Hans-Georg Maaßen
Hans-Georg Maaßen | |
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Maaßen in 2023 | |
| President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution | |
| In office 1 August 2012 – 8 November 2018 | |
| President | Joachim Gauck Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Deputy | Ernst Stehl Thomas Haldenwang |
| Preceded by | Heinz Fromm |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Haldenwang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hans-Georg Maaßen 24 November 1962 |
| Party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Values Union (2024–2025) CDU (1978–2024) |
| Spouse | Yuko Maaßen |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
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Hans-Georg Maaßen (born 24 November 1962) is a German civil servant and lawyer. From 1 August 2012 to 8 November 2018, he served as the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic security agency and one of three agencies in the German Intelligence Community. He was removed from his Federal role in 2018 after controversial comments exonerating far right violence, and feeding unpublished intelligence reports to the AfD. He would subsequently claim he was the victim of a far left conspiracy, but admit in 2025 that characterizations of the AfD as a far-right extremist organization were accurate.
In 2021 Maaßen was selected as a candidate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is one of the founders and, since January 2023 also president, of the Values Union, a German registered association, converted in 2024 to a political party, that consists mostly of more conservative members of the CDU.