Werthebach Commission

The Werthebach Commission (actually: Commission for the Evaluation of the Security Authorities ) was an expert commission headed by the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Eckart Werthebach, and was set up by Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière on April 19, 2010.

assignment

The task of this commission was to present the tasks as well as the operational organization of the individual German security authorities at federal level ( Federal Criminal Police Office , Federal Police and Federal Customs Administration ), to compare them and to develop proposals for better cooperation and possible interlinking.

Result

The report was presented on December 9, 2010 and the main recommendations are:

• to merge the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police into a common authority
• Concentrate security measures at airports in accordance with Section 5 of the Aviation Security Act ( Aviation Security Act ) with the Federal Police and integrate the risk analysis of the Federal Customs Administration into aviation security
• The transfer of tasks from the law enforcement area from the financial control of undeclared work to the customs investigation service
• Customs own special unit ZUZ ( Central Customs Support Group ) in the GSG 9 to integrate

At the end of June 2011, the decision to reorganize the Federal Police was announced.

Members

The Werthebach Commission consisted of the following members:

• Eckart Werthebach (Chairman), former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
• Ulrich Kersten , former President of the Federal Criminal Police Office
• Kay Nehm , former federal attorney general
• Wolfgang Riotte ( former State Secretary)
• Karl-Heinz Matthias , former President of the Customs Criminal Police Office
• Rolf Ritsert ( German Police University )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bmi.bund.de ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - "De Maizière receives report" 
2. ↑ bmi.bund.de ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2011 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. - "Federal Minister of the Interior announces decision on reorganization of the federal police force" 

Web links

• bmi.bund.de - The complete report as a PDF file ( and as a summary )
• www.bundesfinanzministerium.de - Werthebach Commission largely takes over the BMF position on the reform of the security architecture

Press

• www.stern.de - "Interior Minister examines merger of BKA and Federal Police" , article dated December 9, 2010
• www.taz.de - "German FBI instead of BKA & Federal Police"
• www.spiegel.de - "BKA officials rehearse the uprising"
• www.focus.de - "Debate about the competencies of the new Federal Police"
• www.ftd.de ( Memento from December 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - "Security authorities are threatened with radical restructuring" , article from December 9, 2010

Unions' opinions

• United service union : Press release on the Werthebach Commission from November 24, 2010.
• BDZ - German Customs and Finance Union : BDZ aktuell No. 34 (PDF; 154 kB) from December 10, 2010 - "Independent customs with potential for improvement"