BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH
| BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | July 1, 1992 |
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Berlin
District court Charlottenburg Commercial register number: HRB 43990 |
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| Number of employees | 540 (annual average 2015) |
| sales | € 54.8 million (2015) |
| Branch | property |
| Website | bvvg.de |
The BVVG Bodenverwertungs- and -verwaltungs GmbH ( BVVG ) is a state-owned company of the Federal Republic of Germany , based in Berlin . The BVVG's tasks are the administration, leasing and sale of agricultural and forestry land in the new federal states .
History and background
The BVVG is a successor to the Treuhandanstalt and a subsidiary of the Federal Agency for Unification-Related Special Tasks (BvS).
Since it was founded in 1992, the BVVG has fulfilled the legal mandate to privatize state- owned agricultural and forestry land that was formerly expropriated in the federal states of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . In line with the socialist state idea, private property was expropriated and made public property in East Germany during the Soviet occupation and after the founding of the GDR . While citizens of the GDR were sometimes entitled to compensation for this, people who had fled from the GDR usually received no compensation.
This led between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to the " open property question ", how the expropriations in the GDR are to be treated, as far as property of citizens of the FRG is concerned.
One of the first legal bases of the BVVG's activities is the trust law of June 17, 1990 passed by the last people's chamber of the GDR . Since 1996, the BVVG has also acted as a federal privatization agency to sell space after the compensation that has been modified several times in the meantime - and compensation Act (EALG) and the Land acquisition Regulation conduct (FlErwV). After 1992, one of the managing directors was Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg .
activity
By December 31, 2005, the BVVG had sold approx. 380,000 hectares of agricultural and forestry land, including approx. 240,000 hectares at reduced rates to beneficiaries under the EALG. At the same time, around 630,000 ha of BVVG land were still leased, around 580,000 ha of which are long-term.
By the end of December 2017, the BVVG had sold around 861,400 hectares of agricultural and around 594,700 hectares of forest land, as well as around 81,100 hectares as reallocation areas. On December 31, 2017, the BVVG still had around 126,200 ha of agricultural and around 7,600 ha of forest land. In 2015, the federal and state governments agreed to extend the privatization period until 2030.
Privatization of agricultural land
The BVVG's sales prices, which rose rapidly in 2009, led to criticism from various associations and affected groups. In the opinion of the farmers' associations, the financial resources to be used for purchase or lease far exceed the amount that can be generated through agricultural use of the land.
Transfer of land under the National Natural Heritage
On the basis of a legal authorization, the BVVG transferred large areas of land to the sponsorship of the federal states , the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) or nature conservation associations ( national natural heritage ). The legal basis is Section 3 (12) of the Compensation Act, which provides for the states to be entitled to purchase. According to sentence 2 of the aforementioned regulation, the BVVG (referred to as the privatization agency in the law ) “can also transfer ownership of the land directly to a nature conservation association or a nature conservation foundation designated by a state.” For the selection of the land and the new sponsor nature conservation criteria were decisive.
Sale of lakes
On the occasion of a single case, numerous protests against the privatization of lakes were loud. In August 2009, the federally owned company announced that it would no longer privatize any lakes for the time being. This corresponded to a political demand in particular from the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. In 2012 the BVVG sold a package of 65 bodies of water with an area of approx. 3135 ha.
BVVG perspective
In the course of the BvS winding-up process, the Federal Ministry of Finance has transferred the management of the investment to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA). In the coalition agreement between the CDU , CSU and FDP for the 17th legislative period, the following was agreed: " Former trust areas : The utilization of the areas of the Bodenverwertungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH (BVVG) is to be advanced rapidly, taking greater account of agricultural structural issues, and essentially to be completed by 2025 . The current sales practice of the BVVG is being reviewed. We are implementing improvements in the Land Acquisition Amendment Act in the interests of the previous owners. "
The transfer to the previous owners, for which the BVVG acts as the federal privatization agency, is to be completed in the next few years. The states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have expressed interest in taking over BVVG . The federal government and the states mentioned were in discussion about this. The BMF stated: “The federal government renewed its basic willingness to sell. An essential prerequisite is that the federal government and the states agree on the purchase price. ”In the coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD for the 18th legislative period it says:“ In negotiations between the federal government and the federal states, it will be clarified whether they are still in the sovereignty of the Federal remaining trust areas can be transferred to interested countries. "
However, the federal government's sales negotiations with Saxony-Anhalt have ended. The country is now only aiming to purchase 3500 hectares for flood protection. The Magdeburg Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment stated: "Contrary to the original plans, the land will not acquire any further land from the BVVG." The privatization period is to be extended to 2030.
literature
- Klaus Schmidt (Ed.): Agriculture in the GDR - VEG, LPG and cooperations; how they became, what they were, what has become of them , Agrimedia GmbH & Co. KG, Clenze 2009
- Klaus Böhme, privatization with rising prices - BVVG with new principles and accents, NL-BzAR 8/2007, 318 - 323, Böhme article (PDF; 469 kB)
Web links
- www.bvvg.de
- staatshehlerei.org (critical)
Individual evidence
- ↑ last amended by Article 1 G. v. July 3, 2009 ( BGBl. I p. 1688 )
- ↑ see the BVVG website
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi): Annual report of the federal government on the status of German unity in 2018, p. 69
- ↑ Presentation of the sales situation in the report in Agricultural Law, p. 318 ff (PDF; 469 kB)
- ↑ So u. a. the President of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Farmers' Association, Rainer Tietböhl. after topagrar
- ↑ http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Pressemitteilungen/Finanzpolitik/2012/07/2012-07-30-PM38.html (link not available)
- ^ Coalition agreement p. 49 ( Memento of September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry of Finance of June 18, 2013. Accessed on July 16, 2013. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Coalition agreement p. 123 ( Memento of July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 993 kB)
- ↑ Press release No. 029/2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
- ↑ Press release No. 029/2015. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
