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The president of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), Christof Gramm (62), is replaced. Gramm will withdraw by mutual agreement. The German press agency found out on Thursday in Berlin.
The ministry briefed the presidents of the Bundestag on the step it is intended to advance the reform process in the MAD and the Bundeswehr after a series of far-right incidents.
Christof Gramm has been a lawyer and president of MAD since 2015. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, decided “with his consent, Dr. To relieve Christof Gramm of his task in the next month,” said a Ministry spokesman Defense. “They will put him into temporary retirement. The successor will be decided shortly.”
In the fight against right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr, the MAD has a leading role. Their tasks include “recognizing extremist tendencies at an early stage and fully identifying and uncovering any network structures that are involved,” said a Defense Ministry spokesman. To this end, MAD is constantly being modernized and developed. Network analysis and intensive cooperation with other authorities were part of this as well as the renewal of the organization, working methods and personnel.
The MAD reforms initiated in October 2019 have already borne fruit. Last year, thanks to the work of the MAD, serious cases were cleared up. MAD’s president “initiated and accompanied these changes and thus achieved notable improvements in organization and working methods in recent years.” “This has achieved an important first objective,” the spokesman said.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) and Gramm agree that the upcoming implementation of the reforms and the modernization of the MAD marks a new stretch “that requires additional efforts and dynamism.” “This new section must also be made visible in terms of personnel,” the spokesperson said.
