Office of the Federal President
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Office of the Federal President |
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| State level | Federation |
| position | Supreme federal authority |
| founding | 1949 |
| Headquarters |
 Berlin , Germany
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| Authority management | Stephan Steinlein , State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President |
| Servants | about 180 |
| Budget volume | € 34.32 million (2016) including the Federal President |
| Web presence | www.bundespraesident.de |
The Office of the Federal President ( BPrA for short ) is the authority of the German Federal President and a supreme federal authority . It is responsible for supporting the Federal President, the head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany. The office of the Federal President is located in Berlin . The head of the authority is the head of the Federal President's Office, a political official with the rank of State Secretary . This office is currently held by Stephan Steinlein .
history
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Office of the Federal President is the organizational successor to the Office of the Reich President or the Presidential Chancellery of the German Reich . It started its work together with the Federal President in 1949 for the first time on the Viktorshöhe in Bad Godesberg (today the city district of Bonn ). At the end of 1950, both then took their seat in or not far from Villa Hammerschmidt. The Office of the Federal President was housed there in a specially constructed new building, the Balg double villa completed in 1898 and the Frau Ernst Prieger villa on Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse ( Gronau district ), completed in 1900 . These properties were later gradually transferred to the Federal Cartel Office .
In 1998, the office of the Federal President followed the President in the German capital, who had already moved his first official seat there in 1994.
Offices
The first seat of the Federal President's Office is Berlin. The elliptical official building next to Bellevue Palace , which is therefore also called the “President's Egg”, is located on the northern edge of the Great Zoo there and was built from 1996 to 1998 according to plans by the architects Gruber + Kleine-Kraneburg and opened on November 23, 1998 . It consists of a four-storey elliptical office ring and a five-storey cuboid central wing for building services and supply . The inner wall of the ring is raised and ends flush with the inner cuboid, so that a raised inner ellipse can be seen on the roof. Flush windows are set into the polished black facade . The space between the ring and the cuboid is closed by a glass roof. A photovoltaic system is installed on the roof above the elliptical ring .
In addition to the second official residence of the Federal President in the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn , there is also a second residence for the Office of the Federal President with the property management of the villa.
tasks
The tasks of the Federal President's Office include advising the Federal President in his administration, informing the Federal President about political events, preparing the decisions of the Federal President and carrying out his assignments, such as the preparation of state visits.
construction
- (As of June 2017)
The office is divided into three departments :
- Department Z - Central Affairs
- Department 1 - Domestic
- Department 2 - Abroad
Central Affairs Department
The Central Affairs Department is responsible for administrative and technical operations as well as protocol issues. The central department has around 100 employees who work in five departments :
- Section Z 1 ( personnel , organization , budget )
- Section Z 2 (Internal Services, Event Management, Construction and Technology, Security )
- Section Z 3 ( information and communication technology , confidentiality )
- Section Z 4 ( minutes )
- Section Z 5 ( Constitution and law, legal department , data protection )
Department 1 - Domestic
Department 1 - Domestic is responsible for domestic politics . It is divided into eight sections, each with up to six employees:
- Unit 08 (strategy and planning)
- Unit 09 (basic questions of communication and digitization)
- Unit 10 (Domestic Policy, Integration and Migration , Federalism , Parties, Media)
- Section 11 (Citizens' Office, Submissions and Petitions , Artist Aid, Congratulations and Condolences )
- Unit 12 (Economy, Finance, Labor and Social Affairs, Environment and Transport)
- Unit 13 (Education, Science, Family)
- Section 14 ( Ordenskanzlei )
- Unit 15 ( Social Policy , Churches and Religious Communities, Art and Culture, Engagement Policy )
Department 2 - Abroad
Department 2 - Abroad is responsible for foreign policy issues and works closely with the Federal Foreign Office . It is divided into three sections with 13 employees:
- Unit 20 (Fundamental issues of foreign policy, relations with America and the Near and Middle East as well as North Africa and with international and multilateral organizations and non-governmental organizations )
- Unit 21 (Relations with the countries of Europe and the Caucasus ; European policy)
- Unit 22 (Relations with Asia (excluding the Near and Middle East), Australia , Sub-Saharan Africa , Development Policy Issues )
Liaison officer
The Bundeswehr assigns a staff officer with the rank of colonel or sea captain as "liaison officer of the Federal Minister of Defense with the Federal President". He instructs them on defense and arms control issues and informs them about military matters of outstanding current or fundamental importance. In addition to maintaining contacts with leading personalities and agencies of the armed forces and security policy institutes, he is responsible for preparing the Federal President's visits to the Bundeswehr. He also answers inquiries and letters on his subject area and accompanies the Federal President on state visits abroad, performing protocol tasks. The current liaison officer is Colonel i. G. Joachim Hoppe.
other areas
The head of the office of the Federal President is also assigned the spokeswoman for the Federal President and the planning staff for speeches and texts. The Federal President himself has a personal office.
The secretariats of the former Federal Presidents Horst Köhler , Christian Wulff and Joachim Gauck , who are still alive , are also part of the Office of the Federal President.
Employee
| Surname | Life dates | Term of office |
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| Manfred Klaiber | 1903-1981 | 1949-1957 |
| Karl Theodor Bleek | 1898-1969 | 1957-1961 |
| Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld | 1904-1999 | 1961-1965 |
| Hans Berger | 1909-1985 | 1965-1969 |
| Dietrich Spangenberg | 1922-1990 | 1969-1974 |
| Paul Frank | 1918-2011 | 1974-1979 |
| Hans Neusel | 1927-2013 | 1979-1984 |
| Klaus Blech | * 1928 | 1984-1989 |
| Andreas Meyer-Landrut | * 1929 | 1989-1994 |
| Wilhelm Staudacher | * 1945 | 1994-1999 |
| Rudiger Frohn | * 1950 | 1999-2004 |
| Michael Jansen | * 1941 | 2004-2006 |
| Gert Haller | 1944-2010 | 2006-2009 |
| Hans-Jürgen Wolff | * 1958 | 2009-2010 |
| Lothar Hagebölling | * 1952 | 2010–2012 |
| David Gill | * 1966 | 2012-2017 |
| Stephan Steinlein | * 1961 | since 2017 |
Around 180 people are employed in the Office of the Federal President.
Since 1953 the head of the office of the Federal President has been a permanent state secretary . He is the highest-ranking civil servant state secretary of the federal government and takes part as an observer in the meetings of the federal government and the Federal Security Council in order to inform the federal president about the activities of the executive branch . Since he is a political official, he can be taken into temporary retirement without giving any reason ; This can be the case when there is a change of office. Christian Wulff's head of office , Lothar Hagebölling , was replaced by David Gill after Wulff left office.
The deputy of the head of office is the head of the department for central affairs. Since January 1st, 2014 this is Angelika Schlunck.
See also
- Presidential Chancellery , the corresponding institution of the Federal President in Austria
literature
- Hermann Butzer: The Federal President and his presidential office. In: Administrative Archives. Vol. 82. No. 4, 1991, ISSN 0042-4501 , pp. 497-524.
- Jens Hannig: Structure and functioning of the office of the Federal President. Marburg 2005 (Marburg, University, Master's thesis, 2005).
- Franz Spath: The Office of the Federal President (= offices and organizations of the Federal Republic of Germany. Vol. 20). 5th, revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-7065-8 .
- Office of the Federal President (Ed.): The Office of the Federal President. Federal President's Office, Berlin no year (brochure, V. in the context of P. Walter Karschies).
Web links
- Official website of the Office of the Federal President
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office of the Federal President. Retrieved June 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Law on the establishment of the federal budget for the 2016 budget year (Budget Law 2016). (PDF; 36.1 MB) In: bundeshaushalt-info.de. Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), December 21, 2015, p. 16 , accessed on August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Vol. 3, Catalog (2), pp. 94–96, 261–264 (also dissertation University Bonn, 1994).
- ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Vol. 3, Catalog (2), pp. 94–96, 261–264 (also dissertation University Bonn, 1994).
- ^ The administration building - From Bonn to Berlin. Accessed July 29, 2011.
- ↑ Organization chart of the Office of the Federal President, as of April 2017
- ↑ Office of the Federal President, Central Affairs Department
- ↑ Office of the Federal President, International Department
- ^ Liaison officer of the Bundeswehr. In: bundespraesident.de. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
- ^ Protest against Steinmeier's office management - staff council resigns. In: Spiegel Online , June 15, 2017
- ^ Riots in Bellevue - Staff council resigns out of anger at Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In: Berliner Zeitung , June 14, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 59 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 4 ″ E