The new representative of the federal government for issues and national minorities is the president of the federal government, Bernd Fabritius (CSU). As the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced in Berlin on Thursday, the 60 -year -old lawyer was appointed by the Federal Cabinet on Wednesday. Fabritius already held the task in 2018 to 2022. According to the ministry, all of his responsibilities were brought together again in the department. In addition to the Federal Government for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, SPD politician Lars Castellucci, as he announced. The CDU politician Thomas Rachel will be representative for worldwide freedom of religion. The federal government had already deleted a number of representative offices after taking office, such as the ambassador for feminist foreign policy, the special representative for international climate policy and the special representative for migration agreements. Which items were canceled exactly remained open on Wednesday. A spokesman for the new Ministry of Digitization and State Modernization, which will lead the list in the future, said it will be published in the next few days. Apparently it is apparently that there will be no representative against anti -Cziganism in the future. However, the topic will remain anchored in the ministry, said a spokeswoman for the Family Ministry, to which the position belonged. However, there is one successor for the queer representative Sven Lehmann. In the future, the office will be completed “Commissioner for acceptance of sexual and gender diversity” and will be filled out by Sophie Koch (SPD), who has been a member of the state parliament in Dresden since 2024 and is committed to the topic in the federal state. The post of a state minister for sports and volunteering in the Chancellery was newly created. The Federal Government cannot abolish some of the contracts because they have a legal basis, such as the office of disabled person, the anti -discrimination officer and the independent abuse officer.
