The Autobahn GmbH of the federal government

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The Autobahn GmbH of the federal government
legal form GmbH
founding 13th September 2018
Seat Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Stephan Krenz,
Chief Executive
Officer Gunther Adler ,
Chief Human Resources
Officer Anne Rethmann,
Chief Financial Officer
Branch Infrastructure
Website https://www.autobahn.de/
As of March 7, 2019

Inauguration of the Verkehrszentrale Deutschland (v. l. n. r.): Stephan Krenz, Andreas Scheuer , Volker Bouffier and Tarek Al-Wazir (2019)

The Autobahn GmbH des Bundes (formerly the infrastructure company for motorways and other federal highways , IGA for short) is a federally owned GmbH that was founded on September 13, 2018. From January 1, 2021, it will take over the planning, construction, operation, maintenance, financing and asset management of the motorways in Germany . The aim is to plan faster, finance directly and invest more through cost-saving efficiency gains. The company is based in Berlin .

history

The establishment of the Autobahn GmbH des Bundes is part of a comprehensive reform of the federal trunk road administration. The reform was passed on June 1, 2017 by the German Bundestag as part of the reorganization of financial relations between the federal government and the federal states .

Until 2021, the 16 federal states are responsible for planning, building and maintaining the federal highways on behalf of the federal government. The order administrations of the federal states are financed by the federal government, up to now through the Verkehrsinfrastructurefinanzierungsgesellschaft mbH (VIFG). This responsibility changes with the new regulation of the federal and state finances. From January 1, 2021, the motorways and other federal trunk roads will be financed, built, operated, maintained and managed from a single source by the federal government. In order to carry out these tasks, it was decided to found an infrastructure company for motorways and other federal highways, the Federal Motorway GmbH. By bundling the tasks centrally, the federal government would like to realize several advantages, including faster planning, nationwide uniform quality standards and efficiency gains through synergy effects .

Structure and organization

Autobahn GmbH will employ around 15,000 people, making it one of the largest federal companies. It is wholly owned by the federal government and cannot be sold. An indirect or direct participation of third parties in the company as well as the privatization of the motorways are legally excluded.

In addition to the headquarters, ten branches will be created by 2021. These are supplemented by 41 regional branch offices and probably at least 185 operations service locations, 42 telecommunications master offices and traffic and tunnel control centers. The ten branches will be:

The GmbH is to finance itself through the revenue from the truck toll and from the infrastructure fee for car owners, which it is to receive earmarked from the federal budget. If necessary, Die Autobahn GmbH will receive further funds from the federal budget . In contrast to other state-owned companies, it should not be possible at all for the GmbH to take out loans. On the other hand, private investors can continue to participate financially in individual route sections or major construction projects for special projects , which has already happened in isolated cases. This private financing within the framework of so-called public-private partnerships ( PPP for short ) is therefore the only option for so-called external financing for society. However, this is to be limited to road lengths of a maximum of 100 kilometers per PPP, which should prevent a creeping infiltration of the sole ownership of the federal government on the entire motorway network.

The staff from the state administrations who were previously responsible for the motorways are to be transferred to the federal administration. Personnel from the state administrations who are not ready to change should work for the company with the help of secondments and staff , but the employer or employer should remain in the respective country. The federal government should assume the resulting costs.

In 2020, DEGES will be merged into the Autobahn GmbH of the federal government and continue the projects assigned to it as the major projects division.

tasks and responsibilities

The federal autobahn GmbH will in future be responsible for all tasks related to the administration of the federal highways and other federal highways. This includes:

  • the planning of structural measures and measures to maintain motorways and other federal trunk roads
  • the construction and renewal of motorways and other federal highways
  • the year-round operation of the roads, which includes , for example, the guarantee of winter service and the green cuttings
  • the forward-looking maintenance of the motorway infrastructure and ensuring a good condition
  • the administration of the motorway assets on behalf of the federal government
  • the financing of federal highways and investments in the expansion and further development of the infrastructure

The Federal Highway Authority with headquarters in Leipzig and branch offices in Hanover, Bonn and Giessen will be responsible for sovereign tasks ( plan approval, etc.) .

Management and Supervisory Board

Stephan Krenz has been Chairman of the Management Board since March 1, 2019. Before that, he managed the business of Abellio Deutschland GmbH . Anne Rethmann is the managing director of finance. Before that, she was managing director of Cerner Health Services Deutschland GmbH. The head of personnel is Gunther Adler , previously State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (BMI).

Up to this point in time Torsten Böger and Martin Friewald were interim managing directors.

The supervisory board of the Autobahn GmbH des Bundes consists of representatives of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), members of the Bundestag committees for transport and budget as well as representatives of the United Service Union (Ver.di) and the DBB Beamtenbund and Tarifunion . The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is the BMVI State Secretary Michael Güntner .

criticism

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 26, 2020, the Federal Audit Office criticized the planned reform of the federal motorway administration. The planned merger of DEGES is “fraught with considerable constitutional risks”. With the merger, the federal government would take on the tasks of managing orders from the federal states. This would contradict the administration of federal highways by the federal states as stipulated in the Basic Law, Article 90, Paragraph 3. The Federal Audit Office also sees violations of simple law and public procurement law.

See also

Web links

Commons : Die Autobahn GmbH des Bundes  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento from October 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Infrastructure company for motorways and other federal trunk roads on the BMVI website , accessed on October 6, 2018.
  2. ^ BMVI - Reform of the federal trunk road administration. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c BMVI - The federal highway GmbH. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018 ; accessed on March 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ [1] www.nord.autobahn.de, accessed on January 7, 2020
  5. ↑ Organizational charts of the North branch www.nord.autobahn.de, accessed on January 7, 2020
  6. ↑ a b Federal government responsible for motorways. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Monika Pilath: Autobahn Company : Potholes become a federal matter . In: Zeit Online. June 1, 2017, accessed June 2, 2017 .
  8. ↑ The Autobahn - About Us. The Autobahn GmbH des Bundes, November 29, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Markus Balser: The next crash by Andreas Scheuer. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 26, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .

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