Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education

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Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education

State level State of Lower Saxony
Headquarters Hanover
Authority management Ulrika Engler
Servants 12
Web presence democracy.niedersachsen.de
The director Ulrika Engler

The Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education (NLpB) is a Lower Saxony educational institution based in Hanover . It was founded in 1955 and existed until 2004 when it was dissolved by the then Lower Saxony state government .

After the Lower Saxony state parliament unanimously decided to re-establish a Lower Saxony state center for political education in 2016, it reopened in Hanover at the beginning of 2017. It is headed by Ulrika Engler .

history

The Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education was founded in 1955 under the name Lower Saxony State Center for Homeland Service . It was renamed the State Center for Political Education in 1959.

In 1966, public interest aroused the news that Otto Freiherr von Fircks, a former SS member and then member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, was able to visit Israel and the Yad Vashem memorial through funds from the NLpB , without the state center for political education from his Past informed.

resolution

On December 31, 2004, the state headquarters of the Lower Saxony state government under the leadership of Prime Minister Christian Wulff and Uwe Schünemann (Interior) was dissolved ostensibly for cost reasons. This led to considerable protests, including by the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Educational tasks were then also transferred to the Lower Saxony constitution protection , which led to criticism and protests.

After the dissolution in 2004, the work of the Lower Saxony state center for political education was taken over by various organizations:

In 2008, in the 16th legislative period of the German Bundestag , the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen demanded in its motion (Bundestag printed paper 16/11201) that the federal government should act on the Lower Saxony state government so that a state center for political education is re-established in Lower Saxony .

Start-up

Reopening of the regional headquarters by Prime Minister Stephan Weil , the then Minister of Science Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić and Ulrika Engler as director, 2017

In April 2016, the Lower Saxony state parliament unanimously decided to re-establish a Lower Saxony state center for political education. It was established as an institution under public law in the business area of ​​the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture and opened on January 25, 2017. The seat is in the center of Hanover at Georgsplatz. After a unanimous vote by the board of trustees of the state headquarters, consisting of nine members from all parliamentary groups in the Lower Saxony state parliament, Ulrika Engler was appointed director. Before that, she headed the political educational institution aktuelles forum (af) in Gelsenkirchen since 2007 . The regional headquarters now has twelve employees and has an annual budget of 870,000 euros. In 2019, the funds of the state headquarters for the area of ​​media competence were temporarily increased by 280,000 euros.

Alignment

The Lower Saxony State Center for Civic Education was re-established in 2017 as a “new” type of state center, which coordinates both existing offers and develops new ways for information and participation. The main focus is on the topics of democracy, participation, digitization and diversity. It networks and supports state and independent organizations that took over political education work after the state headquarters was dissolved in 2004, such as memorials, trade unions, churches, schools, foundations and adult education centers.

The focus of the work is on digital offers and young people. To this end, the regional headquarters are increasingly appearing on social networks such as Facebook and distributing films on YouTube . It also offers apps that allow access to political information. This includes the Spot on app - democracy on the trail as a digital search for clues about democracy in Lower Saxony. The "KonterBunt" app offers assistance in dealing with regulars' slogans and group-related misanthropy . It was developed together with the State Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt .

Board of Trustees

Headquarters of the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education in Hanover since 2017

In order to ensure the political balance of the work of the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, a board of trustees made up of seventeen members of the Lower Saxony state parliament was set up until 2004 .

After the re-establishment of the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, the Board of Trustees consists of nine people from all parliamentary groups in the Lower Saxony State Parliament. In 2016, Marco Brunotte was elected chairman. The members of the board of trustees are newly appointed by the state parliament in each legislative period . Currently (2018) the following members of the state parliament belong to the board of trustees:

literature

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture from November 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel (Ed.): Certain rest . Affairs. Issue 26, June 20, 1966, pp. 34 ff . ( HTML [accessed November 3, 2010]).
  3. ^ Closure of the state center for political education in Lower Saxony. (Press release) In: bpb.de. Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 27, 2004, accessed on June 11, 2016 : "The participants expressed their incomprehension that the state government is breaking an element out of the tried and tested system of state political education in Germany by closing the regional headquarters."
  4. ↑ Democracy needs the state centers for political education. (Resolution) Democracy needs political education, political education work needs strong partners - needs the state centers for political education. In: dvpb.de. German Association for Political Education, accessed on June 11, 2016 : "German Association for Political Education (DVPB) protests against the threatened closure of the State Center for Political Education Lower Saxony"
  5. ↑ Political education The protection of the constitution makes school , by Michael Quasthoff, TAZ September 1, 2009
  6. ^ Educational work at Lower Saxony's constitutional protection meeting of the Lower Saxony state parliament on January 21, 2011; Question Time 44 January 21, 2011
  7. ↑ http://www.weiterhaben.de/sites/default/files/downloads/Verfassungsschutz_Wiedemann.pdf
  8. ↑ a b c NLpB . ( HTML [accessed November 3, 2010]).
  9. ↑ Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen : Further develop political education to strengthen democracy and fight right-wing extremism . Ed .: German Bundestag . December 3, 2008, p. 4 ( dip21.bundestag.de [PDF; 74 kB ; accessed on November 4, 2010]).
  10. ↑ Political education has another address. State Center for Political Education returns. In: NDR 1 Lower Saxony. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, April 14, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2016 : "On Thursday, the Lower Saxony state parliament decided, with the votes of the CDU and FDP, to reintroduce the state headquarters."
  11. ^ Dpa: Landtag: new state center for political education. In: www.abendblatt.de. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Red-Green resolves: New state center for political education Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung 5th and 8th November 2015
  13. ^ Lower Saxony: new state center for political education Die Welt June 22, 2016
  14. ↑ With e-scavenger hunt on the democracy path at ndr.de from January 25, 2017
  15. ↑ https://demokratie.niedersachsen.de/startseite/uber_die_landeszentrale/team/team-152267.html from April 6, 2020
  16. ↑ New state center for political education
  17. ^ Politze and Lesemann: Investments in social democratic education policy - general education schools, BBSs and adult education benefit. In: SPD parliamentary group Lower Saxony. Accessed April 7, 2020 (German).
  18. ^ The Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education | Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  19. ↑ New regional headquarters is launched in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 29, 2016
  20. ↑ State headquarters as an advertising agency for democracy at ndr.de from November 29, 2016
  21. ↑ Head of the State Center for Political Education at ndr.de from November 1, 2016
  22. ^ "Spot on" - on the trail of democracy. Accessed April 7, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ The new KonterBUNT app helps to counter regular slogans | Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education (ed.): Annual Report 2003 . S. 37 ( online [PDF; accessed November 3, 2010]). Annual report 2003 ( Memento of the original of July 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nlpb.de
  25. ↑ Marco Brunotte heads the board of trustees in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 16, 2016
  26. ↑ New Board of Trustees for the State Center for Political Education starts work , press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture dated May 30, 2018