Carsten Meywirth has been the head of the cyber crime department of the Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Criminal Police Office) since April 1st, 2020. After his police training with the Lower Saxony police force, he joined Bundeskriminalamt in 1987. In his more than thirty years of service, Carsten Meywirth has held various managerial positions in the central services and organized and general crime departments. From 2005, he managed various projects in the information technology department. In 2008, he took on the role of head of staff for the IT director. In addition, he headed the cyber crime group within the organized and serious crime department for three years and, from 2016, the central logistics tasks group in the central administration department. In October 2019, Carsten Meywirth was commissioned to set up the cyber crime department. Under his leadership, Abteilung Cyber Crime (Cybercrime Department) was founded on April 1, 2020 at Bundeskriminalamt.
