Bavarian State Chancellery

Bavarian State Chancellery ; - StK -
State level	Free State of Bavaria
position	Supreme state authority
Headquarters	Munich
Authority management	Florian Herrmann , Head of the State Chancellery
Servants	385
Web presence	www.bayern.de

Bavarian State Chancellery from the west

The Bavarian State Chancellery is a supreme state authority that was established in Munich to support the Prime Minister and the state government . The seat of the authority is also known as the Bavarian State Chancellery.

State authority

Tasks and constitutional bases

Round stamp of the State Chancellery

According to Article 52 of the Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria , the State Chancellery supports the Bavarian Prime Minister and the Bavarian State Government in their constitutional tasks. The State Chancellery supports the Prime Minister in determining the guidelines of politics and in representing Bavaria to the outside world. It coordinates the activities of the state ministries and prepares the decision-making process for the state government.

The State Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Media (with the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in Brussels ) is embedded in the business area of the State Chancellery . The business area also includes awarding the Bavarian medals and decorations on behalf of the Bavarian state government and issuing exequatures for consulates in the state.

Organizationally, the nearby Prinz-Carl-Palais also belongs to the State Chancellery and is mainly used for representative tasks of the Prime Minister. Branch offices of the State Chancellery are located in Berlin ( representation of the Free State of Bavaria at the federal level ) and in Brussels ( representation of the Free State of Bavaria at the European Union ).

history

The State Chancellery was created in 1933. At the time of the Weimar Republic, the Prime Minister was also the Bavarian Foreign Minister. The Foreign Ministry , which had hardly any powers of its own, thus effectively represented the Prime Minister's authority. Only after the National Socialists had taken power in Bavaria in March 1933 was the Foreign Ministry abolished and replaced by the State Chancellery. For the period of National Socialism , the State could hardly unfold importance because on the one hand Germany a unitary state had become, in which the countries only were provinces of the empire, partly because it with the Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria and the authority of the Reich Governor Franz von Epp ( the so-called Reichsstatthalterei ) had powerful competitors. After the end of the war, Anton Pfeiffer took over the management of the Bavarian State Chancellery in 1945 (first as a State Councilor ). The position of (political) head of the State Chancellery was subsequently mostly taken on by a State Secretary or Minister of State, sometimes also by ministerial directors . In addition, there is now the (administrative) head of the State Chancellery above the department head level, with the rank of State Councilor since 2015.

Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery

Florian Herrmann , who is also Minister of State for Federal Affairs, has headed the State Chancellery since March 2018 . He succeeded Marcel Huber . In addition, above the department head level, there is the (administrative) head of the State Chancellery, State Councilor Karolina Gernbauer , who has been in office since 2010.

building

Army Museum around 1917

The "Hall of Fame" 2012

The first official seat of the Bavarian State Chancellery was the Palais Montgelas on Promenadeplatz during the National Socialist era . This building had previously housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the Second World War, the authorities moved into the former Prussian embassy (double building with the Schack collection ) at Prinzregentenstrasse 7, which was previously the seat of Reich Governor Franz von Epp . Since 1968, the Prinz-Carl-Palais has been an official residence of the Bavarian Prime Minister, but not as an apartment and only for representation purposes. Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss pushed the plans for a representative new building. The choice fell on the current location on the east side of the Hofgarten , the ruins of the Army Museum.

The construction of the former army museum

Before the extensive destruction in World War II, the Bavarian Army Museum had stood on the site of today's State Chancellery since 1905, and the Hofgarten barracks before it was built . With reference to Leo von Klenze's neighboring ballroom building in the Munich Residence , the new building of the Bavarian Army Museum was based on the Italian High Renaissance , but with a monumentalization characteristic of late historicism . The architect was Ludwig von Mellinger from Bergzabern .

The west side of the central building with six columns closes off a three-part entablature with a sculptural crown, shell limestone figures in the middle and four trophies. The ascending two-flight flight of stairs leads to the portico, which is lined with rough and smooth Franconian sandstone from Eltmann / Bamberg. The east side, which originally did not face any street, is comparatively cautious.

Under the double-shell, 57-meter-high dome together with the 9 meter high lantern, there is a central square room, built as a “hall of fame” in the middle of the museum. This room comprises the two upper floors and has a height of 32 meters up to the apex of the dome. The dome itself, together with that of the Royal Anatomy, was the first reinforced concrete shell in Europe, both works by Eisenbeton GmbH , a joint subsidiary of Wayss & Freytag and Heilmann & Littmann . The engineer Emil Mörsch was responsible for the static calculations. At about the same time as the Ministry of Transport , another highly modern dome building was built in the city.

After their destruction in World War II, the two side wings were torn down, and the central building was in ruins for decades. As early as 1982, however, the dome was given back its copper covering, which was replaced by slate in World War I.

The new building of the State Chancellery

Aerial view of the State Chancellery at Hofgarten , right. below the residence

Architectural model: State Chancellery with courtyard garden and (right) ballroom building of the residence

Cabinet room

In 1982, the architectural team Diethard J. Siegert and Reto Gansser won an architectural competition for the new building of the State Chancellery. From autumn 1984 onwards there were violent disputes with the state capital of Munich for years because of the architecturally sensitive location at the Hofgarten and the Munich Residence. In particular, the planned removal of the arcade from 1560 at the former Hofbrunnwerk on the northern edge of the Hofgarten in favor of the new building was controversial and called the citizens' initiative "Save the Hofgarten" into being. The art historian Gunter Schweikhart came to the conclusion in an opinion of May 2, 1987 that it was "a particularly valuable monument in terms of its historical and architectural significance" and called for the renovation. In contrast, the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation defended the state government's project. Conservator General Michael Petzet saw the Bavarian State Chancellery in the right place near the residence for historical reasons.

Finally, after Strauss's death in 1988, his successor came to a compromise with a significantly smaller construction volume. The House of Bavarian History was also not integrated into the building. The domed building of the old army museum, which was renovated in 1982, was retained as the central building of the State Chancellery, and the Renaissance arcades were incorporated into the new State Chancellery. In 1989 the construction of the underground car park began, and in 1993 the new state chancellery was ready for occupancy. The full length of the two new wing structures are traversed by glazed staircases in the style of the sky ladders, creating the impression of ship stairs on which one moves floating. At the request of the then Prime Minister Max Streibl , an intimate room with stone pine paneling and furniture ("Zirbelstube") was added to the reception room of the Minister President , which caused a sensation because of the high costs. In the north elevation in the cabinet room, the Council of Ministers meets at an oval table under an oval, broken light ceiling.

On the ninth day as Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber was able to move into his new official seat on May 6, 1993. The building covers around 8,800 m². On the east side of the State Chancellery, the enclosed Köglmühlbach flows past above ground. The war memorial is located in front of the west side of the Hofgarten .