Bundespressekonferenz

The most important committee is the general assembly, which appoints the 8 members of the board, who take turns leading press conferences.

Since 2000, the association has had its own building in the centre of Berlin, rented from the Allianz Group, which also houses offices for correspondents.

In contrast to the practice in many other states, the "hosts" of the federal press conferences are the journalists themselves and not the government, ministries, political parties, associations, think-tanks or individual politicians.

After the abolition of the monarchy and the founding of the Weimar Republic, the Berlin-based journalists of the leading German daily newspapers took the organization of press conferences into their own hands and invited politicians and government spokespeople as guests, instead of the other way around.

Immediately after the founding of the BPK, several members of the executive board were entrusted with one of the most urgent organizational tasks of the postwar period: the procurement of housing for the Bonn journalists.

After further subsidies (such assistance for surviving family members) were added, the Social Fund of the Federal Press Conference was launched.

The room in which the Federal Press Conference takes place, as well as the offices of the club employees, are rented from Allianz, which owns the building.

In her final speech on 4 August 1999 in Bonn, the then deputy spokeswoman Charima Reinhardt said the number of press conferences held there was "between 9,000 and 10,000".

[2][3][4][5] The Sozialfonds Bundespressekonferenz is an independent self-help institution of members of the Federal Press Conference in the form of a registered non-profit association based in Berlin.

The purpose of the Fund is to assist journalists or their surviving families in distress through ongoing financial contributions or one-time subsidies.

Previous winners are the Reuters correspondent Gernot Heller (2014), Der Spiegel reporter Christoph Reuter (2015), the long-time director of the ARD (broadcaster) studio in Brussels Rolf-Dieter Krause (2016), the Deutsche Presse-Agentur correspondent Kristina Dunz (2017), and the Phoenix journalists Gerd-Joachim von Fallois and Erhard Scherfer.