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Coat of arms of the Federal Police (symbolic picture): Instructors with a right past?
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The affair about a professor of the Federal Police does not have any disciplinary consequences for the time being.
According to information from SPIEGEL and the "Lübecker Nachrichten", this is the result of an internal investigation.
The Federal Police Academy announced that they had not found any "criminal and / or disciplinary misconduct".
Stephan M. is a professor at the Federal Police Academy in Lübeck.
Research by »Ippen Investigativ« had suggested that in his past he was close to the right-wing scene - and may still represent such positions today.
The journalists reported, among other things, that Stephan M. had co-founded the "Institute for State Policy" in the early 2000s.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been running the think tank as a suspected right-wing extremist case since 2020.
In addition, according to the journalists, Stephan M. wrote texts for the »Junge Freiheit«.
Politicians demanded clarification
Stephan M's lawyer announced that his client was not a member of the "Institute for State Politics" but its sponsor "Association for State Politics" - "a few months" and long before the institute was observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
M. had always denied the extremism allegation through his lawyer.
He does not share racist concepts and also mention the positive aspects of migration in his classes.
M. had explained his texts and past to »BuzzFeed« in more detail.
The case had alarmed politicians, and MPs from the Greens and the left called for clarification.
The leadership of the Federal Police Academy had the case investigated.
Stephan M. did not teach anymore.
The university does not officially provide any information about his whereabouts.
From the academy, however, according to information from SPIEGEL and "Lübecker Nachrichten", there are considerations to let him continue to work as a professor at the school, but without a teaching assignment, as in previous months.
Apparently there is resistance to him from individual teachers in the college;
the academy worries that a return to teaching could lead to unrest.
The proposed solution is also in M.'s interest to protect him.
The university in Lübeck with other locations is the most important educational institution of the Federal Police.
14,000 federal police officers are trained there every year, plus a good 1,600 students.