Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Thuringian State Office for Statistics
State level	country
position	Upper state authority
Supervisory authority	Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
founding	January 1, 1992
Headquarters	Erfurt
Authority management	Holger Poppenhäger (President)
Web presence	statistik.thueringen.de

The Thuringian State Office for Statistics (TLS) is a higher state authority in the business area of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities (TMIK) and is responsible for official statistics in the Free State of Thuringia .

history

predecessor

The establishment of statistical offices is closely connected with the entry of the individual Thuringian states into the German Customs Union in 1834 and the censuses carried out every three years , which formed the basis for the distribution of the German Customs Union's income. Each individual state in Thuringia introduced its own office for this purpose.

At the third meeting of the International Statistics Congress in Vienna in September 1857, the imperial Austrian government raised the question of "a closer association for the statistics of the German states". Prompted by this question, the ducal ministry zu Altenburg sent an inquiry to the grand ducal-Weimar state ministry about the establishment of a central office for the management of statistical surveys in the individual states. The answer, which was also communicated to the other Thuringian governments, was positive and the first negotiations began.

In the summer of 1861, Bruno Hildebrand was appointed professor of economics and statistics from Bern to Jena and was entrusted with the management of the statistical office to be set up. The Principality of Reuss Older Line had already withdrawn from the negotiations. On July 1, 1864, the Statistical Office of the United Thuringian States was established with its seat in Jena , which covers all individual states except for the Principality of Reuss a.L. included. In 1872 the Principality of Reuss a.L. while the duchies of Saxe-Meiningen (1871) and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1875) left and founded their own institutions. After Hildebrand's death, the office was relocated to Weimar in 1878 and changed its name to Thuringian Statistical Office on January 1, 1913 .

State of Thuringia

The Thuringian Statistical Office , the Statistical Office in Meiningen and the Statistical State Office in Gotha formed the Thuringian State Statistical Office with its seat in Weimar on May 21, 1921 . The head of the statistical department of the Ministry of Economics, Johannes Müller, took over the management . The Thuringian State Office for Statistics sees itself in the tradition of this Thuringian State Statistical Office.

The Thuringian State Statistical Office was incorporated into the Ministry of the Interior when it was founded. Initially still in the general department A, it formed its own department G according to a decision of the State Ministry of February 20, 1922. Effective April 1, 1924, it was separated from the Ministry of the Interior and incorporated into the Presidential Department of the State Ministry.

Post-war period and GDR

By resolution of the government council of the state of Thuringia on July 12, 1945, the previous Thuringian State Statistical Office was transferred to a higher state authority called Land Thuringia, Statistical Office and was directly subordinate to the President of the State of Thuringia . It is not clear who took over the management of the office in autumn 1945: Johannes Müller was taken to Buchenwald by the Soviet military administration at the beginning of 1946 , Paul Mommer is listed as head of the November 1946 edition of Statistical Practice . On August 1, 1947, the economist and senior government councilor Müßigbrodt took over the management of the office.

In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 and the resulting restructuring towards districts , the tasks previously performed by the governments of the federal states were handed over to the organs of the districts. On August 1, the three new district offices, later called district offices, began work in Erfurt, Gera and Suhl and the statistical office ceased to exist on August 15, 1952.

After reunification

In Germany , statistics are organized on a federal basis, and each federal state has its own state statistical office. On January 1, 1992, the Thuringian State Office for Statistics began its work as a newly established office. The headquarters of the state office was on Leipziger Strasse in Erfurt, and in 1998 it moved to an office complex on Europaplatz in Erfurt.

Gerhard Scheuerer was head of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics until 2003 . In April 2003, the former deputy president of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Günter Krombholz , took over the management of the office. Krombholz's successor was the former Thuringian Interior Minister Holger Poppenhäger on May 1, 2018 .

tasks

The legal bases of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics are the Federal Statistics Act (BStatG), the Thuringian Statistics Act (ThürStatG), and the Thuringian Data Protection Act (ThürDSG). In addition, there are other laws, ordinances and implementation provisions for the individual statistical surveys.

The general tasks of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics are:

the implementation of EU, federal and state statistics, as well as the publication of their results or their provision in any other way;
the preparation of national accounts;
advising public bodies and, if there is a public interest, private individuals in the field of statistics;
other tasks assigned by law.

At the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, around 250 EU, federal and state statistics are processed and published.

structure

The Thuringian State Statistical Office is from a president headed . The presidential area and a personal employee are assigned to him. The Thuringian State Office for Statistics is further divided into four departments , each with four units :

Department 1: Central department, comprehensive statistical calculations / analyzes
- Unit 11: Personnel, Law, Budget
- Unit 12: Internal Services, Procurement
- Section 13: Cross-departmental analyzes, statistics portal, regional statistics, publications, library
- Section 14: National Accounts, Labor Market, Foreign Trade
Department 2: Economy, State, Environment
- Section 21: Manufacturing, construction, energy, handicrafts, indices, environment
- Unit 22: Awards, Earnings, Labor Costs
- Unit 23: Commerce, Hospitality, Accommodation, Transport, Services, Business Registers, Administrative Data Use
- Unit 24: Public Finance, Public Service Personnel
Department 3: Population, Households, Education, Social Affairs, Taxes and Rural Areas
- Unit 31: Population and Household Statistics
- Unit 32: Education, Culture, Health and Social Services
- Section 33: Taxes, business notifications, insolvencies, administration of justice
- Unit 34: Rural Areas, Nutrition and Agricultural Structure
Department 4: Information Technology, Central Directories, Census
- Unit 41: IT application development and database systems
- Section 42: IT infrastructure, graphics, geographic and online services
- Section 43: IT production and data storage (ZPD), process support, IT security, IT strategy
- Section 44: Central Directories, Address Registers, Census

The office of the regional returning officer is also located in the Thuringian State Office for Statistics , since the President of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics has always been appointed to the State Returning Officer ( personal union ).

The main seat of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics is the state capital Erfurt (Europaplatz 3). There are also two other locations: the Suhl office (Fröhliche-Mann-Straße 3b) is responsible for statistics on the manufacturing industry, the environment and public finances, while the Gera office (Berliner Straße 147) is responsible for statistics for the social areas and agriculture to be carried out. All other departments as well as the central department, the information and advisory service, the press office, the specialist library and the IT department are located in Erfurt.

Publications

The results of the official surveys carried out are made available in a wide variety of publications and forms. The larger summary publications include or included:

Statistical Yearbook Thuringia , annually, since 1991
Statistical monthly books Thuringia , monthly, since 1994
District numbers for Thuringia , annually, since 1995
Annual statistical report Thuringia , annually, since 1996
Statistical measures of the economy in Thuringia , annually, 1998 to 2002
Community figures for Thuringia , biennial, since 1998
Thuringia Atlas , annually, since 1999
A comparison of Thuringian districts , annually, since 2005

Web links

statistik.thueringen.de - Website of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics
Wahlen.thueringen.de - Website about the elections in Thuringia, managed by the Thuringian State Office for Statistics

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literature

The statistical bureau of the United Thuringian States in Jena . In: Bruno Hildebrand (Hrsg.): Yearbooks for economics and statistics . tape 3 . Friedrich Mauke, Jena 1864, p. 71-73 , JSTOR : 23839863 .
Harald Hagn: The Thuringian State Statistical Office (1921–1945) . In: Thuringian State Office for Statistics (Hrsg.): Statistical monthly issue . December 1994. Erfurt 1994, p. 13–18 ( thueringen.de [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
Harald Hagn: The Thuringian Statistics in the Post-War Period (1945–1952) . In: Thuringian State Office for Statistics (Hrsg.): Statistical monthly issue . May 1995. Erfurt 1995, p. 8–18 ( thueringen.de [PDF; 2.0 MB ]).
Harald Hagn: 75 years at the State Statistical Office in Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Erfurt 1996.
Bruno Hildebrand (ed.): Statistics Thuringia . Communications from the statistical office of the United Thuringian states. tape 1 . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1867, p. III-IV, 91-95 .
Thuringian State Office for Statistics (Ed.): The Thuringian State Office for Statistics . A look behind the numbers. Erfurt 2010 ( thueringen.de [PDF]).
Thuringian State Office for Statistics (Ed.): Directory of Publications 2018 . Erfurt 2018 ( thueringen.de [PDF; 4.5 MB ; accessed on April 21, 2018]).

Individual evidence

^ Adolf Ficker : The third meeting of the International Congress for Statistics in Vienna in September 1857 (= Direction of administrative statistics in the KK Commerce Ministry [Hrsg.]: Communications from the field of statistics . Sixth year, III. Issue). Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1857, p. 153 .
^ Government Gazette for the State of Thuringia . Part II: Official Journal. Born in 1945, No. 7 . Panses Verlag, Weimar October 22, 1945, p. 23 ( uni-jena.de ).
^ Organization plan of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics. (PDF) Status: April 18, 2018. In: Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .

[Wien_1857-1] Adolf Ficker : The third meeting of the International Congress for Statistics in Vienna in September 1857 (= Direction of administrative statistics in the KK Commerce Ministry [Hrsg.]: Communications from the field of statistics . Sixth year, III. Issue). Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1857, p. 153 .

[RBl_1945-2] Government Gazette for the State of Thuringia . Part II: Official Journal. Born in 1945, No. 7 . Panses Verlag, Weimar October 22, 1945, p. 23 ( uni-jena.de ).

[Organigramm-3] Organization plan of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics. (PDF) Status: April 18, 2018. In: Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .