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The Federal Ministry of the Interior (in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) is a ministry
Ministry (government department)

A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a Political minister, but usually a Civil service, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or administrative organisations....
 of the German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 federal government
Politics of Germany

Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federation parliamentary democratic representative democracy republic, whereby the Chancellor of Germany is the head of government, and of a plurality multi-party system....
. Its main office is in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, with a secondary seat in Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
. The current minister of the interior is Wolfgang Schäuble
Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Sch?uble, List of Bundestag Members is a Germany politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . He presently is Federal Minister of the Interior of the Government of Germany....
.

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.






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The Federal Ministry of the Interior (in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) is a ministry
Ministry (government department)

A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a Political minister, but usually a Civil service, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or administrative organisations....
 of the German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 federal government
Politics of Germany

Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federation parliamentary democratic representative democracy republic, whereby the Chancellor of Germany is the head of government, and of a plurality multi-party system....
. Its main office is in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, with a secondary seat in Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
. The current minister of the interior is Wolfgang Schäuble
Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Sch?uble, List of Bundestag Members is a Germany politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . He presently is Federal Minister of the Interior of the Government of Germany....
.

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
Law enforcement in Germany

Law enforcement in Germany is divided between the different levels of federalism: the federal level , the state level and the local level ....
 and intelligence agencies
List of intelligence agencies of Germany

List of intelligence agencies of Germany:*Federal Intelligence Service – Bundesnachrichtendienst, foreign intelligence*Military Security Service – Milit?rischer Abschirmdienst, military intelligence...
 involved in the fight against terrorism.

Organization


State Secretaries

The minister is supported by two parliamentary state secretaries
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
 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
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
 director, data protection and freedom of information
Freedom of information

Freedom of information refers to the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regards to the Internet and information technology ....
 office and the doping
Doping (sport)

In sports, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is commonly referred to by the disparaging term "doping", particularly by those organizations that regulate competitions....
 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
    Bereitschaftspolizei

    The Bereitschaftspolizei are the support and rapid reaction units of Germany's police forces....
     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
    Landespolizei

    Landespolizei is a term used in the Federal Republic of Germany to denote the law enforcement services which patrol the German States of Germany ....
     and with agencies within the European Union
    European Union

    The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
     (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
    Technisches Hilfswerk

    The Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk is a disaster relief organisation controlled by the Germany federal government. 99% of its members are volunteers....
    .


  • "B" Department (Abteilung B) supervises and manages German Federal Police
    German Federal Police

    The Bundespolizei is the uniformed Federal police of Germany. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior . Ordinary police forces fall under the administration of the individual German states and are known as the Landespolizei....
     operations.


  • "M" Department (Abteilung M) is responsible for immigration
    Immigration

    While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
    , integration
    Racial integration

    Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation . In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of Race , and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the m...
    , 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
    Civil service

    The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* Branch of governmental service in which individuals are hired on the basis of merit which is proven by the use of competitive examinations....
    .


  • "O" Department (Abteilung O) is responsible for administrative modernisation and organisation.


  • "SP" Department (Abteilung SP) is responsible for sport
    Sport

    Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
    .


  • "V" Department (Abteilung V) is responsible for constitutional, state, administrative and European law.


Special agencies


Federal Minister of the Interior


Presidents of the Chancellery, 1871-1879

  • Rudolf Delbrück 1871-1876
  • Karl Hofmann 1876-1879

State Secretaries for the Interior, 1879-1918

  • Karl Hofmann 1879-1880
  • Karl Heinrich von Bötticher 1880-1897
  • Count Arthur Adolf von Posadowsky-Wehner 1897-1907
  • Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 1907-1909
  • Klemens Delbrück 1909-1916
  • Karl Helfferich
    Karl Helfferich

    Karl Theodor Helfferich was a Germany politician, economist, and financier from Neustadt an der Weinstra?e in the Palatinate .He studied law and political science at the universities of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Humboldt University of Berlin, and University of Strasbourg....
     1916-1917
  • Max Wallraf 1917-1918
  • Karl Trimborn 1918


Ministers of the Interior, 1918-


"Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
" 1918-1933


  • Friedrich Ebert
    Friedrich Ebert

    Friedrich Ebert was a German politician , who served as Chancellor of Germany of Germany and its first President of Germany during the Weimar Republic period....
     (SPD
    Social Democratic Party of Germany

    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
    ) 1918-1919
  • Hugo Preuß
    Hugo Preuss

    Hugo Preu? was a Germany lawyer and liberal politician.Preu? is often regarded as the father of the German constitution of the Weimar Republic ....
     (DDP
    German Democratic Party

    The German Democratic Party, or Deutsche Demokratische Partei , was founded by leaders of the former Progressive People's Party and the left wing of the National Liberal Party in the early days of the Weimar Republic....
    ) 1919
  • Eduard David
    Eduard David

    Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David was a Germany politician. During the Weimar Republic he was the Minister of the Interior from June 21, 1919 to October 3, 1919....
     (SPD) 1919
  • Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) 1919-1921
  • Georg Gradnauer (SPD) 1921
  • Adolf Köster (SPD) 1921-1922
  • Rudolf Oeser (DDP) 1922-1923
  • Wilhelm Sollmann
    Wilhelm Sollmann

    Friedrich Wilhelm Sollmann was a Germany journalist, politician, and interior minister of the Weimar Republic. In 1919 he was a member of the German delegation to the Treaty of Versailles....
     (SPD) 1923
  • Karl Jarres
    Karl Jarres

    Karl Jarres was a politician of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic. Jarres was born in the city of Remscheid. Rhenish Prussia, and after legal studies in University of Bonn as a young adult, pursued an administrative career....
    (DVP
    German People's Party

    The German People's Party was a Liberalism-nationalist party in Germany.It was essentially the right wing of the old National Liberal Party , and was formed in the early days of the Weimar Republic, led by Gustav Stresemann....
    ) 1923-1925
  • Martin Schiele (DNVP
    German National People's Party

    The German National People's Party was a national conservatism party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. The party was formed in 1918 by a merger of the German Conservative Party, the Free Conservative Party and a section of the National Liberal Party of the old monarchic German Empire....
    ) 1925
  • Otto Geßler (DDP) 1925-1926
  • Wilhelm Külz
    Wilhelm Külz

    Wilhelm K?lz was a Germany politician . In 1926 he was interior minister of the Weimar Republic. After 1945 he took actively part in establishing the LDPD....
     (DDP) 1926-1927
  • Walter von Keudell (DNVP) 1927-1928
  • Carl Severing
    Carl Severing

    Carl Wilhelm Severing was a Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany politician during the Weimar Republic.He was Interior Minister of Prussia from 1920 to 1926, Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1928 to 1930 and Interior Minister of Prussia again from 1930 to 1932....
     (SPD) 1928-1930
  • Joseph Wirth
    Joseph Wirth

    Karl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a Germany politician of the Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922....
     (Z
    Centre Party (Germany)

    The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The party dissolved itself on 5 July, 1933 as a condition of the conclusion of Reichskonkordat between the Holy See and Germany....
    ) 1930-1931
  • Wilhelm Groener
    Wilhelm Groener

    Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was a Germany soldier and politician....
     1931-1932
  • Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl (DNVP) 1932
  • Franz Bracht 1932-1933


"Third Reich" 1933-1945


  • Wilhelm Frick
    Wilhelm Frick

    Wilhelm Frick was a prominent Nazism official, serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes....
     (NSDAP) 1933-1943
  • Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler

    Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a Nazi Germany German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, competing with Hermann G?ring, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels....
     (NSDAP) 1943-1945
  • Wilhelm Stuckart
    Wilhelm Stuckart

    Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, a state secretary in the Germany Interior Ministry and later, a convicted war crimes....
     (NSDAP) 1945


Federal Republic of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 1949-


  • Gustav Heinemann
    Gustav Heinemann

    Gustav Walter Heinemann, Order of the Bath was a Germany politician. He was Minister of Interior Affairs from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of Germany from 1969 to 1974....
     (CDU) 1949-1950
  • Robert Lehr (CDU) 1950-1953
  • Gerhard Schröder
    Gerhard Schröder (CDU)

    File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F008145-0002, Gerhard Schr?der.jpgGerhard Schr?der was a West Germany politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union Party....
     (CDU) 1953-1961
  • Hermann Höcherl
    Hermann Höcherl

    Hermann H?cherl was a Germany politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria . After first being elected to the Bundestag in 1961, he was Federal Minister of the Interior until 1965 and then Federal Ministry for Food, Consumer Protection, and Agriculture until 1969....
     (CSU) 1961-1965
  • Paul Lücke (CDU) 1965-1968
  • Ernst Benda
    Ernst Benda

    Ernst Benda was a Germany legal scholar, politician and judge. He served as the 4th president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983....
     (CDU) 1968-1969
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher
    Hans-Dietrich Genscher

    Hans-Dietrich Genscher is a Germany politician and member of the Free Democratic Party of Germany. He was Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982 and, after a two-week pause, from 1982 to 1992, making him Germany's longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor....
     (FDP) 1969-1974
  • Werner Maihofer (FDP) 1974-1978
  • Gerhart Baum (FDP) 1978-1982
  • Jürgen Schmude
    Jürgen Schmude

    J?rgen Dieter Paul Schmude is a Germany politician of the SPD. He was born in Chernyakhovsk, Province of East Prussia.Schmude was a member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, from 1969–94....
     (SPD
    Social Democratic Party of Germany

    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
    ) 1982
  • Friedrich Zimmermann
    Friedrich Zimmermann

    Friedrich Zimmermann is a former Germany politician and a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. From 1982 - 1989 he was the Federal Minister of the Interior....
     (CSU) 1982-1989
  • Wolfgang Schäuble
    Wolfgang Schäuble

    Wolfgang Sch?uble, List of Bundestag Members is a Germany politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . He presently is Federal Minister of the Interior of the Government of Germany....
     (CDU) 1989-1991
  • Rudolf Seiters
    Rudolf Seiters

    Rudolf Seiters is a Germany politician of the Christian Democratic Union party.From 1989-1991, he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany and the Head of the Office of the German Chancellery....
     (CDU) 1991-1993
  • Manfred Kanther
    Manfred Kanther

    Manfred Kanther is a Germany conservative politician and was Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998....
     (CDU) 1993-1998
  • Otto Schily
    Otto Schily

    Otto Georg Schily was Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of former German Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schr?der....
     (SPD) 1998-2005
  • Wolfgang Schäuble
    Wolfgang Schäuble

    Wolfgang Sch?uble, List of Bundestag Members is a Germany politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . He presently is Federal Minister of the Interior of the Government of Germany....
     (CDU) 2005-


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