function until April 1970, he switched to the Federal Intelligence Service , where he headed Department I (procurement) under the code name Manthey. In the Silberstein report of 1964 to investigate the telephone tapping affair , he was named as the only competent and unencumbered manager of the BfV.

In September 1975 he was appointed President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. His tenure coincided with the German Autumn the highlight of the RAF - terror : The kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer , the hijacking of the Lufthansa aircraft Landshut and the suicides of imprisoned RAF members .

Shortly after the change of government in October 1982, Meier was put into temporary retirement by the new Federal Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann ( CSU ) on April 22, 1983 . The early retirement was justified with the health consequences of a car accident in which Meier was responsible, in which he himself was seriously injured (in addition to facial injuries and broken bones, he suffered a bruised brain and a bruised brain) and his partner was killed. The retirement caused resentment in the coalition partner FDP , which had led the interior department before the Bonn turnaround .

Meier's successor was Heribert Hellenbroich, then 45 years old .

Publications

Secret service without a mask. The former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution about agents, spies and a certain Mr. Wolf. Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 978-3-7857-0663-3 .

literature

Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Meier in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Obituary Dr. Richard Meier. Retrieved June 26, 2015 .
↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Meier, Richard, p. 302 .
^ The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government, Vol. 17: 1964, ISBN 978-3-486-58127-0 .
^ State presented , Der Spiegel 51/1982, p. 16.
↑ Panorama: Successor to Meier , Der Spiegel 19/1983, p. 22f.

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	19th June 2015
Place of death	Kaufbeuren

[1] Richard Meier in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

[2] Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Obituary Dr. Richard Meier. Retrieved June 26, 2015 .

[3] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Meier, Richard, p. 302 .

[4] The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government, Vol. 17: 1964, ISBN 978-3-486-58127-0 .

[5] State presented , Der Spiegel 51/1982, p. 16.

[6] Panorama: Successor to Meier , Der Spiegel 19/1983, p. 22f.