Security Cabinet
The Security Cabinet is an informal body of the German Federal Government that is convened by the Chancellor if necessary to discuss questions of external or internal security . In addition to the Federal Chancellor, the committee includes the Federal Foreign Minister , the Federal Interior Minister , the Federal Defense Minister , the Head of the Federal Chancellery and the Vice Chancellor , unless he represents one of the ministries listed, e.g. B. Sigmar Gabriel in May 2015, and if necessary, other ministers (e.g. the Minister of Justice ) and high-ranking representatives of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
As an informal, occasionally convened discussion group, the Security Cabinet is to be distinguished from the Federal Security Council as the permanent control and coordination body of German security policy.
Single receipts
- ^ Schubert, Klaus; Klein, Martina: The Political Lexicon . 5th edition. Dietz, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8012-0394-8 . , quoted by the Security Cabinet. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on November 14, 2015 (Das Politiklexikon).
- ↑ Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, Jörg Schindler and Holger Stark: Secret Services: “Majority is Majority” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2015 ( online - May 30, 2015 ).
- ↑ Participant in the security cabinet in March 2004
- ↑ Arndt Schmehl , Der Staat , Volume 44 (2005), p. 470