First director

First director is in Germany a basic office designation of an office of an official in the category of higher service in the federal administration . The basic title of First Director may only be awarded with an addition. In the case of first directors, this addition basically refers to the authority at which he works ( BBesG Annex I, preliminary remarks No. 1, paragraph 2).

Service position

Civil servants who have been given an office with the basic title of First Director generally hold a prominent position in an authority, for example deputy authority head or head of the immediately following hierarchical level ( department head ).

history

Until the Act on the Modernization of Salary Structures (BesStMG) came into force on January 1, 2020, the offices of the first directors were listed individually in the Federal Salary Regulations B. Since then, First Director has been a basic post. The background to the change is that the evaluation of all management positions and thus the structure of the federal administration were mapped in the Federal Salary Code B. If the value of an office - due to restructuring, organizational or name changes of the authorities or reassessment of one or more offices within an authority - should be changed, two laws had to be changed: the Budget Act to create a permanent position and the BBesG to change the allocation of the Function to a grade or change of official title. The latter often extended the procedure for changing the official title and delayed it considerably. The new version of the Federal Salary Regulations B by the BesStMG and the new basic title of First Director contained therein shorten the process.

Salary

Offices with the basic title of First Director can be classified in salary order B in salary groups B 4 to B 6 or B 8 of the Federal Salary Act ( BBesG ). In terms of grade, the first director in grade B 6 corresponds, for example, to a brigadier general or flotilla admiral .

Offices

Civil servants with the basic title of director hold the following offices and add the following to the basic title:

Grade B 4

• First director at the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks
• First director of the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance
• First Director at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training ¹
• First Director at the Center for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr ²
• First director of a regional agency for statutory pension insurance ³
• First director in the Federal Criminal Police Office

¹as head of research and as permanent representative of the president

² as the permanent representative of the head of office

³ as managing director or chairman of the management board for more than 900,000 and a maximum of 2.3 million insured persons and ongoing pension cases

Grade B 5

• First director of the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance
• First director of a regional agency for statutory pension insurance ¹

¹ as managing director or chairman of the management board for more than 2.3 million and a maximum of 3.7 million insured persons and ongoing pension cases

Grade B 6

• First director at the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways
• First director at an office of the Bundeswehr, the head of which is classified in salary group B 9 ¹
  • First director at the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use by the Bundeswehr
  • First director at the Federal Office for Personnel Management in the Bundeswehr
  • First director at the Federal Office for Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services of the Bundeswehr
• First director at the Federal Intelligence Service ²
• First Director at the Aviation Office of the Bundeswehr ³
• First Director at the Planning Office of the Bundeswehr ³
• First director of a regional agency for statutory pension insurance ⁴

¹ as the head of a large and important department or as a managing official

² First directors at the Federal Intelligence Service are entitled to use the official title without the addition “at the Federal Intelligence Service”

³ as the permanent representative of the head of office

^4th as managing director or chairman of the board of management for more than 3.7 million insured persons and ongoing pension cases

Grade B 8

• First director of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See ¹

¹ as managing director or chairman of the management board

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Determination of additions to the basic office titles, compilation of the official titles and ranks applicable in the federal area. December 5, 2012, accessed March 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Draft law of the federal government - Draft of a law to modernize the structures of the salary law and to amend further regulations under employment law (Salary Structure Modernization Act - BesStMG). (PDF) In: 19th German Bundestag. September 23, 2019 (contains the official justification). 
3. ↑ Salary Regulations B in the current version until December 31, 2019