Protection of the Constitution Berlin

Protection of the Constitution Berlin - Department II SenInnDS -
State level	State of Berlin
position	Department of the Senate Department for Home Affairs and Sport
founding	March 5, 1951
predecessor	State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Berlin
Headquarters	Klosterstrasse 47 Berlin-Mitte
Head of department	Michael Fischer
Servants	approx. 257 (as of 2020)
Budget volume	approx. 16.5 million EUR (budget: 2019)
Web presence	https://www.berlin.de/sen/inneres/verfassungsschutz/

The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution is the intelligence service of the State of Berlin . It is a department  ( Dept. II ) of the Senate Department for Home Affairs and Sport and uses intelligence resources, among other things, to carry out its tasks .

history

On March 5, 1951, the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution was founded. In 2000, the protection of the constitution moved from Zehlendorf to Kleistpark in Schöneberg . In December 2000, the Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution was dissolved by Interior Senator Eckart Werthebach due to several scandals and assigned as Department II to the Senate Department for the Interior. This means that the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution is no longer an independent authority, unlike the state authorities for the protection of the constitution in six other federal states. The office is currently located at Klosterstrasse 47 in Berlin-Mitte .

Tasks and organization

tasks

The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution has the task of collecting and analyzing information about political extremism and espionage and passing it on to political decision-makers and the public. The work of the protection of the constitution is determined by this triad of information acquisition, information processing and information transfer.

organization

Division II - Protection of the Constitution in the following eight papers divided (as of 2020):

• GSB Unit - Security and Cooperation
• Section II A - Principle, Law, Administration, IT , Public Relations and Committees
• Section II B - Right-Wing Extremism
• Unit II C - Islamism and Islamist Terrorism
• Section II D - Counter-espionage
• Unit II E - Procurement
• Section II F - Left-Wing Extremism
• Referat II G - Extremism with a foreign element and prevention

Well-known informants

• Ulrich Schmücker ( Movement June 2nd ) - the trial of his death is considered a judicial scandal, as the process - as officially stated - was manipulated in many ways and massively hindered by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and at least two public prosecutors.
• Karl-Albrecht Tiemann
• Peter Urbach , called "S-Bahn-Peter". On April 11, 1968, he supplied demonstrators against the Springer group with "a good dozen ready-to-ignite Molotov cocktails " and delivered bombs and weapons to people from the Berlin APO , who were later founding members of the Red Army faction . He also delivered the bomb for the attack on the Jewish parish hall in Berlin in 1969.
• Volker Weingraber

criticism

The protection of the constitution is accused of covering up the murder of Ulrich Schmücker in 1974.

In the years before reunification, “well over a million marks [...] were spent without 'comprehensible reasons' to 'protect a single secret employee and his contact person in office'”.

At the Berlin State Protection least three former were Stasi -Offiziere officially called V-men busy.

In June 2012, the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution destroyed 25 files that "might have been of interest to the NSU Investigation Committee of the Bundestag."

management

State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (1951–2000)

Period	Surname	comment
1951-1952	Werner Otto	from March 1951 first head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution; former district judge
1952-1953	Gotthard Friedrich
1953-1965	Heinz Wiechmann	Dismissed on February 8, 1965 by Berlin's mayor Heinrich Albertz , after he denied three times in a row that there were indications of visits from celebrities to the Clausewitz guesthouse despite being asked .
1965-1966	Heinz Fahs
1966-1974	Eberhard Zachmann
1975-1986	Franz Natusch	Entanglement in the cover-up of the murder of Ulrich Schmücker
1986-1989	Dieter Wagner	1973–1986 President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg
1990-1995	Heinz Annussek
1995-2000	Eduard Vermander	1977–1987 Police President in the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Baden-Württemberg , 1988–1995 President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg

Protection of the Constitution Berlin (since July 1, 2000)

Period	Surname	comment
July 1, 2000– December 31, 2000	Bernhard Dybowski	Provisional management while State Secretary Mathilde Koller reduced the number of employees by around 30 and had a new secret service law drawn up.
01/01/2001– 11/14/2012	Claudia Schmid	Resignation after scandal about the destruction of files on right-wing extremism with a possible connection to the NSU .
19.11.2012–15.09.2018	Bernd Palenda	provisional until August 19, 2013 ; Senate conductor Palenda was previously responsible for overseeing the Berlin police enforcement service
since 11/21/2018	Michael Fischer	previously provisionally headed by Katharina Fest

Legal bases

• Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany : Art. 73 and Art. 87 GG
• Federal Constitutional Protection Act
• Law on the restriction of the secrecy of correspondence, mail and telecommunications
• Act implementing the Act on Article 10 of the Basic Law (PDF)
• Law on the Protection of the Constitution in Berlin (VSG Bln) (PDF)
• Security clearance law
• Berlin Security Review Act (PDF)
• Security Clearance Assessment Ordinance
• Aviation Security Act

Web links

• Constitutional Protection Berlin on Berlin.de
• PDF info flyer for the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution on Berlin.de
• PDF organizational chart of the Senate Department for the Interior and Sport on Berlin.de
• “Freedom dies centimeter by centimeter” , Der Spiegel November 28, 1988
• Trial visitors in the Berlin terror database by Till Meyer , TAZ January 24, 1989

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Number of employees. Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport, July 30, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ PDF - Budget for the Protection of the Constitution, page 86.Senate of Berlin, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
3. ^ Berlin in 1951. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , calendar; Retrieved January 2, 2013.
4. ↑ Holger Stark: The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution is moving to Kleistpark for financial reasons. Der Tagesspiegel, November 16, 1999, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ Matthias Bieder: Berliner Verfassungsschutz: The list of breakdowns is long. DIE WELT, March 31, 2000, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Breakdowns at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution - A head rolls again .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Greenpeace, November 14, 2012
7. ↑ Holger Stark: Berlin secret service: New leadership for the protection of the constitution. Der Tagesspiegel, December 17, 2000, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
8. ^ State authorities for the protection of the constitution. BfV, November 28, 2018, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Office . Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport, July 30, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
10. ^ How the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution works. Senate Department for Home Affairs and Sport, January 19, 2015, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
11. ↑ PDF - Organization chart for the protection of the constitution in Berlin. Senate Department of the Interior and Sport, August 10, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy: The three lives of Rudi Dutschke. A biography. ISBN 3-472-86576-8 , p. 253.
13. ↑ Protection of the Constitution: Code name Flach . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1988, pp. 102-104 ( online ).
14. ↑ A student is killed. The protection of the constitution is hiding the weapon. And the perpetrators are never convicted . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 1, 2004
15. ↑ Protection of the Constitution: Death in the Grunewald . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/2012
16. ↑ Unbelievable wild growth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1989, pp. 30-31 ( online ).
17. ↑ Stasis in the protection of the constitution . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1998, pp. 110-111 ( online ).
18. ↑ Berlin had right-wing extremism files shredded . Spiegel Online , November 6, 2012; Retrieved January 2, 2013.
19. ↑ I've been spied on . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1953, pp. 5-8 ( online ).
20. ↑ ^{a b} Verfassungsschutz: Rumors in the safe . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1965, pp. 52 ( online ).
21. ↑ Right-wing radicals: Little gentleman with a hat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1988, pp. 37-40 ( online ).
22. ↑ Eduard Vermander is leaving office at the end of June because he has been accused of various scandals . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 4, 2000
23. ^ Eduard Vermander heads the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 5, 1995
24. ↑ Berlin Secret Service: New Leadership for the Protection of the Constitution . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 17, 2000
25. ↑ Shredder affair around NSU: Berlin's top constitutional protection officer throws down . Spiegel Online , November 14, 2012
26. ↑ Bernd Palenda takes over provisional management of the department for the protection of the constitution. Berlin.de, November 16, 2012, accessed on January 2, 2013 (press release No. 63). 
27. ^ Head of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution changes to the Senate Chancellery Der Tagesspiegel, August 20, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018 . 
28. ↑ Bernd Palenda new head of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Press release of the Berlin Senate of August 20, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2013.
29. ↑ The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution has a new boss. Der Tagesspiegel, November 21, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018 . 
30. ↑ New head of the protection of the constitution. Berliner Morgenpost, June 28, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018 . 
31. ↑ Legal basis for the protection of the constitution. Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport, July 30, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .