Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
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The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz is Germany’s domestic intelligence agency responsible for protecting the democratic constitutional order from extremist and espionage threats.
All labels observed (3)
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German federal agency
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domestic intelligence agency ⓘ intelligence service ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Bundesnachrichtendienst
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Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz ⓘ Militärischer Abschirmdienst ⓘ foreign intelligence services ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 1950-11-07 ⓘ |
| employer |
civil servants
ⓘ
public employees ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Für Freiheit und Sicherheit ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cologne ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Germany
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
BVerfSchG
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Bundesverfassungsschutzgesetz ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| monitors |
Islamist extremism
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cyber espionage ⓘ espionage activities ⓘ foreign extremism ⓘ left-wing extremism ⓘ proliferation-related activities ⓘ right-wing extremism ⓘ |
| nativeName | Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz self-link ⓘ |
| oversight |
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
ⓘ
G10-Kommission ⓘ
surface form:
G10 Commission
Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium des Deutschen Bundestages ⓘ
surface form:
Parliamentary Control Panel of the German Bundestag
|
| parentOrganization |
Federal Ministry of the Interior
ⓘ
surface form:
Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat
Federal Ministry of the Interior ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
|
| precededBy |
Gehlen Organization
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surface form:
Organisation Gehlen
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| primaryTask |
countering extremism
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counterintelligence ⓘ monitoring efforts directed against the constitutional order ⓘ protection against espionage ⓘ protection against terrorism ⓘ protection of the free democratic basic order ⓘ |
| prohibitedFrom |
law enforcement powers
ⓘ
police executive powers ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | annually ⓘ |
| publishes | Verfassungsschutzbericht ⓘ |
| reportsTo |
Federal Minister of the Interior and Community
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Minister of the Interior
|
| scopeOfOperations | within Germany ⓘ |
| shortName | BfV ⓘ |
| translatedName |
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
|
| usesMethod |
human intelligence
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open-source intelligence ⓘ signals intelligence (limited, in cooperation with other agencies) ⓘ |
| website | https://www.verfassungsschutz.de ⓘ |
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz Description of subject: The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz is Germany’s domestic intelligence agency responsible for protecting the democratic constitutional order from extremist and espionage threats.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
domestic intelligence service of Germany (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz)
this entity surface form:
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
this entity surface form:
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
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translatedName
→
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution