Authority for Urban Development and Housing

Authority for Urban Development and Housing of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - BSW -
State level	Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
position	Supreme state authority
Headquarters	Hamburg
Authority management	Senator Dorothee Stapelfeldt President of the Authority for Urban Development and Housing
Budget volume	195.78 million EUR (2019)
Web presence	www.hamburg.de/bsw/

Seat of the authority in Wilhelmsburg, architects: Sauerbruch Hutton

The Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Housing ( BSW for short ) is one of eleven specialist authorities of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and is responsible for urban development and housing policy in the Hanseatic city. The authority was formed in July 2015 from parts of the previous authority for urban development and the environment (BSU) . At the same time, the environmental department was transferred to the newly created authority for the environment and energy .

Dorothee Stapelfeldt (SPD) has been Senator for Urban Development and Housing since April 15, 2015 , and Matthias Kock is State Councilor .

The management of the authorities and most of the offices are located at Neuenfelder Straße 19 in Wilhelmsburg .

organization

The authority is currently (September 2018) divided into four offices:

• Office for Building Regulations and Building Construction
• Office for State and Landscape Planning
• Office for Housing, Urban Renewal and Land Management
• Office for Administration, Law and Participations

The regional office of Geoinformation and Surveying (LGV) is also part of the BSW division .

history

Since the introduction of modern administrative structures in the 19th century, Hamburg had a building authority, which was initially called the building deputation and to which a senator was sent as president. Occasionally, several senators were sent to the authority. This was responsible for the urban and landscape planning as well as for the state building industry itself. The senior building director has always been assigned to the authority responsible for urban and regional planning. With the formation of the government after the general election in December 1982 , the building authority was also given responsibility for the areas of water management and energy in February 1983, which had previously been part of the economic authority .

In 1991, as part of a restructuring of the Hamburg authority landscape, the state planning office was separated from the building authority and made an independent urban development authority in order to be able to better perform cross-sectional tasks vis-à-vis the individual specialist authorities. In 2001 it was reintegrated into the building authority and at the same time the office for traffic was detached from the economic authority and also assigned to the building authority, which was now called the authority for building and traffic .

After the 2004 general election , the Authority for Building and Transport was merged with the Environment Department to form the Authority for Urban Development and Environment. Without changing the name of the authority, after the change of government in 2011, the authority had to relinquish responsibility for the transport sector to the economic authority again after ten years. After the environmental department was incorporated into the newly created authority for environment and energy after the 2015 mayor elections , the authority has roughly the shape it had until 1983 and since then has been called the “authority for urban development and housing”.

The authority has had the following names since 1945:

Period	designation
until 1947	Construction management
1947-2001	Building authority
1991-2001	Urban development authority (parallel to the building authority)
2001 - 2004	Authority for Construction and Transport
2004-2015	Ministry of Urban Development and Environment
since 2015	Authority for Urban Development and Housing

Senior Building Directors

As a senior specialist, the senior construction director is part of the management of the authorities. He is involved in all decisions and in all projects that are of particular importance for the cityscape and design. That is why he is a member of the jury as a specialist judge with voting rights in urban planning competitions. He has a special coordination function in the case of special large-scale projects, such as the HafenCity currently or previously the expansion of the trade fair, as well as the development of the city center.

Fritz Schumacher , who not only designed the city park and countless public solitary buildings during his tenure, but also the master plans for the large residential areas of the 1920s, including in Barmbek , on the Dulsberg , is considered to be the most important senior building director (formerly: building director) in Hamburg . in the Jarrestadt and on the Veddel .

Term of office	(Building) construction director
1841-1845	Carl Ludwig Wimmel
1872-1908	Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann
1909-1920	Fritz Schumacher
Term of office	Senior Building Director
1923-1933	Fritz Schumacher
1949-1952	Otto Meyer-Ottens
1952-1964	Werner Hebebrand
1964-1971	Otto Sill
1972-1980	Klaus Müller-Ibold
1981-1999	Egbert Kossak
1999-2017	Jörn Walter
since 2017	Franz-Josef Höing

In November 2016, Jörn Walter announced that he would not be available for a new term beyond March 2017. In July 2017, the 51-year-old Franz-Josef Höing was introduced as his successor. Höing, who had previously worked in Bremen and Cologne , took office in November.

Web links

• Authority for Urban Development and Housing (BSW)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Tax Authority : Section 6.1 Authority for Urban Development and Housing. In: Budget 2019/2020. Retrieved October 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ BSW: About Us , accessed on September 17, 2018.
3. ^ LGV: Who we are , accessed on July 1, 2015.
4. ↑ The names of the authorities and tasks were taken from the relevant Senate printed matter or citizenship minutes.
5. ↑ Hamburg-Handbuch 2012/13, page 91.
6. ^ Hermann Hipp , History, Culture and Urban Architecture on Elbe and Alster , DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 1990, page 76 ff., ISBN 3-7701-1590-2
7. ↑ Hamburg property, issue 7/2009, p. 256
8. ↑ Hamburg needs a new senior construction director. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. November 30, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Hamburg's new chief construction director comes from Cologne. In: ndr.de. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Departure in the town hall Building officer Höing leaves Cologne for Hamburg. In: ksta.de. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .