Saxon State Ministry of the Interior

Saxon State Ministry of the Interior ; - SMI -
State level	country
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1990
Headquarters	Dresden
Authority management	Roland Wöller ( CDU ), Minister of State
Budget volume	1.90 billion euros (2016)
Web presence	www.smi.sachsen.de

Ministry building

The Saxon State Ministry of the Interior ( SMI ), as the Ministry of the Interior, is a supreme state authority of the Free State of Saxony with its seat in the state capital Dresden . It has existed since its re-establishment in autumn 1990. Roland Wöller ( CDU ) has held the office of State Minister since December 18, 2017 , and Thomas Rechentin has been the head of office since December 20, 2019 .

The building is located in Dresden's government district in the Inner New Town .

organization structure

The ministry is divided into six departments , which in turn are subdivided into numerous units :

Department 1: Central Affairs
Department 2: Law and Local Affairs
Department 3: Public Safety and Order, State Police Headquarters
Department 4: Regional Development, Surveying, Sports
Department 5: Urban Development, Construction and Housing
Department 6: IT and e-government in state administration

Subordinate business area

The following authorities are subordinate:

General State Authority:

State Directorate Saxony

Upper special state authorities:

University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Administration of Justice in Meißen , advanced training center of the Free State of Saxony
Saxon State Archives
State Statistical Office
State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
the five police departments
Presidium of the riot police
State Criminal Police Office
Police Administration Office
University of the Saxon Police (FH)
State fire brigade and disaster control school
State enterprise geobase information and surveying Saxony
State Office for Monument Preservation
State enterprise Saxon IT services

Responsibilities of the Ministry

The Saxon State Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the national territory and for the subdivision ( regional directorate , districts ) of Saxony. It organizes elections and votes. It is also responsible for the Saxon officials. It controls the general civil service law and human resources for the general administrative service including the training and further education of civil servants. It is responsible for the legal supervision of the state and municipal administration or municipal area reforms .

The ministry regulates open property issues . It drives general administrative reforms . Another area of responsibility lies in ensuring public safety and order , particularly through the police , fire services and disaster control . It is also responsible for the protection of the constitution .

The Ministry of the Interior's areas of activity are state liability and recourse law, construction, housing and settlement including building supervision, the coordination of housing benefits and housing privatization, monument protection and preservation, surveying , data protection , statistics and archiving .

The Ministry is (alongside the Saxon State Chancellery and the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Europe) a member of the standards examination committee. It also deals with matters relating to citizenship law and displaced persons as well as matters and law of foreigners.

Predecessor authorities

An Interior Ministry existed from 1831 until the dissolution of Saxony 1952. The ministers were of its predecessor:

1831–1843 Bernhard August von Lindenau
1843–1844 Eduard von Nostitz and Jänckendorf
1844–1848 Johann Paul von Falkenstein
1848 Ferdinand Zschinsky
1848–1849 Martin Gotthard Oberländer
1849 Albert Christian Weinlig
1849–1852 Richard von Friesen
1852–1866 Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
1866–1891 Hermann von Nostitz-Wallwitz
1891–1906 Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach

1906–1909 Wilhelm von Hohenthal
1909–1918 Christoph Johann Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt
1918 Walter Franz Koch
1918–1919 Richard Lipinski ( USPD )
1919 Georg Gradnauer ( SPD)
1919–1920 Otto Uhlig (SPD)
1920 Otto Kühn (SPD)
1920–1923 Richard Lipinski (SPD)
1923–1924 Hermann Liebmann (SPD)

1924–1927 Max Müller (SPD)
1927 Julius Dehne ( DDP )
1927–1929 Willibalt Apelt (DDP)
1929–1933 Friedrich Wilhelm Richter (-)
1933 Manfred von Killinger ( NSDAP )
1933–1945 Karl Fritsch (NSDAP)
1945–1948 Kurt Fischer ( KPD / SED )
1948–1949 Wilhelm Zaisser (SED)
1949–1952 Artur Hofmann (SED)

Web links

Commons : Saxon State Ministry of the Interior - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Budget 2015/2016. (PDF; 2.3 MB ) Master plan, budget law, master plans, overviews of budget plans. (No longer available online.) In: finanzen.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry of Finance (SMF), p. 19 , archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2016 .
↑ Mittweida receives over 5 million euros for his project. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
^ Organization chart of the State Ministry of the Interior. (PDF; 113 kB ) (No longer available online.) In: smi.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, January 1, 2016, archived from the original on February 24, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2016 .

[1] Budget 2015/2016. (PDF; 2.3 MB ) Master plan, budget law, master plans, overviews of budget plans. (No longer available online.) In: finanzen.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry of Finance (SMF), p. 19 , archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2016 .

[2] Mittweida receives over 5 million euros for his project. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .

[3] Organization chart of the State Ministry of the Interior. (PDF; 113 kB ) (No longer available online.) In: smi.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, January 1, 2016, archived from the original on February 24, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2016 .