Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure ; - BMVI -
State level	Federation
position	supreme federal authority
founding	September 20, 1949
Headquarters	Berlin
Authority management	Andreas Scheuer ( CSU )
Servants	circa 1245
Budget volume	EUR 29.29 billion (2019)
Web presence	www.bmvi.de

Andreas Scheuer (CSU), Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure

First office of the BMVI in Berlin, Invalidenstrasse

Second office of the BMVI in Bonn, Robert-Schuman-Platz

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure ( BMVI for short ) is a supreme federal authority in the Federal Republic of Germany . It has its headquarters or first office in Berlin , its second - more staffed office - in the federal city of Bonn .

Around 1245 employees work in the ministry, including around 693 in Bonn, around 552 in Berlin and up to 15 abroad. At the top is the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He is supported in his tasks by two parliamentary state secretaries (each member of the German Bundestag ) and civil servant state secretaries . The Ministry is subordinate to 63 authorities with around 25,000 employees.

The BMVI was created by renaming from the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) by virtue of an organizational decree on December 17, 2013 with the appointment of the Merkel III cabinet .

History and seat

The Federal Ministry of Transport was established in 1949. It was located in Bonn in the building of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture between 1949 and 1960 , then in the Sparkasse building on Bonn's Friedensplatz until 1974 , and from 1951 also on the Bad Godesberger Viktorshöhe . The ministry had more than 28 addresses over the years and in 1976 was spread across seven different locations. From 1979 to 1989 the ministry was housed at Kennedyallee 64-70 in Bonn .

From 1989 the Federal Ministry of Transport had its headquarters on Robert-Schuman-Platz in the Hochkreuz district of Bonn in a new building that was built from 1986 to 1989 next to the then Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications . In May 1980, the Munich architects Wilhelm Deiß and Heribert Bargou won the implementation competition with their building design. The implementation planning and construction management was transferred to the Düsseldorf office Eller Meier Walter in 1985.

Since the government moved from Bonn to Berlin in 1999, the second office of the ministry has been located in the building. Since then, the first office has been in Berlin at Invalidenstrasse 44 in a building that was built by August Tiede in 1878 for the Prussian Geological State Institute and expanded in two construction phases according to plans by the Swiss architect Max Dudler .

By the organizational decree of the Federal Chancellor of October 27, 1998, the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development were merged and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (BMVBW) was formed. In 2005 it was renamed the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS). With the appointment of the Merkel III cabinet , the ministry was renamed the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) on December 17, 2013 . The area of construction including urban development was affiliated to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and, in March 2018, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (BMI).

tasks

The ministry, together with its subordinate authorities, performs the departmental tasks in the areas relating to the mobility of people, goods and data.

Responsibility extends to the federal transport infrastructure ( federal highways , railway networks , waterways and airways) and the nationwide availability of modern broadband networks . The range of tasks includes the legal order and ensuring the safety of the respective modes of transport as well as the planning and financing of investments for the maintenance and expansion of infrastructures.

The main task in the field of digital infrastructure is a comprehensive supply of fast Internet (transmission speed of at least 50 Mbit / s). Another task is the modernization of mobility ( alternative drives and fuels , networking of vehicles and infrastructure, intelligent transport systems and automated mobility). This also includes the establishment of a digital motorway test field for testing innovative vehicle technologies.

construction

The ministry is divided into nine departments , each with one to three sub-departments , which report to the minister himself or to the state secretaries:

minister

Department of Management, Communication

State Secretary Dr. Güntner

Central Department
Federal trunk roads department

Road Traffic Department

Railways Department

State Secretary Dr. Zieschang

Policy Department
Digital Society Department

Aviation Department

Department of Waterways, Shipping

Awards

In 2018/2019, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (together with DB Cargo and VTG AG ) was awarded the Privatbahn Magazin innovation prize for developing the “innovative freight wagon” .

Budget

The ministry manages a budget of 31.048 billion euros (target for 2020).

According to the government draft of the 2017 federal budget and the 2016 to 2020 financial plan , this sum should develop as follows:

year	Total (in million euros)
2015 (actual)	23,193
2016 (target)	24,572
2017 (government draft)	26,821
2018 ( financial plan )	27,395
2019 (financial plan)	27,417
2020 (financial plan)	25,255

Since the ministry has been under the leadership of Bavarian ministers (Peter Ramsauer, 2009), a disproportionately large amount of funds has been flowing to Bavaria.

Federal Minister since 1949

No.	Surname	Life dates	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Term of office in days	Cabinet (s)
Federal Minister for Transport
1	Hans-Christoph Seebohm	1903-1967	DP (until 1960) CDU (from 1960)	September 20, 1949	November 30, 1966	6219	Adenauer I Adenauer II Adenauer III Adenauer IV Adenauer V Erhard I Erhard II
2	Georg Leber	1920-2012	SPD	1st December 1966	July 7, 1972	2045	Kiesinger Brandt I.
3	Lauritz Lauritzen	1910-1980	SPD	July 7, 1972	May 16, 1974	678	Brandt I Brandt II
4th	Kurt Gscheidle	1924-2003	SPD	May 16, 1974	November 4th 1980	2364	Schmidt I Schmidt II
5	Volker Hauff	* 1940	SPD	November 6, 1980	October 1, 1982	694	Schmidt III
6th	Werner Dollinger	1918-2008	CSU	4th October 1982	March 12, 1987	1620	Kohl I Kohl II
7th	Jürgen Warnke	1932-2013	CSU	March 12, 1987	April 21, 1989	771	Kohl III
8th	Friedrich Zimmermann	1925-2012	CSU	April 21, 1989	January 18, 1991	637	Kohl III
9	Günther Krause	* 1953	CDU	January 18, 1991	May 13, 1993	846	Kohl IV
10	Matthias Wissmann	* 1949	CDU	May 13, 1993	October 26, 1998	1992	Kohl IV Kohl V
Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing
11/16	Franz Müntefering	* 1940	SPD	October 27, 1998	September 29, 1999	337	Schröder I
12/17	Reinhard Klektiven	* 1942	SPD	September 29, 1999	November 16, 2000	383	Schröder I
13/18	Kurt Bodewig	* 1955	SPD	November 20, 2000	October 22, 2002	701	Schröder I
14/19	Manfred Stolpe	1936-2019	SPD	October 22, 2002	November 22, 2005	1127	Schröder II
Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development
15/20	Wolfgang Tiefensee	* 1955	SPD	November 22, 2005	October 28, 2009	1436	Merkel I
16/21	Peter Ramsauer	* 1954	CSU	October 28, 2009	17th December 2013	1511	Merkel II
Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure
17th	Alexander Dobrindt	* 1970	CSU	17th December 2013	October 24, 2017	1407	Merkel III
-	Christian Schmidt (acting)	* 1957	CSU	October 24, 2017	March 14, 2018	141	Merkel III
18th	Andreas Scheuer	* 1974	CSU	March 14, 2018	in office	895	Merkel IV

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