Ministry of Science, Education and Culture

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Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
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Ministry of Science, Education and Culture
State level country
position supreme state authority
founding 1946
Headquarters Mainz
Authority management Konrad Wolf (SPD), Minister
Budget volume 5.09 billion euros (2016)
Web presence mwwk.rlp.de
Glockenbaum, popularly called official alarm clock - sculpture by Gernot Rumpf from 1974/1975 in front of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture

The Ministry of Science, Further Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate is a supreme state authority and, in addition to the State Chancellery, one of the nine ministries of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the ministry is in a four-wing administration building from the 1970s in the Bleichenviertel in the state capital Mainz .

Authority management

Konrad Wolf (SPD) has been Minister for Science, Further Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate since May 18, 2016 . State Secretary is Denis Alt (SPD).

history

At times the ministry had different layouts. When the SPD took over government in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1991, responsibility for "education and culture" as well as "science and further education" was shared for 20 years. Between November 21, 2006 and 2011, the Ministry was named Ministry for Education, Science, Youth and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate .

When the government was formed after the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 , the area of ​​education was spun off into an independent ministry and new priorities were set for the ministry for science, further education and culture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer was launched in 1992 by the State Ministry of Culture to make the diverse cultural offerings better known in all regions of the state. At the same time, it was hoped that cultural workers in the country would network more closely. The Ministry is the supervisory authority of the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate with its six directorates. Likewise for the orchestras Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz , German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate in Ludwigshafen and State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz. The State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate was created on September 1, 2004 through the merger of previously independent state institutions.

It is the technical and service supervision of the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate and the State Theater Mainz . The Villa Musica Foundation was established in 1986. The founders were the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate and the then Südwestfunk. The Minister is on the board of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture with the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems and the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben .

minister

Minister Konrad Wolf
Surname Term of office Political party
Ernst Lotz 1946-1947 CDU
Adolf Süsterhenn 1947-1951 CDU
Albert Finck 1951-1956 CDU
Eduard Orth 1956-1967 CDU
Bernhard Vogel 1967-1976 CDU
Hanna-Renate Laurien 1976-1981 CDU
Georg Gölter 1981-1991 CDU
Rose Gotte 1991-1994 SPD
Jürgen Zöllner 1994-2006 SPD
Doris ancestors 2006-2014 SPD
Vera tear 2014-2016 SPD
Konrad Wolf since 2016 SPD (independent until September 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate, budget for the budget year 2016. ( PDF ; 858  kB ) Budget Act, overall plan, overviews of the budget. In: fm.rlp.de. Ministry of Finance Rhineland-Palatinate (FM), p. 21 , accessed on July 24, 2016 .