Uwe Sailer

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Uwe Sailer (born November 7, 1956 in Linz ) is a data forensic scientist and retired Austrian detective.

Life and career

After completing elementary and secondary school as well as the polytechnic, Uwe Sailer completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In 1976 he joined the police force . In 1983 he passed the detective examination. After training in the theft and burglary departments, he switched to white-collar crime and completed an apprenticeship with the then internationally highly respected economic police in Vienna under Councilor Spörr. In addition, he attended evening school as a second educational path, which at the time was still known to many under the name of “workers' secondary school ”, and in 1986 he passed his Matura . In the course of his professional activity he was confronted more and more with computers, which is why he decided to complete his training as a computer specialist. In 2003 he was appointed as the first expert for data forensics - a special form of computer forensics - for the court district of the Linz Regional Court. From this time on he worked primarily as a forensic scientist and internet specialist for the police and courts. He lost both his approval as an expert and his trade license at the end of 2018.

Uwe Sailer is married and lives in Linz.

Professional and private activities against right-wing extremism

Sailer was commissioned by the Upper Austrian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism to act as an assistant service provider in connection with investigations against members of the right-wing extremist Association of Free Youth . After he testified as a witness at the trial against the Federation of Free Youth (BFJ), he and his wife received anonymous threats. Sailer, who describes himself as an anti-fascist , tries to take criminal charges against the neo-Nazi scene. In 2013 he won a trial against the right-wing extremist Ludwig Reinthaler from Wels . Reinthaler, who was sentenced to a fine, had alleged that Sailer had falsified evidence and committed abuse of office in the trial against the BFJ.

Conflict with the FPÖ

On July 10, 2009, FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache raised the charge in the National Council that the FPÖ was being spied on by the Greens. Above all, the National Council member Karl Öllinger did this with the help of officials from the Interior Ministry. There is a corresponding network in the Ministry of the Interior that works for the Greens. Uwe Sailer spied on FPÖ politicians on behalf of Öllinger. The aim of these activities is to prevent a “center-right majority” in Austria. In this context, Strache spoke of the "largest spy scandal in the Second Republic".

In July 2009, a committee of inquiry into this cause was set up in the National Council. Sailer was subsequently suspended from work as a detective on July 20, 2009.

In September 2009, the Parliament's Immunity Committee decided to extradite Öllinger on suspicion of abuse of office and violation of official secrecy. The corruption prosecutor's office investigated against him and also against Sailer. In December 2009, the immunity committee again requested the lifting of Öllinger's immunity, now on suspicion of false evidence. In the same month, the committee of inquiry ended its work prematurely - without a joint final report.

In 2011 the investigations against Uwe Sailer and Karl Öllinger were discontinued in all points (abuse of office, violation of official secrecy, false evidence). By 2013 the FPÖ had filed more than 50 reports against Sailer, none of which had any consequences. In order to prove that the FPÖ National Council member Werner Königshofer is connected to the neo-Nazi website Alpen-Donau.info , Sailer sent the member an anonymous e-mail in 2011 with a newspaper article provided with a code, which clearly identifies the document was to come. The manipulated newspaper article was published on the homepage three days later. Königshofer subsequently claimed that Sailer had sent the article to Alpen-Donau.info on his behalf. Sailer sued Königshofer because of this claim at the Vienna Commercial Court and won the case. According to the court, the file was passed on by Königshofer.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "You can arrest these people." In: Der Standard, February 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Report against FPÖ mandataries. In: Die Presse, July 22, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Occupation police officer, calling anti-fascist: Uwe Sailer. In: Der Standard, April 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Political bully is not allowed to accuse police officers of forging evidence. In: Kurier, June 25, 2013.
  5. ^ FPÖ accuses the Greens of "spying". In: Die Presse, July 10, 2009.
  6. ↑ Allegations of data theft. In: Der Standard, July 14, 2009.
  7. ^ Nazi website: Provisional injunction against Königshofer. In: Die Presse, June 21, 2011.
  8. ↑ SOS Mitmensch: Policeman Uwe Sailer receives Ute Bock Prize for moral courage. In: APA-OTS, January 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ Ferdinand Berger Prize goes to Christa Zöchling and Uwe Sailer. In: Der Standard, April 25, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Every non-political person gives his or her voice and opinion." In: OÖ Nachrichten, June 1, 2018.
  11. ^ After hate posting: Church distances itself from Uwe Sailer! October 30, 2018, accessed on March 1, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Sailer, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian detective and data forensic scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz