Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records
| Stasi-Unterlagen-Behörde | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 3 October 1990 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Germany |
| Headquarters |
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 31/33 Berlin-Mitte, Germany |
| Employees | 1,708 |
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| Website | http://www.bstu.bund.de |
The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic, also known as the Stasi Records Agency or BStU, (see §Name below) is an upper-level federal agency of Germany that preserves and protects the archives and investigates the past actions of the former Stasi, which served as the secret police and foreign intelligence organization of the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Since March 2011, Roland Jahn has been head of the agency.
The agency is subordinate to the Representative of the Federal Government for Culture (Bernd Neumann, CDU). As of 2012, it had 1,708 employees.
The agency is a founding member organisation of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.
The agency is formally known by the title of its lead official as the "Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic" (German: Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Due to its unwieldy title, the Commissioner is more usually referred to as the "Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records" (German: Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Stasi-Unterlagen) or abbreviated as the BStU.
In German, the office is informally often referred to using the incumbent federal commissioner's own name, as the Gauck office (German: Gauck-Behörde), Birthler office (German: Birthler-Behörde) or Jahn office (German: Jahn-Behörde).
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