Federal Compensation Office

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Federal Compensation Office
- BAA -

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State level Federation
position Higher federal authority
Supervisory authority Federal Ministry of the Interior
founding September 1, 1952
Headquarters Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Hesse
Authority management Florian Scheurle , President
Servants 2015: 37
Web presence www.badv.bund.de

The Federal Compensation Office ( BAA ) is an independent higher federal authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . The Federal Compensation Office is responsible for carrying out the burden compensation . Further tasks relate primarily to the budget area, since the Federal Compensation Office will remain involved in the financial settlement of the burden compensation even after the compensation fund was dissolved at the end of 2004. The official seat of the authority is in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ( Hessen ). Another office is located in Berlin-Weißensee .

Mission and development

The historical development has constantly changed the focus of the load balancing and in the course of the reunification and the end of the East-West conflict actually reversed. While it was originally primarily a matter of integrating the large majority of the displaced people who had come to West Germany after the Second World War, the political development thereafter repeatedly dictated new priorities. In the meantime it lies in the reclamation of the equalization of burdens in the event of compensation of damages. This primarily affects owners of assets in the new federal states, and to a far smaller number outside of Germany (for example in Poland and Romania), who can now freely dispose of their assets that have been compensated for in the burden sharing.

The local equalization offices of the old federal states are responsible for processing individual cases within the framework of the federal administration of orders, the technical supervision is carried out by the eleven state equalization offices. The highest technical supervisory authority is the Federal Compensation Office.

In a special area, namely the determination of the amount of compensation for damages to corporations and family foundations, the Federal Compensation Office itself issues administrative acts. It experienced a similar increase in tasks through taking care of war damage pensions from 2006 and from 2010 through taking on newly disclosed claims.

Until December 31, 2016, the Federal Equalization Office was part of the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Structure of the compensation administration

The clearing administration is structured in three stages. At its tip 85,120 2 represents the Federal Ausgleichsamt, it must be for the implementation of load balancing, the rights of the federal government and the highest federal according to Art. GG in accordance with Art. A GG, § 319. Load Balancing Act (LAG) transmitted. At the state level, there are eleven state equalization offices in the old federal states as parts of the state ministries. Subordinate to the Federal Compensation Office and the State Compensation Offices are the compensation offices as parts of the city and district administrations. All offices of the compensation administration are subject to the technical supervision of the Federal Compensation Office.

Field Office

The official seat of the authority was the former sanatorium Dr. Goldschmidt in Bad Homburg. In 1998 the Bad Homburg office moved to the building in Saalburgstrasse 155–157.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "Annual Report 2015" , Federal Compensation Office. 3rd July, 2016.

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 14.6 ″  E