2004-12 Berlin Tiergarten Bundespraesidialamt Schloss Bellevue

The Bundespräsidialamt (; "Office of the Federal President") is a federal agency (German: "oberste Bundesbehörde") of the

Government of Germany The Federal Government (, ; abbr. BReg) is the chief Executive (government), executive body of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany and exercises executive power at the Federal level (Germany), federal level. It consists of the Chancellor ...

assisting the

President of Germany The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (),The official title within Germany is ', with ' being added in international correspondence; the official English title is President of the F ...

. The office building is situated beneath Bellevue Palace in Tiergarten in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. The seat was formerly in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

in the Villa Hammerschmidt and switched to Berlin with the

Berlin-Bonn Act The Berlin/Bonn Act () regulated the move of the Bundestag and parts of the government of Germany from Bonn to Berlin. It also regulated the move of certain Federal agencies and other German federal facilities to Bonn. The act was a consequence ...

. The agency moved into the actual building in 1998. The current head of the Bundespräsidialamt is State Secretary Dörte Dinger.

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Bundespräsidialamt
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