State Secretary for Digitization asks for dismissal

First started in Berlin in mid-March

Hundt, who was born in Dresden in 1969, was only appointed Chief Digital Officer and State Secretary for Digitalization and Administrative Modernization in the Berlin Senate Chancellery in mid-March. He succeeded Martina Klement, who moved to the Brandenburg state government as Minister of Economic Affairs.

"Matthias Hundt will drive forward the digitalization of the Berlin administration and focus on e-government, but also on IT security and the protection of critical infrastructure," Wegner explained on the occasion of his appointment. In addition to the largely completed administrative reform, which is regarded as a major achievement by both Wegner and Klement, the digitization of administrative services and the e-file are also part of Hundt's remit.

Personnel decision does not cast Wegner in a good light

It is very rare for a State Secretary to resign after just over two months in office. The personnel matter does not reflect well on Wegner's personnel policy, who selected and appointed Hundt.

Wegner is already under pressure in the election year. His crisis management after the major power outage following an arson attack in January attracted a lot of criticism - not least because he initially concealed a tennis match on the first day. Details of his procedures on that January 3 remain unclear to this day.

In April, Senator for Culture Sarah Wedl-Wilson (non-party) also resigned in the wake of an affair surrounding the unlawful allocation of funding to projects against anti-Semitism, according to the Court of Auditors. She had released the controversial funding decisions. Finance Senator Stefan Evers (CDU) is now also in charge of the culture department.

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