Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

This article explains the German authority. For the Austrian 1987–1997 see Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (Austria) .

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs - BMAS -
State level	Federation
position	Supreme federal authority
founding	1949 as the Federal Ministry of Labor
Headquarters	Berlin
Authority management	Hubertus Heil ( SPD ), Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
Servants	around 1,000 (as of 2020)
Budget volume	EUR 170.68 billion (2020)
Web presence	www.bmas.de

Hubertus Heil (SPD), Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs

The Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs ( BMAS for short ) is a supreme federal authority in the Federal Republic of Germany . It has its headquarters in Berlin and a subsidiary in the federal city of Bonn .

household

The BMAS has a budget of 150.22 billion euros and is therefore by far the federal ministry with the highest expenditure.

tasks

Within the federal government, the BMAS is responsible for labor market policy , labor law and occupational safety as well as for pensions and social security. The BMAS is endeavoring to expand its international cooperation and to carry the German job placement model abroad, based on the example of the Federal Employment Agency.

history

The original name from 1949 was Federal Ministry of Labor , later expanded to Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . Between 2002 and 2005, the BMAS was divided between the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security . When a government was formed after the 2005 Bundestag election , the old area of ​​responsibility was essentially restored, with the name being changed from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMA) to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS).

Service building

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs; Berlin office, main entrance Wilhelmstrasse

Entrance to the Bonn office, Rochusstrasse

Part of the ministry has its seat in Berlin-Mitte at Wilhelmstrasse  49. In Bonn there is still a second office at Rochusstrasse 1. After parliament and large parts of the federal government moved to Berlin in 1999, the extension building of the former Reich Propaganda Ministry was assigned to the ministry . The destroyed during the war the main building at Wilhelmsplatz 8.9 was in 1737 as the residence of the Prussian Major General Karl Ludwig Steward of Waldburg built on the northwest corner of Wilhelm Square and from 1738 as the seat of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of St. John have been used, thus the name Ordenspalais received. From 1762 to 1811 it was the official residence of Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia as Lord Master of the Order of St. John. In 1826 it became the property of Prince Carl of Prussia and was now called the Prinz-Carl-Palais . The builders Schinkel and Stüler rebuilt it in the classical style.

Between 1918 and 1933 the building served the press department of the Reich government. From this, the National Socialists formed the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under the leadership of Joseph Goebbels . The baroque palace was expanded to include large wings in Wilhelmstrasse and Jägerstrasse. The bombs of 1945 damaged these buildings considerably, and the ruins of the Ordens- or Prinz-Carl-Palais were cleared in 1949. After the extension had been repaired, the Central Council of the National Front of the later German Democratic Republic (GDR) moved in in 1947 . The study of the first and only President of the GDR , Wilhelm Pieck , has been preserved there with its original furnishings. In 1996 a fundamental, step-by-step renovation followed, which was completed in 2000.

The visitor center is located in the Kleisthaus in Berlin's Mauerstraße 53, formerly the von der Heydt bank , named after the owner of the previous building, the poet H. v. Kleist . Its architect was Bodo Ebhardt in 1913 . The facade is decorated with reliefs by Georg Kolbe .

Before Bonn was awarded the federal capital in 1949 , the AEG high-rise building there was intended as the official seat of the ministry in the event that Frankfurt am Main prevailed . The background to these premature considerations was Frankfurt's argument that 90 percent of the buildings required for a seat of government were already there. After the city was defeated, despite the enthusiastic commitment of the then mayor of Frankfurt, Walter Kolb , who had even had a plenary hall built for parliament, the plan was inevitably dropped.

Federal Minister since 1949

See also : incumbent since 1918

Between 2002 and 2005, the ministry's area of ​​responsibility was divided between the Federal Minister of Economics and Labor, Wolfgang Clement, and the Federal Minister of Health and Social Security, Ulla Schmidt . This change was then reversed.

No.	Surname	image	Life dates	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Cabinet (s)
Federal Minister for Labor
1	Anton Storch		1892-1975	CDU	September 20, 1949	October 29, 1957	Adenauer I Adenauer II
Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
2	Theodor Blank		1905-1972	CDU	October 29, 1957	October 26, 1965	Adenauer III Adenauer IV Adenauer V Erhard I
3	Hans Katzer		1919-1996	CDU	October 26, 1965	October 22, 1969	Erhard II Kiesinger
4th	Walter Arendt		1925-2005	SPD	October 22, 1969	December 16, 1976	Brandt I Brandt II Schmidt I
5	Herbert Ehrenberg		1926-2018	SPD	December 16, 1976	April 28, 1982	Schmidt II Schmidt III
6th	Heinz Westphal		1924-1998	SPD	April 28, 1982	4th October 1982	Schmidt III
7th	Norbert Blüm		1935-2020	CDU	4th October 1982	October 27, 1998	Kohl I Kohl II Kohl III Kohl IV Kohl V
8th	Walter Riester		* 1943	SPD	October 27, 1998	October 22, 2002	Schröder I
Federal Minister for Economics and Labor
9	Wolfgang Clement		* 1940	SPD	October 22, 2002	November 22, 2005	Schröder II
Federal Minister for Health and Social Security
9	Ulla Schmidt		* 1949	SPD	October 22, 2002	November 22, 2005	Schröder II
Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
10	Franz Müntefering		* 1940	SPD	November 22, 2005	November 21, 2007	Merkel I
11	Olaf Scholz		* 1958	SPD	November 21, 2007	October 28, 2009	Merkel I
12	Franz Josef Jung		* 1949	CDU	October 28, 2009	November 30, 2009	Merkel II
13	Ursula von der Leyen		* 1958	CDU	November 30, 2009	17th December 2013	Merkel II
14th	Andrea Nahles		* 1970	SPD	17th December 2013	28th September 2017	Merkel III
-	Katarina Barley (acting)		* 1968	SPD	28th September 2017	March 14, 2018	Merkel III
15th	Hubertus Heil		* 1972	SPD	March 14, 2018	in office	Merkel IV

Parliamentary State Secretaries

• 2005–2009: Klaus Brandner ( SPD )
• 2005–2009: Franz Thönnes (SPD)
• 2009–2013: Ralf Brauksiepe ( CDU )
• 2009–2013: Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (CDU)
• since 2013: Anette Kramme (SPD)
• 2013-2018: Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller (SPD)
• since 2018: Kerstin Griese (SPD)

Official State Secretaries

• 1949–1957: Maximilian Sauerborn
• 1957–1957: Hans Busch
• 1957–1965: Wilhelm Claussen
• 1965–1969: Ludwig Kattenstroth
• 1969–1972: Walter Auerbach
• 1987–2002: Werner Tegtmeier
• 1991–1995: Bernhard Worms
• 1995–1996: Karl Jung
• 1996–1998: Wilhelm Hecker
• 1998–2002: Klaus Achenbach
• 2002–2008: Rudolf Anzinger
• 2005–2007: Heinrich Tiemann
• 2005–2008: Kajo Wasserhövel
• 2007–2009: Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense
• 2008–2009: Detlef Scheele
• 2008–2009: Günther Horzetzky
• 2009–2011: Andreas Storm ( CDU )
• 2009–2013: Gerd Hoofe
• 2011–2014: Annette Niederfranke
• 2014–2018: Thorben Albrecht ( SPD )
• 2014–2015: Jörg Asmussen ( SPD )
• 2016–2017: Yasmin Fahimi ( SPD )
• since 2018: Leonie Gebers
• since 2018: Björn Böhning
• since 2018: Rolf Schmachtenberg

Departments

• Department Z: Human Resources, Budget, Organization
• Department I: Fundamental questions of the welfare state, the world of work and the social market economy
• Department II: Labor market policy, employment of foreigners, unemployment insurance, basic security for job seekers
• Department III: Labor Law, Occupational Safety
• Department IV: Social Security, Old Age Insurance
• Department V: Participation, concerns of people with disabilities, social compensation, social assistance
• Department VI: European and International Employment and Social Policy, ESF

See also

• Reich Ministry of Labor

Web links

Commons : Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Videos/DE/Artikel/Ministerium/ministerium-bmas-attraktiver-arbeitgeber.html
2. ↑ Bundeshaushalt.de: www.Bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 . 
3. ↑ List of Abbreviations. (PDF; 49 kB) Abbreviations for the constitutional organs, the highest federal authorities and the highest federal courts. In: bund.de. Federal Office of Administration (BVA), accessed on August 20, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Title not available. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, archived from the original on July 22, 2015 ; accessed on April 30, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Title not available. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on April 30, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Fahimi becomes State Secretary in the BMAS. In: Politics & Communication . November 2, 2015, accessed April 30, 2017 . 

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