Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - MBEI NRW -
State level	North Rhine-Westphalia
position	Organizational section of the State Chancellery
Headquarters	State Chancellery : Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia State Representation: Federal Government : Berlin European Union : Brussels ( Belgium )
Authority management	Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner , Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Web presence	https://mbem.nrw/

Minister Holthoff-Porter, 2019

The Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (abbreviation: MBEI NRW ) is a Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Since June 30, 2017, Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner has been Head of Office and responsible Minister for Federal and European Affairs as well as International Affairs in the Prime Minister's division in the Laschet cabinet . Until August 31, 2017, he was also responsible for media matters. The minister gave up this task due to allegations of bias as a co-owner and lobbyist of a media company.

The original independence of the North Rhine-Westphalian “Federal Council”, from which the MBEI NRW emerged, was revoked in 1998. The MBEI NRW belongs to the Prime Minister’s division and is therefore organizationally integrated into the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Responsibility and Organization

The minister is responsible for the representation and representation of the state at the federal level and at the European Union as well as for European and international affairs. From 2002 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2017 he was also responsible for media affairs. Following ongoing criticism of the current Minister Holthoff-Pförtner's private involvement in the Funke media group operating in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as previous lobbying work as President of the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ), in August 2017 this competence moved into the direct field of work of the Prime Minister and thus also into the competence of the head of the State Chancellery .

The MBEI is supported by its own State Secretary. The State Secretary of the MBEI NRW can also be the representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level . This position has been held by Mark Speich since autumn 2017 .

Since the Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs is organizationally integrated into the State Chancellery, he does not run his own ministry, but only three work units assigned to him in the State Chancellery: the "Europe and International Affairs" department and the two state representations in Berlin and Brussels.

Until the formation of the Clement I cabinet , federal affairs were held in a separate ministry, which was led by the Prime Minister in 1954, 1958–1959, 1980 and 1990–1995 in personal union. After Article 23 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany enshrined in the wake of German unification the states' rights to participate in European policy, the Minister for Federal Affairs was extended to include European policy in 1995.

Up to and including Günther Einert , all ministers for federal affairs were also agents of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level. Thereafter - from 1990 ( Cabinet Rau IV ) to 1998 ( Cabinet Rau V ) - the office of the plenipotentiary was carried out by the permanent state secretary Heide Dörrhöfer-Tucholski , who held this function for two years under Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement as the office of Minister for Federal and European affairs remained vacant.

As head of government in North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement made media policy a "top priority"; Since then, this topic has been the responsibility of the State Chancellery, which - like the state and senate chancelleries of the other countries - was responsible for traditional broadcasting policy. So it happened that in the Steinbrück cabinet, Wolfram Kuschke, a North Rhine-Westphalian minister for federal and European affairs, was also responsible for the media for the first time.

Minister since 1948

No.	Surname	Life dates	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
State Minister as authorized representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the State Council for the United Economic Area of ​​the British and American Zone
1	Carl Spiecker	1888-1953	Center (until 1949) CDU (from 1949)	April 5, 1948	May 23, 1949
State Minister as representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level and member of the Federal Council
1	Carl Spiecker	1888-1953	CDU	May 23, 1949	August 1, 1950
Minister responsible for representing the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level
1	Carl Spiecker	1888-1953	CDU	August 1, 1950	May 19, 1953
Minister for Federal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
1	Carl Spiecker	1888-1953	CDU	May 19, 1953	November 16, 1953
2	Karl Arnold	1901-1958	CDU	January 15, 1954	July 27, 1954
3	Artur Strater	1902-1977	CDU	July 27, 1954	February 28, 1956
4th	Karl Siemsen	1887-1968	SPD	February 28, 1956	July 24, 1958
5	Franz Meyers	1908-2002	CDU	July 24, 1958	October 12, 1959
6th	Johann Ernst	1888-1969	CDU	October 12, 1959	August 9, 1960
7th	Artur Strater	1902-1977	CDU	August 9, 1960	July 26, 1962
8th	Gerd Ludwig Lemmer	1925-2016	CDU	July 26, 1962	December 8, 1966
9	Fritz Kassmann	1908-1991	SPD	December 8, 1966	1st November 1968
10	Diether Posser	1922-2010	SPD	1st November 1968	September 12, 1972
11	Friedrich Halstenberg	1920-2010	SPD	September 12, 1972	4th June 1975
12	Inge Donnepp	1918-2002	SPD	4th June 1975	February 9, 1978
13	Christoph Zöpel	* 1943	SPD	February 9, 1978	4th June 1980
14th	Johannes Rau	1931-2006	SPD	4th June 1980	August 18, 1980
15th	Dieter Haak	1938-2012	SPD	August 18, 1980	December 14, 1983
16	Günther Einert	1930-2015	SPD	December 14, 1983	June 12, 1990
17th	Johannes Rau	1931-2006	SPD	June 12, 1990	July 17, 1995
Minister for Federal and European Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
18th	Manfred Dammeyer	* 1939	SPD	July 17, 1995	June 9, 1998
19th	Detlev Samland	1953-2009	SPD	June 27, 2000	April 24, 2001
20th	Hannelore Kraft	* 1961	SPD	April 24, 2001	November 12, 2002
Minister in the portfolio of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
21st	Wolfram Kuschke	* 1950	SPD	November 12, 2002	October 15, 2004
Minister for Federal, European Affairs and Media for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
21st	Wolfram Kuschke	* 1950	SPD	October 15, 2004	June 24, 2005
Minister for Federal and European Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
22nd	Michael Breuer	* 1965	CDU	June 24, 2005	October 24, 2007
23	Andreas Krautscheid	* 1961	CDU	October 24, 2007	January 29, 2008
Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
23	Andreas Krautscheid	* 1961	CDU	January 29, 2008	July 15, 2010
24	Angelica Schwall-Düren	* 1948	SPD	July 15, 2010	October 1, 2015
25th	Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense	* 1952	SPD	October 1, 2015	June 30, 2017
Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
26th	Stephan Holthoff porter	* 1948	CDU	June 30, 2017	August 31, 2017
Minister for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
26th	Stephan Holthoff porter	* 1948	CDU	August 31, 2017	officiating

literature

Kurt Düwell: North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister for Federal Affairs. Your work between the state cabinet, Federal Council and European level. In: Jürgen Brautmeier and Ulrich Heinemann (eds.): Myths - Possibilities - Realities. 60 years of North Rhine-Westphalia. Essen 2007, pp. 131–153.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephan Holthoff gatekeeper no longer media minister. In: Tagesspiegel. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
2. ^ North Rhine-Westphalia: Correction in the cabinet. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Prime Minister Armin Laschet reorganizes responsibility for media. In: State government of North Rhine-Westphalia. August 31, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 . 
4. ^ Stephan Holthoff gatekeeper no longer media minister. In: Tagesspiegel. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
5. ^ North Rhine-Westphalia: Correction in the cabinet. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Prime Minister Armin Laschet reorganizes responsibility for media. In: State government of North Rhine-Westphalia. August 31, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 . 
7. ↑ See organizational chart of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia , status October 18, 2010.
8. ↑ Prime Minister Armin Laschet reorganizes responsibility for media. In: State government of North Rhine-Westphalia. August 31, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .