Süssmuth Commission
The Independent Commission on Immigration (UKZu for short; usually after the chairman of the Süssmuth Commission ) was convened on September 12, 2000 by Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD).
Objectives and consequences of the commission
For the first time, a committee of experts on behalf of the federal government dealt with immigration and integration .
"Germany is in fact a country of immigration, " said the commission at the time, and at the same time spoke out in favor of Germany requiring permanent and temporary immigration for the labor market almost 30 years after the recruitment ban.
After one year of discussion, the commission presented a report in July 2001 with extensive proposals for immigration legislation. Just a few weeks later, the Federal Ministry of the Interior presented the draft bill for an immigration law, which took up some of the proposals made by the Süssmuth Commission. On January 1, 2005, the Immigration Act finally came into force.
Members of the Süssmuth Commission
Members of the Süssmuth Commission were:
- Rita Süssmuth , Member of the Bundestag, President of the German Bundestag a. D., Chair
- Hans-Jochen Vogel , former Federal Minister of Justice D., vice chairman
- Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigner Issues a. D.
- Jürgen Schmude , lawyer, President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany, retired Federal Minister of Justice. D.
- Horst Eylmann , lawyer, former chairman of the legal committee of the German Bundestag
- Kay Hailbronner , Chair for Public Law, International and European Law, University of Konstanz
- Hans-Joachim Hoffmann , Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken, President of the German Association of Cities
- Gerd Landsberg , executive board member of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities
- Hans-Olaf Henkel , former President of the Federation of German Industries
- Frank Niethammer , Vice President of the German Industry and Trade Congress
- Christoph Kannengießer, lawyer, head of the labor market department at the Confederation of German Employers' Associations
- Roland Issen , Chairman of the Federal Executive Board of the German Employees' Union
- Heinz Putzhammer , member of the executive board of the German Federation of Trade Unions
- Josef Voss , Auxiliary Bishop, Chairman of the Commission for Migration Issues of the German Bishops' Conference
- Karl Ludwig Kohlwage , bishop, chairman of the church leadership of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Paul Spiegel , President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- Herbert Schnoor , Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia a. D.
- Roland Schilling, Deputy Head of UNHCR Germany
- Rainer Münz , Chair of Population Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- Ralf Fücks , board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Vural Öger , majority shareholder of Öger-Tours and chairman of the "German-Turkish Foundation
Web links
- Rita Süssmuth: We need an immigration law , media service integration