Chief Whip

Manfred Grund Bernhard Kaster Michaela Noll

Bärbel Bas Petra Ernst Berger Dagmar Ziegler

Karin binder André Hahn Sigrid Hupach Alexander Ulrich Halina Wawzyniak Jörn Wunderlich

Anja Hajduk Steffi Lemke Katja Keul

Each parliamentary group in the German political system, one or more members as parliamentary secretary. In contrast to the national manager and the secretary general of a party to the sphere of parliamentary manager is the Parliament at the federal level of the German Bundestag, at the country level, the respective parliament.

The parliamentary executive officers may be designated as a manager of everyday business in Parliament.

The most important task of the parliamentary manager is to regulate the affairs of its fractions in relation to the Bundestag and Landtag and the other groups. Submit the topics and attend to the conduct of the parliamentary debates. Before important votes they ensure that all Members are present. They are the next members of the respective group leaders. Moreover, they are administratively responsible for public relations and personnel management of their group.

Prepare within their groups and in meetings (PGF - rounds) parliamentary manager among themselves the meetings of the Council of Elders before, where agendas are set for each session following week. The parliamentary CEO pay among other things, that their fractions "stand", with critical votes in plenary that is, that the deputies are stopped by several lines of evidence to actually be at the right time at the right place.

In the German Bundestag, the respective first parliamentary manager of the fractions are a member of the Council of Elders and prepare the agenda in the meeting daily manager rounds before.

In many state legislatures, the Office of the Parliamentary manager will be reimbursed by the respective fraction using supplements to the usual diets. This is criticized by the media and others, for example by Ralf Seibicke ( Leader of the Conference of Presidents of SAIs of the federal and state governments ' and President of the State Court of Saxony- Anhalt), Heinz Fischer Heidlberger, president of the Bavarian Supreme Court, and the Constitutional expert Professor Hans Herbert von Arnim. The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled in a judgment of July 2000 that only the additional remuneration of Group Chairmen complies with the principle of equality of the deputies in the Basic Law in line.

The French parliament has no corresponding function. In the Anglo -Saxon world, they are Whip ( whip ), since they are also responsible for discipline in voting behavior.