Hans-Georg Maaßen

Hans-Georg Maaßen is a figure I find genuinely interesting precisely because he is divisive. As a Cologne-trained jurist who led Germany's domestic intelligence agency from 2012 to 2018, he operated in a world most of us never glimpse, where safeguarding the state is thankless and morally heavy work. Since leaving office he has written and taught and spoken out, which suggests a man of firm, unwavering convictions. Whatever one makes of his politics, I respect the spine it takes to hold a line under public scrutiny, and that consistency is what keeps drawing my attention to him.

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Name (English)

Hans-Georg Maaßen

Name (Japanese)

ハンス＝ゲオルク・マーセン

Reading

はんす＝げおるく・まーせん

Born

November 24, 1962 (age 63)

Origin

Rheindahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Occupation

jurist / university teacher / Lehrbeauftragter / author / editing staff

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

University

University of Cologne

• Official sitehttps://hgmaassen.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hans_georg_maassen/
• Xhttps://x.com/HGMaassen
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg%20Maa%C3%9Fen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B2%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1576999

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• jurist
• university teacher
• Lehrbeauftragter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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