State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt

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Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt
- StK -
Coat of arms of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
State level country
Position of the authority supreme state authority
Headquarters Magdeburg
Authority management Rainer Robra , Head of the State Chancellery
Website stk.sachsen-anhalt.de
Exterior view
State Chancellery foyer

The State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt is the authority that reports directly to the Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and supports him in defining and implementing the political guidelines vis-à-vis the ministers and in his function as the state's representative. The State Chancellery is also directly responsible for overarching tasks such as media policy, European policy, international cooperation or the preparation of conferences for heads of government from the federal and state levels.

Since April 2016, the State Chancellery has also been responsible for the field of culture and thus takes on partial tasks of the previous Ministry of Education and Culture. There had been criticism in the country of the transfer of competencies to the State Chancellery.

The seat of the State Chancellery is the Palais am Fürstenwall at Hegelstrasse 42 in Magdeburg .

organization

Minister of State Rainer Robra is the head of the authority ( head of the State Chancellery ) and Minister of Culture .

The State Chancellery is divided into departments and these into units. Departments are:

  • Department 1: Administration, Organization
  • Department 2: Departmental coordination, planning and federal affairs
  • Department 3: Press and Information Office of the State Government
  • Department 4: International Cooperation, EU Affairs, Protocol, Media Policy
  • Department 5: Representation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt at the federal level
  • Department 6: Culture

The Representation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to the European Union is also part of the State Chancellery as Department 42.

building

The Palais am Fürstenwall is a palatial brick building in the style of historicism . The facade of the basement is made of ashlar . The facade of the upper floor is also structured using stone. The design of the house includes elements from the late Renaissance and Baroque periods . On the street side, the facade is characterized by a broad central risalit , which is provided with large arched windows and half-columns. The house is covered by a flat roof.

The inside of the building is located around a roofed atrium, which is surrounded on two floors by a columned gallery and has a fixed staircase. On the upper floor there is a splendid ballroom facing the street. In addition, there are luxurious living rooms that are decorated with elaborate paintings. There is an allegorical ceiling painting in the emperor's suite.

The house is surrounded by a garden. There is also a one-and-a-half or two-story adjoining building with a hipped roof , built in brick . The property is surrounded by a plot of land adapted to the style of the building .

Palais as Erich-Weinert-Haus in 1953

The building served as the residence and office of the commanding general of the IV Prussian Army Corps . In addition, the members of the imperial family lived there during a stay in Magdeburg.

After 1945, SMAD moved into the building. In June 1953, the General Secretary of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship, Gottfried Grünberg, renamed the house the Erich-Weinert House of German-Soviet Friendship . An exhibition on the Magdeburg writer Erich Weinert (1890–1953) was set up in the building. A restaurant also housed in the house was nicknamed the Red Curtain . After the state of Saxony-Anhalt was reorganized in 1990, the palace became the seat of the State Chancellery .

literature

  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 274

Web links

Commons : State Chancellery Saxony-Anhalt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Eger: How the culture in the country simply disappeared . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of May 4, 2016, accessed on May 11, 2017
  2. ^ State Chancellery Saxony-Anhalt: Establishment of the State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '20.4 "  N , 11 ° 38' 0.2"  E