Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests

Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests ; - StMELF -
State level	Free State of Bavaria
position	Supreme state authority
Headquarters	Munich
Authority management	Minister of State Michaela Kaniber
Budget volume	EUR 1.571 billion (2020)
Web presence	www.stmelf.bayern.de

Headquarters of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests in Ludwigstrasse , 2011

The Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (StMELF), from January 2001 to October 2008 the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture and Forests ( StMLF ), is a ministry of the Free State of Bavaria based in Munich .

Minister of State is Michaela Kaniber (CSU). Hubert Bittlmayer has served as head of office since April 1, 2015.

Tasks and responsibilities

It is responsible for food, agriculture, rural development and forestry at the state level. As the supreme state authority, it carries out the legislative and administrative tasks in these areas within the framework of the ordinances and guidelines of the European Union, the Basic Law, the Bavarian Constitution and the federal and state laws. He is responsible for the supervision of the subordinate authorities and institutions such as the Staatliche Hofkeller Würzburg or the Bavarian State Forests .

Subordinate authorities

Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests

Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture in Freising (Upper Bavaria)
Bavarian State Institute for Viticulture and Horticulture in Veitshöchheim (Lower Franconia)
Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry in Freising (Upper Bavaria)
State leadership academy for nutrition, agriculture and forestry in Landshut (Lower Bavaria)
Technology and support center in Straubing (Lower Bavaria)
47 Food, Agriculture and Forestry Offices
Office for Forest Genetics in Teisendorf (Upper Bavaria)
Seven offices for rural development
Nine technical schools for agriculture
Three agricultural high schools
Specialized Academy for Agriculture - specializing in nutrition and supply management in Triesdorf (Middle Franconia)
Eight agricultural engineering schools
Technical school for forestry and forestry school in Lohr am Main (Lower Franconia)
Forestry school in Kelheim , Goldberg (Lower Bavaria)
48 agricultural schools with 27 agriculture departments and 45 home economics departments

Service building

The office is at Ludwigstrasse 2 in Munich, and the building is a listed building . In the southern courtyard there has been a memorial plaque created by the Munich artist Eugen Weiß on the building since 1984 for members of the Bavarian freedom campaign who were executed there and in the Perlacher Forest .

Awards

In 2013, Division F4 - Wood Management, Forest Assets, Forest Technology was awarded the ESRI Forestry Innovation Award by the world market leader for geographic information systems ESRI Inc. for the Bavarian Forest Information System (BayWIS).

literature

Sarah Hadry: Food crisis , revolution and the farmers' union . On the history of the first Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture (1919–1932) in: Archivalische Zeitschrift 92 (2011), pp. 209–275.

Heinz Haushofer: Half a century in the service of Bavarian agriculture and people's nutrition. On the history of the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture and Forests (Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Jahrbuch 46, special issue 5), Munich 1969.

Gerhard K. F. Stinglwagner: From the chronicle of the State Ministry in: 75 years Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture. Responsibility for the Bavarian Farmers, ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994.

Raphael Gerhardt: Agricultural Modernization and European Integration . The Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture as a political actor 1945–1975 (= series of publications on Bavarian regional history . Volume 173 ). CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-10789-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).