New Federal Prosecutor General: Rommel: Federal Prosecutor’s Office “Servant of the Law”

The new head of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, Jens Rommel, has described the agency as a “servant of the law.” Their work is, among other things, about protecting the most important legal interests of the constitution, said the 51-year-old Federal Prosecutor General on Monday after his inauguration. He pointed out that the Federal Prosecutor’s Office often acts against a political background and that there is a lot of attention when Germany’s highest prosecutor’s office, for example, takes over investigations.

Rommel is the twelfth Federal Prosecutor General. Last but not least, due to increasing numbers in the area of ​​Islamist terrorism and right-wing extremist activity, for example from the so-called Reichsbürger scene, the authority with offices in Karlsruhe and Leipzig has grown to around 350 employees in recent years.

In his speech, the new Federal Prosecutor General referred to the Red Army Faction (RAF), which murdered the former incumbent Siegfried Buback. Current challenges are international developments and technical progress: In classic espionage, the current global political situation is presenting the authorities with more and more difficulties.

Minister: Russian war criminals, if possible, on trial in Germany

Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann emphasized the importance of the top prosecutors in Germany. “Even when the weapons speak, the law is not silent,” said the FDP politician, referring, among other things, to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Here, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office makes a major contribution to being prepared for legal proceedings – whether in this country, abroad or before an international court. “We will also bring Russian war criminals to justice in Germany if we get hold of them.”

But in Germany too, Islamists, right-wing and left-wing terrorists have declared war on the liberal order, said Buschmann. “As elsewhere, political forces are ready to turn the liberality of our order into an illiberal one, to turn the open society into an authoritarian one. “We will not let our freedom be taken away from us,” emphasized the minister. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is in favor of this Guarantee.

In her speech, the President of the Federal Court of Justice, Bettina Limperg, addressed a change in recent years: hatred has become socially acceptable, limits on what can be said are crazy. The state must invest in its institutions. This serves the rule of law and strengthens people’s trust in that rule of law.

As a “Nazi hunter” he was involved in the worst acts against humanity

With regard to Rommel, Minister Buschmann said that as the former head of the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, he had spent many years deeply immersed in the worst acts against humanity. He is therefore prepared for the terrible crimes against humanity that the Federal Prosecutor’s Office is currently dealing with.

The Federal Minister of Justice also thanked Rommel’s predecessor Peter Frank, who is now a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Both are excellently suited for the role of Federal Prosecutor General, said Buschmann. During Frank’s term of office (2015-2023), charges were brought against right-wing terrorist groups such as the “Freital Group” and “Revolution Chemnitz”, against the murderer of the former Kassel district president Walter Lübcke, the attacker on the synagogue in Halle and the conspirators around Heinrich XIII . Prince Reuss.