Berlin / Bonn law

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Basic data
Title: Law to implement the resolution of the German Bundestag of June 20, 1991 to complete the unity of Germany
Short title: Berlin / Bonn law
Abbreviation: Berlin / BonnG
Type: Federal law
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Legal matter: Constitutional law
References : 105-24
Issued on: April 26, 1994 ( BGBl. I p. 918 )
Entry into force on: May 7, 1994
Last change by: Art. 57 G of December 12, 2019
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2652, 2721 )
Effective date of the
last change: 		January 1, 2020
(Art. 60 G of December 12, 2019)
GESTA : G026
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Berlin / Bonn Act regulates, among other things, the relocation of parliament and parts of the government from Bonn to Berlin as well as the relocation of federal authorities and other federal institutions to the federal city of Bonn . It is a consequence of the so-called capital city resolution of June 20, 1991, in which Berlin was also designated as the seat of government. Berlin had already become the capital of united Germany with the Unification Treaty on October 3, 1990. The Berlin / Bonn Act was passed on April 26, 1994.

The Berlin / Bonn law specifies which federal ministries should move to the federal capital . In addition, the city of Bonn has given promises to preserve Bonn as a political location, for which "most of the jobs in the federal ministries [...] will be retained." ( Section 4 (4 )) carry the name suffix " Bundesstadt ", which is unique in Germany .

The Berlin / Bonn Act was implemented gradually. The move reached its climax in 1999 when the Bundestag moved to the Reichstag building in Berlin. In July of the same year, 24 trains transported around 50,000 cubic meters of removal goods, including around 36,000 books and 11,000 meters of files, to Berlin. Two of the more than 20 federal authorities from Berlin and the Rhine-Main area also moved to Bonn that year: the Federal Audit Office and the Federal Cartel Office .

Division of the federal ministries

According to Section 4 of the Berlin / Bonn Act, federal ministries are located in the federal capital Berlin and the federal city of Bonn. The federal ministries remaining in the federal city should also have an official seat in the federal capital; accordingly, the federal ministries based in Berlin should also keep an official seat in Bonn.

Currently ( Merkel IV cabinet ), nine ministries (including the Federal Chancellery) have their first offices in Berlin and six in Bonn (see Federal Ministry (Germany) , list of federal authorities in Bonn ).

Federal agencies moved

These federal authorities moved to Bonn:

The following were built in Bonn:

Some of the following were relocated:

Compensation Agreement

The Berlin / Bonn Act is also the basis of the “Agreement on Compensatory Measures for the Bonn Region” of June 29, 1994, which provided for a funding volume of 1.437 billion euros in the period 1995 to 2004. The so-called coordination committee was formed to specify the measures specified in the compensation agreement and those not yet specified and to coordinate the use of the funds . This committee was chaired by the respective Federal Building Minister, who was also the “Federal Government Commissioner for the Berlin Relocation and the Bonn Compensation”. Of the twelve votes in the committee, three went to the federal government, which had the right to veto, and a total of nine to the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate , the city of Bonn, the Rhein-Sieg district and the district of Ahrweiler . The constituent meeting of the committee took place in April 1995, the last in 1999.

With the compensation agreement, various compensation measures and specific action plans such as the establishment of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences were funded, with a large part of the money (861 million euros) going to the science sector. The remaining funds were divided as follows: the cultural location was funded with 60 million euros, the economic structural change in the region (including industrial areas) with around 74 million euros, around 256 million euros flowed into the transport sector ( rail link to the airport ) and emergency aid was provided 97 million euros were paid and land services accounted for around 51 million euros. The most important compensation project, the expansion of the International Congress Center Bundeshaus Bonn (World Conference Center) , which was largely completed in 2015 , was supported with a reserve of 43.42 million euros as well as the provision of land worth 43.46 million euros.

Federalism reform

The status of Berlin as the federal capital regulated in the Berlin / Bonn Act was incorporated into the Basic Law (GG) with effect from September 1, 2006 as part of the federalism reform . Art. 22 GG now reads: “The capital of the Federal Republic of Germany is Berlin. The representation of the entire state in the capital is the responsibility of the federal government. The details are regulated by federal law. ”The previous regulation on the federal flag (“ The federal flag is black, red and gold. ”) Became Article 22 (2) of the Basic Law. There is currently no implementation law for the new constitutional article.

literature

  • Ulrich Battis , Hans Lühmann: The balance of interests in the Berlin / Bonn law , LKV 1995, pp. 28–30.
  • Volker Busse: The relocation planning Berlin / Bonn from a state organizational point of view. In: Werner Suss (ed.): Capital Berlin , Volume 2, Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 1995, pp. 93–115.
  • Joachim Nawrocki (Author), Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (Ed.): Federal Capital Berlin. Parliament and government move . JP Bachem, Cologne 1997, (64 pages), ISSN  0177-3291 .
  • Andreas Salz: Bonn - Berlin. The debate about the seat of parliament and government in the German Bundestag and the consequences , 2006 ( PDF ; 0.6 MB).
  • Emanuel LaRoche : From the Rhine to the Spree: Germany's capital is moving . Illustrated by Luis Murschetz . Vontobel Foundation , Zurich 1999, DNB 957630700 .
  • Rupert Scholz : The Berlin / Bonn Law , NVwZ 1995, pp. 35–37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Movement of the Bundestag to Berlin: Chronicle. (PDF) German Bundestag, June 24, 2016, p. 16 , accessed on March 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: From Bonn to Berlin. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Lord Mayor of Bonn (Ed.); Friedrich Busmann : From the parliament and government district to the federal district. A Bonn development measure 1974-2004 . Bonn, June 2004, p. 74.