Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is rebuilding the military secret service: boss Christof Gramm has to go.
The background is quite explosive.
Berlin / Frankfurt am Main
- bang at the German military secret service: The President of the
Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD)
,
Christof Gramm
, is replaced.
The
dpa
learned
on Thursday in Berlin
that he would leave by mutual agreement
.
According to information from the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, Gramm will be put into temporary retirement in October.
MAD boss Gramm has to go: Too little "dynamic" in the fight against right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr?
The paper also quotes from a
statement by the Ministry of Defense
, according to which
head of department Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
(CDU) decided with Gramm's consent to "relieve the secret service chief of his task in the coming month." A decision on his successor should be made shortly.
The decision is quite explosive.
The
FAZ
claims to have learned
from the group of defense policy officers in the Bundestag
: Gramm is to be replaced in order to complete Kramp-Karrenbauer's reform efforts.
The outgoing CDU leader had announced, among other things, that she would take sharp action against
right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr
- the first consequences followed at the KSK.
The
MAD
been partly come under suspicion to proceed in this field decided too little.
The new section in the fight against extremist tendencies in the Bundeswehr and in the modernization of the MAD required “additional efforts and dynamism”, the statement from the Defense Ministry said.
According to reports, the detachment came in response to mishaps in the
persecution of right-wing extremist soldiers in the ranks of the Bundeswehr
.
According to
Spiegel
, Kramp-Karrenbauer drove to the MAD headquarters in Cologne on Thursday and had a long conversation with the head of the secret service.
Bundeswehr: Right-wing extremism problems in the troops - MAD apparently needs "modernization"
In the fight against right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr, the
MAD has
a prominent role, the ministry said.
His tasks include
recognizing
extremist tendencies at an
early stage and fully identifying and uncovering the people involved in any possible network structures.
To this end, the MAD is "consistently modernized and further developed".
Recently, more and more cases of
alleged right-wing extremist activities in the Bundeswehr
have become public.
Der
Spiegel
recently reported that the MAD had significantly expanded its investigations.
The Bundeswehr secret service is currently supposed to process more than
700 suspected cases of right-wing extremism
.
(
dpa / AFP / fn
)
