Authorized representative of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level

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The authorized representative of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level is the official title of the minister or civil servant state secretary who is responsible for coordinating the voting behavior of North Rhine-Westphalia with other states in the Bundesrat and, in general, for the cooperation of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia with the Bundestag and the federal government.

The North Rhine-Westphalian plenipotentiary exercises his office partly in the Düsseldorf State Chancellery , partly in the Berlin Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the federal government , which is subordinate to him. He is accredited by the Federal Council and is a member of its "Permanent Advisory Board". This body consists of the sixteen authorized representatives of the federal states. Similar to the council of elders of a parliament, it acts in an advisory capacity for the President of the Federal Council and the Federal Council Presidium.

If the authorized representative exercises his office as State Secretary, he himself is subordinate to the Minister for Federal Affairs ("Bundesratminister") and the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

The states were already represented in Berlin with embassies to the Prussian King during the German Empire . The state representations were also retained in the Weimar Republic . This tradition was broken off with the introduction of a central state in 1933, but was resumed after 1945 with the rebuilding of a federal system in the western occupation zones of Germany and in the course of the unification process in 1990 also in the territory of the former GDR .

Even before the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, there were common cross-border structures at the zone level . From April 1948 until his appointment as the first authorized representative of North Rhine-Westphalia on September 23, 1949, Carl Spiecker was the state's representative at the state council for the United Economic Area .

From 1949 to 2001, the North Rhine-Westphalian representative was in office in the state's Bonn representation , and since 2002 the Berlin state representation in the Tiergarten district has been his official seat.

Until 1990, the office of authorized representative was consistently exercised by members of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia (three times, even if only briefly, even by the Prime Minister: 1954, 1958–1959, 1980). From 1990 to 2010 it was mainly exercised (1990–2000, 2002–2004 and 2005–2010) by permanent state secretaries. For the first time, the current authorized representative is the head of the NRW state representation.

As in many other countries, federal and European affairs have been institutionally linked in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1995. In 1998 the original independence of the North Rhine-Westphalian "Federal Council" was lost. Today the state representations in Berlin and Brussels have the status of departments of the Düsseldorf State Chancellery. However, they are not subordinate to the head of the State Chancellery , but to the Minister for Federal and European Affairs residing in the State Chancellery and the authorized representative.

Authorized representative of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level

The federal representatives of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia were:

literature

  • Lutz Kaßmann: From the Rhine to the Spree. Representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level from 1949 to 2009 . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12883-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Permanent Advisory Board on the Federal Council's website .
  2. ^ Organization plan of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia , as of December 1, 2010
  3. ↑ See CV Carl Spiecker on the website of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  4. ↑ See itemization 2.