Bavarian State Center for Political Education

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The Bavarian State Center for Political Education is the central state institution for political education in Bavaria . Rupert Grübl has been the head of the Bavarian regional headquarters since the beginning of 2019.

task

"The state center for political education has the task of promoting and consolidating the ideas of the free-democratic state order in the consciousness of the population on a non-partisan basis."

history

The Bavarian State Center for Political Education was founded in 1955 as the "Bavarian Center for Home Service". The then Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner formulated the first tasks to be the publication of a citizenship primer and a book about Bavaria. In addition to her own projects, she also promoted the activities of other political education providers from the start. In 1957, the state headquarters received a parliamentary advisory board, which was supposed to guarantee the non-partisan nature of its work. This still fulfills its function today. In 1964 it was finally renamed the Bavarian State Center for Political Education and since 1995 it has been part of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. It is a direct institution of the state political education work on behalf of the Bavarian State Government, thus not a foundation or institution of civil society. Against this background, it is also an advisory and executive body within the state administration, regardless of its party-political neutrality.

In 2008 the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors (ORH) audited the state headquarters and uncovered significant violations of the requirements of economic efficiency and proper bookkeeping. The resulting damage is estimated at around EUR 350,000. By immediately implementing the ORH criticism on the part of the Ministry of Culture, the breaches of duty could initially be kept out of the ORH report to the state parliament. Although disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the head of the state headquarters, Peter März , the state parliament was only informed by the state headquarters in June 2011 in a shortened presentation of the examination results. The Ministry of Culture also tried to keep the ORH report under lock and key and only released it after the SPD had announced a constitutional lawsuit. In addition to personnel consequences, the opposition also called for a review of the awarding practice, more ties to parliament and a reorientation of the content. The ORH also criticized the granting of grants of EUR 35,100 annually to the Bavarian Working Group on Democratic Circles led by Markus Sackmann (CSU) and to the right-wing conservative Veldensteiner Kreis .

After the affair about the improper use of funds, March was transferred to the ministry, and in 2013 , Minister of Culture Ludwig Spaenle appointed Harald Parigger as his successor by consensus with the Parliamentary Advisory Council at headquarters . Dr. Harald Parigger headed the state headquarters from 2013 to 2018. Since January 1, 2019, Rupert Grübl has been the new head of the Bavarian state center for political education.

With the law on the Bavarian State Center for Political Education of October 9, 2018, it became a public law institution with partial legal capacity in the division of the State Ministry for Education and Culture.

As a direct institution of the state political education work on behalf of the Bavarian State Government, it does not constitute a foundation or institution of civil society. Against this background, it is also active as an advisory and executive body within the state administration, without prejudice to its party-political neutrality.

organization

The state headquarters is a public law institution with partial legal capacity in the business area of ​​the State Ministry for Education and Culture. Like the other state centers for political education, the state center is independent and not organizationally subordinate to the federal center for political education (bpb). The state headquarters are advised in their work by an administrative board, which is supposed to support them in their tasks and ensure their impartiality. The Minister of State for Education and Culture has the chairmanship. In addition, the administrative board consists of eight representatives from the state parliament, one representative from the state chancellery and one representative each from the state ministries for the interior and for integration, for science and art, finance, for regional development and homeland as well as for family, work and social affairs.

The regional headquarters are advised by an administrative board.

  • Peter Tomaschko, Member of the State Parliament
  • Dr. Ute Eiling-Hütig, MdL
  • Karl Freller, MdL
  • Tobias Gotthardt, Member of the State Parliament
  • Thomas Gehring, MdL
  • Gabriele Triebel, MdL
  • Margit Wild, Member of the Parliament
  • Christian Horak, StK
  • Dr. Konrad Schober, StMI
  • Dominik Kazmeier, StMFH
  • Dr. Alexandra Puell, StMWK
  • Dr. Markus Gruber, StMAS


The regional headquarters are formally divided into two departments and an administrative management:

Department I.

Section I.1: Contemporary history, scientific publications, periodicals and conferences

Section I.2: State government as a place of learning & town hall as a place of learning

Section I.3: Bavaria, its regions and neighbors


Department II

Section II.1: Public Relations, Didactics

Section II.2: Prevention & education about extremisms

Section II.3: Online Political Education

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Section 2, Paragraph 1, Clause 1 of the Ordinance on the Bavarian State Center for Political Education
  2. ↑ Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: "If you want to have a say in something, you have to know something ..." The establishment of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 2005.
  3. ↑ Greens call for reorganization of state headquarters , tz-online from August 23, 2011, accessed on August 23, 2011
  4. ↑ Doubts about the impartiality of the state headquarters, Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 31, 2011

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 28 ″  E