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Martina Rosenberg becomes the new President of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service

2020-10-07T10:50:50.068Z


She is the first woman in the job: Armed Forces disciplinary attorney Martina Rosenberg is to lead the military counterintelligence in the future. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced this.


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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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The new president of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) will be the Bundeswehr disciplinary attorney Martina Rosenberg.

Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) informed the Bundestag Defense Committee on Wednesday in Berlin.

Rosenberg is the first woman in this role.

After studying law, Rosenberg joined the Bundeswehr administration in October 2000.

She worked as a legal advisor and law teacher, security officer, as a section head in the personnel department of the BMVg and as head of the parliamentary and cabinet sections.

In 2018 she was appointed armed forces disciplinary attorney and most recently worked at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig.

The election of Kramp-Karrenbauers does not come as a surprise.

Shortly after the minister spontaneously fired the previous MAD President Christof Gramm a good two weeks ago, DER SPIEGEL reported that Rosenberg was on the shortlist for his successor.

At that time it was stated that the lawyer already had experience as a defense disciplinary attorney in the fight against right-wing extremist tendencies in the troops.

Kramp-Karrenbauer calls Rosenberg the ideal cast

In the defense committee, Kramp-Karrenbauer described her candidate as the ideal cast for the crisis-ridden MAD, who slipped from breakdown to breakdown in recent months.

Rosenberg is assertive, communicative and technically well-versed.

Immediately after her start at the secret service, she should present a new concept for reforming the service in order to make the authority more effective, announced Kramp-Karrenbauer.

After mishaps in the pursuit of right-wing extremist soldiers, Kramp-Karrenbauer had sent the last head of the military intelligence service into retirement.

Christof Gramm has headed the MAD since 2015.

The MAD had recently hit the headlines again and again due to problems in the persecution of right-wing extremist soldiers and the clarification of possible right-wing networks within the Bundeswehr.

Just two years after Gramm took office, for example, the right-wing extremist First Lieutenant Franco A., who had acquired a second identity as a Syrian refugee while serving in the army, was found out.

Rosenberg is a confidante of State Secretary Gerd Hoofe, who is responsible for the MAD in the Defense Department.

With the Rosenberg personnel, Hoofe and the influential head of the legal department hope that the series of breakdowns at MAD will finally stop.

Both were massively annoyed by the previous MAD President Gramm in the end because he did not crack down on the secret service hard enough.

They also felt that they were insufficiently informed, even in delicate cases.

The new job will not be easy for Rosenberg.

Although the MAD has been reformed again and again in the last two years, the effects are still a long time coming.

In particular, the often required cooperation with civil authorities such as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been difficult for many in Cologne to this day.

As a result, information about right-wing extremist soldiers is often not sufficiently exchanged with one another.

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Source: spiegel

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