The design, construction, maintenance and upkeep of war gravesites in Germany are the responsibility of the Federal Government, as set out in the “Law for the Preservation of Graves of Victims of War and Tyranny” (Graves Law) and the “General Administrative Regulation for the Graves Law” (Design Guideline for Germany). Accordingly, the individual federal states were entrusted with the preparation, care and maintenance of war graves in their respective states. The federal states generally delegate the tasks of maintaining and repairing war graves to the subordinate administrative units (cemetery authorities).
Due to the division of tasks undertaken by the Federal Government, the German War Graves Commission is only active in an advisory capacity in Germany, but it is committed to the preservation and maintenance of war gravesites in Germany as far as possible and in cooperation with the cemetery authorities.