Working group of the Hamburg outskirts
The working group of the Hamburg peripheral districts was founded in 1960 by the districts of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Pinneberg , Segeberg and Stormarn to coordinate and represent the municipal interests of the Hamburg peripheral area vis-à-vis the state governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . 1965–1971 she worked out the first regional plan for the northern Hamburg area. Since 1992, her office in Bad Segeberg has been coordinating the Schleswig-Holstein districts in the regional cooperation for the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . In 2003 the Steinburg district became an associated member of the working group, the Dithmarschen district followed in 2005. The reorganization of the Hamburg metropolitan region in 2006 meant that the districts became co-sponsors of the regional cooperation for which the states of Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein were previously solely responsible. In 2012 the metropolitan region was expanded and the working group of the Hamburg outskirts accepted the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , the city of Neumünster and the Ostholstein district as associated members; at the same time, the Steinburg and Dithmarschen districts became full members.
Like the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, the working group of the Hamburg outskirts is an administrative cooperation based on an administrative agreement . Its committees are the full session (decision- making body : four delegates per district and independent city) and the district council meeting (steering committee: seven district administrators and two mayors). The district administrators and mayors are also members of the regional council and the chairperson they have elected represents the seven districts and two cities in the steering committee of the Hamburg metropolitan area.
The office of the working group is located in the Segeberg district. She coordinates the opinion-forming, decision-making and implementation processes on the part of the districts and cities, especially in matters relating to the Hamburg metropolitan region, the Hamburg Transport Association and the state and regional planning of Schleswig-Holstein. From 2006 to 2009 it acted as a sub-unit of the newly created joint office of the metropolitan region, since its centralization in Hamburg it has assigned a consultant there.