New details about the constitutional protection order
politics
Leaked chats about the occupation of the Salzburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2016 caused a stir this week. Now the “ZackZack” platform has published new details. Accordingly, the current head of the Salzburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Georg Angerer, is said to have received the post in 2016 through party contacts.
The online platform zackzack.at of the National Council deputy Peter Pilz exactly the occupation of the post as a postponed action. Georg Angerer – now head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution – was the ÖVP chairman in Hallein at the time. Months before the high-ranking police post was advertised, Angerer sent the following message to Michael Kloibmüller, head of cabinet in the ÖVP-led Ministry of the Interior, according to ZackZack: “Please provide the promised necessary support for the head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Salzburg; I need these urgently! Best regards to Vienna my friend […].”
Two other more highly qualified police officers also applied for the position. According to ZackZack, the two have withdrawn their application. When Angerer received the post, according to ZackZack, he is said to have written the following to Kloibmüller in the Ministry of the Interior: “[…] took my appointment decree this afternoon; thank you very much!”
Service authority checks post occupation
The occupation of the post was objective and legally compliant, said the then Salzburg State Police Director Franz Ruf this week of the “Kronen Zeitung” – Ruf is now Director General for Public Security in the Ministry of the Interior. Angerer himself did not want to comment on the news all week. And as the “Salzburger Nachrichten” reported on Saturday, the service authority is now checking the controversial posting in the Salzburg police headquarters.