This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Beamter" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The German civil servants called Beamte (men, singular Beamter, more commonly der Beamte) (women, singular Beamtin) have a privileged legal status compared to other German public employees (called Angestellte), who are generally subject to the same laws and regulations as employees in the private sector. For example, the state can only fire Beamte if they commit a felony.
The tradition of classifying only some public employees as Beamte dates back to the "enlightened rule" of monarchs practised in 18th-century Prussia and other German states. These states did not accept "radical" concepts such as democracy or popular sovereignty, but they did try to professionalise their public services and to reduce corruption and favouritism. The idea was that whoever represents the state by undertaking official duties which only the state may legally provide (hoheitliche Aufgaben), such as issuing official documents, teaching state-approved curricula to students, preaching in state-approved churches, or making any other kind of official decisions, should have a special legal status and relationship with the state that demands a higher than normal degree of loyalty. At its core, that loyalty is regarded as mutual, with Beamte having a special duty of service (Dienstpflicht) going beyond the duties of salaried workers, with the state having a special duty of seeing to their welfare (Fürsorgepflicht) that likewise goes beyond what would be expected of a commercial employer. Some people[who?] believe that once Beamtenstatus (i.e. tenure for life as a civil servant) is conferred, civil servants lack further professional motivation, to the detriment of those they are appointed to serve.
While soldiers and judges are not considered Beamte in Germany, many of the same rules apply to them. However, unlike Beamte, judges are not subject to the usual hierarchy and order of command of government, in order to preserve judicial independence. Similarly, unlike Beamte, soldiers cannot be ordered to act in any manner unrelated to the defence of the state (with the exception of providing peaceful aid in specific emergency situations laid down by law), so as to preserve the civilian nature of the German government.
The German civil servants called Beamte (men, singular Beamter, more commonly der Beamte) (women, singular Beamtin) have a privileged legal status compared...
and maintained law and order with a small, armed unit. Later, the word Beamter superseded the older word Amtmann and has come to mean "official" or "civil...
Geordie people 'people' RP and GA button [ˈbɐʔn̩] 'button' German Northern Beamter [bəˈʔamtɐ] 'civil servant' Generally all vowel onsets. See Standard German...
man unter einem Amtsträger u. a. eine Person, die >>nach deutschem Recht Beamter oder Richter ist. Die Vorschrift enthält also eine vom Wortlaut her eindeutige...
ISBN 9783161467516. Lommatzsch, Erik (2009). Hans Globke (1898–1973), Beamter im Dritten Reich und Staatssekretär Adenauers (H. G., Official in the Third...
Ashok Khemka transferred for 52nd time in 27-year career". "Unbequemer Beamter - Von dauernder Versetzung gefährdet". Der Spiegel. 15 April 2015. "kasni...
2005 Willenbrock [de] Prosecutor 2008 Meine Mutter, mein Bruder und ich! Beamter Goldstein 2008 The Red Spot Johannes Weber 2012 Rommel General Marcks TV...
those of today's governmental ministers. The German Staatssekretär is a Beamter (civil servant) who ranks second only to the minister in a state or federal...
tragen". meinbezirk.at. 24 March 2016. "Parlament Österreich". "Bewaffneter Beamter löste Großeinsatz in Kino aus". nachrichten.at. "Pola milijuna nelegalnih...
civil service according to Art. 33 (Berufsverbot). Every civil servant (Beamter, a very broad class including many in the public sector who would not be...
or Frau plus their rank (for their respective ranks, see the tables at Beamter). This is in full vigour for police-officers (with the now unused rank...
Nazi Party. The easier way to become a German citizen was to become a Beamter, a German civil servant, because it automatically resulted in naturalization...
Kolldehoff as Werner Biener, SD-Beamter Erik von Loewis as Gen. Eisner Wolfgang Völz as Manfred Däubele, SD-Beamter Gerd Martienzen as Militär-Geistlicher...
have held this office since 1956: The president of the BND is a federal Beamter paid according to BBesO order B, B9, which is in payment the equivalent...
Czech-German forester and botanist. Beginning in 1805 he served as a cameral-beamter in his hometown of Čáslav, later working in Pardubice (from 1808) and Prague...
öffentlichen Rechts), which means they have the right to employ civil servants (Beamter), do official duties, or issue official documents. Freikirchen (free churches)...
Fahrzeugteile. In 1950, the Haftpflicht-Unterstützungs-Kasse kraftfahrender Beamter Deutschlands a. G. (today HUK-Coburg [de]) relocated from Erfurt to Coburg...
Eastern Europe". Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (4 May 2006). "Deutscher Beamter allein gegen Bulgarien".[permanent dead link] Iliya Trojanow (August 16...
entomologist principally interested in Lepidoptera. Franz Josef Kupido was a Beamter. His collection is in the Moravian Museum, Brno. In 1825 Kupido described...
Global Information