Chancellor's portfolio
The Chancellor's portfolio is a collection of newspaper reports compiled twice a day by the Federal Press Office and presented to the Chancellor for reading. Articles are editorially collated from several domestic and foreign magazines and newspapers. The Chancellor's folder is used to provide the Federal Chancellor with quick information about topics currently reported in the media and the course of the debates. Other members of the government also receive a copy of the portfolio.
The creation of the portfolio begins at 4:30 in the morning. Employees of the Federal Press Office begin with the analysis of newspapers and the selection of the relevant articles. The Chancellor folder has finished on the desk of the Federal Chancellor in to 7:00 am Federal Chancellery are. To make sure she is not stopped, she has the words Immediately on the table . Depending on the Chancellor's schedule, summaries are drawn up of the selected newspaper articles. The Chancellor's portfolio contains between 100 and 150 items. The Federal Chancellor, his press spokesman and other people from the government and ministries will be informed of further news during the current day via SMS through the BPA's news center . For this purpose, employees of the BPA work in shifts in the news center.
Every Chancellor had his own habits when using the Chancellor's portfolio. In addition to the cut articles, Helmut Schmidt wanted to leaf through the newspapers himself in order to draw conclusions about the relevance of the topics from the position of the articles in the newspapers. In the case of Helmut Kohl , contributions from the regional daily newspaper in his home region, Die Rheinpfalz from Ludwigshafen, were also taken into account. Angela Merkel reads the Chancellor's portfolio digitally on the iPad.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Office at a Glance - Tasks of the Federal Press Office, Internal Communication ( Memento of the original dated June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Kerstin Klamroth: The Ear of the Government ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , in Hamburger Abendblatt 69/1993, published March 23, 1993
- ↑ Federal Government: The Chancellor's Portfolio: Well informed every day. May 20, 2013, accessed August 2, 2018 .
