Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union

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Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union

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State level Bavaria
Supervisory authority Bavarian State Chancellery
Headquarters Brussels
Authority management Minister of State Florian Herrmann
Servants 35
Web presence Homepage of the representation

The Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union is a department of the Bavarian State Chancellery to support the Bavarian State Minister for Digital, Media and Europe in the exercise of his duties and to represent Bavaria in the European Union. The Bavarian representation is located at 77 Rue Wiertz, in the EU quarter of Brussels ( Belgium ) in the renovated building of the former Pasteur Institute .

authority

As a department of the State Chancellery, the representation reports to the head of the Bavarian State Chancellery Florian Herrmann in his capacity as Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs and the Media .

Barbara Schretter has been the head of the Bavarian representation in Brussels since April 2016.

In the Bavarian representation, all ministries of the Bavarian state government are represented by so-called " mirror presentations ".

In October 2010, a liaison office for the Bavarian State Parliament was set up in the Bavarian representation .

tasks

The Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU supports the Bavarian State Minister for Federal and European Affairs and the Media in fulfilling his tasks at European level. This is done through:

  • Providing information to the state government, the state parliament, the administration, Bavarian companies and citizens about current affairs in the EU
  • Influence on political decision-making in the EU
  • Presentation of Bavarian traditions and Bavarian culture abroad
  • Advice and support in contacting EU bodies
  • Cooperation with other European institutions

The Bavarian Representation organizes around 300 events a year on political, economic or cultural topics related to Bavaria and receives around 12,000 visitors a year. The representation provides information about current political issues in the bi-weekly European report on its website.

history

The Bavarian legation founded in 1824 was one of Bavaria's first representative offices in Brussels . The Bavarian embassy in Belgium was dissolved in 1914.

The "Brussels Information Office" set up in 1987 can be seen as the forerunner of today's representation. In 1994 it was already called "Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union" and in 2004 the move took place in the current premises, in the renovated building of the former Pasteur Institute (until 1986) opposite the EU Parliament . Mathias Pfeil designed the conversion

The Institut Pasteur Brussels , originally Institut Antirabique et Bactériologique du Brabant , was founded in 1900 by the Brabant Provincial Council. The Nobel Prize winner Jules Bordet , coming from the Institut Pasteur Paris, was the first director of the institute. From January 1, 1995, it was subordinate to the Belgian Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Environment. In 1996 it merged with the Scientific Institute for Public Health .

building

The Bavarian representation is opposite the EU Parliament on the edge of the Park Leopold. The building complex consists of three buildings: the “Institute”, the “Villa” and the “Marstall”, has a floor area of ​​5500 square meters and a usable area of ​​2,000 square meters. It was built in 1903 as a microbiological research facility of the Pasteur Institute, which was used by the later Nobel Prize winner Jules Bordet for research in the fields of immunology and bacteriology . From 1940 his son, Paul Bordet, ran the facility, which stayed in this building until 1987. In 2001 the Free State of Bavaria bought the property for 29.4 million euros and carried out extensive renovations. The renovation was planned by the engineering office Uwe Schreier Würzburg, the conversions were carried out by the architects Archi + I, Cerau from Brussels, for which there was a nomination for the MIPIM Award 2005 in the category “Renovated Office Buildings”. Reinhold Bocklet is considered to be the “finder and inventor” of the renovation project .

In 2004, the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria moved into the renovated building.

Due to the splendid, castle-like construction, the Bavarian representation was at first mockingly referred to as "Schloss Neuwahnstein". From Brussels diplomatic circles, however, the assessment is also quoted that “Bavaria has the most popular representation in Brussels”.

Institute

The institute building of the Bavarian Representation to the EU in December 2010.

The institute building was built in 1903 in the style of historicism and until 1987 housed the laboratories of the microbiological research facility of the Pasteur Institute. Since the renovation, the building has housed the representative rooms of the Prime Minister , the European Minister , the management of the representation, conference and office rooms as well as a wine bar .

villa

The buildings "Villa" (left) and "Marstall" of the Bavarian Representation to the EU in December 2010.

The villa was built in 1905 as the residence of the director of the research facility and his family. Since the renovation, the building has housed office and meeting rooms for the employees of the Bavarian representation.

Stables

The building of the Marstall was built between 1903 and 1905 and used as the horse stable of the research institute. Since the renovation, the building has been home to a pub, a kitchen, offices, as well as a large event hall ("Jules Bordet Hall") and a small event hall ("Paul Bordet Hall"), which together offer space for around 300 visitors.

Web links

literature

  • Friedrich Hermann Hettler: Purchased turnkey. The new state representation, the former Pasteur Institute. In: Der Staatsbürger 2004/10, pp. 79–80.
  • Martin Hübler: The European Policy of the Free State of Bavaria. From the Single European Act to the Amsterdam Treaty. Munich 2002, pp. 91-99.
  • Alexander Wegmaier: “ Be European and stay Bavaria”. The idea of ​​Europe and Bavarian European policy 1945-1979. Munich 2018, pp. 325–356.
  • Wolfram Ridder: Regions, Member States and Informal Politics in the European Union. Relationship and action patterns of subnational interest representation in the ordinary legislative procedure of the EU. Erlangen 2017, pp. 152–179.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Chancellery: Personnel - New Head of the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU in Brussels . In: Bavarian Legal and Administrative Report (BayRVR) . March 8, 2016 ( bayrvr.de [accessed October 2, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Katja Helmö: Interview with the head of the new contact point Gregor Raible. "Listening post" of the state parliament in Brussels. In: Maximilianeum, online magazine of the Bavarian State Parliament. Bavarian State Parliament, State Parliament Office, Maximilianeum, February 7, 2011, accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  3. ^ The Bavarian Representation in Brussels. Tasks. (No longer available online.) In: bayern.de. Bavarian State Chancellery, archived from the original on March 12, 2013 ; accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  4. ^ The Bavarian Representation in Brussels. Work on site. (No longer available online.) In: bayern.de. Bavarian State Chancellery, archived from the original on March 12, 2013 ; accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  5. ^ Eberhard Sinner: Bavarian representation in Brussels. In: csu-main-spessart.de. CSU - Main-Spessart District Association, accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  6. ↑ https://www.wiv-isp.be/About-wiv-isp/Pages/DE-GeschichtlicherUberblick.aspx
  7. ↑ http://www.bayern.de/staatsregierung/bayern-in-europa/das-institut-pasteur
  8. ↑ Pasteur Institute. Rehabilitation of the former Institut Pasteur for the Bavarian Representation with the European Parliament. (No longer available online.) In: cerau.be. Center d'Etudes et de Recherches d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme (CERAU), archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on March 15, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Otto Mühleisen: Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union . Lindenberg im Allgäu: Kunstverlag Fink, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-571-4 , p. 19 .
  10. ↑ Jürgen Platz: The Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union in Brussels . In: build intern . No. 11 . The Fraunhofer Information Center for Space and Building IRB, Stuttgart 2004 ( paper copy of the magazine article can be ordered at baufachinformation.de )
  11. ↑ "The lobbyists from the castle" . Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 3, 2009. Accessed March 9, 2011.
  12. ↑ "In magnificent and expensive: Bayern reside in Brussels on" Neuwahnstein "" . Article in the Nürnberger Nachrichten of September 29, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2011.


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