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Careers
There are four different groups of careers in Germany:
- Simple service - salary bracket a2 to A 5 (for particularly lifted out utility positions also A 6 - as a rule must a main graduation be present
- Middle service - salary bracket A 5 to A 9 (in Baden-Wuerttemberg after federal state law in particularly lifted out utility positions, e.g. Work service leader of a penal institution also A 10), whereby the offices of the BesGr. A 5 actually no more than office for entrance serve and the careers now with A 6 begin - as a rule middle one ripe one and/or a main graduation with professional training is demanded
- Elevated service - salary bracket A 9 to A 13 - specialized university-level graduation and/or with technical careers (e.g. Building service or fire-brigade) and/or for technical teachers locked specialized higher education of of a favorable field (diploma (FH) or Bachelor)
- Higher service - salary bracket A 13 to A 16 - as a rule final scientific higher education (diploma or master)
The office designations of the officials in the pay regulation A read (examples, italic printed office designations are basic office designations, which usually require an additive)):
Simple service
- A2 custodian, upper office assistant, upper operating assistant, Schaffner, Wachtmeister, Zollwachtmeister
- A 3 principal office assistant, main operating assistant, upper custodian, upper Schaffner, Oberwachtmeister, Zolloberwachtmeister
- A of 4 office masters, operating master, main custodian, main Schaffner, Hauptwachtmeister, Oberwart, Zollhauptwachtmeister
- A 5 (office for teeth more simply - middle service) first main being awake master, mainwait, Kriminaloberwachtmeister, Kriminalwachtmeister, upper office master, upper operating master, operating assistant, first (r) tariff main being awake masters (in)
- A 6 (lifted out service posts) first main being awake master, operating assistant, upper office master, upper operating master, mainwait, first (r) tariff main being awake masters (in), upper motor coach leaders
Middle service
- A 5 (office for teeth more simply - middle service) law enforcement assistant, upper motor coach leader, police upper being awake master, patrolman, tariff assistant (the offices of the BesGr. A 5 are essentially abolished for the middle service);
- A 6 secretary (e.g. Law enforcement secretary, tariff secretary, communications secretary etc.), foremen;
- A of 7 fire chiefs, Krankenpfleger, nurse, upper secretary
(e.g. Law upper secretary, communications upper secretary, etc.), upper foreman, police master, station male nurse, station sister;- A of 8 department departments of, department department of, bailiff, main secretary (e.g. Law main secretary, communications main secretary etc.), main foreman, upper fire chief, police upper master;
- A 9 (office for teeth middle - elevated service) office supervisor, operating supervisor, Zollbetriebsinspektor/Zollschiffsbetriebsinspektor, main fire chief, consulate secretary, upper bailiff, Oberin, upper male nurse, upper sister, care chief, police main master;
- A 9 Z (A 9 with granted extra pay) is paid to equate with the salary bracket A 10 and can officials of the salary bracket A 9, if they notice tasks of the elevated service.
Elevated service
- A 9 (office for teeth middle - elevated service) supervisor, captain, Kriminalkommissar, Polizeikommissar, Zollinspektor/in;
- A 10 consulate secretary of first class, Kriminaloberkommissar, upper supervisor, police upper commissioner, sea-captain, Zolloberinspektor/in;
- A 11 office man, chancellor (in the foreign service), police main commissioner, sea-upper captain, subject teacher,
- A 12 office lawyer, office advice, chancellor of first class, police main commissioner, calculation advice, sea-main captain, subject teacher, Konrektor, teacher, second Konrektor,
- A of 13 (office for teeth more elevated - higher service) chancellors of first class, consul, upper office lawyer, upper office advice, upper calculation advice, first Kriminalhauptkommissar, first police main commissioner, sea-main captain, specialized school upper teacher, main teacher, Konrektor, teacher, material school teacher,
Higher service
- A 13 (office for teeth more elevated - higher service) academic advice, physician, Legationsrat, curator, Kustos, national lawyer, secondary school teacher, minister (as a national civil servant), advice;
- A 14 academic upper advice, Chefarzt, consul of first class, national lawyer, Legationsrat of first class, member of the management of an agency for work, upper physician, upper curator, Oberkustos, upper advice, minister (as a national civil servant), specialized head master, specialized school upper teacher, Konrektor, upper secondary school teacher, Realschulkonrektor, material school rector, government school advice, rector, school advice, scientific upper advice, second Konrektor, second Realschulkonrektor;
- A 15 academic director, Ambassador, message advice, director of Federal Bank, Chefarzt, Dekan (as a national civil servant), director, Consul General, envoy, main curator, Hauptkustos, member of the management of an agency for work, upper physician, upper national lawyer, presiding member of the management of an agency for work, speaking Legationsrat, director of a technical school, material school rector, government head master, director of education office, director of study, scientific director;
- A 16 department department of, department department of, Ambassador, message advice of first class, leading director of Federal Bank, Dekan (as a national civil servant), director of the Federal Agency for flight accident investigation, director of secret public records of the donation Prussian culture possession, director of the Ibero American institute of the donation Prussian culture possession, director of the national institute for music research of the donation Prussian culture possession, director of a military engineering agency, financial president, Consul General, envoy, public curator, direction academic director, Ministerialrat (also in B 2), member of the management of a regional management of the federal agency for work, director of museum and professor, upper national lawyer, senate advice, presiding member of the management of an agency for work, speaking Legationsrat of first class, chancellor of a university of the German Federal Armed Forces, Leading director, director of upper study, leading government head master, leading director of education office;
Leading positions are yielded in the pay regulation B. See to higher one service.
The last in each case stage of a group of services (simple, middle, elevated and higher service) is the respective initial stage of the next higher group of services (e.g. A 5 more simply and A 5 middle service, likewise A 9 and A 13). These places are called also offices for teeth. The training for the simple and middle service takes place usually at training centres, institutes for study or similar administrativeinternal mechanisms. In the elevated service a study at a professional school is the rule. Between the theoretical training at the professional school practical training sections in the respective attitude authority take place. In the higher service the new acquisitions participate in special training courses and/or with some fields directly in the job are usually instructed.
German bureaucracy in the change
The municipalities, in particular in the east of Germany, employ less and less officials. Whether the attitude of employees is financially more favorable in place of officials, is disputed. Studies came in this question to contradictory results. On the one hand the service gentleman for its officials social insurance contributions does not have to exhaust, but only as cost-saving valid aid in the medical case finance, on the other hand is constantly rising pension loads to be registered, for which so far the "public hand" - despite appropriate sinking of the purchases - no sufficiently high resetting (reserves) are formed; and this although e.g. into Lower Saxony the wage increases with the employees in the public service in each case decreased by 0,2% to the officials to transfer became (meant supplying reserve so mentioned).
Judge and soldier
Although there are many similarities regarding legal conditions, judges and soldiers are not officials. Their status is subject own in each case Bestimmungen.Bis into the 1960er years was judge however also an official. One spoke then of judicial officials.