Thomas Sippel

Thomas Sippel (* 1957 in Fulda ) is a German lawyer and from November 2000 was President of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Erfurt . On July 3, 2012, he was given temporary retirement . Since October 1, 2013 he has been the head of the central department of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) in Frankfurt / Main.

Life

Thomas Sippel, originally from Hesse , worked in various positions at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 1987 to 2000 after studying law . From 1999 to 2000 he worked at the NATO Defense College in Rome . From November 2000 to July 3, 2012 he was President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution as the successor to Helmut Roewer .

Current discussion on right-wing extremism and the protection of the constitution in Thuringia

The names of the right-wing extremists from Jena , who became public as the National Socialist Underground in November 2011, had been known to Sippel for a long time. He told Focus magazine that when he took office he had already checked whether the three suspected terrorists had worked as informants for the protection of the constitution. The Thuringia Constitutional Protection Report 1998 (1999) already mentioned the names in the section “Pipe bombs found in Jena” on page 39.

In a hearing of the Parliamentary Control Commission of the Thuringian State Parliament on June 20, 2012, Thomas Sippel was withdrawn from the floor because the MPs felt they were insufficiently or incorrectly informed by his statements. The Thuringian Minister of the Interior, Jörg Geibert , put him into temporary retirement on July 3, 2012 on the grounds of a lack of confidence in parliament .

Sippel told the ARD broadcast about his predecessor Helmut Roewer, who was suspended from duty in June 2000 and temporarily retired in August 2000 after he had apparently used the office's funds to pay sources unknown to this day It was explosive on November 14, 2011 to the effect that he considered it conceivable that Roewer could have conducted informants on his own account in the 1990s. As early as 2009, he confirmed doubts about the Thuringian NPD's treasury management to the Thuringia Journal of the MDR . Quote: The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution stated at the request of the MDR that the suspicion had repeatedly been expressed in the scene that the organizers were putting the money "in their own pockets". The Office for the Protection of the Constitution wants to investigate the events, President Thomas Sippel told the MDR. So far, the authority has not yet researched.

Web links

• Political extremism as a threat to freedom . (PDF; 2.2 MB) Right-wing extremism and Islamism in Germany and Thuringia. Lectures on the occasion of the symposium of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on September 3, 2002 in Erfurt
• Between Globalization and State Collapse - Perspectives on Organized Crime. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Joint symposium of the Thuringian State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on October 27, 2004 in Erfurt.
• Page no longer available , search in web archives: Forum 2008 of the Clausewitz Society. In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft eV Yearbook 2008. A summary of contributions from the work of the Society in 2008 (PDF; 5.5 MB) Clausewitz-Gesellschaft eV, Hamburg, Manteuffelstraße 20, D-22587 Hamburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-9810794- 3-2
• 24 files, but no idea. Stern.de from November 12, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lost Parliament's confidence , Claus Peter Müller in FAZ.net, July 3, 2012
2. ↑ Portrait: Thomas Sippel , dpa in Zeit Online from July 3, 2012
3. ↑ Right-wing extremist series of murders in Germany - the protection of the Constitution comes under pressure. In: Focus online from November 12, 2011
4. ↑ Kai Mudra: Dispute with secret service escalates. In: Thüringer Allgemeine, June 21, 2012
5. ↑ After the series of breakdowns, Thuringia's President of the Protection of the Constitution also goes. On: www.welt.de, July 3, 2012
6. ^ Thuringian President of the Protection of the Constitution vacates post , FAZ.NET , July 3, 2012
7. ^ Breakdowns in NSU investigations - Thuringian President of the Protection of the Constitution must go , sueddeutsche.de , July 3, 2012
8. ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution only focused on Islamists. Das Erste.de, "Brisant" from November 14th 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (link invalid)
9. ↑ Crime: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has no evidence of breakdowns. In: zeit.de . November 12, 2011, accessed January 13, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Doubts about NPD financial reports. MoBit transcript from the MDR Thüringen Journal dated November 16, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )