Werner Jakstat

Werner Jakstat in December 2013 before the committee of inquiry of the Thuringian state parliament on the " National Socialist Underground "

Werner Jakstat (* 1958 ) was President of the Thuringian State Criminal Police Office in Erfurt from October 2010 to February 2016 . He took over the position of Helmut Huber, who moved to the Ministry of the Interior in September 2008.

Career

Bavaria

Jakstat began his training for the middle police force in 1974 with the Bavarian police . He was until 1990 in several uses in the protection and criminal investigation . During this time he completed the promotion to the higher service . In 1990 he started training for the higher service at the Police Leadership Academy in Münster-Hiltrup , which he completed in 1992. From 1992 to 2000 he was employed at the Police Headquarters in Middle Franconia and the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office .

Thuringia

In 2001 Jakstat rose to the position of permanent representative of the President in the Thuringia State Criminal Police Office at the Thuringia Police . During this time there was deep mistrust and information blockades between the police and the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which had smuggled numerous undercover agents into the " National Socialist Underground " (NSU) since the late 1990s . Investigative measures by the police were even hindered to such an extent that employees of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution shadowed police officers who were observing them. V-man Tino Brandt and the father of Uwe Mundlos have confirmed the competing actions of the police authorities and the Thuringian constitutional protection against the Berliner Zeitung and the Spiegel. With the "staffing of EG TEX [investigation group terrorism extremism] with only five investigators [...] [had] the LKA created a structure that no longer corresponded to the criminally relevant actions of neo-Nazi structures."

From October 2004 Jakstat was seconded to the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior , where he acted as the representative of the police department head. From September 3, 2008, he took over the official business as head of the Thuringian State Criminal Police Office, before he was appointed President on October 1, 2010.

In December 2013 it became known that Jakstat, in his function as Vice President of the Thuringian State Office of Criminal Investigation, should have ordered by telephone in 2003 not to pursue a testimony on the whereabouts of NSU member Uwe Böhnhardt : “Don't get anything out of there!” The investigation was then stopped been.

In an eleven-hour meeting of the NSU investigation committee of the Thuringian state parliament in January 2014, Marko Grosa, then LKA department head, confirmed the research by Report Mainz from the previous month. Grosa made his testimony even though the Interior Ministry under Interior Minister Jörg Geibert ( CDU ) had put pressure on the ten LKA officials who were employed at the time and who were summoned as witnesses before the meeting: They should make an official statement that included an affidavit in court equals. Jakstat reported that an instruction “Don't get anything out of there!” Would have been “insane” and cited “missing memory” three times, but did not explicitly deny the phone call.

MPs from the co-ruling SPD as well as from the Greens and the Left (both in the opposition) issued a press release after the meeting calling for Jakstat to be suspended until the facts were clarified. On January 22, 2014, this request was rejected by Geibert, because there were no compelling business reasons for a suspension.

Thuringia's Interior Minister Holger Poppenhäger ( SPD ) retired Jakstat at the beginning of February 2016. His successor was the lawyer and former senior public prosecutor Frank-Michael Schwarz.

Web links

• Vita on the LKA website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The previous head was appointed the new president. deutschland-today.de, October 12, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Interior Minister Scherer reorganizes the top management of the Thuringian police: LKA President becomes the new police department head in the Interior Ministry. Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, September 2, 2008, accessed on March 29, 2010 . 
3. ^ Thuringian constitution protection: bankruptcies, flops and breakdowns. In: Spiegel Online. December 19, 2011, accessed January 16, 2014 . 
4. ^ Interim report of the Thuringian NSU committee of inquiry. March 11, 2013, accessed January 16, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Today's President of the Thuringian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) is said to have stopped investigations. SWR / Report Mainz, December 10, 2013, accessed on December 11, 2013 . 
6. ^ Die Linke: Joint press release on the committee of inquiry meeting on 9.1.14. January 13, 2014, accessed January 18, 2014 . 
7. ^ NSU investigation committee confirms REPORT MAINZ. SWR / Report Mainz, January 14, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Search for Uwe Böhnhardt - police officer charges LKA President Jakstat before NSU committee. (No longer available online.) MDR, January 14, 2014, archived from the original on January 15, 2014 ; accessed on January 16, 2014 . 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.  
9. ↑ Geibert rejects the suspension of the LKA boss. (No longer available online.) MDR, January 22, 2014, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2014 . 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.  
10. ↑ Thuringia's LKA boss under pressure. Zeit Online, January 22, 2014, accessed January 31, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Change at the top of the Thuringia State Criminal Police Office. focus.de, January 26, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2016 .