Jörg Ziercke (born 18 July 1947) served as the chief commissioner of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt) from 2004 to 2014.

In 1985 he moved to the Kiel Ministry of the Interior, where he was initially the personnel, training and further education officer for the Schleswig-Holstein State Police.

Since 2001 he has been active on the board of the German Forum for Crime Prevention and has been deputy federal chairman of Weisser Ring since October 21, 2012.

[7] According to a report by Der Spiegel in July 2007, at an event for parliamentarians he showed content from so-called "shocker sites" (video clips of executions in the form of beheadings, brutal child abuse, BDSM) in order to promote the planned law on secret online searches to the invited MPs.

He repeatedly stressed that the Federal Criminal Police Office would not be able to effectively combat illegal content on the internet by deleting it alone.

Drone attacks In January 2011, a judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court filed a criminal complaint against Ziercke for aiding and abetting the murder of a German Islamist.

Ziercke had a Federal Criminal Police Office spokesman say in the magazine Stern that he had not informed Hartmann directly.