Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs

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

Homeland security , in particular
- Fight against crime
- Border Guard
- Civil defense
- Air rescue
- Protection of the constitution (in particular protection against extremism, terrorism, sabotage, espionage and sects)
Passport, ID and registration systems
Public service
Organization of public administration , in particular
- Reducing bureaucracy
- Administrative modernization
statistics
Information technology and security
Immigration, integration and national minorities (especially foreigners, refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons and repatriates)
Political education
Sports
building and living
homeland
- Social cohesion
- Churches and religious communities
- Demographics
- Spatial planning
- Equal living conditions

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:

Official State Secretaries: Hans-Georg Engelke , Klaus Vitt , Anne Katrin Bohle , Markus Kerber and Helmut Teichmann
Parliamentary State Secretaries: Volkmar Vogel , Stephan Mayer and Günter Krings

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Engelke:

Department Z ( Central Department )
Department ATS ( Public Safety )
Department B ( Federal Police )
EU staff (EU coordination and EU Council Presidency)

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Vitt:

DG department (digital society; administrative digitization and information technology )
CI department (cyber and information security )
Federal IT consolidation staff

The following departments are subordinate to State Secretary Bohle:

SW department ( urban development , housing , public building law )
BW department ( civil engineering , construction industry and federal buildings)

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:

Department M ( Migration ; Refugees ; Return Policy )
Department KM (Crisis Management and Civil Protection )
Department V ( Constitutional Law ; Constitutional Law ; Administrative Law )
Department D ( Public Service )

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

No.	Surname	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)	CDU	September 20, 1949	October 11, 1950	386	Adenauer I.
2	Robert Lehr (1883-1956)	CDU	October 11, 1950	October 20, 1953	1105	Adenauer I.
3	Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989)	CDU	October 20, 1953	November 13, 1961	2854	Adenauer II Adenauer III
4th	Hermann Höcherl (1912–1989)	CSU	November 14, 1961	October 25, 1965	1441	Adenauer IV Adenauer V Erhard I
5	Paul Lücke (1914–1976)	CDU	October 26, 1965	April 2nd, 1968	889	Erhard II Kiesinger
6th	Ernst Benda (1925-2009)	CDU	April 2nd, 1968	October 21, 1969	567	Kiesinger
7th	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927-2016)	FDP	October 22, 1969	May 16, 1974	1667	Brandt I Brandt II
8th	Werner Maihofer (1918–2009)	FDP	May 16, 1974	June 8, 1978	1464	Schmidt I Schmidt II
9	Gerhart Baum (* 1932)	FDP	June 8, 1978	17th September 1982	1562	Schmidt II Schmidt III
10	Jürgen Schmude (* 1936)	SPD	17th September 1982	October 1, 1982	14th	Schmidt III
11	Friedrich Zimmermann (1925–2012)	CSU	4th October 1982	April 21, 1989	2391	Kohl I Kohl II Kohl III
12	Wolfgang Schäuble (* 1942)	CDU	April 21, 1989	November 26, 1991	949	Kohl III Kohl IV
13	Rudolf Seiters (* 1937)	CDU	November 26, 1991	July 7, 1993	589	Kohl IV
14th	Manfred Kanther (* 1939)	CDU	July 7, 1993	October 27, 1998	1938	Kohl IV Kohl V
15th	Otto Schily (* 1932)	SPD	October 27, 1998	November 22, 2005	2583	Schröder I Schröder II
16	Wolfgang Schäuble (* 1942)	CDU	November 22, 2005	October 28, 2009	1436	Merkel I
17th	Thomas de Maizière (* 1954)	CDU	October 28, 2009	March 3, 2011	491	Merkel II
18th	Hans-Peter Friedrich (* 1957)	CSU	March 3, 2011	17th December 2013	1020	Merkel II
19th	Thomas de Maizière (* 1954)	CDU	17th December 2013	March 14, 2018	1551	Merkel III
Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs
20th	Horst Seehofer (* 1949)	CSU	March 14, 2018	in office	894	Merkel IV