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FINAL REPORT OF THE ENQUETE COMMISSION ON "SO-CALLED SECTS AND PSYCHOGROUPS"

Composition of the Enquete Commission on "So-called Sects and Psychogroups"

Members

Chairperson: Ortrun Schätzle, MP
Deputy chairperson: Gisela Schröter, M P

The members of the German Bundestag

Ordinary members Substitute members

CDU/CSU
Helmut Jawurek, MP
Eckart von Klaeden, MP
Ronald Pofalla, MP (spokesman)
Ortrun Schätzle, MP 
Singhammer, MP
Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, MP

Substitute Members

Hermann Gröhe, MP
Sigrun Löwisch, MP
Marlies Pretzlaff, MP
Johannes
Kersten Wetzel, MP

SPD
Alfred Hartenbach, MP
Angelika Mertens, MP
Renate Rennebach, MP (spokeswoman) 
Gisela Schröter, MP
Angelika Graf, MP
Klaus Hagemann, MP
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Meyer, MP
Regina Schmidt-Zadel, MP

F.D.P.
Roland Kohn, MP (spokesman)
Birgit Homburger, MP

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Dr Angelika Köster-Loûack, MP
Volker Beck (Cologne), MP (spokeswoman)

PDS
Ulla Jelpke, MP (spokeswoman)
Rosel Neuhäuser, MP

The experts
Professor Dr Ralf Bernd Abel
Department of Business Law at the Fachhochschule Schmalkalden

Ingolf Christiansen
Commissioner for Ideology Issues of the Lutheran Protestant Church District of Göttingen

Ursula Caberta y Diaz
Head of the Scientology Task Force, Ministry of the Interior, Hamburg

Dr Jürgen Eiben
Social scientist, Bonn

Hans Gasper
Theologian, Commissioner for Sects, Pastoral Centre of the German Conference of Bishops, Bonn

Werner Gross
Psychologist, Association of German Psychologists, Bonn

Professor Dr Werner Helsper
Department of Philosophy/Education, Teachers' Training College of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

Dr habil Hansjörg Hemminger
Centre for Ideology Issues, Protestant Parish Service for Württemberg, Stuttgart

Dr Jürgen Keltsch
Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Munich

Professor Dr Hubert Seiwert
Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig

Dr Bernd Steinmetz
Richter am Landgericht Hamburg

Professor Dr Hartmut Zinser
Institute of Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin

Commission secretariat
The German Bundestag made a secretariat available to the Enquete Commission in order to provide organisational and scientific support to the Commission in its work.

Director of the secretariat: Dr Jutta Wettengel

Deputy director of the secretariat: Katja Meyer zu Heringdorf, lawyer

Academic staff: Andreas Klump, political scientist
Hardo Müggenburg, social scientist
Wolfgang Wittmann, social scientist

Office manager: Beate Hess, administrative science graduate

First Commission secretary: Sabine Reeb

Second Commission secretary: Petra Becker

Academic staff employed by, and working for, the various parliamentary groups

CDU/CSU: Dr Christoph Golsong
Ulrike Heuberger
SPD: Frank Sassenscheidt-Grote
BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN: Wolfgang Bayer
Ralf Klemm
F.D.P.: Sabine Scholz
PDS: Gudrun Hentges

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