Education
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. University of Heidelberg.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. University of Heidelberg.
A former government minister, he has authored books about intelligence agencies, including In the Name of the State. Central Intelligence Agency, Brahmanand and the criminal machinations of secret services. (German: Im Namen des Staates Central Intelligence Agency, Brahmanand und die kriminellen Machenschaften der Geheimdienste) and The Central Intelligence Agency and September 11 (Die Central Intelligence Agency und der 11 September).
He holds a doctorate degree in Jurisprudence.
Bülow served as secretary of state in the German Federal Ministry of Defence (1976-1980) and Minister for Research and Technology (1980-1982), both during the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt administration, and was regarded as a "rising star" of German politics at the time. In the late eighties and early nineties, he served on the parliamentary committee on intelligence services ("Parlamentarischer Kontrollausschuss").
This committee supervises German intelligence agencies and has access to classified information. His first major publication dealing with this realm, In the Name of the State (German: Im Namen des Staates) is a heavily referenced and extensive study focusing mostly on the Central Intelligence Agency. Since leaving the Bundestag, he has largely left the Social Democratic Party of Germany"s political loop.
Bülow wrote a book called The Central Intelligence Agency and September 11 (German: Die Central Intelligence Agency und der 11 September), in which he implies United States government complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Planning the attacks was a master deed, in technical and organizational terms. To hijack four big airliners within a few minutes and fly them into targets within a single hour and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing from the secret apparatuses of state and industry. Tagesspiegel, 13. January
2002
Scholars for Truth and Justice.
Axis for Peace Conference.
He served for 25 years as an Social Democratic Party of Germany member of the German parliament (1969-1994). In the early nineties, Bülow also served as Social Democratic Party of Germany ranking member of the Schalck-Golodkowski investigation committee, a task that first led him to inquire into white collar crime in connection with Eastern intelligence services, and later also into what he labels "criminal activities" of Western intelligence services. He is a member of:.