Ministry for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture Rhineland-Palatinate

Ministry of Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture Rhineland-Palatinate ; - MWVLW -
State level	country
position	supreme state authority
founding	December 3, 1946
Headquarters	Mainz
Authority management	Volker Wissing ( FDP ), Minister
Budget volume	175.25 million euros (2016)
Web presence	mwvlw.rlp.de

Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Stiftsstrasse in Mainz

The Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture ( MWVLW for short ) is a supreme state authority and, in addition to the State Chancellery, one of the nine ministries of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate . It has its seat in the state capital Mainz .

minister

Minister Volker Wissing (FDP)

State Secretary Daniela Schmitt

The ministers are usually referred to as economics ministers , sometimes as so-called super ministers , since the ministry's tasks are very diverse. Between 1994 and 2011, these ministers were the only ones in Germany who were officially allowed to bear the title of wine (construction) minister , since Rhineland-Palatinate, as the largest wine-growing country in Germany, gives wine a special place. The word viticulture was first included in the title of a ministry on December 14, 1949: Ministry of Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests . From the start of the red-green state government from 2011 to 2016, it was the Ministry of Economics, Climate Protection, Energy and State Planning . Since the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 , the authority has been called the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture .

No.	minister	Political party	Term of office from	to	designation	Remarks
1	Hanns Haberer	CDU	December 3, 1946	June 13, 1947
2	Oskar Stübinger	CDU	June 13, 1947	July 9, 1947	Minister for Food, Economy and Finance	Transitional Cabinet
	Hans Junglas	CDU	June 13, 1947	July 9, 1947	Minister for Welfare, Labor, Reconstruction and Transport	Transitional Cabinet
	Fritz Neumayer	LDP	July 9, 1947	July 9, 1947	Minister for Welfare, Labor, Reconstruction and Transport	Transitional Cabinet
3	Fritz Neumayer	FDP	1947	1948
4th	Peter Altmeier	CDU	April 9, 1948	May 18, 1967	at the same time Prime Minister
5	Hanns Neubauer	CDU	May 18, 1967	17th May 1971
6th	Heinrich Holkenbrink	CDU	18th May 1971	May 23, 1985
7th	Rudi Geil	CDU	1985	1987
8th	Rainer Brüderle	FDP	1987	1998	Minister for Economy and Transport , from 1994 Minister for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture
9	Hans-Artur Bauckhage	FDP	1998	May 17, 2006	Minister for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture
10	Hendrik Hering	SPD	May 18, 2006	May 18, 2011	Minister for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture
11	Eveline Lemke	Green	May 18, 2011	May 18, 2016	Minister for Economic Affairs, Climate Protection, Energy and State Planning
12	Volker Wissing	FDP	since May 18, 2016	current	Minister for Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture

State Secretaries

Andy Becht (since May 18, 2016)
Daniela Schmitt (since May 18, 2016)

Former State Secretaries :

Uwe Hüser (2012-2016)
Ernst-Christoph Stolper (2011–2012)
Alexander Schweitzer (2009-2011)
Siegfried Englert (2006-2011)
Carsten Kühl (2006–2009)
Ernst Eggers
Günter Eymael

organization structure

The organizational structure of the Ministry of Economic Affairs comprises seven departments and numerous subordinate units .

Department 1 - Central Department

Unit 8101: Parliamentary and Cabinet Affairs
Division 8102: Bundesrat, Bundestag
Section 8103: ICT technology, IT projects, internal services
Unit 8104: Human Resources, Organization
Unit 8105: Budget, Financial Planning, Court of Auditors, ERDF Paying Agency
Section 8106: Central Registration Office
Unit 8107: Legal Services
EU audit authority

Department 2 - Economic System, Vocational Education

Division 8201: Vocational training, equal opportunities, skilled workers
Section 8202: Savings Banks, Banks, Insurance Companies, Auditor Matters
Section 8203: Energy supervision, law on energy regulation, public procurement
Section 8204: State Cartel Authority, Competition
Section 8205: Crafts, Chamber Supervision, Trade Law
Section 8206: Sustainability
Regulatory Chamber of Rhineland-Palatinate
Award chambers of Rhineland-Palatinate

Department 3 - Economic Policy, Economic Development

Section 8301: Basic questions of economic policy, finance and tax policy, statistics
Unit 8302: Corporate Finance
Unit 8303: Industry
Unit 8304: European Structural Policy (ERDF, INTERREG A)
Unit 8305: European Policy, State Aid Law
Section 8306: Regional Structural Policy, Conversion
Section 8307: Tourism

Department 4 - Innovation

Section 8401: Fundamental questions of innovation and cluster policy, innovation promotion
Unit 8402: Telecommunications, Healthcare, Innovation Centers
Section 8403: Creative Industries, Trade, Digital Economy, Location Marketing
Section 8404: Raw materials management, geology, calibration; Metal-Ceramic-Plastic Innovation Cluster (IMKK)
Section 8405: Medium-sized companies, services, liberal professions, business start-ups
Section 8406: Foreign Trade
Division 8407: Technology and Structural Funding (ERDF)

Department 5 - Viticulture and Animal Husbandry

Section 8501: Wine Policy, Oenology, Wine Law
Section 8502: Viticulture, Arable and Plant Cultivation, Grassland, Plant Protection
Section 8503: Wine market, wine and agricultural marketing, agricultural research, state wineries
Unit 8504: Wine Monitoring
Section 8505: Horticulture, Garden Shows
Section 8506: Service Centers in Rural Areas, Vocational Training and Consulting in Agriculture and Housekeeping
Section 8507: Animal Breeding, Animal Husbandry, Animal Nutrition, Cross Compliance

Department 6 - Agriculture and Rural Development

Unit 8601: Fundamental questions of agricultural policy, fundamental questions of agricultural market policy
Unit 8602: EAGF / EAFRD paying agency (management and technology, internal audit service)
Section 8603: Area and farm payments, FUL / PauLa, AGZ, InVeKoS
Section 8604: Rural Development, Land Management and Land Consolidation Management
Section 8605: Investment Promotion, Promotion of Marketing and Rural Development Measures
Section 8606: Paying Office
Unit 8607: European structural policy for rural areas, coordination unit of the EAFRD managing authority, LEADER and initiatives for rural areas

Department 7 - Transport and Road Construction

Section 8701: Federal Council and EU coordination in transport matters, logistics
Section 8702: Road planning, environmental protection in road construction, cycle paths
Section 8703: Road Construction, Transport Financing
Section 8704: Municipal Transport Systems
Unit 8705: Rail Noise Protection Officer, Railway Supervision
Section 8706: Rail Passenger Transport and Public Transport
Unit 8707: Fundamental Mobility, Inland Shipping and Civil Air Transport
Section 8708: Road traffic regulations, vehicle registration, driving license law, traffic safety, road operation
Section 8709: Traffic Analysis and Research, Traffic System Management
Section 8710: Traffic, road construction, building contract law, real estate

Headquarters and building

Ministry of Economy

Viticulture Ministry on the corner of Kaiserstraße / Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße

The headquarters of the ministry is in Stiftsstrasse in Mainz, near Kaiserstrasse ( B 40 ) and Christ Church .

The ministry building consists of a total of four components that are connected to one another in a U-shape. The oldest of these was built between 1892 and 1893 for the Reichsbank branch in Mainz based on a design by the Berlin architect Max Hasak under the direction of the Berlin engineering firm Havestadt & Contag . The main facade made of sandstone is oriented towards the square-like extension of Kaiserstraße towards the Christ Church. A strong joint cut emphasizes the elevated ground floor. Pilasters in colossal order to connect the two upper floors. The crowning balustrade was originally raised by a flagpole. The representative architectural design takes up the style of Italian Renaissance palaces and thus alludes to the traditional banking and trading houses of Northern Italy. The house used today by the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate illustrates how demanding the development was planned at the eastern end of the former splendid boulevard of the Wilhelminian era.

There is also another building from the 1950s and two more recent new buildings.

Awards

The Ministry of Economic Affairs has been awarding the Rhineland-Palatinate innovation prize since 1988 .

literature

Chronicle of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (Politics from 1945 - Part 1), published by the State Center for Political Education in cooperation with Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and with the kind support of the Koblenz State Main Archives, December 2001