Senate Chancellery (Berlin)

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Senate Chancellery of the Governing Mayor
of Berlin
- SenK RegBM -

Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
State level Berlin
position Supreme state authority
Headquarters Berlin
Authority management Head of the Senate Chancellery Christian Gaebler
Web presence www.berlin.de
Red City Hall , seat of the Berlin Senate Chancellery

The Berlin Senate Chancellery (SenK) is the administrative staff of the Governing Mayor of Berlin . State Secretary Christian Gaebler has been Head of the Senate Chancellery since April 17, 2018 .

The task is to support the planning and control of the state politics of Berlin . These include the political coordination of the Senate labor, working with the federal government and the other provinces, the press and information work that Internet presentation of Berlin, media policy, maintaining relations with Europe, cooperation with the neighboring Polish provinces in Framework of the Oder partnership and the representation of Berlin to the outside world, including relations with partner cities around the world. Since December 2016, science and university policy has also been the responsibility of the Senate Chancellery.

The seat of the Senate Chancellery is the Berlin City Hall, the so-called Red City Hall , until the reunification of Germany and Berlin it was the Schöneberg City Hall .

history

Schöneberg Town Hall , seat of the Berlin Senate Chancellery until the reunification in 1990

The then Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter decided in January 1949 to set up a “city chancellery”, which was initially set up in Charlottenburger Fasanenstrasse 7–8 and only a few months later moved to the Schöneberg Town Hall . The previous deputy mayor of Schöneberg, Georg von Broich-Oppert , became the first head of the city chancellery .

With the new constitution of (West) Berlin , the authority was renamed "Senate Chancellery" on February 1, 1951.

The head of the Senate Chancellery assumes the position of the highest state secretary of Berlin.

Tasks and organization

4 State Secretaries are affiliated to the Berlin Senate Chancellery . These are the plenipotentiary of the State of Berlin at the federal level and State Secretary for Civic Engagement, the State Secretary for Administrative and Infrastructure Modernization / Growing City and the State Secretary for Science and Research . Departments and units work to help you.

Department 1: Federal Affairs and Civic Engagement

The department consists of 4 units:

Department 2: Senate Spokeswoman, Press and Information

The Senate spokesperson coordinates answering media inquiries.

Papers:

Department 3: Department coordination

The departmental coordination is divided into the following areas by departments:

  • Home affairs, justice, finances, capital city affairs, districts, council of mayors, administrative modernization, German Association of Cities
  • Economy, urban and regional development
  • Smart City project group, City Lab
  • Cultural affairs, education, youth, sport, health, social affairs, consumer protection, women, integration, same-sex lifestyles
  • Transport, religious and ideological communities, lottery, citizen advice
  • Office of the Senate

Department 4: Chief of Protocol of the State of Berlin

The chief of protocol of the state of Berlin is responsible for the implementation of events with high-ranking guests. 2 departments work for him:

  • Protocol , support of official guests, events, orders and honors, honorary graves
  • International (excluding EU matters), international city connections, foreign representations in Berlin, armed forces matters

Department ZS

This department is the internal control center - government work is planned and the Senate Personnel Commission is located in this unit.

Papers:

  • Government planning
  • Political policy issues / strategies for Berlin
  • staff
  • Central financial management
  • Information technology
  • Organization, internal services, property and building matters, procurement
  • Legal affairs, procurement service, personnel commission, registry

Department 5: Science

Science was added at the beginning of the legislative period. It monitors, coordinates and reports on the activities of the Berlin colleges and universities.

Papers:

  • Budget office
  • University law, university admission law, academic degrees, training grants
  • University development, controlling, key figures, programs, admission capacities
  • Universities , colleges, art colleges, private universities (excluding medicine), student union
  • Scientific buildings, financing of structural investments for universities, university building funding, framework planning, real estate
  • University medicine

Department 6: Research

Research was also added at the beginning of the legislative period.

Papers:

  • Budget office
  • Supraregional coordination, policy issues, liaison office
  • Humanities and social sciences, supraregional research funding
  • Engineering , technology transfer
  • Natural, material and life sciences

List of heads of the Senate Chancellery

literature

  • Gerhard Kunze: The Senate Chancellery of the State of Berlin , in: Juristische Rundschau , born in 1966, issue 10, pages 373–377.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Head of the Senate Chancellery. In: Website of the Berlin Senate Chancellery. April 17, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ The Reg. Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Department I, Department for EU Affairs: The Oder Partnership Initiative, Berlin.de ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 1, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  3. ↑ Organigram of the Berlin Senate Chancellery - PDF file, accessed on November 5, 2018