State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate

State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate - Pcs -
State level	country
position	supreme state authority
Headquarters	Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate
Authority management	Clemens Hoch ( SPD ), Head of the State Chancellery
Budget volume	30.61 million euros (2016)
Web presence	stk.rlp.de

State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate

Sign in front of the State Chancellery

The State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate (short: Stk ) is a supreme state authority based in the state capital Mainz . Together with the nine ministries, it reports to the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate . The office maintains constant contact with the ministries and other state authorities so that it can inform the Prime Minister about their work at any time.

tasks

The Prime Minister determines the policy guidelines and directs the affairs of the Rhineland-Palatinate state government. The State Chancellery, which is headed by the head of the State Chancellery, currently Clemens Hoch (SPD), is available to him to fulfill his duties . He has the rank of State Secretary and takes part in the meetings of the state government.

The office prepares the meetings of the Council of Ministers, coordinates them and monitors whether the decisions of the Council of Ministers are carried out. It also prepares the answers that will be addressed to the Council of Ministers in the Landtag. It serves as a secretariat for the state government. Her numerous tasks, her proximity to the Prime Minister, give her a central position in the political structure of Rhineland-Palatinate and the function as the "control center" of the state's government policy.

Structure of the authority

The State Chancellery is divided into six departments .

Department 1 (Central Department (Personnel, Budget, Organization, Legal Services , Central Services ), Protocol, External Relations) is responsible for coordinating organizational issues of the state government and the personnel matters of the highest officials and employees. Events of the Prime Minister and the state government as well as state visits are organized by the protocol and matters of state sovereignty are handled. State festivals such as the Rhineland-Palatinate Day and open-air concerts are prepared here. The department for cross-border cooperation is responsible for the partnerships of Rhineland-Palatinate. These include partnerships with the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France, the Opole Voivodeship in Poland, the Central Bohemia region in the Czech Republic, the German-speaking Community in Belgium, the Fujian Province in the People's Republic of China, the US state of South Carolina and the Republic of Rwanda in Africa.

In 2003, Rhineland-Palatinate and Opole established a network of four regional partners with Burgundy (today: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) and Central Bohemia .

Department 2 (department coordination, state parliament) prepares and follows up on the weekly meetings of the cabinet. The specialist departments of the department cover all policy areas of the ministries and thus support the Prime Minister in the exercise of his office.

Department 3 (government planning)

The citizens' office was set up in 2002 as a contact point for citizens and belongs to Department 3. It is intended to enable fast and unbureaucratic communication with the state government.

Department 4 (Media and Digital) is responsible for the state's media policy. Malu Dreyer is currently chairman of the broadcasting commission of the federal states . Other tasks include maintaining contact with the print media, film and organizations involved in data processing and information and communication technology.

Department 5 (Europe) and Department 6 (Federal Affairs) are former departments of the Representation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federal Government and the European Union in Berlin . The state representation in Berlin and Brussels advocates the interests of Rhineland-Palatinate. In this way, it establishes the connection between state politics and federal and European politics. She is directly assigned to the Prime Minister.

Seat

First meeting of the Dreyer II cabinet of Ministers on May 18, 2016

The seat of the State Chancellery is the New Armory in Mainz . The house was built between 1738 and 1740 under Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich as an extension of the old armory (Zum Sautanz) . Destroyed to the outer walls in the Second World War, it was first rebuilt as a Stresemann memorial and then became the property of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The building was then rebuilt as the State Chancellery, including the Stresemann memorial.

Web links

Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
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• Website of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate (Stk)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate, budget for the budget year 2016. ( PDF ; 858  kB ) Budget Act, overall plan, overviews of the budget. In: fm.rlp.de. Ministry of Finance Rhineland-Palatinate (FM), p. 21 , accessed on February 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Abbreviation Pcs according to the list of abbreviations of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 17.4 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 20.3 ″  E