Thomas Haldenwang

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Thomas Haldenwang at the Interior Ministers Conference 2018 in Magdeburg
Haldenwang (center) with US Ambassador Richard Grenell (right) and his partner Matt Lashey (2019)

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

Commons : Thomas Haldenwang  - Collection of Images
  • Biography on the website of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b President Thomas Haldenwang. In: https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/ . Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Seehofer on the Lübcke case: "Right-wing extremist attack". In: https://www.br.de/ . Bayrischer Rundfunk, June 18, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ansgar Siemens, Severin Weiland, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Der Höcke-Jäger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2020, p. 90 f . ( online - March 14, 2020 ).
  5. ^ Ronen Steinke: Thomas Haldenwang, the quiet successor. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ . Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 5, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Haldenwang, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal