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Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

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Formed
  
October 27, 1998

Jurisdiction
  
Government of Germany

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Headquarters
  
Invalidenstraße 44, Berlin

Minister responsible
  
Alexander Dobrindt, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (German: Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur), abbreviated BMVI, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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It was created in 1998 through the merger of the former Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, both established in 1949. The new ministry at first was named Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing until it adopted the name Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development in 2005.

Bundesverkehrswegeplan

The Bundesverkehrswegeplan (BVWP, Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan) is the infrastructure roadmap of the federal government. It is not a financial plan and carries no legal obligations, imposing no formal commitments.

Agencies

Subordinate agencies include:

  • German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
  • Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation
  • The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (German: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)) located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, provides among other things information of all matters of maritime shipping, to special funding programmes, law of flag, certification of mariners and information of the coasts and coastal waters of Germany.
  • Federal Ministers of Transport, Building and Urban Development

    Political Party:   DP   SPD   CSU   CDU

    References

    Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Wikipedia