Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality

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Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality
- SenGPG -

Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
State level Berlin
position Supreme state authority
Headquarters Berlin
Authority management Dilek Kalayci ,
Senator for Health, Nursing and Equality
Web presence www.berlin.de

The Berlin Senate Department for Health, Care and Equal Opportunities (SenGPG for short) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the rank of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the highest state authority responsible for health , care and equality policy in the German capital .

The current health senator has been Dilek Kalayci ( SPD ) since December 2016 . It is supported by the two state secretaries Barbara König and Martin Matz (both SPD).

The authority is based in the Kreuzberg district at Oranienstrasse 106.

Tasks and organization

The Senate Department for Health, Nursing and Equal Opportunities is divided into three main departments corresponding to the fields of competence and a general cross-sectional department for personnel and finances. In addition, there is a management staff directly subordinate to the Senator, the press office, a liaison office for cabinet, federal and EU matters as well as the independent state representatives for psychiatry, drugs and patients assigned to the Senator.

Department Z

Department Z (Central) is responsible for general organizational issues relating to law, personnel, finances and infrastructure.

Department I.

Department I is responsible for the area of ​​health and is responsible, among other things, for general health reporting, epidemiology, health and social information systems, psychiatry, addiction prevention and precaution, questions of health and social insurance, hospital management, emergency preparedness and health management, drug supply and educational and public relations work in health matters.

Department II

Department II is responsible for the entire area of ​​nursing and takes care of questions relating to nursing professions, nursing facilities, nursing insurance as well as future prospects and concept development for modern nursing against the background of digitization.

Department III

Department III is responsible for all questions relating to women's and equality policy.

Subordinate institutions

Institutions subordinate to the Senate Administration are the Joint Cancer Register (GKR) of the states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony-Anhalt , Saxony and Thuringia , the State Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine and the Berlin Hospital for Measures (KMV).

Berlin's health senators since 1951

At times the "Health" division was assigned to other Senate administrations:

  • From April 6, 1967 to October 19, 1967 the Senate Department for Social Affairs, Health, Youth and Sport
  • From October 19, 1967 to April 20, 1971 of the Senate Department for Labor, Health and Social Affairs
  • From December 9, 1999 to January 17, 2002 of the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs and Women
Senator Political party Start of office End of office Department designation
Walter Conrad FDP February 1, 1951 October 29, 1954 Healthcare
Hugo Holthöfer FDP 4th November 1954 January 22, 1955
Hans Schmiljan CDU January 22, 1955 March 7, 1961 (†)
Hans-Jürgen Behrendt CDU April 6, 1961 March 11, 1963
Gerhard habenicht FDP March 11, 1963 April 6, 1967
Hans-Georg Wolters SPD April 20, 1971 May 4th 1973 Health and environmental protection
Erich Pätzold SPD May 10, 1973 January 23, 1981
Reinhard Ueberhorst SPD January 23, 1981 June 11, 1981
Ulf Fink CDU June 11, 1981 March 16, 1989 Health, social and family;

from April 18, 1985: Health and Social Affairs

Ingrid Stahmer SPD March 16, 1989 January 24, 1991 Health and social
Peter Luther CDU January 24, 1991 January 25, 1996 health
Beate Huebner CDU January 25, 1996 December 9, 1999 Health and social
Heidi Knake-Werner PDS January 17, 2002 November 23, 2006 Health, social and consumer protection
Katrin Lompscher The left November 23, 2006 November 24, 2011 Health, Environment and Consumer Protection
Mario Czaja CDU November 30, 2011 December 8, 2016 Health and social
Dilek Kalayci SPD December 8, 2016 in office Health, care and equality

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the Senate Department for Health, Nursing and Equal Opportunities , accessed on December 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Organizational chart of the Berlin Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 14, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de