State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia

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State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
- StK NRW -

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State level North Rhine-Westphalia
position Supreme state authority
Headquarters Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia
Authority management Nathanael Liminski , Head of the State Chancellery
Web presence www.land.nrw

The State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia is the State Chancellery of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister . The seat is in Düsseldorf. State Secretary Nathanael Liminski ( CDU ) has been Head of Office and Head of the State Chancellery (CdS) in the Laschet cabinet since June 30, 2017 .

management

State Secretary Nathanael Liminski ( CDU ) has been Head of Office and Head of the State Chancellery (CdS) in the Laschet cabinet since June 30, 2017 .

Position and duties

Landeshaus Düsseldorf - seat of the State Chancellery

The Prime Minister is supported by officials and employees of the State Chancellery . In addition to supporting the Prime Minister, their tasks include government planning and departmental coordination, constitutional affairs, protocol and religious affairs, legal supervision of radio broadcasting and the state government's press and public relations work.

In addition, the government headquarters has important tasks in the fields of Europe and international affairs, federal affairs and media policy. For this purpose, the Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MBEM NRW) and the representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level - currently identical to the Federal Council Minister - work in the area of ​​the State Chancellery . The original independence of the North Rhine-Westphalian "Federal Council", from which the MBEM NRW emerged, was revoked in 1998.

See also: Political system of North Rhine-Westphalia

organization structure

Since the Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media is part of the Prime Minister's portfolio and is organizationally integrated into the State Chancellery, he does not run a ministry of his own, but rather three working units of the State Chancellery that are assigned to him and that do not report to the head of the State Chancellery : the “Europe, International Affairs and Media ”as well as the two state representations in Berlin and Brussels. He is supported by his own State Secretary.

The State Chancellery consists of the following seven departments:

  • State Press and Information Office (LPA, headed by the government spokesman)
  • Central Department (Dept. I)
  • Department coordination (Dept. II)
  • Sport and volunteering (Dept. III)
  • Europe, International Affairs (Dept. IV)
  • Representation of the state at the federal level (LV Bund)
  • Representation of the country to the European Union (LV EU)

Seat

Mannesmann house
Villa Horion
City gate Düsseldorf (2017)

The State of North Rhine-Westphalia is now back in the country house . The building is located in the government district of the state capital Düsseldorf .

The first seat of the State Chancellery was the Mannesmann House on the banks of the Rhine in Düsseldorf until 1953 .

After that, until 1999, the neoclassical palais-like Villa Horion on the banks of the Rhine, named after Johannes Horion and built in 1911, was the seat of the Prime Minister, the State Chancellery was located in the structurally connected state house . In 1999, at the initiative of the then Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement, this location was given up and the space in the city ​​gate , some 500 m away, was rented instead . The State Chancellery was based there until 2017, when Armin Laschet moved the State Chancellery back into the State House. 

The Villa Horion is used today by the state parliament for various occasions and purposes, including receptions and as the seat of the petitions committee . The Villa Horion is also jokingly called the porter's house by Mannesmann , as it was always in the "structural shadow" of the Mannesmann buildings ( Mannesmann house and Mannesmann high-rise ) and therefore appeared to be unrepresentative of the seat of the prime minister of the largest federal state.

There had also been a proposal to use the Estates building as the new seat of the Prime Minister; this was initially empty after the state parliament moved into the current parliament building . However, the proposal was not implemented.

Web links

Commons : State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See organizational chart of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel: The Members of the Glass House. The new building of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia. 6/36. 5th September 1988.
  3. ↑ Focus: North Rhine-Westphalia. Temporary ruin. 25/1993. June 21, 1993.
  4. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Villa Horion. Villa Horion in new splendor. Official opening by the President of the State Parliament, Ulrich Schmidt. ( Memento from January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )