Protection of the Constitution of Saxony-Anhalt

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The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony-Anhalt is a department of the Ministry of the Interior and Sport there and is therefore not an independent authority as in other federal states such as Bavaria or Saxony . The seat is in Magdeburg . It uses intelligence resources for its tasks and had around 110 employees in 2018.

prehistory

The political police in Saxony-Anhalt under Soviet occupation arose after 1945 from internal DKP apparatus (the “party political department” and “border apparatus / traffic”) and from 1947 the so-called “Kriminalpolizei 5” or “K5”. In the course of the denazification, 155 men came to the K5 Saxony-Anhalt, 81 of them from the police, per Dombrowsky, head of the State Criminal Police Office Saxony-Anhalt in the "Report on the implementation of command 201". This K5 was subordinated to the "German administration of the interior", which After the founding of the GDR in 1949, it was named the main administration for the protection of the economy and finally the Ministry for State Security for 4 months . Allegedly to implement the Control Council Act No. 10 , the denazification , extensive monitoring tasks were planned from the beginning.

In 1948, the MfS recruited the following people from Saxony-Anhalt for its management cadre: Wilhelm Zaisser , the chief of police of the state authority of the Saxony-Anhalt police in Halle, who eventually rose to become the first minister for state security , Martin Weikert, the personnel manager of the German People's Police in Saxony -Anhalt, from 1947 head of Department K 5 in Saxony-Anhalt, from 1949 head of the state administration for the protection of the economy of Saxony-Anhalt, from 1950 head of the state administration Saxony-Anhalt in the MfS, from July 1952 head of the district administration Halle of the MfS, and from January 1953 Deputy Minister for State Security, Josef Kiefel , Weikert's successor as head of K5 in Saxony-Anhalt in 1949, from 1950 head of Department VIa (information gathering) of the MfS and in 1953 head of counter-espionage and SED functionary Otto Walter (politician ) , from 1946 to 1951 SED member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, then head of the main department at the MfS Political culture and was Deputy Minister for State Security until 1964.

The K-5 quota, calculated according to the nominal strength (282 men) and the actual strength (224 men) of the People's Police in relation to the number of inhabitants, was 1: 18,178 for Saxony-Anhalt in 1948 and thus less than half of the K5 in Saxony.

After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the more than three times the number of civil servants in the GDR employed at the same time in the public service of the comparably large state of North Rhine-Westphalia could not all be taken on. Therefore, the compromise was reached that each department “should take responsibility for the personnel incumbent on it and establish transition rules”. How which former Stasi officers were taken over into the Sachsen-Anhalter Constitutional Protection has not been published.

history

When the Law on the Protection of the Constitution in the State of Saxony-Anhalt came into force on July 30, 1992, the then State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony-Anhalt began its work. The former chief detective and owner of the Frankfurt company KDM Sicherheitsconsulting, Klaus-Dieter Matschke, was involved in setting up the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt.

With the law amending the law on the protection of the constitution in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of March 30, 1999, the state office for the protection of the constitution of Saxony-Anhalt was incorporated as a separate department in the then Ministry of the Interior (now: Ministry of the Interior and Sport) of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Anhalt incorporated.

Legal bases

In particular, the following laws regulate the activities of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt:

tasks

§ 4 VerfSchG-LSA determines the tasks of the Saxony-Anhalt constitutional protection:

The task of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is to collect and evaluate information, in particular factual and personal information, news and documents about

  1. Efforts that are directed against the free democratic basic order , the existence or the security of the Federation or a Land or aim to unlawfully impair the performance of the constitutional organs of the Federation or a Land or their members,
  2. ongoing structures and activities of the reconnaissance and defense services of the former German Democratic Republic, in particular the Ministry for State Security or the Office for National Security, within the meaning of Sections 94 to 99, 129, 129 a of the Criminal Code,
  3. security-endangering or secret service activities for a foreign power within the scope of the Basic Law
  4. Efforts within the scope of the Basic Law that endanger foreign interests of the Federal Republic of Germany through the use of force or preparatory actions aimed at it,
  5. Efforts that are directed against the idea of ​​international understanding ( Article 9, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law), in particular the peaceful coexistence of peoples ( Article 26, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law).

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution also works at the request of the responsible public authorities

  1. in the security check of persons in accordance with the Security Checks and Secrecy Protection Act as well as in background checks,
  2. in the case of technical security measures to protect facts, objects or findings that are subject to confidentiality in the public interest from being discovered by unauthorized persons.

management

Period Surname comment
1992-1999 Wolfgang Heidelberg
2000-2012 Volker Limburg Resignation due to mishaps in the investigation of the NSU terror. He was previously the head of the State Criminal Police Office.
Since 09/14/2012 Jochen Hollmann He was previously deputy head of the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Saxony-Anhalt and head of the police state security department.

control

The Saxony-Anhalt constitutional protection is subject to the control of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . This task is performed in particular by the Parliamentary Control Commission. This meets in secret and is bound to secrecy. The state government has to inform the Parliamentary Control Commission comprehensively about the general activities of the Saxony-Anhalt constitutional protection authority and about events of particular importance. The Parliamentary Control Commission, which consists of five members of the state parliament, meets at least quarterly. It has the right to provide information, to inspect documents, to have access to facilities for the protection of the constitution and to be heard from informants.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is also controlled by the State Commissioner for Data Protection, the State Audit Office and the courts.

With regard to measures according to the law on the restriction of the secrecy of letters, mail and telecommunications (law on Article 10 of the Basic Law) and the exercise of special information powers according to § 17a VerfSchG-LSA, the control is carried out by a G specifically appointed by the Parliamentary Control Commission 10 commission .

Ultimately, the protection of the constitution is subject to de facto control through media reporting and public opinion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State authorities for the protection of the constitution. Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
  2. ↑ Dombrowsky: "Report on the implementation of command 201". BA DO 17440, sheet 16, quoted by Jens Gieseke : The full-time employees of the State Security: Personnel structure and environment 1950–1989 / 90 . Ch.links Verlag, 2010, p. 79
  3. ↑ "Target and actual strength of the People's Police". As of June 25, 1949. BA, DO 1/7/150, Bl 56. quoted by Jens Gieseke : The full-time employees of the State Security: Personnel structure and living environment 1950–1989 / 90 . Ch.links Verlag, 2010, p. 60
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schäuble , Dirk Koch (ed.), Klaus Wirtgen (preface): The contract. How I negotiated about German unity . DVA, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-421-06605-1 .
  5. ^ Affaires: Felt for Export . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1991 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Do you want to shoot me? Political thriller in East Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1991 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Law on the protection of the constitution in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (VerfSchG-LSA) in the version published on April 6, 2006
  8. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: Traitors wanted . Focus magazine, issue 52/1997 from December 20, 1997
  9. ↑ Protection of the Constitution: The Secret Houses Deal . Focus magazine, issue 33/1995 from August 14, 1995
  10. ↑ German hunting scenes in Magdeburg: The police had been warned but not prepared: fear in the city of the nameless . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/1994, pp. 1-3.
  11. ^ After a new file breakdown in the NSU case: Head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution resigns. ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, September 13, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  12. ↑ NSU file scandal: Saxony-Anhalt's head of the protection of the constitution resigns . Spiegel Online , September 13, 2012
  13. ↑ Soko Samurai: Vietnamese gangs have recently made eastern Germany unsafe with brutal violence . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1993 ( online ).