Where the man is looking for his political home is now unbreakable. Hans-Georg Maaßen, the republic’s top secret service officer from August 2012 to November 2018, is a member of the board of the Opinion & Freedom Foundation together with Roland Tichy, head of the right-wing populist magazine “Tichys Insight”. He likes to give interviews to the similarly oriented The Epoch Times, which is co-financed by the Chinese Falun Gong sect. He posts – motto: “For a world without socialism” – on the American lateral thinker platform Gettr. And he writes regularly for Roger Köppel’s Swiss “Weltwoche”, where in his most recent comment on the Berlin New Year’s Eve riots he accused left-wing migration supporters of a “human breeding program” in which “the ‘white bread’ is viewed as inferior.”
Compared to Maassen’s lupine moods, Thilo Sarrazin is almost a sheep. While Berlin’s former finance senator was expelled from the SPD after several attempts, despite all the grumbling that has arisen in the CDU, Maassen is still doing his party a disservice as ombudsman in the Thuringian district association Schmalkalden-Meiningen.
The fact that the publishing house CH Beck got rid of Maaßen as an employee of “Epping/Hillgruber”, the authoritative commentary on the Basic Law, must therefore be seen primarily as a substitute action. After protests from the lawyers involved and media allies, Maaßen was only able to forestall the termination of the contract and resigned in turn.
The process was certainly not a highlight of democratic culture, since it became inevitable only under public pressure. Maassen, whose comment on the right to asylum dealt with in Article 16a, his specialty, was shot down because he could no longer be held up. Meanwhile, Felix Klein, the federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, has accused Maassen of “anti-Semitic agitation” because of a tweet that extended the “Weltwoche” statements.
Ex officio generously with this accusation, he probably applies more to Maassen’s rhetoric than his basic attitude. But you don’t have to feel sorry for Maaßen if you concede that he also seeks provocation because after he was thrown out as an intelligence officer, which he caused himself, he leads the life of a homeless desperado. When someone like him speaks of justice, he is primarily concerned with himself.
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