The history of the NIPAG

• 1956
  Initial thoughts and efforts to consolidate and expand research in public administration in Speyer

• 1961
  Basic considerations of the Senate:
  Establishment of an Institute for 'research and information'

• 1962  
  Internal decision of the university to establish the Institute with a summary of the research assistant positions

• 1962 - 1965     
  Opening of the Research Institute of the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (by decree of the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate of 31 January 1965):
  The Rector of the university was also the director of the Institute; funding and material resources came from the university budget.

• 1970 - 1972     
  Considerations to reorganise the Institute; appointment of a preparatory committee for the reform of the Institute.

• 1976     
  Establishment of the Research Institute of Public Administration at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer:
  The Institute becomes organisationally and financially independent as a self-governing research institution supported by the Federal Government and the States in accordance with Art. 91b of the Basic Law ('Blue List Institution'), which reports directly to the Minister-President - State Chancellery - of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

• 1976 - 1984     
  Managing Director Prof. Dr Frido Wagener († 6 January 1985)

• 1977     
  Rules of the Research Institute of Public Administration at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer of 22 November 1977 (Official Gazette No. 50 of 27 December 1977, p. 922), containing provisions for the internal organisation of the Institute.

• 1978     
  State Act on the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (University of Administrative Sciences Act) of 21 July 1978, last amended on 18 December 1997, of which Sec. 60 constitutes the legal basis for the Research Institute.

• 1982 - 1984    
  Planning and construction of the Institute's building

• 1984 - 1988     
  Managing Director Prof. Dr Carl Böhret

• 1988 - 1996     
  Managing Director Prof. Dr Willi Blümel († 22 August 2015)

• 1991     
  The Institute joins the 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forschungseinrichtungen Blaue Liste' (Research Institutions Consortium Blue List), which becomes the 'Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Blaue Liste (WBL)' (Blue List of Scientific Communities) in 1995 and the 'Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL)' (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community) in 1997.

• 1991 - 1992     
  The five new Federal States join the Governing Council of the Institute, so that the Institute is once again supported by all the Federal States in addition to the Federal Government.

• 1995     
  Establishment of the Scientific Advisory Council Board following the amendment of the University of Administrative Sciences Act of 14 June 1994 and the State Ordinance on the Research Institute of 31 May 1976 by the State Ordinance of 5 July 1994.

• 1996 - 1999     
  Managing Director Prof. Dr Klaus König

• 1999 - 2001     
  Managing Director (since 15 December 2000 as Director) Prof. Dr Karl-Peter Sommermann

• 1999 - 2001
  Restructuring of the Institute following the preliminary opinion of the Science Council
  Entry into force of the Fourth Amendment to the University of Administrative Sciences Act on 15 December 2000
  Entry into force of the redraft of the State Ordinance on the NIPAG on 1 March 2001
  Approval of the Institute's Statutes by the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate on 23 August 2001

• Since 2001
  Director, Prof. Dr Jan Ziekow

• 2004 - 2006
  Entry into force of the First State Act amending the University of Administrative Sciences Act of 19 October 2005
  Entry into force of the redraft of the State Ordinance on the NIPAG on 13 March 2006
  Approval of the Institute's Statutes by the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate on 28 December 2004
   
• 2007
  Transfer from the State Chancelley of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Ministry of Education, Science, Further Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

• 2012    
  Restructuring of the Institute's organisation and research programme
  Entry into force of the redraft of the state ordinance on the NIPAG on 16 June 2012
  Approval of the Institute's Statutes by the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate on 18 December 2012

• 2015     
  Entry into force of the Act amending the State Act on the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer on 5 December 2015
  Withdrawal from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community (WGL) on 31 December 2015

• 2016     
  Entry into force of the redraft of the State Act on the German Research Institute for Public Administration on 1 January 2016

• 2017
  Approval of the Institute's statutes by the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate on 22 June 2017