Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)

Federal Ministry of the Interior
Agency overview
Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI)

Formed	1 January 1879 (1879-01-01) as the Reichsamt des Inneren
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Alt-Moabit 140 10557 Berlin 52°31′17″N 13°21′44″E / 52.52139°N 13.36222°E / 52.52139; 13.36222Coordinates: 52°31′17″N 13°21′44″E / 52.52139°N 13.36222°E / 52.52139; 13.36222
Employees	1,500
Minister responsible	Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of the Interior
Agency executive	Ole Schröder, Parliamentary State Secretary
Website	http://www.bmi.bund.de

Seal of the Reichsamt des Innern

Pre-1923 Seal of the Weimar-era Reichsministerium des Innern

BMI in Berlin

BMI in Bonn

The Federal Ministry of the Interior (German: Bundesministerium des Innern), abbreviated BMI, is cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its main office is in Berlin, with a secondary seat in Bonn. The current minister of the interior is Thomas de Maizière.

History

The Reichsamt des Innern (Imperial Office of the Interior) was the Ministry of the Interior of the German Empire. On the proposal of the Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck it was created on 24 December 1879 by an Imperial decree from the Reich Chancellery. Like the other Imperial Offices it was directly under the control of the Reichskanzler. The seat of the office was in Berlin and it was managed by a Secretary of State, who from 1881 until 1916 also simultaneously held the office of Vizekanzler. The gazette for the publication of official notices was run by the Office from 1880. Entitled the Zentralblatt für das Deutsche Reich (ZBl), it had been published by the Reich Chancellery from 1873 until 1879.

With the Law on the Provisional Imperial Government of 11 February 1919, the Imperial Office became the Reichsministerium des Innern (RMI) (Imperial Ministry of the Interior) which remained the German Ministry of the Interior during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. From 1923 until 1945, the ministry published the government gazette, which was entitled the Reichsministerialblatt (RMBl). On 1 November 1934 it was united with the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as the Reichs- und Preußischen Ministerium des Innern (Imperial and Prussian Ministry of the Interior).^[1]

In 1949, the Imperial Ministry of the Interior (effectively defunct since the end of the war in Europe in 1945) was succeeded by the present Federal Ministry, though it served as the Interior Ministry for West Germany only until German reunification in 1990.

Responsibilities

The Ministry of the Interior is responsible for internal security and the protection of the constitutional order, for civil protection against disasters and terrorism, for displaced persons, administrative questions, and sports. It is host to the Standing Committee of Interior Ministers and also drafts all passport, identity card, firearms, and explosives legislation. The ministry also houses the Joint Anti-Terrorism Center formed in 2004 which is an information-sharing and analytical forum for all German police and intelligence agencies involved in the fight against terrorism.

Organization

State Secretaries

The minister is supported by two parliamentary state secretaries and two state secretaries who manage the ministry's various departments. One of the latter manages "P", "B", "IS" and "M" departments plus the crisis management cell and the working group on counter-intelligence development. The other supervises "Z", "G", "D", "O", "SP" and "V" departments plus the information technology director, data protection and freedom of information office and the doping task force.

Departments

"P" Department (Abteilung P) is the ministry’s police department and has two branches: law enforcement and counter-terrorism. It analyses crime control issues and develops concepts and drafts laws to improve law enforcement and crime prevention efforts. It also manages the Federal Criminal Police Office, coordinates police support group deployments and represents federal interests in the sport and security arena. Due to Germany's federal structure, it can only promote internal security and public safety by cooperating with the state police forces and with agencies within the European Union (EU) and beyond.
"IS" Department (Abteilung IS) is the internal security department that protects the German state against political extremism. It exercises supervisory control over the Federal Office for Constitution Protection, studies extremist groups and can ban them as a final resort. In addition, the department is responsible for the security of classified information and prevention of sabotage and espionage. It also manages civil defense and emergency management efforts at the national level and exercises supervisory control over the Civil Protection Center and Federal Agency for Technical Relief.
"B" Department (Abteilung B) supervises and manages German Federal Police operations.
"M" Department (Abteilung M) is responsible for immigration, integration, refugees and European harmonisation.
"Z" Department (Abteilung Z) is the central office.
"G" Department (Abteilung G) is responsible for policy, Europe and international developments
"D" Department (Abteilung D) is responsible for the civil service.
"O" Department (Abteilung O) is responsible for administrative modernisation and organisation.
"SP" Department (Abteilung SP) is responsible for sport.
"V" Department (Abteilung V) is responsible for constitutional, state, administrative and European law.

Special agencies

Name	Abbrev.	Translation
Bundesausgleichsamt	BAA	Federal Equalization of Burdens Office
Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge	BAMF	Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Bundesakademie für öffentliche Verwaltung	BAköV	Federal Academy of Public Administration
Beschaffungsamt	BeschA	Procurement Agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit	BfDI	Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz	BfV	Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution
Bundespolizei	BPOL	Federal Police
Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung	BiB	Federal Institute for Population Research
Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft	BISp	Federal Institute of Sport Science
Bundeskriminalamt	BKA	Federal Criminal Police Office
Bundesamt für Kartografie und Geodäsie	BKG	Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung	BpB	Federal Agency for Civic Education
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik	BSI	Federal Office for Information Security
Bundesverwaltungsamt	BVA	Federal Office of Administration
Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe	BBK	Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
Schutzkommission beim Bundesministerium des Innern	SchK	Scientific Advisory Board on Civil Defense and Disaster Protection
Fachhochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung	FH Bund	Federal Public Administration College
Koordinierungs- und Beratungsstelle der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik in der Bundesverwaltung	KBSt
Statistisches Bundesamt destatis	StBA	Federal Statistical Office
Technisches Hilfswerk	THW	Federal Agency for Technical Relief
Unabhängige Kommission zur Überprüfung des Vermögens der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR	UKPV	Independent Commission for the Review of Assets of Parties and Mass Organisation of the GDR
Vertreterin des Bundesinteresses beim Bundesverwaltungsgericht	VBI
Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Aussiedlerfragen und nationale Minderheiten
Bundesanstalt für den Digitalfunk der Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben	BDBOS	Federal Agency for Emergency Service Digital Radio

List of Federal Ministers of the Interior (since 1949)

Political Party: CDU CSU FDP SPD

	Party	Term of Office		Chancellor (Cabinet)
Gustav Heinemann (1899–1976)	CDU	20 September 1949	11 October 1950	Adenauer (I)
Robert Lehr (1883–1956)	CDU	11 October 1950	20 October 1953	Adenauer (I)
Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989)	CDU	20 October 1953	13 November 1961	Adenauer (II • III)
Hermann Höcherl (1912–1989)	CSU	14 November 1961	25 October 1965	Adenauer (IV • V) Erhard (I)
Paul Lücke (1914–1976)	CDU	26 October 1965	2 April 1968	Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I)
Ernst Benda (1925–2009)	CDU	2 April 1968	21 October 1969	Kiesinger (I)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927-2016)	FDP	22 October 1969	16 May 1974	Brandt (I • II)
Werner Maihofer (1918–2009)	FDP	16 May 1974	8 June 1978	Schmidt (I • II)
Gerhart Baum (b. 1932)	FDP	8 June 1978	17 September 1982	Schmidt (II • III)
Jürgen Schmude (b. 1936)	SPD	17 September 1982	1 October 1982	Schmidt (III)
Friedrich Zimmermann (1925–2012)	CSU	4 October 1982	21 April 1989	Kohl (I • II • III)
Wolfgang Schäuble (b. 1942)	CDU	21 April 1989	26 November 1991	Kohl (III • IV)
Rudolf Seiters (b. 1937)	CDU	26 November 1991	7 July 1993	Kohl (IV)
Manfred Kanther (b. 1939)	CDU	7 July 1993	27 October 1998	Kohl (IV • V)
Otto Schily (b. 1932)	SPD	27 October 1998	22 November 2005	Schröder (I • II)
Wolfgang Schäuble (b. 1942)	CDU	22 November 2005	28 October 2009	Merkel (I)
Thomas de Maizière (b. 1954)	CDU	28 October 2009	3 March 2011	Merkel (II)
Hans-Peter Friedrich (b. 1957)	CSU	3 March 2011	17 December 2013	Merkel (II)
Thomas de Maizière (b. 1954)	CDU	17 December 2013	Incumbent	Merkel (III)

References

↑ Stephan Lehnstaedt: Der „Totale Krieg“ im Reichsministerium des Innern unter Heinrich Himmler. In: Die Verwaltung. Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht und Verwaltungswissenschaften. 39. Vol., 2006, pp. 393–420; Walter Strauß: Das Reichsministerium des Innern und die Judengesetzgebung. Aufzeichnungen von Doktor Bernhard Lösener. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 9 (1961), part 3, pp. 262–313.

External links

Official site

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Interior Ministers of Germany
Imperial Interior Secretaries (1871–1918)	Karl Hofmann Karl Heinrich von Boetticher Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg Clemens von Delbrück Karl Helfferich Max Wallraf Karl Trimborn
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)	Friedrich Ebert Hugo Preuß Eduard David Erich Koch-Weser Georg Gradnauer Adolf Köster Rudolf Oeser Wilhelm Sollmann Karl Jarres Martin Schiele Otto Geßler Wilhelm Külz Walter von Keudell Carl Severing Joseph Wirth Wilhelm Groener Wilhelm von Gayl Franz Bracht
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)	Wilhelm Frick Heinrich Himmler Paul Giesler Wilhelm Stuckart
German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)	Karl Steinhoff Willi Stoph Karl Maron Friedrich Dickel Lothar Ahrendt Peter-Michael Diestel
Federal Republic of Germany (1949–)	Gustav Heinemann Robert Lehr Gerhard Schröder Hermann Höcherl Paul Lücke Ernst Benda Hans-Dietrich Genscher Werner Maihofer Gerhart Baum Jürgen Schmude Friedrich Zimmermann Wolfgang Schäuble Rudolf Seiters Manfred Kanther Otto Schily Wolfgang Schäuble Thomas de Maizière Hans-Peter Friedrich

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