Senate Department for Economy, Energy and Companies
Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Enterprises |
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State level | Berlin |
position | Supreme state authority |
Headquarters | Berlin |
Authority management | Ramona Pop , Senator for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises |
Web presence | www.berlin.de |
The Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Enterprises (SenWiEnBe 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 supreme state authority responsible for economic and energy policy in the German capital .
The current Senator for Economic Affairs has been Ramona Pop ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) since December 2016 . She is supported by State Secretary Barbro Dreher and State Secretary Christian Rickerts .
Tasks and organization
The Senate Administration is divided into three main departments (II, III and IV) corresponding to their fields of competence, as well as the Central Service as a cross-sectional department.
Central service
The central service is responsible for organization, human resources, finance, IT, internal service, the central registration office and controlling.
Department II
Department II is responsible for economic policy and economic order. The Berlin economy with its industries and focuses is at the center of their work. The agency's self-imposed goal is to implement the Senate's economic policy and to secure growth, jobs and income for Berlin. Particular attention is paid to medium-sized companies and corporate services. The main sectors are handicrafts and services - especially tourism.
The sections of Department II and their competencies are as follows:
- A: Principles of economic policy
- B: Business services, services, handicrafts, trade and tourism
- C: State supervision for chambers and financial services, legal services
- D: State cartel authority, price reviews, public procurement and emergency preparedness
- E: Point of single contact, trade law, money laundering supervision
- Office of the public procurement tribunal
Department III
Department III is responsible for energy, digitization and innovation. The divisions and their responsibilities are as follows:
- A: energy
- B: Digitization, mobility, healthcare, media and creative industries
- C: Foreign trade, European economic policy and development cooperation
- D: Industry and Innovation
The Berlin-Brandenburg State Office for Metrology and Calibration is a subordinate institution of Department III of the Senate Administration.
Department IV
Department IV is responsible for operations and structural policy. She deals with the fundamental questions of regional structural policy and in particular with the development and implementation of the monetary economic development programs necessary to strengthen Berlin's economic power as well as with the requirements and needs of land and property policy in Berlin as a business location. Department IV also deals with the management of the state-owned companies, which are the technical responsibility of the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Enterprises. The department also performs the tasks of the ERDF and the ESF administration and certification authorities. These are European funding projects or structural funds.
The sections of Department IV and their competencies are as follows:
- A: Properties and future locations
- B: Shareholdings in companies and institutions under public law
- C: European Structural Funds
- D: Regional structural policy and economic development
- BB: EU certification authority of the State of Berlin for the EU structural funds (ERDF and ESF)
Berlin's Senators for Economic Affairs since 1951
Senator | Political party | Start of office | End of office | Department designation |
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Wilhelm Eich | FDP | February 1, 1951 | January 22, 1955 | Economy and nutrition |
Paul Hertz | SPD | January 22, 1955 | October 23, 1961 † | Economy and credit |
Karl Schiller | SPD | December 21, 1961 | November 4, 1965 | Economy and credit;
from March 11, 1963: Economy |
Karl King | SPD | November 4, 1965 | April 25, 1975 | economy |
Wolfgang Lüder | FDP | April 25, 1975 | January 13, 1981 | Economy;
from April 26, 1979: Economy and Transport |
Guido Brunner | FDP | January 23, 1981 | June 11, 1981 | Economy and Transport |
Elmar Pieroth | CDU | June 11, 1981 | March 16, 1989 | Economy and transport;
from April 18, 1985: Economy and Work |
Peter Mitzscherling | SPD | March 16, 1989 | January 24, 1991 | economy |
Norbert Meisner | SPD | January 24, 1991 | January 25, 1996 | Economy and technology |
Elmar Pieroth | CDU | January 25, 1996 | November 12, 1998 | Economy and businesses |
Wolfgang Branoner | CDU | November 12, 1998 | June 16, 2001 | Economy and businesses;
from December 9, 1999: Economy and Technology |
Juliane von Friesen | independent | June 16, 2001 | January 17, 2002 | Economy and technology |
Gregor Gysi | PDS | January 17, 2002 | July 31, 2002 | Economy, work and women |
Harald Wolf | PDS / The Left | August 29, 2002 | November 24, 2011 | Economy, work and women;
from November 23, 2006: Economy, Technology and Women |
Sybille von Obernitz | independent | November 30, 2011 | September 11, 2012 | Business, technology and research |
Cornelia Yzer | CDU | September 27, 2012 | December 8, 2016 | |
Ramona Pop | Alliance 90 / The Greens | December 8, 2016 | in office | Economy, energy and businesses |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organigram of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises , accessed on November 2, 2018
- ^ Section IV - Operations and Structural Policy , accessed on June 14, 2017