Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing

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Senate
Department for Urban Development and Housing - SenSW -

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State level Berlin
position Supreme state authority
Headquarters Berlin
Authority management Sebastian Scheel , Senator for Urban Development and Housing
Web presence www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de

The Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing (SenSW for short) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the status of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the highest state authority responsible for urban development and housing policy in the German capital .

Sebastian Scheel ( Die Linke ) has been Senator for Urban Development and Housing since August 20, 2020 . The Senator is supported by the State Secretaries Regula Lüscher ( Senate Building Director ) and Wenke Christoph (State Secretary for Housing).

Tasks and organization

Competencies

The Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing is responsible for questions of housing construction, rental policy, urban planning and development as well as spatial planning in the German capital. Berlin's transport and road construction policy, on the other hand, is the responsibility of the Senate Administration for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection .

organization

The Senate Administration is subdivided into various main departments, each of which has several departments subordinate to it.

Urban Development Senators since 1981

On June 11, 1981, the department was newly formed as the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection from the business areas “Urban Planning” of the Senate Department for Building and Housing and “Environmental Protection” of the Senate Department for Health and Environmental Protection.

Senator Political party Start of office End of office Department designation
Volker Hassemer CDU June 11, 1981 March 17, 1983 Urban development and environmental protection
Horst Vetter FDP March 17, 1983 April 17, 1986
Jürgen Starnick independent April 17, 1986 March 16, 1989
Michaele Schreyer Alliance 90 / The Greens March 16, 1989 November 19, 1990
Volker Hassemer CDU January 24, 1991 January 25, 1996
Peter Strieder SPD January 25, 1996 April 7, 2004 Urban development, environmental protection and technology;

from December 9, 1999: urban development

Ingeborg Junge-Reyer SPD April 29, 2004 November 30, 2011 Urban development
Michael Mueller SPD November 30, 2011 December 11, 2014 Urban development and the environment
Andreas Geisel SPD December 11, 2014 December 8, 2016
Katrin Lompscher The left December 8, 2016 2nd August 2020 Urban development and housing
Sebastian Scheel The left 20th August 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ management . Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, accessed on May 11, 2017.