Broadcasting Council of the Central German Radio
The Broadcasting Council is the central decision-making, monitoring and control body of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). The basis for the Broadcasting Council is the " State Treaty on Central German Broadcasting" between the states of Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .
tasks
Among other things, the Broadcasting Council issues and changes the statutes of the MDR, decides on the program guidelines, appoints and dismisses the director and the members of the board of directors and decides on the institution's finances .
composition
The Broadcasting Council is composed in accordance with Section 19 (1) of the MDR State Treaty according to the corporate principle, i.e. H. In addition to representatives of the state and the political parties present in the state parliaments, it also includes representatives of organizations classified as "socially important" by the state. There is no democratic election of the members of the Broadcasting Council by the citizens.
The term of office of the Broadcasting Council is 6 years, with the chairman and his two deputies changing every two years between the three statute-treaty countries.
The 43 members of the MDR Broadcasting Council are currently (as of January 1, 2019):
former members
| Surname | Represented organization | Party affiliation * | state | Function in the MDR Broadcasting Council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine Bachert-Mertz from Quirnheim | German Association of Journalists Saxony | Saxony | ||
| Friedhelm Enke | Craft Association | Thuringia | ||
| Udo Gebhardt | DGB Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Wolfgang Ladebeck | Official Association of Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Helmut Liebermann | Official Association of Thuringia | Thuringia | ||
| Bernd Müller-Kaller | Association of Victims of Stalinism | Saxony | ||
| Edwin Werner | Saxony-Anhalt | |||
| Wilfried Krätzschmar | Saxon Music Council | Saxony | ||
| Gerhart Pasch | Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz e. V. | Saxony | ||
| Peter Zimmermann | State government of Thuringia | CDU | Thuringia | |
| Heinz-Joachim Aris | Saxony State Association of Jewish Communities | Saxony | ||
| Dorothee Bodewein | Caritas Association | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Torsten Cott | State Youth Association Thuringia e. V. | Thuringia | ||
| Joachim Dirschka | Craft Association | CDU | Saxony | |
| Norbert Eichler | Association of cities and municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Klemens Gutmann | Employers' and business associations Saxony-Anhalt e. V. | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Peter Heinzel | State association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and anti-fascists in Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Steffen Heitmann | CDU regional association of Saxony | CDU | Saxony | |
| Anne-Marie Keding | Ministry of Agriculture and Environment | CDU | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Guido Kosmehl | FDP regional association Saxony-Anhalt | FDP | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Falk Neubert | DIE LINKE State Association of Saxony | THE LEFT | Saxony | |
| Gerhard Pöschmann | Beamtenbund and Tarifunion Sachsen | Saxony | ||
| Markus Schlimbach | DGB Saxony | Saxony | ||
| Reinhard standing firm | State government of Thuringia | Thuringia | ||
| Arndt Steinbach | Saxon District Day | CDU | Saxony | |
| Maik Wagner | Official Association of Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| Heidemarie Werner | State Women's Council Saxony-Anhalt e. V. | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
| *) As far as known; Missing entry does not mean that the respective person does not belong to any party | ||||
Expense allowance
The expense allowances for the members of the two bodies, the MDR Broadcasting Council and the MDR Administrative Council, totaled around 470,000 euros in 2014.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mdr.de/presse/unternehmen/download1278-download.pdf
- ^ The members of the MDR Broadcasting Council. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , May 11, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ MDR Annual Report 2014 (PDF; 9.1 MB, page 79), accessed on January 25, 2016