Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany)
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The Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( - BMELV) is a ministry in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Its headquarters are located in Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

 with a second major office in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. It had originally been created as Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture on January 22, 2001 from the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten) through an organizational order by the Chancellor. Consumer protection was transferred from the Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit).

Federal Ministers for Food, Agriculture and Forests (1949 - 2001)

{ border=0 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" Federal Ministers for Food, Agriculture and Forests # Name (Dates) Assumption of Office End of Service Party 1 Wilhelm Niklas
(1887-1957) September 20, 1949 October 20, 1953 CSU
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...

2 Heinrich Lübke
Heinrich Lübke
Karl Heinrich Lübke was President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1959 to 1969.-Biography:...


(1894-1972) October 20, 1953 September 15, 1959 CDU
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

3 Werner Schwarz
(1900-1982) October 14, 1959 October 26, 1965 CDU 4 Hermann Höcherl
Hermann Höcherl
Hermann Höcherl was a Nazi politician, volunteer Wehrmacht soldier and after the war German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria ....


(1912-1989) October 26, 1965 October 21, 1969 CSU 5 Josef Ertl
(1925-2000) October 22, 1969 September 17, 1982 FDP
Free Democratic Party (Germany)
The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...

Björn Engholm
Björn Engholm
Björn Engholm is a Lübeck born German SPD politician. He was Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1988 to 1993 and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany between 1991 and 1993....

 acting
(b. 1939) September 17, 1982 October 1, 1982 SPD
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

6 Josef Ertl
(1925-2000) October 4, 1982 March 29, 1983 FDP 7 Ignaz Kiechle
Ignaz Kiechle
Ignaz Kiechle was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....


(1930-2003) March 30, 1983 January 21, 1993 CSU 8 Jochen Borchert
(b. 1940) January 21, 1993 October 26, 1998 CDU 9 Karl-Heinz Funke
(b. 1946) October 27, 1998 January 12, 2001 SPD

Federal Ministers for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture

{ border=0 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" Federal Ministers for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture # Name (Dates) Assumption of Office End of Service Party 1 Renate Künast
Renate Künast
Renate Künast is a German politician who is chairwoman of the Alliance '90/The Greens Bundestag parliamentary group. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005...


(b. 1955) January 12, 2001 October 4, 2005 Alliance '90/The Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir...

Jürgen Trittin
Jürgen Trittin
Jürgen Trittin is a German Green politician. He was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1998 to 2005 in Germany.- Life and work :Trittin was born in Bremen...

 acting
(b. 1954) October 4, 2005 October 18, 2005 Alliance '90/The Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens
Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir...

2 Horst Seehofer
Horst Seehofer
Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician . He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008...


(b. 1949) November 22, 2005 October 27, 2008 CSU
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...

3 Ilse Aigner
Ilse Aigner
Ilse Aigner is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria .Aigner was born in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Rosenheim, Bavaria and entered Angela Merkel's grand coalition cabinet as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection on 31 October 2008...


(b. 1964) November 4, 2008 CSU
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...


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