Klaus-Dieter Fritsche
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Klaus-Dieter Fritsche (born 16 May 1953 in
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) is a former German civil servant who served as State Secretary and Commissioner for the Intelligence Services in the government of
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Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2018. He is a member of the
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(CSU).


Early life and education

Fritsche studied law at the University of Erlangen.


Career

Fritsche became a
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in 1981. From 1988 he worked for the CSU parliamentary group at the German
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, then based in Bonn. In 1991 he joined the Bavarian representation in Bonn. He returned to Bavaria in 1993 as chief of staff to Hermann Regensburger and, from 1995,
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, at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, in the government of
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. From October 1996 Fritsche served as Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In Chancellor Merkel's first term, Fritsche served as Federal Intelligence Service coordinator at the
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from December 2005 on. In November 2009 he was appointed deputy minister (german: Staatssekretär) at the
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under the leadership of minister
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, succeeding
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.


Later career

From 2019 until 2020, Fritsche worked as external advisor to Austrian
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in the
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of
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Sebastian Kurz. Amid the
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, media reports revealed that Fritsche helped set up a meeting with Lars-Hendrik Röller, Merkel's senior economic adviser, and senior Wirecard executives in September 2019. In 2020, Fritsche was appointed as member of German
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manufacturing
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Heckler & Koch's supervisory board; however, the Chancellery later vetoed the appointment.Peter Carstens (24 October 2020)
Kanzleramt verbot früherem Geheimdienstler Tätigkeit bei Heckler & Koch
'' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''.


See also

*
List of Bavarian Christian Social Union politicians A list of notable politicians of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU): A * Manfred Ach * Heinrich Aigner * Ilse Aigner * Katrin Albsteiger * Max Allwein * Walter Althammer * Hans Amler * Erwin Ammann * Johann Anetseder * Willi Ankermà ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fritsche, Klaus Christian Social Union in Bavaria politicians 1953 births Living people