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svemagie e0e879d917 feat: add DE bundesAPI integrations — Lobbyregister, SMARD, Haushalt, DIP 
Four new data sources and fetch scripts via bundesAPI community project:

- DS-00011 Lobbyregister: 6,799 registrants, €0.86–0.91B declared lobbying (FY2024)
- DS-00012 SMARD Strommarkt: 60.2% renewable 2024, Wind Onshore #1 (107 TWh)
- DS-00013 Bundeshaushalt: €474.75B Ist-Wert 2024, 38.2% Soziales, 10.6% Verteidigung
- DS-00014 DIP Bundestag: 7,605 Drucksachen WP21, 12,507 Vorgänge, 83 Plenarprotokolle

Each integration: live-data fetch script (bun/TypeScript) + DATASET-TEMPLATE
markdown + CSV outputs. Scripts idempotent — re-run for current data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 12:54:02 +02:00

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Bundeshaushalt Digital — Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Source ID: DS-00013 Record Created: 2026-04-20 Last Updated: 2026-04-20 Cataloger: Sven / PAI Review Status: Initial

Bibliographic Information

Title Statement

Responsibility Statement

Publication Information

  • Date of First Publication: Portal launched ~2013; annual Ist-Werte published after parliamentary discharge
  • Publication Frequency: Annual (Soll at budget law passage; Ist after fiscal year close)
  • Current Status: Active

Content Description

What it contains

Bundeshaushalt Digital is the BMF's interactive publication of federal budget data. It covers both Soll-Werte (appropriations as passed by the Bundestag) and Ist-Werte (actuals after fiscal year execution) across all Einzelpläne (ministry chapters).

Key data dimensions:

  • Einzelpläne (EP): Ministry-level budget chapters (EP 01 Bundespräsident through EP 60 Allgemeine Finanzverwaltung)
  • Hauptgruppen: Revenue vs. expenditure classification at Einzelplan level
  • Gruppen/Titelgruppen: Sub-chapter detail (personnel, material, transfers, investment)
  • Soll vs. Ist: Budget law values vs. actual execution
  • Year range: Historical data from ~2005; API formally supports up to 2021 (see API note below)

Coverage

  • All federal ministries and constitutional bodies
  • Federal debt management (EP 32 Bundesschuld)
  • General financial administration (EP 60 Allgemeine Finanzverwaltung — tax revenue pool)
  • Excluded: Sondervermögen (off-balance special funds: Sondervermögen Bundeswehr, Klima- und Transformationsfonds, etc.), Sozialversicherungsträger, Länder budgets

API / Access

  • Portal: https://www.bundeshaushalt.de/DE/Bundeshaushalt-digital/bundeshaushalt-digital.html
  • Download: CSV/XLSX export available via portal UI per selected view
  • API (live, undocumented internal): GET https://bundeshaushalt.de/internalapi/budgetData?year=2024&account=expenses&quota=actual GET https://bundeshaushalt.de/internalapi/budgetData?year=2024&account=income&quota=actual
  • API note — documented vs. actual year range: The API spec/documentation indicates maxYear=2021, but as of 2026-04-20 the live endpoint returns 2024 Ist-Werte (modify date: 11.07.2025). This discrepancy is likely due to the API spec not being updated alongside data publication. The 2024 data is confirmed live and internally consistent with published BMF figures.
  • Response structure: JSON with meta, detail (totals), and children (Einzelplan list at level 0)
  • Substrate fetch script: bun get-de-haushalt — writes to Data/DE-Federal-Budget/
  • Auth: None required for public data
  • Rate limit: Not documented; single-call full-dataset fetch is used
  • TLS note: Bun on macOS requires NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 (Bundeshaushalt CA not in Bun's bundled cert store)
  • Last fetched: 2026-04-20 — 25 expense Einzelpläne, 24 income Einzelpläne, Ist-Werte 2024

Substrate Relevance

Problems Addressed

  • PR-00002 (Illegitimate Domination): The federal budget is the primary mechanism by which the state operationalizes political priorities. Budget analysis reveals whether stated commitments (social equity, climate, defense, education) correspond to actual resource allocation. The gap between discourse and Einzelplan figures is a direct measure of political sincerity.
  • PR-00003 (Structural Inequality): Social transfers (EP 11 at 38.2%) reflect the institutional reproduction of the welfare state under demographic pressure. Budget trajectories reveal who bears austerity costs when fiscal space contracts.
  • PR-00004 (Epistemic Fragmentation): Defense rearmament (Zeitenwende) and climate investment were sold as paradigm shifts; budget Ist-Werte allow testing whether actual allocation matched rhetorical commitment.

Connection to DE-Plan

  • de-plan1-sven.md CHALLENGE 1 (state capacity): Schuldenbremse + rising debt service crowd out discretionary investment — visible in EP 32 at 9.3% of total budget
  • de-plan1-sven.md CHALLENGE 2 (democratic legitimacy): Sondervermögen as off-balance vehicles circumvent the Bundestag's budget sovereignty — a structural legitimacy problem not visible in Ist-Werte alone
  • de-plan1-sven.md CHALLENGE 3 (social cohesion): Social transfer dominance (38.2%) reflects a welfare state under fiscal stress — rising costs, shrinking contribution base

Dataset: DE-Federal-Budget

Dataset implemented at Data/DE-Federal-Budget/DE-Federal-Budget.md.

As of 2026-04-20 (FY2024 Ist-Werte):

Metric Value
Total federal expenditure (Ist) €474.75B
Total federal income (Ist) €474.75B
Largest Einzelplan EP 11 Arbeit & Soziales: €181.57B (38.2%)
Defense (EP 14 Verteidigung) €50.29B (10.6%)
Debt service (EP 32 Bundesschuld) €44.28B (9.3%)
Infrastructure/Digital (EP 12) €45.26B (9.5%)

Quality Assessment

Dimension Rating Notes
Completeness High All Einzelpläne covered; Sondervermögen excluded by design
Accuracy Very High Official government actuals; basis for parliamentary discharge (Entlastung)
Timeliness High Ist-Werte published within ~12 months of fiscal year close
Comparability High Consistent Einzelplan structure allows multi-year comparison
Access Medium API undocumented; portal requires UI interaction for deep data

Key limitation: Sondervermögen (Bundeswehr €100B, KTF, etc.) are off the regular budget — the €474.75B figure understates total federal spending by potentially €50-100B in active special fund years.

Connections to Other Sources

Source Relationship
DE-Lobby-Transparency (DS-00011) Lobbying expenditure as influence on budget allocation
PR-00002—Illegitimate_Domination.md Budget as power mapping tool
DE-Democracy-Metrics (if created) Fiscal transparency as democracy indicator
BMF Haushaltsrechnung (annual PDF) Legally binding version of same data
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