Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs (German Bundestag)

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The Committee for Home Affairs and Home Affairs (short: Interior Committee) is a permanent committee of the German Bundestag . There is also an internal committee in the parliaments of the federal states, as well as in the European Parliament .

tasks

With its responsibilities, the Interior Committee particularly demonstrates the parallelism of government and parliamentary organization. Just as the Federal Ministry of the Interior takes care of all domestic policy and federal administration matters within the Federal Government that are not expressly assigned to another ministry, the Interior Committee within the Bundestag also takes care of all aspects of domestic policy and federal administration for which no other technical committee of parliament has the lead.

The range of responsibilities essentially comprises the following topics:

Often, however, the Internal Affairs Committee is also involved in matters that are mainly overseen by other committees. This applies e.g. B. especially on legislative proposals that are part of the legal committee . There is always overlap here - for example in the fight against crime and corruption. To this end, the Interior Committee gives its recommendations to the lead committee.

In its meetings, the Interior Committee is regularly informed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior about the meetings of the Justice and Interior Ministers of the European Union . In any case, the documents and briefings of the European bodies are taking up more and more space in the deliberations of the Interior Committee. The result of the discussions can be a request to the Federal Government to bring Parliament's position into the European decision-making process. The reports of the Federal Government, for example on federal statistics , on the activities of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information , on the handling of Stasi files , on the provision of civil servants, on the work of the constitutional protection and, last but not least, on the development of crime, are always the occasion for detailed discussions . The Interior Committee is particularly challenged when it comes to current events that affect internal security.

history

The Interior Committee was set up for the first time in the first electoral term of the German Bundestag as a committee for matters of internal administration . In 1957 it was renamed the Committee on Home Affairs and from 1965 to 2017 it was called the Interior Committee . In the 19th legislative period his name is Committee for Home Affairs and Home Affairs . It is noticeable that from 1953 to 2009 the chairman of the committee was always appointed by the SPD .

Members in the 18th legislative period

In the 18th Bundestag , the Interior Committee was composed of 37 members, 18 of them from the CDU / CSU, 11 from the SPD, 4 from the Left Party and 4 from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. The chairman was Ansgar Heveling (CDU), his deputy was Frank Tempel (Die Linke) The members without their deputies were:

Members in the 19th legislative period

In the 19th Bundestag , the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs has 46 members, 16 of them from the CDU / CSU, 10 from the SPD, 6 from the AfD, 5 from the FDP, 4 from the Left Party, 4 from Alliance 90 / The Greens and a non-attached MP. The chairman is Andrea Lindholz (CSU), her deputy is Jochen Haug (AfD) The members without their deputies are:

Committee Chair

Deputy Committee Chair

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 19, 2014 ; Retrieved December 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bundestag.de
  2. ^ German Bundestag. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .