Klaus-Dieter Fritsche

Klaus-Dieter Fritsche (born 16 May 1953 in Bamberg[1]) is a former German civil servant who served as State Secretary and Commissioner for the Intelligence Services in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2018.

He returned to Bavaria in 1993 as chief of staff to Hermann Regensburger and, from 1995, Günther Beckstein, at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, in the government of Minister-President Edmund Stoiber.

From October 1996 Fritsche served as Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In Chancellor Merkel's first term, Fritsche served as Federal Intelligence Service coordinator at the German Chancellery from December 2005 on.

From 2019 until 2020, Fritsche worked as external advisor to Austrian Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.