Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States

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The Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States (formerly Federal Government Commissioner for the Affairs of the New States ), or East Commissioner of the Federal Government for short , has been carried out by the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Marco Wanderwitz (CDU) since February 2020 . The office was transferred from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with effect from December 17, 2013 . Until September 2002, the area of ​​responsibility was given by the Federal Government Commissioner for Affairs of the New States, a Minister of Stateworn by the Federal Chancellor, from 1998 to September 2002 by Rolf Schwanitz , who was assigned the relevant division by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 1998.

The task of the Commissioner is to coordinate the German Federal Government with regard to Eastern Germany (" new federal states "), the so-called " Aufbau Ost ".

Since 1997 there has been an annual report by the federal government on the status of German unity .

In 2017, the commissioner commissioned the Göttingen democracy researcher Franz Walter with a study on " Right-wing extremism and xenophobia in East Germany", from which she distanced herself in July 2017. The study was sharply criticized due to methodological deficiencies.

Official

  • 1998–2002: Rolf Schwanitz (SPD), Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery
  • 2002–2005: Manfred Stolpe (SPD), Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing
  • 2005–2009: Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development
  • October 2009 - March 2011: Thomas de Maizière (CDU), Federal Minister of the Interior
  • March 2011 - December 2013: Christoph Bergner (CDU), Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior
  • January 2014 - March 2018: Iris Gleicke (SPD), Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
  • March 2018 - February 8, 2020: Christian Hirte (CDU), Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
  • since February 11, 2020: Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

Predecessor with a similar function:

  • 1985–1996: Walter Priesnitz (CDU), until 1991 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations, from 1991 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, head of the "New Länder" task force there
  • 1991–1997: Johannes Ludewig , responsible for the coordination of the new federal states in the Federal Chancellery until 1995, from 1995 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Federal Government Commissioner for the new federal states
  • 1997–1998: Rudi Geil (CDU), State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Special Representative of the Federal Government for Reconstruction in the East

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Organizational decree of the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998
  3. ↑ Eastern Commissioner Iris Gleicke distances herself from the controversial right-wing extremism study. In: The world. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Eun-Jeung Lee, Werner Pfennig: Commissioner for the new federal states. In: geschkult.fu-berlin.de. Tongilbu project of the Korean Studies of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin , 2012, accessed on January 1, 2018 .