Parliamentary executive director
| fraction | First managing director | Other managing directors |
|---|---|---|
|
Michael Grosse-Brömer |
Stefan Müller ( CSU regional group ) |
|
Carsten Schneider | |
|
Bernd Baumann | Roland Hartwig Götz Frömming Enrico Komning |
|
Marco Buschmann | |
|
Jan Korte |
Kersten Steinke |
|
Britta Haßelmann |
Every parliamentary faction in Germany's political system has one or more members as parliamentary directors . In contrast to the federal manager and the general secretary of a party, the sphere of activity of the parliamentary manager is parliament. At the federal level the German Bundestag , at the state level the respective Landtag .
The parliamentary directors can be described as managers of everyday business in parliament.
tasks
The most important task of the parliamentary managing directors is to regulate the business for their parliamentary groups in relation to the Bundestag or Landtag and the other parliamentary groups. You submit the topics and take care of the parliamentary debates. Before important votes, they ensure that all MPs are present. They are the next employees of the respective group chairman . In addition, they are organizationally responsible for public relations and personnel management for their group.
Within their parliamentary groups and in discussions (PGF rounds) between the parliamentary managing directors, they prepare the meetings of the council of elders , in which the agendas for the following week of meetings are set. Among other things, the parliamentary managing directors also ensure that their parliamentary groups “stand” in the plenary during critical votes , which means that the members of parliament are encouraged to actually be in the right place at the right time.
In the German Bundestag, the respective first parliamentary managing directors of the parliamentary groups are members of the council of elders and prepare the agenda in the daily executive committee meetings.
compensation
In many state parliaments, the office of parliamentary director is paid by the respective parliamentary group with allowances to the usual diets. This has been sharply criticized by the media and others, for example by Ralf Seibicke (Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of the Federal and State Audit Offices and President of the State Audit Office of Saxony-Anhalt ), by Heinz Fischer-Heidlberger , President of the Bavarian Supreme Audit Office , and by constitutional lawyer Hans Herbert von Arnim . The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled in a judgment of July 2000 that only the additional compensation is available from group leaders with the principle of equality of the deputies in the constitution in line.
Parliamentary group manager
The head of a parliamentary group administration is referred to as the parliamentary group manager. In contrast to parliamentary managers, parliamentary group managers are not members, but employees of the parliamentary group. Sometimes other names are also used for the function: in the Bundestag factions of the Union and FDP, the position is referred to as "head of the parliamentary group office", in the Bundestag faction of the SPD as "administrative manager".
foreign countries
The French parliament has no such function. In the Anglo-Saxon-speaking area, they are called Party Whip (based on the whip in fox hunting) because they are responsible for the discipline in voting behavior.
See also
literature
- Klemens H. Schrenk, Markus Soldner (Ed.): Analysis of democratic systems of government . Festschrift for Wolfgang Ismayr on his 65th birthday. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16309-3 (636 pages).
Web links
- German Bundestag - studio production on the topic of May 9, 2007
- Cordula Eubel: The machinists of democracy. tagesspiegel.de, March 21, 2018, accessed on March 21, 2018 (report on the day-to-day work of the parliamentary managing directors of the 19th German Bundestag ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Election of the deputy group chairmen and the parliamentary managing directors. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Spiegel Online: Andrea Nahles elected parliamentary group leader, September 27, 2017, last accessed on September 27, 2017
- ↑ HAZ: Hamburg's AfD boss becomes parliamentary managing director, last accessed on September 28, 2017
- ^ FDP parliamentary group
- ↑ Members of the parliamentary group's executive committee
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Kersten Steinke. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Matthias W. Birkwald. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Niema Movassat. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Alexander Ulrich. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Kerstin Kassner. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag: Helin Evrim Sommer. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Fraction ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS. Retrieved July 20, 2020 . , on bundestag.de
- ↑ SWR.de September 20, 2010: Members of the state parliament collect millions of euros in hidden allowances
- ^ Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of July 21, 2000 (Az. 2 BvH 3/91): Functional allowance only permitted for parliamentary group chairmen. Archived from the original ; accessed on June 23, 2020 .
- ↑ #Schrenk 2010 , pages 323–328.