Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy

Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy ; - StMWi -
State level	Free State of Bavaria
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1952
Headquarters	Munich
Authority management	Minister of State Hubert Aiwanger
Budget volume	EUR 1.211 billion (2020)
Web presence	stmwi.bayern.de

The Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi) is a ministry of the Bavarian State Government based in Munich .

The ministry has been headed by Minister of State Hubert Aiwanger ( Free Voters ) since November 12, 2018 . At the same time, Roland Weigert (Free Voters) became State Secretary . Head of office is Bernhard Schwab , who previously worked in the CSU state management.

history

Building on Prinzregentenstrasse

The first Bavarian Ministry of Economics with the designation "State Ministry of Trade and Public Works" was founded in 1848 and dissolved again in 1871. It was not until the Weimar Republic that a new economic ministry was set up under the name of the “State Ministry for Trade, Industry and Commerce”. However, this was incorporated into the Foreign Ministry as early as 1928 , before the “State Ministry for Economic Affairs” was founded five years later. Shortly afterwards the ministry was placed under the leadership of the National Socialist Reich authorities and lost its status as a Bavarian ministry.

After Bavaria was re-established after the Second World War , another Ministry of Economics was established on January 26, 1946. On October 1, 1952, the State Ministry of Economics and the previously independent State Ministry of Transport were merged.

Due to the new political focus, the Ministry has been called the Ministry of Economics, Transport and Technology since October 27, 1994 . On October 14, 2003, responsibility for "infrastructure" was added. When in October 2013 the "Transport" department was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior and the area of "Regional Development" to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Economics and Media, Energy and Technology , and from March 2018 it was called the Ministry of Economics, Energy and Technology . In November 2018, it received the “State Development” division back from the Ministry of Finance and has been known as it is today.

The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs has been housed in a former air force command post at Prinzregentenstrasse 28 in Munich's Altstadt-Lehel district since 1945 . The building was built in 1935 and 1936 based on a design by German Bestelmeyer .

Tasks and structure

The tasks are laid down in the ordinance on the division of responsibilities of the Bavarian State Government. The division therefore includes matters of basic economic issues and framework conditions, responsibility for individual branches of industry, location and media promotion and media policy, energy and technology (Section 7 StRGVV). The State Ministry is divided into ten departments:

Department Z: Central tasks
Department 1: Legislation and Law
Department 2: Economic Policy, Strategy, Communication
Department 3: medium-sized businesses, crafts, tourism
Department 4: Innovation, Research, Technology

Department 5: Investment, Financing, Structural Policy
Department 6: Internationalization, Industry
Department 7: Digitization, Media
Department 8: Energy Policy, Energy Infrastructure
Department 9: Renewable Energies, Energy Efficiency

The Ministry is the stock exchange supervisory authority for the state of Bavaria and is therefore responsible for the supervision of the Munich Stock Exchange . It also exercises legal supervision over the chambers of industry and commerce as well as the chambers of crafts .

Subordinate authorities and agencies

Subordinate or assigned authorities of the StMWi are the Bavarian State Cartel Authority , the Bavarian State Office for Weights and Measures and the Regulatory Chamber of the Free State of Bavaria.

Bayern Tourismus Marketing GmbH, Bayern International GmbH and Bayern Innovativ GmbH, based in Nuremberg, are also affiliated to the StMWi. On December 5, 2017, the Office of the Free State of Bavaria for Business, Science, Technology, Education and Youth Exchange in Israel ( Tel-Aviv ) was presented. Work should start on March 1, 2018. It belongs to the division of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology. The Free State has had a representative office in Israel ( Herzliya ) since 2009 , which primarily serves to promote business and university cooperation. The representative in Israel is Godel Rosenberg.

Business promotion

To promote the settlement of foreign companies in Bavaria, the ministry operates the international agency Invest in Bavaria . To strengthen international competitiveness , in particular small and medium sized Bavarian companies, the Ministry awarded leading role since 2007 in annual cycle the Bavarian Export Award.

literature

Rudolf Himpsl: European integration and internationalized markets . The foreign trade policy of the Free State of Bavaria 1957–1982 (= series of publications on Bavarian regional history . Volume 172 ). CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-10788-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).