Since the traffic light coalition: 1700 new civil servant positions created

The federal government has hired more than 1700 new civil servants since it took office two and a half years ago. According to a response from the Ministry of Finance to a request from CSU member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Stefinger, which was available to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (SZ) on Friday, a total of 15 additional civil servant positions have been created in the Federal Chancellery and in the 2021 federal ministries since the end of 1710.

According to Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Toncar (FDP), for example, 249 new civil servant positions are located in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action led by Robert Habeck (Greens). The CSU deputy Stefinger described this figure as "particularly excessive".

Only in the Ministry of the Interior, according to the information, jobs were cut. For this purpose, 431 civil servant positions from the construction sector, which used to belong there, have been redeployed to the newly created Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building. In view of the presumably "missed" goal of building 400,000 new apartments, this spin-off is "a particularly expensive flop," says Stefinger.

According to the Taxpayers' Association, the total number of employees in the federal ministries rose to a total of 30,200 employees and civil servants – in 2012 there were 18,500 positions. According to the report, civil servant positions have increased by 2012 percent since 82.

Anyone who, in view of the "tough consolidation decisions" in the federal budget, at the same time equips the ministries with more and more civil servants, thwarts the necessary austerity efforts, said the President of the Taxpayers' Association, Reiner Holznagel, the "SZ". It is not only additional civil servants who burden the budget. Expenditure on offices, business trips or IT equipment is also rising sharply. This money would then be lacking in other places.

The chairman of the Left Party's parliamentary group, Dietmar Bartsch, criticized that it would be "civil servants every minute". An "operation for life", especially for the care of party members, is hardly feasible in times of inflation and loss of real wages.