Hans-Georg Maaßen

Hans -Georg Maassen (* November 24, 1962 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German jurist. He's since August 1, 2012 President of the Federal Agency for State Protection and succeeds Heinz Fromm, the July due to the destruction of files relating to the terrorist group National Socialist Underground by employees of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution to transfer him into early retirement 31 2012 had asked for.

Life

Maassen was born in 1962 in Mönchengladbach- Rheindahlen and made in 1982 graduated from high school at the local high school. In Cologne and Bonn, he studied law. In 1997 he completed his doctorate in Cologne with Hartmut Schiedermair from a subject of international law.

Since 2001, Maassen is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin. According to Spiegel Online, the application of the department on an honorary professorship Maassen was rejected that shortly before his presentation by the Minister of the Interior by the Academic Senate of the University. Maassen is the author of publications on immigration law and law of internal security. Since 2006 he teaches at the European Centre for Political Science and Public Policy in the degree program in European Studies seminars on European immigration and asylum law. Maaßen is editor of the Journal of immigration law and policy on foreigners ( ZAR ). Besides working at the Free University of Berlin, he teaches in Tokyo.

Career in the Home Office

Since 1991 he worked at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, including as Head of Unit for immigration law (from 2001). In this role, he had to clarify whether the detained at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Murat Kurnaz was a retrieve to Germany or whether they should refuse his entry under Schily (SPD ) in the fall of 2002. He decided Kurnaz's unlimited right of residence in Germany was forfeited because it had been more than six months out of the country and had not registered with the competent authorities. Kurnaz had been held already for more than six months in Guantanamo. Maaßen had to explain his decision before the 2007 BND investigation committee of the Bundestag and was sharply criticized by members of the Committee. The decision of Maaßen was in November 2005 by the Bremen Administrative Court (case 4 K 1013/ 05) found to be illegal. Since August 2008, he was in the Ministry of Home Affairs as Deputy Director Chief of Staff combat terrorism in the Public Safety Department. In the Committee of Inquiry into the terrorist group National Socialist Underground Maaßen represents the federal government.

President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution

On 18 July 2012, the Federal Cabinet decided that Maaßen August 1, 2012 via assumes the office of President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, and thus agreed to the proposal of the then Federal Interior Minister Hans -Peter Friedrich ( CSU). Frederick had the Members of parliament informed on 16 July 2012 on the Personnel. Matthias Höhn, national manager of the Left Party, criticized the appointment Maassen. Friedrich Maassen appointed on 1 August 2012 as the President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution. On August 10, 2012 Maaßen was officially introduced in Cologne by the then Interior Minister Friedrich in his office. Maassen said to want to restore the lost confidence of the public for the Protection of the Constitution. On 15 November 2012, inaugurated in Maassen 's presence by the then Interior Minister Friedrich in Cologne, the Joint -Wing Extremism and Terrorism Centre ( GETZ ).

Publications

• Michael dog, Winfried Kluth, Hans -Georg Maassen (ed. ): Immigration law - General immigration and residence; Right of residence under European law. Nomos Verlag, Baden -Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-2301-3.
• Dr. Hans -Georg Maassen, publications. Free University of Berlin. Retrieved on July 17, 2012.