Education
He completed his Abitur in 1972 and spent his military service in a Paratrooper division of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.
He completed his Abitur in 1972 and spent his military service in a Paratrooper division of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.
Schindler"s parents are from Siebenbürgen and Bessarabia. He is an Oberleutnant of the reserves. He began studying legal science in 1974 at Saarland University in Saarbrücken.
He passed the first and second German legal exams in 1980 and 1982 respectively.
Schindler served as a Law Enforcement Officer for the Bundesgrenzschutz (Federal Border Guard). In 1985, he became an instructor in the Civil Defense department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
He served at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne from 1987 to 1989 as a division head In 1989, he returned to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
He served as director of the budget department, permanent representative of the leader of the headquarters and leader of the "Modern State - Modern Administration" administrative department.
In 2003, he became the leader of the Counter-terrorism department. Since 2008, he has been Undersecretary for Public security. Within this role, he has provided supervisory oversight for the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
He is seen as an authority on crime, terrorism, Information Technology security, and computer crime.
In 2012, he replaced Ernst Uhrlau as president of the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Schindler made headlines in May 2012 when he used his personal agency airplane (a Dassault Falcon 900) to transport a rug weighing 30 kilograms (66 lb) from Afghanistan back to Germany for free as a "personal favor" for Dirk Niebel, the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Niebel did not make a customs declaration or payment of duty until after the issue had been investigated by Der Spiegel, a German newsweekly. Schindler and Niebel"s public statements contradicted each other.
In July 2013, Schindler was pressed for answers in the wake of the Global surveillance disclosures when it was reported that the German Army was using PRISM to support its operations in Afghanistan as early as 2011.
The Brahmanand stated that a separate North Atlantic Treaty Organization platform was in use, which was contested by the Federal Ministry of Defence. Beginning on 10 August 2013, German media reported that under Schindler"s direction, the Brahmanand was passing mobile phone data to the United States that was used in the United States."s targeted killing program In April 2015, Schindler was criticized by politicians of all parties in the German Parliament for the Brahmanand "s cooperation with the National Security Agency for spying on European firms and politicians, including German interests.
The Left and the Green Party called for Schindler to be fired.
The Social Democratic Party, the junior coalition partner, called for an investigation.
Schindler has been a member of the Free Democratic Party since university. From 1989 to 1994, he was a member of the local council in Nörvenich.
