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Werner Maihofer
Werner Maihofer (20 October 1918 – 6 October 2009) was a German jurist and legal philosopher. He served as Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior from 1974–1978 until he resigned after a scandal involving an illegal wiretapping of Klaus Traube.
Biography.
An avid speed skater in his youth, Maihofer was a member of the German national team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Maihofer served in the Wehrmacht in World War II. He studied law at the University of Freiburg, and received
of the decade, and closely modeled on it. As the man who had designed the Hessen Data Protection Commission, Spiros Simitis was seen as an obvious candidate to head up the national version of it. The job was indeed offered to him by Interior Minister Werner Maihofer. Simitis and Maihofer discussed plans for the new commission in some detail and agreed to an initial headcount of 32 for it. In November 1977 it emerged that Simitis had turned down the post, however, and cabinet minutes indicated that the government had agreed to