Niclas Matthei (born 2006), better known as Anzeigenhauptmeister (invented job title similar to "Chief Reporting Officer"), is a young German man from Gräfenhainichen[1] in Saxony-Anhalt who became widely known in Germany in 2024 for making thousands of citizen-reports of parking violations usually executed by municipal bylaw enforcement officers.
Matthei dubbed himself the "Anzeigenhauptmeister" and systematically reports illegally parked cars to the regulatory authorities, Ordnungsbehörde, which handle low-level offenses.
He is known for wearing full-body yellow safety clothing while riding a bicycle to find offenders, and temporarily used the name/symbol "POLIZFI", a play on the German word for police, Polizei.
When the city of Neumünster called on their residents to report parking violations in the spirit of Matthei, this sparked a "Shitstorm" of debate about citizen participation in government versus surveillance concerns.
[3][4] German rapper Finch released the song "DER ANZEiGENHAUPTMEiSTER" about him, and was in turn reported by Matthei for publishing an unauthorized photo of himself.