Federal Commissioner

A Federal Commissioner was in the days of the German Federal a certain officer of the Federation.

These commissioners were primarily the execution officers. The Bundestag could, under certain conditions, order a federal execution if the government of a member state behaved contrary to the federal government. The Execution Commissioner took over government powers in the state if necessary.

Federal commissioners in the German Confederation

Federal Commissioner Laurenz Hannibal Fischer

• In 1850/1851 Count Christian Seraphin Vincenz von Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen was appointed Federal Commissioner in Kurhessen, in connection with the Kurhessian constitutional conflict .
• Wilhelm von Thümen was Federal Commissioner in the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1851/1852 .
• Laurenz Hannibal Fischer dissolved the German imperial fleet in 1852 .
• When the Prussians captured the Prince of Hesse-Kassel in the German War in 1866, the Bundestag commissioned Alexander von Baumbach, the Legation Councilor of Hesse-Kassel , to lead government affairs as Federal Commissioner.
• At the federal execution in Holstein in 1863/1863, Saxony appointed Eduard von Könneritz and Hanover Alexander von Münchhausen (later Ferdinand Nieper) as federal commissioner.

Federal Republic of Germany

The German Basic Law of 1949 has a federal obligation . The executive officer could be described as a federal commissioner. However, there has not yet been any federal obligation. In the Federal Ministry of Finance there is a federal commissioner at the Deutsche Bau- und Grundstücks-AG.

See also

• State Commissioner
• Reich Commissioner

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German Constitutional History since 1789. Volume I: Reform and Restoration 1789 to 1830 . 2nd edition, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1967, pp. 634-636.
2. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789 . Volume III: Bismarck and the Reich. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1963, p. 561.
3. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume III: Bismarck and the realm. 3rd edition, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1988, p. 459, p. 467.
4. ↑ Possibilities of federal compulsion according to Art. 37 Basic Law - Appointment of a “savings commissioner”? (PDF; 142 kB), Scientific Service of the German Bundestag , Department WD 3, No. 249/06 (July 19, 2006).