Thomas Haldenwang
Thomas Haldenwang (born May 21, 1960 in Wuppertal ) is a German lawyer , political officer and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) since November 15, 2018 .
Life
After graduating from high school , Haldenwang did his military service in the Navy . He then studied law at the University of Marburg . He completed his legal clerkship at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in 1991 with the second state examination . This was followed by an employment as a consultant in the department for service law and as a personnel officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and from 2000 to 2006 as a division head at the Federal Office of Administration . From 2006 Haldenwang worked again in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, this time as head of the department for career law and managing director of the Federal Personnel Committee .
Haldenwang has been with the BfV since 2009. Until the end of 2012 he headed Department Z (Central Services) and was Vice President of the authority from August 2013 . On November 15, 2018 Haldenwang was appointed President of the BfV . He succeeded Hans-Georg Maaßen .
After his appointment, he announced an increased focus of the BfV on right-wing extremism . The number of employees who devote themselves exclusively to this phenomenon should be increased from 200 to 300. During the investigation into the murder of Walter Lübcke , Haldenwang said that in the area of right-wing extremism, a scenario of " sleepers " - similar to the area of Islamism - might have to be taken into account and adjusted accordingly. By the classification of the AFD grouping the wing as "backed right-wing effort" he said to have become the enemy of right-wing radicals according to Spiegel.
Haldenwang is a member of the CDU and of Protestant faith.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
Individual evidence
- ^ A b President Thomas Haldenwang. In: https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/ . Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Ferdos Forudastan and Ronen Steinke: New head of the protection of the constitution promises stronger fight against the right. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ . Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 21, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Seehofer on the Lübcke case: "Right-wing extremist attack". In: https://www.br.de/ . Bayrischer Rundfunk, June 18, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
- ^ Ansgar Siemens, Severin Weiland, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Der Höcke-Jäger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2020, p. 90 f . ( online - March 14, 2020 ).
- ^ Ronen Steinke: Thomas Haldenwang, the quiet successor. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ . Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 5, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Konrad Schuller: BfV boss Thomas Haldenwang - washing without splashing. In: https://www.faz.net/ . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 6, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Haldenwang, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |