Minister of Intra-German Relations

The Federal Ministry for Intra-German Relations, BMiB short, was under the name Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, shortly BMG, built in 1949. 1969, received the new name " Intra-German Relations ", a programmatic change, with the new Ostpolitik was expressed.

Responsibilities and objectives

The Federal Ministry for Intra-German Relations was responsible for all matters relating to the GDR, but announced at the beginning also claims on neighboring states. The first Federal Minister for All-German Affairs, Jakob Kaiser, stressed on 2 March 1951 in Salzburg:

The later Federal Minister Erich Mende, however, noted in 1965:

The de facto diplomatic contacts between the two German states were on the part of the Federal Republic formally the responsibility of this Ministry, not the Foreign Office. In practice, the policy of the federal government towards the GDR, however, largely determined by the Federal Chancellery.

As part of the unification of the two German states, the job of that ministry was invalid. Therefore, it was founded in 1991 with the beginning of the twelfth term, the first all-German dissolved. Its legal successor is the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Federal Minister from 1949 to 1991

Parliamentary Secretaries

Officers Secretaries

Publications

The Federal Ministry published many writings on the German division, which were largely based on scientific enlightenment and had character. The political mission of promoting the reunification by peaceful means, which referred to the early seventies to the regions east of the Oder -Neisse line, occurred in some writings clearly to light. Below are some older writings of the MoH are listed below:

  • MoH (ed.): SCC from A to Z, German Federal -Verlag, Bonn, 1st to 10th edition, 1953-1966, 500 pages.
  • MoH (ed.): Soviet views on the question of Germany from 1945 to 1954. Prepared by official documents, German Federal -Verlag, Bonn, 1954.
  • MoH ( Eds.): Who 's Who in the Soviet occupation zone? A biographical handbook, publisher of International Cultural Exchange, Berlin, 1958.
  • MoH (ed. ): The situation of youth in the communist system of government of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany in Bonn reports from central and eastern Germany, Bonn - Berlin, 1960.
  • MoH (ed. ): The efforts of the Federal Republic to restore the unity of Germany by all-German elections. Documents and files. Part I, October 1949 - October 1953 German federal -Verlag, Bonn, 1958.
  • Federal Ministry of innerdt. Relationships (ed.): The restrictions of the GDR of May 1952: The restrictions of the Soviet zone government at the zone boundary and around West Berlin, a facsimile reprint d White Paper of 1953, Lübeck: Wullenwever, 1953, DNB 891,507,477th
  • Federal Ministry for Intra- German Relations ( ed.): The construction of the wall of Berlin: the escape from the Soviet zone and the blocking action of the communist regime of 13 August 1961 in Berlin, facsimile reprint of the memorandum of 1961, 1 added, edition, Wolfenbüttel: Roco - print, 1988, OCLC 180,482,809th

Foundations

The Federal Ministry entertained until its dissolution in 1991, four foundations:

Diplomacy Johann Baptist Gradl Egon Franke (politician) Heinrich Windelen Dorothee Wilms Current affairs (news format) Integrated Authority File
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