Heinz Fromm

Heinz Fromm ( * July 10, 1948 in Frieda ) was State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Director of the State Office for State Protection Hesse. From June 2000 until 31 July 2012 Fromm was president of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution.

Life and career

After studying law at the Justus -Liebig- University Giessen, he for a traineeship at the Regional Court of Kassel graduated in 1975 with the Second State Examination, Fromm joined in 1979 as an officer in the Professional category in the administration of justice in the country of Hesse, a. 1991-1993, he was director of the State Office for State Protection Hesse. Subsequently, he was State Secretary in the Hesse Ministry of the Interior until 1999, thereafter to take over from 1999 to 2000, the Office of the Head of JVA Kassel I.

As Hessian State Secretary, he initiated the communications traffic surveillance Regulation, the predecessor of the Telecommunications Interception Ordinance. Fromm is a member of the SPD.

President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution

2000 Fromm was President of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution under the former Schily (SPD). In 2006 he opposed the merger of the departments to monitor the left and right by the then Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble ( CDU) and called it a " neglect " the focus task far right. Only after 2011, the so-called " Zwickau cell" had been unmasked, the responsibilities for political extremism were separated again.

Dislocation in early retirement

Fromm asked on July 2, 2012 at his transfer into early retirement on 31 July 2012. Federal Interior Minister Hans -Peter Friedrich ( CSU) accepted the request. Against the Committee of Inquiry into the terrorist group National Socialist Underground Fromm testified that the incident " out serious decline for the reputation of the BFV " to have a "whose consequences for the functioning of the Office are not predictable ." He had been " duped " by his own employees and did not rule out that a Head of Unit wanted to cover something up.