Protection of the Constitution Lower Saxony

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The Lower Saxony Constitutional Protection , headquartered in Hanover, is a department of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport . It is not an independent authority like the state offices for the protection of the constitution in other federal states. In 2010, the Lower Saxony constitution protection agency had 267 employees, in 2015 there were 226 and in 2016 280 employees.

management

Period Surname comment
1984 to 1987 Peter Frisch He has been with the Lower Saxony Constitutional Protection Office since 1975, taking over its management in 1984. During his time in 1978, the so-called Celler Loch fell . In 1987 he moved to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
until 2000 Rolf Peter Minnier On his own application, he could take early retirement .
2001 to 2006 Volker Homuth Later became head of the Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics
2007 to 2009 Günter Hot From 2010 to 2018 he was the coordinator of the federal intelligence services .
January 2010 to March 4, 2013 Hans-Werner Wargel Before his appointment, he was police chief in Göttingen. Was put into temporary retirement after the state elections in 2013 .
March 5, 2013 to December 31, 2018 Maren Brandenburger First woman in the presidency, until then responsible for public relations in the authority.
since January 1, 2019 Bernhard Witthaut Police officer and released for a long time for union work

Known operations

As only became known in 1986, the Lower Saxony constitution protection carried out a covert operation with the Celler Loch in 1978 to smuggle an informant into the Red Army faction under a “ false flag ” .

In 1999, two Russian spies were discovered in the Eurofighter project by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In November 2018, was V-Person in Göttingen unmasked as a secret service file, which was sent to a dish that was not cleaned up properly within the meaning of source protection. As a result, the then president had to vacate her post.

Controversy

In the 1980s, Hans Dieter Lepzien ( NSDAP structural organization ) constructed the bombs for the attacks by the “Otte Group” operating in Lower Saxony. He had participated in the bombing work on behalf of the Lower Saxony constitution protection agency.

The journalist Andrea Röpke was observed from 2006 to 2012 by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution. A request from the journalist to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2012 as to whether data about her were stored was denied. However, this statement was wrong. In September 2013, the constitution protection of Lower Saxony informed the sports journalist Ronny Blaschke that he had illegally ended up in an extremism file. As it turned out a short time later, he had only been accidentally observed. It was a mix up of names. What was meant was Ronald Blaschke , born in 1959, research assistant to Linken boss Katja Kipping and spokesman for the Basic Income Network.

Legal bases

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Lower Saxony Constitutional Protection: data and facts
  2. ↑ Der Null-Bock-Officials in: Focus from February 19, 2001
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of November 24, 2008: Statistics Office defends itself against falsification: Ministers wanted to gloss over bad numbers. Lawyers protest
  4. ^ Website of the Constitutional Protection of Lower Saxony: New President of the Constitutional Protection: Hans Wargel succeeds Günter Heiss as President of the Constitutional Protection
  5. ^ Vita of the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Bernhard Witthaut. In: http://www.verfassungsschutz.niedersachsen.de/ . Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Spiegel Online from August 9, 1999: Protection of the Constitution: Two top spies captured
  7. ↑ Consequences of the series of breakdowns at the authorities - after the Göttingen undercover agent affair: Pistorius relocates the head of the constitutional protection agency Brandenburger. In: https://www.hna.de/ . November 21, 2018, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Protection of the Constitution: What are they actually allowed to do , Der Spiegel 39/1984 of September 24, 1984.
  9. ↑ Christian Rath: Not intimidated, but angry. In: Journalist.de. November 11, 2013, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  10. ^ Ronny Blaschke: Under suspicion Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 26, 2013
  11. ^ Constitutional protection mishap: Spied journalist was apparently confused on Spiegel-Online , September 27, 2013
  12. ↑ Law on the protection of the constitution in the state of Lower Saxony (Lower Saxony Constitutional Protection Act - NVerfSchG) in the version of May 6, 2009