Local government in Germany

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The local government in Germany in the broader sense describes the public administration of the German municipalities and districts .

The district administration of the district is in some German federal states as a district office referred. In a narrower sense, local governments are local governments , where a distinction is made between communities with and without city ​​law . The former are referred to as city ​​administration , the latter as communal administration.

The municipal administration is headed by a main administrative officer , who is usually the mayor or, in larger cities, the mayor. In this case, the official name of the authority is also “The (Lord) Mayor”. In Hesse, the official name of the authority is "Der Magistrat ".

In some cases, small municipalities have come together to form administrative cooperations.

Jurisdiction

Externally, the municipal administration is the sole point of contact for the citizen in all administrative matters, provided no other authorities are responsible. One therefore speaks of the so-called universal responsibility.

Workforce

The employees of the municipalities are divided into municipal civil servants , for whom the respective state civil servant law applies, and (collective bargaining) employees, for whom the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD) applies. The distinction between manual workers and employees was abolished in 2005.

For workplace representation of municipal employees provide staff councils , which according to the respective country Personalvertretungsgesetz be selected.

The unions responsible for municipal employees are the United Service Union (ver.di - department 7 there) and, within the German Association of Civil Servants, the Komba .

On the employer side, the municipalities are organized in municipal employers 'associations, which in turn form the association of municipal employers' associations .

Organizational structure

The structure and the legal framework of the municipal administration is regulated in the municipal ordinances in Germany or in the respective valid constitutions and laws for the municipal administration in Austria and Switzerland . The terms town hall , community center , community office , community and community administration are used in different regions in the German-speaking area for the seat of the community administration , in cities also town house.

The municipal administrations are usually organized in offices, led by an office manager. These offices oversee different subject areas and areas of responsibility. In large administrations, offices with similar tasks are grouped together in departments , headed by a department head (often as a deputy electoral officer), while smaller administrations report directly to the mayor (in independent cities, the mayor ). As part of the ongoing modernization of the administration, the offices are gradually being converted into departments (also called departments, institutes, staff units).

The communal community center for administrative management (KGSt) recommends dividing the community administration into six departments. Are directed the Departments of Aldermen . The various offices are assigned to these departments. Each office has an organization code, these are shown here in brackets. Not every office is present in every municipality.

  1. General administration:
    main office (10), personnel office (11), statistical office (12), press office (13), auditing office (14)
  2. Financial management:
    Combing (20) Stadtkasse (21), control office (22) Property Office (23), Office of Defense loads (24)
  3. Legal, security and regulatory administration:
    legal office (30), public order office (32), residents and registration office (33), registry office (34), insurance office (35), fire brigade (37), civil protection (38)
  4. School and cultural administration:
    School administration office (40), cultural office (41), library  (42), adult education center (43), music school (44), museum (45), theater (46), archive (47)
  5. Social, youth and health administration:
    Social Welfare Office (50), Youth Welfare Office (51), Sports Office (52), Health Office (53), Hospitals (54), Compensation Office (55)
  6. Building administration: Building
    administration office (60), town planning office (61), surveying and land registry office (62), building regulations office (63), housing subsidy office (64), building construction office (65), civil engineering office (66), green space office (67)
  7. Administration for public institutions:
    City cleaning office (70), slaughterhouse and cattle yard (71), market office (72)
  8. Administration for economy and transport:
    Office for economic and transport promotion (80), own operations (81), forestry office (82)

Structural differences in Germany

In the general understanding , the mayor and his city ​​government are usually also included in the administration, although the distribution of powers can be very different due to the wide variety of municipal constitutions . So is z. B. in Germany to distinguish between the

Articles about individual city administrations

See also

literature

  • Volker Mayer: Local self-government in the eastern German states . Dissertation University of Bayreuth, 2001, ISBN 3-931319-87-3 .

Web links

Wiktionary: City administration  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. § 2 NRW municipal code