Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks

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The Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks ( BvS ) emerged from the Treuhandanstalt by renaming . It is essentially responsible for contract management, reprivatisation and winding up companies in liquidation. It is also a trustee of the assets of parties and mass organizations of the GDR (PMO assets).

Legal basis

Due to the law on the final fulfillment of the remaining tasks of the Treuhandanstalt of August 9, 1994, the Treuhandanstalt's activities ended at the end of 1994. The Treuhandanstalt was renamed the “Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks” (see Section 1 of the Ordinance on Renaming and Adapting Responsibilities of the Treuhandanstalt [Treuhandanstaltumbenisierungsverordnung - TreuhUmbenV] of December 20, 1994 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 3913 )) and the responsibility for the fulfillment of its remaining tasks from January 1, 1995 to the Federal Agency for special tasks due to unification , the BMGB Beteiligungs-Management-Gesellschaft Berlin mbH and TLG Treuhand Liegenschaftsgesellschaft mbH .

organs

Until December 31, 2003:

• Board
• Board of Directors

Since January 1, 2004:

• Liquidator of the institution

tasks

The remaining tasks, which mainly relate to the areas of reprivatisation, contract management, processing and utilization of formerly nationally owned agricultural and forestry assets, are carried out for the BvS by third parties in agency. With the exception of the latter area, the tasks were almost completely completed by 2011.

Holdings

• Rostock diesel engine plant

privatization

• Sale of the Buna works to Dow Olefinverbund 1995
• Aufbau-Verlag 1995 with subsequent legal disputes
• Heavy mechanical engineering combine "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET)

Litigation

• Claims for damages against Bremer Vulkan

• Lawsuit against Bank Austria , which, as Rudolfine Steindling's house bank, was accused of complicity with the managing director of the former GDR foreign trade company , Novum GmbH, in embezzling trust assets.

• Lawsuit against the Swiss bank Julius Baer & Co. AG for damages for missing GDR state assets amounting to the equivalent of 135 million euros.

Subsidiaries

• BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH (BVVG) is a subsidiary of the BvS .
• Until the end of 2013, the subsidiary of the BvS was GESA Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung und Rehabilitation von Altstandorten mbH (now a subsidiary of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks ).

completion

The last step in the restructuring was completed by the law on winding up the BvS of October 28, 2003. The president as the organ of the BvS was replaced by a liquidator. The BvS was given the opportunity to transfer its assets to the federal government, institutions or corporations of the federal government in the course of liquidation and thus create the conditions for the dissolution of the BvS.

With regard to the processing status of these tasks, the BvS itself ceased operational work on December 31, 2000 and transferred the processing of the remaining tasks to business managers. Since January 1, 2004 it has been represented by a liquidator; the administrative board and board of directors (president), which had been acting up to then, were abolished. The Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) has been appointed as the processor since July 1, 2008 . In addition, the BImA took over from the BvS with effect from January 1, 2014 its tasks in the field of ecological contaminated sites.

The BvS is a federal institution under public law and belongs to the division of the Federal Ministry of Finance .

people

• Heinrich Hornef , President of the BvS from 1995 to 1996
• Günther Himstedt, President of the BvS from 1997
• Hans Hinrich Schroeder-Hohenwarth , President of the BvS
• Rudolf Bohn, member of the board from 1995, State Secretary in the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Economics
• Peter Breitenstein (board member)
• Joachim Grünewald , Chairman of the Administrative Board from January 1995 to the end of 1998
• Otto Gellert , Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Claus Köhler , member of the board of directors
• Manfred Schüler , last chairman of the administrative board since 1999, then chairman of the supervisory board of TLG Immobilien from 2000 to 2003

literature

• Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks (Ed.): "Privatize quickly, resolutely renovate, carefully shut down." A review of 13 years of work by the Treuhandanstalt and the Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks. Wegweiser GmbH, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-932661-40-0 . Final report of the Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks. Table of contents (PDF file; 26 kB).

See also

• Federal Asset Management
• Federal special fund

Web links

• Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks
• Law on the processing of the Federal Agency for Unification-Related Special Tasks of October 28, 2003 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2081 ) (PDF; 64 kB)
• Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign language terms: engl. Federal Institute for Special Tasks Arising from Unification , span. Oficina Federal para tareas Especiales de la Derivadas Unificación , fr. Institut fédéral chargé of missions spécifiques liées à l'unification allemande , Russ. Федеральное ведомство по специальным задачам, связанным с объединением Германии or Федеральное ведомство по особым задачам в связи с объединением Германии.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Successor organizations of the Treuhandanstalt s. Federal Participation Report 2006 of the Federal Ministry of Finance ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from March 23, 2011
3. ^ The legacy of the red Fini ORF, November 2, 2011.
4. ↑ Bank Austria has to repay SED black money
5. ↑ Disappeared GDR state assets: Germany is suing the Swiss bank ( memento from August 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), tagesschau.de , August 21, 2014.
6. ↑ BvSAbwicklungsgesetz
7. ↑ Communication from the BMF. Retrieved June 6, 2016.