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August Hanning, the former head of German intelligence, was arrested on suspicion of treason and espionage in favor of a foreign intelligence service after it was revealed that his former chief of staff had sent him about two thousand internal documents in connection with a child abduction case in Hamburg. #hírszerzés #kémkedés #hazaárulás (translated)

Markus Frohnmaier wrote that Saxony-Anhalt is denied the chairmanship of the conference of justice ministers due to an upcoming AfD government. The Greens in Hamburg have decided to retain the chairmanship and bypass Saxony-Anhalt. Frohnmaier accused the established parties of thereby daily gaining more voters for the AfD. #AfD #SachsenAnhalt #Politik (translated)

🅲🅾🆇🆇 asked who decides on residency and naturalization in Germany. In many authorities, foreigners would have significant powers, he wrote. In Hamburg alone, 24 people without EU citizenship had extensive decision-making authority; some of them neither held German citizenship nor had a permanent residence permit. #Einwanderung #Aufenthaltsrecht #Staatsbürgerschaft (translated)

Max Mannhart reported that a nationwide survey by Apollo News found that up to 20 percent of employees in immigration authorities did not have a German passport, with many of them coming from third countries. In numerous cases, non-EU foreigners with temporary residence permits decided on the residence status of other foreigners and sometimes on their naturalization, he wrote. Often, there were no restrictions on their decision-making powers. In Hamburg alone, 24 non-EU foreigners had extensive powers in decisions regarding residence status. According to Mannhart, the responsible authorities did not see any problem in this. https://t.co/dKSCjxvNks #Ausländerbehörden #Einbürgerung #Migration (translated)

Apollo News reported that a nationwide investigation found that numerous authorities employed foreigners in residence law decisions, sometimes even in naturalizations. Often there are no restrictions in this regard. In Hamburg alone, 24 non-EU foreigners have extensive decision-making powers, reported Apollo News. https://t.co/yFNiqc5Stz #Aufenthaltsrecht #Einbürgerung #Deutschland (translated)

The podcast "House of Block," in which Christina Block's daughters speak publicly for the first time about the years-long family conflict, is causing new discussions and open questions before the Hamburg Regional Court in the ongoing criminal proceedings against the Hamburg steakhouse heiress. #BlockProzess #HausDerBlock #Familienkonflikt (translated)

The Hamburger Renn-Club breaks with the tradition of the Gallop Derby by hosting the most important horse race of the year for the first time on a Saturday instead of a Sunday, in order to align more closely with the international sports calendar. #DeutschesDerby #Galopprennen #Traditionsbruch (translated)

LilitThyra wrote that Ukrainian has no benefit for German children and is completely irrelevant worldwide. She referred to Hamburg as a federal state that is again a pioneer in the initiative she called "nonsense." https://t.co/2LW657qdaD #Ukrainisch #Bildung #Hamburg (translated)

Steffan Nethe wrote that he helped a friend carry a dresser into her second apartment in the Schanzenviertel district of Hamburg. Although she had warned him in advance, he was surprised by the extent of the stickers on the walls of the houses. Nethe described the district as a stronghold of the left and wrote that entire blocks were covered with stickers against the police, the state, and the right. He said that this had nothing to do with normal residential culture; he compared the appearance to a run-down Antifa command center in public space and called it terrible. #Hamburg #Schanze #Antifa (translated)

Manaf Hassan criticized the closeness of Federal Constitutional Court President Stephan Harbarth to the political leadership. A photo from the weekend in Bremen shows Harbarth at the state ceremony for the Day of German Unity directly next to leading politicians, he wrote. The court president must stand for the separation of powers, but had previously served as a CDU member of the Bundestag, a member of the CDU federal executive, and as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag. Harbarth had switched from the faction leadership to the Federal Constitutional Court in November 2018 and was elected vice president the day after his election as a judge. About a year and a half later, he became president. Hassan described it as unusual that Harbarth reached the head of the court without prior judicial activity in Karlsruhe. Before that, Harbarth had worked as a partner in a law firm that split from Shearman & Sterling in 2008, becoming SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz. Until 2004, Hanno Berger also worked there in Frankfurt on tax law. Berger is considered a central developer of the Cum-Ex transactions, in which banks and investors received refunds for capital gains tax that they had never paid. Experts estimate the damage, according to Hassan, at a double-digit billion amount. Berger later advised, among others, the Hamburg Warburg Bank and has since been legally convicted. Harbarth worked during those years in the Mannheim office of the law firm; what he knew about Berger's activities remains unclear, Hassan wrote. Additionally, Hassan referred to decisions and proceedings at the Federal Constitutional Court: The First Senate under Harbarth's chairmanship had examined and largely approved central Corona measures in 2021. In the Second Senate, there has been a complaint regarding the election review from BSW for almost two years, which wants to achieve a recount of the federal election and entry into the Bundestag. If BSW were to enter Parliament retroactively, the black-red coalition would lose its own majority, according to Hassan. He asked how Harbarth could be at the head of the court while also publicly standing next to the government, whose actions the court should control. #Bremen #Bundesverfassungsgericht #Politik (translated)

Ultras Clips reported that supporters of Hamburger SV and FC København paid tribute to 26-year-old FC København fan Mathias Blindbæk Schlüter during a friendly match. The author said Schlüter died in a traffic accident on September 22 and had helped foster a close friendship between the clubs’ fan groups. Supporters of both teams displayed banners honouring him, with messages in German and Danish that meant “Mathias forever,” Ultras Clips wrote. #Fodbold #SupporterKultur #Solidaritet (translated)

The Kieler Aktionär reported that CDU members baha_jam and Christian Miele had already discussed emigration to Switzerland in light of the situation on X. Gert Wöllmann from the Hamburg FDP suggested a shared apartment for three in this context. Although the statements are probably not entirely serious, the author believes they reflect Germany's disastrous situation and the CDU's inability. He wrote that the party's own soldiers are already giving up and said he could understand them. #Deutschland #Politik #CDU (translated)

A secret operational plan for Germany, under which the Bundeswehr is preparing for a potential attack from Russia, was tested in the Red Storm Charlie exercises held in Hamburg, involving around 1,700 participants, including 500 soldiers. #Bundeswehra #NATO #RedStormCharlie (translated)

This is a very detailed and strictly confidential plan that specifies exactly where Allied troops would arrive in Germany, primarily which ports, as well as which routes they should take across the country — explains Aylin Matlé, a security expert from the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), in an interview with DW. #NATO #Bundeswehra #Hamburg (translated)