Burkhard Schröder


Burkhard Schröder is a German journalist based in Berlin. From 2005 to 2007, he was the editor of Berliner Journalisten.

Life

Schroeder writes for the online magazine Telepolis and deals primarily with the themes of Internet culture, Internet and right-wing radicalism. One of his most known books is entitled Nazis and Pop appeared in the espresso-Verlag.
Schroeder's book Tron - Death of a Hacker Under the Alias of the "Tron" about the late German hacker Boris Floricic has been a source of controversy in the German hacker subculture. While the then Speaker of the Chaos Computer Club, Andy Mueller-Maguhn and the relatives of the dead believe Floricic was murdered, Schroeder's research findings suggest how the results of the police investigation concluded that Floricic committed suicide.
On 12 November 2008 by the Berlin police searched Schroeder's home and confiscated his computer. The search warrant was based on the suspicion of an offense "aiding and abetting access" to material published by people "inciting racial hatred denying the Holocaust" - a criminal offense in Germany. . He was accused of having bomb-making instructions with the intent to publish them. On 30 June 2009 he spoke freely, the District Court Berlin-Tiergarten. He was ultimately acquitted in October 2010.
Schroeder is co-founder of the nonprofit association German Privacy Foundation. The GPF provides information under the statutes of secure communications on the Internet and wants to ensure that the topics of encryption and anonymity on the net are shown better in the media.

Works

Books