Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of People with Disabilities

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The Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of People with Disabilities (previously the Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of People with Disabilities until 2016 ) is the central point of contact at the Federal Government in all matters affecting people with disabilities . The honorary office was proclaimed in 1981, the International Year of the Disabled , by the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . The commissioner is appointed by the federal government for the duration of a legislative period ( Section 17 of the Disability Equality Act ).

Legal mandate

The tasks and powers of the commissioner are regulated by the law on equality of disabled people, which came into force on May 1st, 2002 (Disabled Equal Opportunities Act - BGG) .

The agent

  • maintains close contact with disabled people, their associations and organizations , with providers and providers of participation services and with many social groups and other organizations in which people with disabilities work
  • works to ensure that the federal government's responsibility to ensure equal living conditions for people with and without disabilities is fulfilled in all areas of social life
  • is involved in all legal, ordinance and other important projects of the federal ministries , insofar as these deal with or affect questions of the integration of disabled people
  • advocates that the different living conditions of disabled people are taken into account and that gender-specific disadvantages are eliminated

Official

Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People
No. Name (life data) Term of office Political party
1 Hermann Buschfort (1928–2003) 1981-1982 SPD
2 Otto Regenspurger (1939-2003) 1982-1998 CSU
3 Karl Hermann Haack (* 1940) 1998-2005 SPD
4th Karin Evers-Meyer (* 1949) 2005-2009 SPD
5 Hubert Hüppe (* 1956) 2010-2013 CDU
6th Verena Bentele (* 1982) 2014-2018 SPD
7th Jürgen Dusel (* 1965) since May 9, 2018 SPD

The blind Verena Bentele was the first Federal Government Commissioner for the Disabled who has a handicap herself.

Field Office

The official seat of the commissioner is in the Kleisthaus in the federal capital Berlin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Law on the further development of disability equality law. July 19, 2016, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lüders and Hüppe demand protection from discrimination for the chronically ill. In: www.behindertenbeauftragter.de. Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of People with Disabilities, June 9, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ NRWSPD regional group mourns Hermann Buschfort. (No longer available online.) In: nrwspd.de. September 15, 2003, archived from the original on December 31, 2014 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  4. ^ German Bundestag: MdB biographies of the 13th electoral period / biography of MdB Otto Regenspurger, CSU. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  5. ^ Otto Regenspurger ( Memento from June 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: bundestag.de
  6. ↑ DVBS: Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of the Disabled: Publications available on diskette. (No longer available online.) In: dvbs-online.de. 2018, archived from the original on July 29, 2017 ; accessed on January 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Verena Bentele is the new disability officer. In: bundesregierung.de. The Federal Government, January 14, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  8. ↑ dpa news channel: Social Affairs Golze wants to clarify fluke successor quickly. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. May 9, 2018, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Angelika Finkenwirth: Verena Bentele. Blind - so what ?! zeit.de, April 7, 2017