State Representative for Regional Development (Lower Saxony)
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Office for regional development |
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| State level | country |
| position | State authority |
| founding | 1st of January 2014 |
| Web presence | State government website |
The offices for regional state development (ÄrL) , headed by four state representatives, have existed in Lower Saxony since 2014 instead of the previous government representatives:
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ArL Braunschweig for the region of Southeast Lower Saxony
State representative Ulrike Witt -
ArL Leine-Weser in Hildesheim for the Central Lower Saxony region, in this context referred to as the Leine-Weser area ,
State Commissioner Dinah Stollwerck-Bauer -
ArL Lüneburg for Northeast Lower Saxony
State representative Monika Scherf -
ArL Weser-Ems in Oldenburg for western Lower Saxony , also known as the Weser-Ems area ,
State Commissioner Franz-Josef Sickelmann
The limits of jurisdiction are based on the former boundaries of the administrative districts, as they existed from 1978 to 2004. As service institutions , the commissioners should primarily promote and support rural areas and their regions .
Area of responsibility of the regional representative in Braunschweig
Area of responsibility of the regional representative in Hildesheim
Area of responsibility of the regional representative in Lüneburg
Area of responsibility of the regional representative in Oldenburg
background
Even before it won the state elections in 2013 , the SPD announced that it would replace the government representatives established by the then state government in 2005 with regional representatives with expanded powers. These were responsible for the areas of the former administrative districts, which existed from 1978 to the end of 2004, and had their offices in Braunschweig, Hildesheim (for the former administrative district of Hanover), Lüneburg and Oldenburg (for the former administrative district of Weser-Ems). There was close contact with the government through a State Secretary in the State Chancellery.
criticism
Critics accused the state government of wanting to revive the previously saved administrative districts through this measure and thus to re-establish an expensive, superfluous and ineffective administrative structure. Functioning existing structures would be sacrificed without need. Another point was that critics expected the new facility to be far removed from the citizenry, as decision-making powers that previously lay with local authorities were now with the regional commissioners.
Previous government agencies
In contrast to the abolished district governments , the government agencies established in 2005 were not organizationally medium-sized authorities , but departments of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport . Their tasks were carried out by the State Chancellery and the relevant ministries under their own professional responsibility.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the state government ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Report on regional planning ( Memento of February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )