After completing his law studies in Frankfurt (Main) and Bonn,

Hans-Georg Engelke began his professional career in 1994 as a

public prosecutor in Berlin. In 1999, he started working at the

Federal Ministry of the Interior as a policy officer and was

appointed head of division in 2003. From 2006 to 2010, he

headed the directorate-general responsible for counter-terrorism

and Islamist extremism at the Federal Office for the Protection of

the Constitution. After returning to the Federal Ministry of the

Interior, he held executive positions related to the Federal Police

and counter-terrorism before assuming leadership of the executive

staff in 2014, the position he held until his appointment as state

secretary. Mr Engelke has been State Secretary at the Federal

Ministry of the Interior since August 2015.