Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)
The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI ), short Federal Ministry of the Interior, is a Supreme Authority of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has its headquarters in the district of Moabit of the district center of Berlin. The second seat is located in Bonn city district Castell in the former barracks chaff. Head of the Authority shall be ex officio, the Federal Minister of the Interior, who is a member of the Federal Government as a Federal Minister.
History
Predecessor was the Reich Ministry of the Interior, which was in turn emerged from the Ministry of the Interior. The BMI was constituted in accordance with a recommendation of the Organizing Committee of the Conference of Prime Ministers of 30 July 1949.
Jurisdiction
The Interior Ministry is the Ministry of Interior of the Federation and thus largely determines the internal politics. Its jurisdiction extends to, among other things:
- Internal security, in particular the fight against crime
- Border protection
- The civil defense
- The administrative protection of the Constitution ( in particular the protection against extremism, terrorism, sabotage, espionage and sects )
- Cutting red tape
- The administrative modernization
The Federal Minister of the Interior is part of the legislation of the European Union in the framework of the Council of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs.
Furthermore, it is together with the Federal Ministry of Justice is responsible for the general administrative, constitutional, national, European and international law. It acts on the realization of bills in these areas with or created them and checked all legislative proposals the Federal Government or individual federal ministries for their compatibility with the Basic Law and on their Verwaltungsförmigkeit (right of the Constitution departments ).
The Procurement Office of the BMI is responsible for the procurement of equipment and services for all agencies within the portfolio of the Ministry. It buys among other motor vehicles and maintains its own vehicle registration office, which runs its own official seal.
Central Office of Labour Protection at the Federal Ministry of the Interior
For federal agencies, the State Trade Offices are not authorized to give orders. According to § 21 para 5 Working Environment Act is for the federal Central Employment protection when BMI within whose behalf the Accident Fund of the Federation. The European Union has been generally found that the proximity of control authority and controlled authority - both in Germany the federal authorities - is not very effective. Financial penalties would only changes made in the area of federal and would therefore largely ineffective. Administrative litigation are lengthy and are threatened openly by opposing federal authorities. The possibilities of the Centre for Occupational Safety and Accident Insurance Fund of the Federal are therefore limited. An involvement of the competent authorities for workers from contractual consideration duty only after all internal capabilities allowed because otherwise there is a reason for termination to the employer.
Structure of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
(As of January 2010) the Minister supports a line bar at the top of the ministry. The ministers are following Secretaries subordinate:
- Secretaries of State Cornelia Rogall - Grothe and Klaus -Dieter Fritsche
- Parliamentary Secretaries Christoph Bergner and Ole Schröder
The Secretary of State Rogall - Grothe subject to the following departments:
- Division D ( Civil Service )
- Division G ( basic issues, international developments and new federal states)
- Director of IT ( IT strategy, IT governance, IT security )
- Department of O ( administrative organization, administrative modernization )
- Division SP (Sport)
- Division V ( constitutional law, constitutional law, administrative law)
- Department Z ( Central Department)
The Secretary Fritsche are subject to the following departments:
- Division B ( Federal Police )
- Department KM ( Crisis Management and Civil Protection )
- Department M (migration, integration, refugees, European harmonization)
- Department ATS ( Public Safety )
Construction of the new service fit Berlin
Currently, the Ministry is spread over three buildings in the city of Berlin, of which one is a rental property. Due to security and economic benefits of this are to be combined in a new building. This occurs on the north side of the River Spree between the Chancellor Park and Berlin Central Station, directly on Berlin Stadtbahn viaduct. In April 2009, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved the construction project. The construction cost should be about 200 million euros. The opening is planned for early 2015. After the then Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière had performed the groundbreaking ceremony on 16 December 2010, the new building was temporarily halted in July 2011 due to disputes in the contract - in November 2011 the construction was resumed. The topping out ceremony took place on 22 May 2013.