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Claudia Plattner becomes the new BSI President
The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn. photo
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The successor to former BSI President Arne Schönbohm has been found. ECB employee Claudia Plattner will be the new president of the federal authority.
The tech expert Claudia Plattner will be the new President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The German press agency learned this from government circles. The “Spiegel” had previously reported on the personnel. The mathematician has been Director General for Information Systems at the European Central Bank (ECB) since summer 2021.
The long-standing BSI President Arne Schönbohm was fired by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) last October. Jan Böhmermann had previously reported on his ZDF program about Schönbohm’s relationship with an association that is controversial because of the connections of some members to Russia. Schönbohm put up a fight. He is now President of the Federal Academy for Public Administration and is also responsible for modernizing the training landscape.
According to information from government circles, the exact date for Plattner’s move to the top of the Bonn authority has not yet been set. Faeser has big plans for the BSI in the coming years. The Federal Office is to become the central office and provide the federal states with more support in the area of cyber security.