Organization

A multilayered organizational structure is needed for the efficient management of a large authority like the Federal Office of Administration with its multiple tasks. The Federal Office of Administration is headed by the President and the Vice-President, to whom the directorate-generals report. Some of these directorate-generals consist of several directorates that are composed of different divisions.

With 6,000 civil servants and other employees, the BVA carries out a variety of tasks and works for the Federal President, the Federal Chancellor, and all federal ministries.

On 1 July 2013, a variety of tasks was transferred to the BVA that had previously fallen in the competence of the Federal Defence Administration These tasks primarily include remuneration, the family allowance scheme, and government aid covering medical treatment and care for current civil servants of the Federal Ministry of Defence and of the Federal Defence Administration as well as for service persons.

With effect from 1 June 2017, the BVA has assumed further service tasks that had previously been performed by the Federal Office of Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues (BADV), such as payroll services, organizational consultancy, general infrastructure tasks, parts of the management of art, and the coinage of the Federal Republic of Germany. The latter includes the production and placing on the market of euro circulation coins, commemorative euro coins and collector's coins.

Since its foundation in 1960, the BVA headquarters have been located in Cologne. Besides, there are branch offices in Bad Homburg, Berlin, Bonn, Chemnitz, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Oder, Friedland, Hamm, Hanover, Kiel, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Munich, Neubrandenburg, Osnabrück, Pomellen, Rostock, Strausberg, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, and Zeuthen.