City administration of Duisburg

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City of Duisburg

State level City administration
position Local self-government
legal form District-free city
Supervisory authority Government President of the administrative district of Dusseldorf , Birgitta Radermacher
Headquarters Duisburg
Authority management Lord Mayor Sören Link
Servants 6,203 (as of December 31, 2015), 1,431 of them part-time
Budget volume 1.367 billion euros (income 2012) or 1.485 billion euros (expenses 2012)
Web presence www.duisburg.de

The city ​​administration of Duisburg is the municipal self-government of the city of Duisburg . The city ​​administration of Duisburg consists of seven departments , each headed by an alderman as a municipal electoral officer and the department of the mayor . The Duisburg city administration employs around 6181 people, including 3,945 women and 2,209 men (as of December 31, 2015). The average age in 2013 was 45.4 years. This does not include the employees at the legally independent business operations Duisburg AöR (approx. 1,600). In the case of the Eigenbetriebsähnl. Institutions work a further 716 people (as of 2013).

The mayor has his official residence in Duisburg's town hall on Burgplatz. In the absence of a central administrative building, the city administration is spread across numerous larger and smaller buildings throughout the city. The largest administrative buildings are the AEG-Haus Sonnenwall 77, the skyscraper Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 96, the Stadthaus and the Nürnbergerhaus.

Since 1999, the mayors of North Rhine-Westphalia no longer represent their cities and municipalities exclusively politically, but also lead the local government . Until 1999, the city administration was headed by a full-time senior city director, while the mayor was only the chairman of the city council (this was colloquially referred to as dual leadership).

Structure of the administration

Administrative structure plan of the city of Duisburg (as of October 1, 2019):

Department OB

Sören Link (SPD) has been Lord Mayor of the city of Duisburg since July 1, 2012 .

City Hall Duisburg

Subordinate departments:

  • OB-01/02 Staff position of the OB
  • OB GF-01 Staff Unit Regional Structural Development, Funding Monitoring and University Affairs
  • OB-GF-02 Compliance , Corruption Prevention and Business Ethics
  • OB-GF-03 Strategic Marketing Unit
  • OB-1 Department for Politics, Administration and Representation
  • OB-3 Unit for Equal Opportunities (Women's Office)
  • OB-4 Unit for Citizen Engagement and Communication
  • OB-6 Municipal Integration Center (KIZDU, formerly RAA )
  • OB-01 Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • OB-02 Office of the Study Institute for Local Administration
  • 10 Main office including the "Call Duisburg" service center
  • 11 Personnel Office
  • 14 Audit Office

Department I - Finances, Investments and European Affairs

City Treasury Duisburg

Subordinate departments:

Department II - Security and Law

Main fire station in Duisburg

Subordinate departments:

Department III - Family, Education and Culture

The Duisburg City Theater

Subordinate agencies

Duisburg City Library

Department IV - Labor, Social Affairs and Sport

Subordinate agencies

Department V - Urban Development

Town house Duisburg

Subordinate departments:

Department VI - Environment, Health and Consumer Protection

Subordinate departments:

Municipal characteristics

Vehicle of the Citizens' Registration Office at the entrance to Duisburg Zoo
The Stadtwerke Duisburg offer free Wi-Fi in the city center

Spin-offs and privatizations

In the past 15 years, numerous parts of the city administration have been outsourced, e.g. T. privatized. In 2013, the city administration only had around half of the workforce compared to 1999. In addition, a large number of staff were cut directly, although there have been no redundancies for many years , as the city is on an agreement with the unions and staff councils Has agreed a social agreement that should enable socially acceptable savings.

The following institutions in which the city of Duisburg is involved do not belong directly to the city administration:

Household security concepts

Similar to many other large cities, especially in the Ruhr area , Duisburg has been in a financial crisis for decades. The decline of the coal and steel industry and the decline in the associated trade tax income with simultaneously increasing expenditure for social purposes hit Duisburg as a monostructural region at the time .

Since 1977 household security concepts have been put in place, which were often associated with savings in terms of personnel and a restriction of infrastructure offers (pools, halls, sports fields, library branches, etc.). The city of Duisburg has not been able to achieve a budget balance for more than 20 years; The municipal budget has not been approved by the municipal and financial supervisory authorities of the Düsseldorf district government for years. According to the new municipal financial management , i.e. the commercial bookkeeping introduced for the NRW municipalities a few years ago, there is overindebtedness , that is, the equity of the city of Duisburg has been used up.

So-called cash loans are actually only supposed to avoid short-term bottlenecks. However, the occasional injection of liquidity became a constant drain for numerous municipalities, including Duisburg. After numerous budget security concepts and increases in municipal income (such as taxes, fees) did not bring the desired success, the city is now to be rehabilitated in the medium term through the so-called Municipal Finances Strengthening Pact, which was launched by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012. As a result, the city can count on additional allocations from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (initially EUR 52.5 million annually, degressively from 2017), but must continue to make considerable savings, which continues to put the attractiveness for businesses, citizens and employees of the city administration to a severe test . In September 2012, the district government of Düsseldorf approved the budget restructuring plan presented by the city authorities. The same applies to the years 2013 and 2014. The 2015 budget, which includes an increase in property tax B by a rate of 855%, has been submitted for approval by the Düsseldorf district government. Almost 6,000 people from Duisburg asked the Düsseldorf district government not to approve the 2015 budget. Approval was granted in October 2015 after the city of Duisburg had issued additional statements on the DVV's economic situation.

Employee representation

Hoisthaus Duisburg

The municipal employees elect interest groups in accordance with the State Personnel Representation Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (LPVG). The following employee representatives exist at the Duisburg city administration :

There is an independent staff council at Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg AöR , as well as at Sparkasse Duisburg . The in private law guided form own companies usually consist councils after the Works Constitution Act .

There are youth and trainee representatives assigned to the works councils or staff councils, as well as representatives for severely disabled employees .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budget planning of the city of Duisburg for the budget year 2014 (PDF; 754 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duisburg.de
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  3. ↑ Duisburg council decides to increase property tax to 855 percent ; derwesten.de, November 24, 2014, accessed on September 28, 2015