Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs

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Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs
- BMI -

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State level Federation
position supreme federal authority
founding 1879 as Reich Office of the Interior
Headquarters Berlin
Authority management Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs

Horst Seehofer (CSU)

Servants 2100 (April 13, 2020)
Budget volume EUR 15.85 billion (2019)
Web presence www.bmi.bund.de
Horst Seehofer (CSU), Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home
Headquarters of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin
Federal Ministry of the Interior, entrance Bonn office

The Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (until March 14, 2018 Federal Ministry of the Interior ; BMI for short ) is a supreme federal authority in the Federal Republic of Germany . It has its headquarters or first office in Berlin , its second office in the federal city of Bonn . The head of the authority is ex officio the Federal Minister of the Interior , Horst Seehofer (CSU).

history

The predecessor of the Ministry was the Reich Ministry of the Interior , which in turn emerged from the Reich Office of the Interior . The Federal Ministry of the Interior was constituted in accordance with a recommendation of the Organizing Committee of the Prime Minister's Conference on July 30, 1949.

Commissioned by Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière in December 2014, researchers from the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) and the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) have been devoting themselves to the post-war history of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the GDR's Ministry of the Interior since 2015. In a preliminary study at the end of 2015, the scientists published the first preliminary results on the personnel structure of both interior ministries. For the Federal Republic of Germany, more than 300 CVs were evaluated by officials of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. According to this, former NSDAP members made up a high proportion of ministry employees in the 1950s and 1960s . Of the senior civil servants employed between 1949 and 1970 (from the level of head of department upwards), 54% were in the NSDAP. When the years of the war youth generation (born between 1900 and 1910) moved into higher positions, the proportion of former NSDAP members reached a peak: in 1961 it was 66%. In June 2018, the study Guardians of Order finally appeared and was officially presented to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Jurisdiction

The Federal Ministry of the Interior is the Federal Ministry of the Interior and thus largely determines domestic policy .

His responsibilities include the following topics:

The Federal Minister of the Interior is part of the legislation of the European Union within the framework of the Council of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs .

Furthermore, together with the Federal Ministry of Justice, it is responsible for general administrative, constitutional, national, European and international law. It participates in the drafting of bills in these areas or prepares them itself and reviews all legislative projects of the federal government or individual federal ministries for their compatibility with the Basic Law and their administrative form ( right of objection by the constitutional departments ).

The procurement office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the procurement of equipment and services for all authorities in the ministry's portfolio. Among other things, it buys motor vehicles and maintains its own vehicle registration office , which has its own stamp sticker.

Central office for occupational safety at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

The state trade offices are not authorized to issue orders for federal authorities. According to Section 21 (5) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act , the Central Office for Occupational Safety and Health at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, on whose behalf the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance Acts, is responsible. The European Union has already generally stated that the proximity of the control authority and the controlled authority - in Germany both federal authorities - is ineffective. Financial sanctions would only be rebooking within the federal government and would therefore be largely ineffective. Administrative disputes are protracted and are openly threatened by opposing federal authorities. The possibilities of the Central Office for Occupational Safety and Health and the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance are therefore limited. The involvement of the competent authorities is only permissible for employees due to a contractual duty of consideration after all internal options have been exhausted, as otherwise there is a reason for termination for the employer.

Structure of the Federal Ministry of the Interior

(Status: July 2018) The minister is supported by a management staff at the head of the ministry. The following State Secretaries are subordinate to the Minister:

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Engelke:

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Vitt:

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Bohle:

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Kerber:

  • Department H ( home )
  • Department SP ( Sport )
  • Department G (principle and planning)

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Teichmann:

The subordinate division of the Federal Ministry of the Interior comprises 20 authorities and 60,000 employees (as of March 2019).

New building of the office in Berlin

New building at the Chancellor's Garden

Until April 2015, the Berlin office in the city was spread over three properties, including the Spree-Bogen . For reasons of security and economy , these should be combined in a new building, which also has enough space to concentrate the entire ministry on this one location in order to save the Bonn office. Designed by the architects Thomas Müller and Ivan Reimann this was built on the north side of the River Spree in the district Moabit of the Mitte district , between the Chancellery Garden and the Berlin Central Station , close to the Berlin rail -Viadukt. In April 2009 the budget committee of the German Bundestag approved the building project. The construction costs should be around 200 million euros. After the then Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière broke ground on December 16, 2010, the new building was temporarily stopped in July 2011 due to disputes over the award of the contract and resumed in November 2011. The topping-out ceremony took place on May 22, 2013, and the building was finished in autumn 2014. The move took place over a single weekend from April 24th to April 26th, 2015.

memorial

A memorial commemorates the coming in at the service of killed employees of the business unit BMI. It consists of three steles inserted into the fence of the new BMI building in Berlin, on which the name, date of birth and date of death of the deceased are engraved under the words “They died in service for our country”. The 75 people affected, 19 of whom were killed in foreign deployments , are 50 members of the Federal Police or the former Federal Border Police , 20 employees and helpers of the Technical Relief Agency (THW) and five officials from the Federal Criminal Police Office, including state employees seconded to these authorities .

Federal Minister since 1949

Horst Seehofer Thomas de Maizière Hans-Peter Friedrich Thomas de Maizière Wolfgang Schäuble Otto Schily Manfred Kanther Rudolf Seiters Wolfgang Schäuble Friedrich Zimmermann Jürgen Schmude Gerhart Baum Werner Maihofer Hans-Dietrich Genscher Ernst Benda Paul Lücke Hermann Höcherl Gerhard Schröder (CDU) Robert Lehr Gustav Heinemann
No. Surname image Political party Beginning of the term of office Term expires Term of office
in days
Cabinet (s)
Federal Minister of the Interior
1 Gustav Heinemann
(1899–1976)
Federal archive B 145 Bild-F028544-0006, Gustav Heinemann.jpg CDU September 20, 1949 October 11, 1950 386 Adenauer I.
2 Robert Lehr
(1883-1956)
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P004377, Robert Lehr.jpg CDU October 11, 1950 October 20, 1953 1105 Adenauer I.
3 Gerhard Schröder
(1910–1989)
Defense Minister Dr.  Gerhard Schröder (4909218775) .jpg CDU October 20, 1953 November 13, 1961 2854 Adenauer II
Adenauer III
4th Hermann Höcherl
(1912–1989)
Federal Archives Image 183-92106-0011, Hermann Höcherl.jpg CSU November 14, 1961 October 25, 1965 1441 Adenauer IV
Adenauer V
Erhard I
5 Paul Lücke
(1914–1976)
KAS gap, Paul-Bild-644-1.jpg CDU October 26, 1965 April 2nd, 1968 889 Erhard II
Kiesinger
6th Ernst Benda
(1925-2009)
Federal archive B 145 Bild-F041440-0013, Hamburg, CDU federal party conference, Ernst Benda.jpg CDU April 2nd, 1968 October 21, 1969 567 Kiesinger
7th Hans-Dietrich Genscher
(1927-2016)
Federal Archives FDP Federal Party Congress, Genscher.jpg FDP October 22, 1969 May 16, 1974 1667 Brandt I
Brandt II
8th Werner Maihofer
(1918–2009)
Federal Archives B 145 Bild-F042278-0004, Prof. Dr.  Werner Maihofer.jpg FDP May 16, 1974 June 8, 1978 1464 Schmidt I
Schmidt II
9 Gerhart Baum
(* 1932)
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F055881-0013, Bonn, Bundesrat, press conference of the interior ministers.jpg FDP June 8, 1978 17th September 1982 1562 Schmidt II
Schmidt III
10 Jürgen Schmude
(* 1936)
Jürgen Schmude-01 retouched.jpg SPD 17th September 1982 October 1, 1982 14th Schmidt III
11 Friedrich Zimmermann
(1925–2012)
Federal archive B 145 Bild-F085285-0011a, Bonn Friedrich Zimmermann.jpg CSU 4th October 1982 April 21, 1989 2391 Kohl I
Kohl II
Kohl III
12 Wolfgang Schäuble
(* 1942)
WSchaeuble.jpg CDU April 21, 1989 November 26, 1991 949 Kohl III
Kohl IV
13 Rudolf Seiters
(* 1937)
RudolfSeiters.jpg CDU November 26, 1991 July 7, 1993 589 Kohl IV
14th Manfred Kanther
(* 1939)
Manfred Kanther.jpg CDU July 7, 1993 October 27, 1998 1938 Kohl IV
Kohl V
15th Otto Schily
(* 1932)
Otto Schily MUC-20050910-02.jpg SPD October 27, 1998 November 22, 2005 2583 Schröder I
Schröder II
16 Wolfgang Schäuble
(* 1942)
WSchaeuble.jpg CDU November 22, 2005 October 28, 2009 1436 Merkel I
17th Thomas de Maizière
(* 1954)
OT Berlin 09-13 Thomas de Maizière.jpg CDU October 28, 2009 March 3, 2011 491 Merkel II
18th Hans-Peter Friedrich
(* 1957)
Hans-Peter Friedrich 2012.jpg CSU March 3, 2011 17th December 2013 1020 Merkel II
19th Thomas de Maizière
(* 1954)
OT Berlin 09-13 Thomas de Maizière.jpg CDU 17th December 2013 March 14, 2018 1551 Merkel III
Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs
20th Horst Seehofer
(* 1949)
12-07-17-state parliament-project-bayern-RalfR-001.jpg CSU March 14, 2018 in office 894 Merkel IV

Parliamentary State Secretaries

Official State Secretaries

See also

Web links

Commons : Federal Ministry of the Interior (Berlin-Moabit)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. BMI - The BMI introduces itself
  2. Bundeshaushalt.de: www.Bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  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 14, 2016 .
  4. Information on the new building project of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks for the future housing of the Federal Ministry of the Interior ( Memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Research group on the history of the interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin - Research group on the history of the interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  6. ZZF Potsdam, IfZ Munich-Berlin: Final report of the preliminary study on the subject of "The post-war history of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) with regard to possible personal and material continuities at the time of National Socialism" , October 29, 2015 , P. 24.
  7. Many former NSDAP members , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 5, 2015. p. 4.
  8. ZZF Potsdam, IfZ Munich-Berlin: Final report of the preliminary study , p. 33.
  9. Frank Bösch / Andreas Wirsching (ed.): Guardian of order. The interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin after National Socialism. Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3206-5 .
  10. BMI press release: Guardians of Order - History Institutes present results of the project to process the post-war history of the two German interior ministries. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  11. ^ BMI topics. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
  12. ^ Organization chart of the BMI (page 3 ff.). Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  13. Our authorities and institutions. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  14. Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior: New building of the BMI
  15. There is a lot of space in Berlin, Berliner Zeitung, April 22, 2014
  16. De Maizière breaks ground ( memento of March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Ralf Schönball: New building of the Federal Ministry of the Interior temporarily stopped . July 13, 2011.
  18. Federal Ministry of the Interior: BMI new building: construction freeze lifted ( Memento from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  19. Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior: Topping-out ceremony for the new BMI building
  20. Federal Ministry of the Interior: Relocation to the new building in Moabiter Werder. April 27, 2015.
  21. “They died in the service of our country”. In: BMI. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  22. ^ [1] Internet site Wolfgang Schäuble, inauguration of the wall of honor at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, September 14, 2009

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