Werner Smoydzin

Werner Smoydzin (born January 6, 1925 in Nikolaiken , East Prussia; † July 13, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Smoydzin became a member of the NSDAP in 1943 . After studying law and political science at the Universities of Kiel and Bonn, Smoydzin passed the first state examination in law in 1952, followed by the major state examination in Düsseldorf in 1956. As early as 1952 he was a consultant in the federal office of the Federation of Expellees . In August 1956 he joined the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. From September 1970 to April 1972 he was its vice-president. From May 1972 Smoydzin headed the Public Security Department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . He was a member of the FDP .

Publications

• Hitler lives! From international fascism to the international of the swastika. Ilmgau-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm 1966
• NPD. History and environment of a party. Analysis and criticism. Ilmgau-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm 1967
• NPD. Party with a future? Ilmgau-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm 1969

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

Web links

• Werner Smoydzin in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constantin Goschler and Michael Wala: “No new Gestapo”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi past. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-02438-3 , p. 301.
2. ^ History. Vice President of the BfV. January 17, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 53/1974 of December 30, 1974, p. 14.
4. ↑ Announcement of the award of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Federal Gazette . tape 1979 , no. January 19 , 1979 ( wordpress.com ).