Arne Schönbohm

Arne Schönbohm (born 28 July 1969) is the former president of the German Federal Office for Information Security.^[1]^[2]

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Biography

Schönbohm was born in Hamburg.^[3] He studied international business administration at the International School of Management in Dortmund, as well as in London and Taipei.^[4]

From 1995 until 2008 Schönbohm worked at EADS Germany in several senior positions, including as Vice President Commercial and Defense Solutions for EADS Secure Networks.^[4]

In 2008, he set up his own consulting business.

He was the chair of Cyber Security Council of Germany e.V., an association that later came under criticism for ties to Russian secret services.^[5]

Appointed by Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière (CDU), Schönbohm became president of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in 2016.^[6] In October 2022, under a new government, following a report by the satirical ZDF Magazin Royale on ZDF television, alleged connections to Russian secret services came under scrutiny again.^[7]^[8] As a result of the ensuing "BSI scandal [de]" he was dismissed from his post shortly afterwards by the new Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD)^[9] and later appointed to an equivalent post, as president of a federal academy.

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