Hessische Staatskanzlei

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Hessian State Chancellery
Hessische Staatskanzlei (German)
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Hessische Staatskanzlei
General information
AddressGeorg-August-Zinn-Str. 1
Town or city Wiesbaden
CountryGermany
Coordinates 50°05′10″N08°14′35″E / 50.08611°N 8.24306°E / 50.08611; 8.24306
Owner Hesse State government
Website
staatskanzlei.hessen.de

Hessische Staatskanzlei (the Hessian State Chancellery) is located in the Mitte borough of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, opposite Kochbrunnenplatz. The former Grand Hotel Rose, representative of the Wilhelminian period in which it was constructed, is the seat of the government of the State of Hesse. The cabinet meetings of the state government also take place there. The acting head of the Hessian State Chancellery has been Axel Wintermeyer since August 31, 2010. [1]

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The State Chancellery also houses the Hessian Minister for Federal and European Affairs, to which the Hessian State Representation in Berlin belongs.

Function

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The cabinet room in 2013

It is from within the State Chancellery that the policy of the state government is drawn up and work between the various state ministries is coordinated. It is here that execution of the resolutions of the Landtag of Hesse and the issuance of laws and legal ordinances are controlled, and state treaties and administrative agreements are prepared. It is also the official residence of the Minister president, Boris Rhein, who was elected to that office in May 2022. [2] [3] The chancellery building also includes a room in which the state president conducts meetings of the cabinet. [4]

History

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Grand Hotel Rose in 1885

The site had been used as a hotel since the sixteenth century, and by 1828 was one of the largest spas in Wiesbaden. In 1872–73, its owners, the Haeffner brothers, built the four-storey "Neue Rose" on Kranzplatz, and by 1904 additional buildings were added to form the Grand Hotel Rose, which extended to Taunusstraße. The enlarged hotel had 200 bedrooms in Louis XVI style, with a spa which had its own inflow from the Kochbrunnen hot spring. In the courtyard there was a large indoor tennis court. [5]

From 1940 to 1944, the French delegation to the Franco-German Armistice Commission stayed in the hotel. [6] In March 1945, the US Army occupation forces confiscated the building to use as accommodation, returning it to a relative of its former owners in 1958. [7]

In 1959, after renovation, it was again operated as a hotel, but with fewer beds. Instead, 75 apartments were rented to permanent residents. [8]

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Main entrance in 2010
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Artwork of Heiner Thiel, 2022, at the Foyer of the hessische Staatskanzlei

The building, which real estate entrepreneur Jürgen Schneider  [ de ] acquired in the early 1990s to turn it into a luxury hotel again, stood empty for years after the "Schneider affair" in 1994: after a billion-euro bankruptcy in 1994, Schneider was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for fraud, loan fraud and forgery of documents. He was released on parole in 1999. [9]

Until 2004, the State Chancellery was spread over several buildings in Wiesbaden, which directly bordered the Warmer Damm park. [10] Shortly after the turn of the millennium, the state acquired the former Hotel Rose on Kranzplatz to refurbish it for the State Chancellery in accordance with historic preservation requirements. In the summer of 2004, a branch office of the Hessian State Statistical Office and the State Center for Political Education, both of which are departments of the State Chancellery, moved in. [8] As of 2023, about 440 employees work in the building. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chef der Staatskanzlei: Axel Wintermeyer". staatskanzlei.hessen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  2. ↑ "CDU-Politiker Rhein zum neuen Ministerpräsidenten gewählt" [CDU politician Rhein elected new prime minister]. Die Zeit (in German). 2022-05-31. Archived from the original on 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  3. ↑ "Rhein zum Ministerpräsidenten von Hessen gewählt" [Rhein elected Prime Minister of Hesse]. Hessenschau (in German). 31 May 2022. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Hessische Staatskanzlei Wiesbaden". kiwanis-wiesbaden-rm.de (in German). January 2016. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  5. ↑ Teuter, Oliver. "Hotel Rose". wiesbaden.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  6. ↑ "Deutsche Waffenstillstandskommission 1940-1944" [German Armistice Commission 1940-1944]. wiesbaden.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  7. ↑ Giese, Torben. "Amerikaner in Wiesbaden" [Americans in Wiesbaden]. wiesbaden.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  8. 1 2 "Hotel Rose". wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  9. ↑ "Milliardenbetrüger Jürgen Schneider: Der Gauner mit der weißen Weste" [Billionaire fraudster Jürgen Schneider The crook with the clean slate]. Der Spiegel . 2007-12-20. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  10. ↑ "Hotel Oranien". wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  11. ↑ "Staatskanzlei: Aufgaben und Organisation. Aufgaben im Detail" [State Chancellery: Duties and Organization. Duties in detail]. staatskanzlei.de. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
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