Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications

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The Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications was established in 1949 under the name Federal Ministry for Telecommunications Affairs and on April 1, 1950, it was renamed the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications . In the following it was usually referred to briefly as the Federal Post Office ; Post-internally, the abbreviation BPM was common. From 1954 to 1988, the headquarters of the Ministry was housed in the building of the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications in Bonn before moving into a new building. In 1989, as part of the first stage of the postal reform, the name was changed to the Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications ( BMPT for short ). As a result of the privatization of the postal and telecommunications services, it was dissolved on December 31, 1997.

tasks

The former BMPT building on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn (1954–1988), now the seat of the Federal Audit Office
New building on the edge of the Rheinaue (1988–1997), now the seat of the Federal Environment Ministry

The BMPT performed sovereign and political tasks in the field of postal and telecommunications. It was divided into four departments, the management staff and an organizational unit for international relations . The departments had the following names:

  • (1/2) Policy Department, Policy, Strategy and Objectives, Competition Control, Regulation;
  • (3) approvals; Permits; Radio frequency matters; Standardization;
  • (4) Central Department.

The subordinate higher federal authorities belonged to the business area of ​​the BMPT:

With its resolution on 31 December 1997, the remaining sovereign functions were effective on January 1, 1998 to the Federal Ministry of Finance (B. publication of such. Postwertzeichen = stamps , vote in respect of the shares of stock and composition of the supervisory board seats in public companies ) and the Federal Ministry of Economics (e.g. representation of German interests at the European Union, international frequency matters). Tasks for the staff of the former Deutsche Bundespost were assigned to the Federal Telecommunications and Post Office, including in particular the self-help facilities of the former Deutsche Bundespost (e.g. post office health insurance fund, the recreation center of the Deutsche Bundespost or post office clothing fund) and the Post and Telecommunications Accident Insurance Fund (tasks according to SGB ​​7 ). The no longer sovereign part of the BMPT and the Federal Office for Post and Telecommunications were merged to form the regulatory authority for telecommunications and post , which continues today as the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways .

The ministry was the highest authority in the area of ​​the German Federal Post Office. He was directly subordinate to the Oberpostdirektion and the other central intermediate authorities ( Central Post Office , Central Telecommunications Office , Social Office of the German Federal Post Office , etc.) of the Federal Post Office.

Until its dissolution, it also supervised the Bundesdruckerei . This was then carried out by the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Federal Minister 1949 to 1997

In the first cabinet under Willy Brandt , the post and transport ministries were initially headed by Georg Leber . When he became Federal Minister of Defense in 1972 , he handed over his previous ministries to the then Federal Minister for Urban Development and Housing Lauritz Lauritzen , who thus headed three departments in personal union. In the successor cabinet, responsibilities were changed again and the Post and Federal Ministry for Research and Technology were headed by Minister Horst Ehmke . After the resignation of Chancellor Brandt as a result of the Guillaume affair , the Ministry of Post and Transport were headed by Minister Kurt Gscheidle . After the federal election in 1980 , Gscheidle took over the post department.

Wolfgang Bötsch Günther Krause Christian Schwarz-Schilling Hans Matthöfer Kurt Gscheidle Horst Ehmke Lauritz Lauritzen Georg Leber Werner Dollinger Richard Stücklen Ernst Lemmer Siegfried Balke Siegfried Balke Hans Schuberth
No. Surname Life dates Political party Beginning of the term of office Term expires Cabinets
Federal Minister for Telecommunications Affairs
1 Hans Schuberth 1897-1976 CSU September 20, 1949 April 1, 1950 Adenauer I.
Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications
1 Hans Schuberth 1897-1976 CSU April 1, 1950 December 9, 1953 Adenauer I
Adenauer II
2 Siegfried Balke 1902-1984 CSU (from 1954) December 10, 1953 October 16, 1956 Adenauer II
3 Ernst Lemmer 1898-1970 CDU November 15, 1956 October 29, 1957 Adenauer II
4th Richard Stücklen 1916-2002 CSU October 29, 1957 November 30, 1966 Adenauer III
Adenauer IV
Adenauer V
Erhard I
Erhard II
5 Werner Dollinger 1918-2008 CSU 1st December 1966 October 21, 1969 Kiesinger
6th Georg Leber 1920-2012 SPD October 22, 1969 July 7, 1972 Brandt I.
7th Lauritz Lauritzen 1910-1980 SPD July 7, 1972 December 15, 1972 Brandt I.
8th Horst Ehmke 1927-2017 SPD December 15, 1972 May 16, 1974 Brandt II
9 Kurt Gscheidle 1924-2003 SPD May 16, 1974 April 28, 1982 Schmidt I
Schmidt II
Schmidt III
10 Hans Matthöfer 1925-2009 SPD April 28, 1982 October 1, 1982 Schmidt III
11 Christian Schwarz-Schilling * 1930 CDU 4th October 1982 June 30, 1989 Kohl I
Kohl II
Kohl III
Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications
11 Christian Schwarz-Schilling * 1930 CDU July 1, 1989 17th December 1992 Kohl III
Kohl IV
- Günther Krause
(acting) 		* 1953 CDU 17th December 1992 January 25, 1993 Kohl IV
12 Wolfgang Bötsch 1938-2017 CSU January 25, 1993 December 31, 1997 Kohl IV
Kohl V

Parliamentary State Secretaries

Official State Secretaries

Similar authorities

Predecessors of the Federal Ministry were

During the division of Germany there was the parallel to the Federal German Ministry

Various tasks of the Ministry were transferred to the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post (RegTP) in 1998, see

See also

literature

  • Otto Model, Carl Creifelds, Gustav Lichtenberger and Gerhard Zierl: Citizens' Pocket Book: Everything you need to know about the state, administration, law and economy with numerous diagrams . 28th edition, No. 102, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39682-8 .
  • Heinz Hoffmann (editor): The Federal Ministries 1949–1999. Designations, official abbreviations, responsibilities, organizational structure, management personnel (=  materials from the Federal Archives . Issue 8). Wirtschaftsverlag NW GmbH, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-075-3 , p. 424-441 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Postminister  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Law Gazette I of January 20, 1998, page 68
  2. ^ Heinz Hoffmann (editor): The Federal Ministries 1949–1999. Designations, official abbreviations, responsibilities, organizational structure, management personnel (=  materials from the Federal Archives . Issue 8). Wirtschaftsverlag NW GmbH, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-075-3 , p. 424-441 .
  3. ↑ www.post-und-telekommunikation.de: Post und Telekommunikation, General January to December 1992 . In: Post and Telecommunications . Archived from the original on June 5, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b www.post-und-telekommunikation.de: Post und Telekommunikation, General January to December 1993 . In: Post and Telecommunications . Archived from the original on July 9, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.