“We shall make Germany secure again.” This is how the CDU, as the largest coalition partner, describes the focus of the new coalition agreement, because “without security, everything else is meaningless.” The term “security” appears a total of 80 times in the current coalition agreement – “justice,” on the other hand, not once. Security as a political panacea, as a magic word that promises everything and explains nothing. But what does security actually mean? And for whom is it promised?