The Federal Chancellery cannot provide reliable information about what its civil servants have earned in total from additional income since the beginning of the legislative period. This emerges from an overview from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), which is available to Stern.
According to this, the federal government has “no meaningful information” about this because this is “not systematically tracked” in the Federal Chancellery. In seven other federal ministries there would also be “no systematic recording of all income”, but only in the legally prescribed case constellations, according to the BMI response. These included the following houses:
The information comes from an answer to a written question from CDU Bundestag member Matthias Hauer.
Since the beginning of the traffic light’s term in office, over 90 secondary activities have been decided in the Chancellery. According to the BMI response, 31 of the additional activities applied for were approved and 59 were reported. Civil servants must either have all paid secondary employment approved or reported – with exceptions.
The CDU member of the Bundestag Hauer criticizes a double standard. “While many people in Germany, from craftsmen to farmers, suffer from more and more bureaucracy, the federal government turns a blind eye to itself and often even foregoes recording the additional income of its employees,” Hauer told the star. There is an “urgent need to catch up” here, also to protect employees.
“The government has apparently lost track of the secondary activities in the Federal Chancellery,” said Hauer. There is hardly any other way to explain why she is sticking with the amount of additional income, even though she has knowledge about it.
According to stern information, civil servants in federal ministries have earned more than two million euros through secondary employment since the start of the traffic light government. The frontrunners are therefore the officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance. A total of additional income of around 716,000 euros was achieved there. This information also comes from an answer from the Interior Ministry to a written question from CDU politician Hauer, which Stern had previously reported on. The BMI now also refers to this written question (document 10/10022, no. 32) in its current answer. It is not possible to say conclusively how much civil servants in all ministries have earned from additional income since the traffic light started – because this is not recorded by all ministries.
