Senate Department for Economy, Energy and Companies

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Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Enterprises
- SenWiEnBe -

Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
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

Ramona Pop Cornelia Yzer Sybille von Obernitz Harald Wolf Gregor Gysi Juliane von Friesen Wolfgang Branoner Elmar Pieroth Norbert Meisner Peter Mitzcherling Elmar Pieroth Guido Brunner Wolfgang Lüder Karl König (Politiker) Karl Schiller Paul Hertz Wilhelm Eich Gustav Klingelhöfer
Senator Political party Start of office End of office Department designation
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

  1. Organigram of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises , accessed on November 2, 2018
  2. ^ Section IV - Operations and Structural Policy , accessed on June 14, 2017