Territorial Defense Administration

Organizational areas in the BMVg division (status: 2011)

The Territorial Defense Administration (TerrWV) was, in addition to the armaments sector , part of the Bundeswehr administration in accordance with Art. 87b of the Basic Law and thus one of the two civil organizational areas of the Bundeswehr .

When the Bundeswehr was realigned , the Bundeswehr administration was divided into the three new civilian organizational areas of Personnel (P), Equipment, Information Technology and Use (AIN) and Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services (IUD). The tasks of the territorial defense administration were transferred to the areas of personnel (P) and infrastructure, environmental protection and services (IUD).

tasks

In contrast to the armaments sector, the focus of which, with the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement , was primarily on the procurement of military armaments , the Territorial Defense Administration was mainly responsible for regional tasks, both at home and increasingly abroad. In addition to supplying the troops with food, clothing (the latter largely privatized) and other ( procurement ) services, in particular the operation and management of the military and civilian properties of the Bundeswehr by the Bundeswehr Service Centers (BwDLZ) ( facility management ) as well as supplementing the Bundeswehr's personnel requirements through the district armed forces replacement offices .

In addition, the Territorial Defense Administration was responsible for other administrative tasks such as salary , remuneration and allowance payments .

The field of activity of the Territorial Defense Administration was - against the background of the budgetary situation of the federal government - increasingly shaped by privatization or outsourcing projects of the Society for Development, Procurement and Operation (gebb) (today: BwConsulting ) and public-private partnership models as well as the Foundation of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA).

structure

The largest organizational area of ​​the Bundeswehr administration was divided into

• Higher federal authorities
  • the Federal Office for Defense Administration in Bonn
  • the Federal Academy for Defense Administration and Technology in Mannheim
  • the Federal Language Office in Hürth
  • the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration - Department of Armed Forces Administration in Mannheim
• Federal funding agencies
  • the Military District administrations (= resolution of June 30, 2013)
• Local authorities
  • the Bundeswehr service centers
  • the Bundeswehr administrative offices abroad
  • the district military replacement offices
  • the Bundeswehr technical schools
  • the catering office of the Bundeswehr in Oldenburg
  • The Bundeswehr Administration Schools (in the administrative hierarchy sense not a local authority, as it reports directly to the training and further education department in the Federal Ministry of Defense .)

With the exception of the Bundeswehr service centers, the Bundeswehr catering office, the Federal Language Office (change to the HR department) and the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration - Bundeswehr Administration department (change to the HR department), all of the above have been or will be by 30 June 2013 at the latest Authorities dissolved and replaced by new authorities, partly in the newly created organizational area “Personnel” and on the other hand in the new organizational area “Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services”.

literature

• Dieter Heuer: The Federal Defense Administration . In: Ina Wiesner (Ed.): German Defense Politics (= publications of the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication . Vol. 30). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0824-6 , pp. 193-226.