This page lists Federal Ministers of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of Germany and the equivalents of this office which preceded it.

Ministers for Food (1919–1945)

{ border=0 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" Ministers for Food # Name (Lifespan) Assumption of Office End of Service Party 1 Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt was a German politician and member of the SPD.Schmidt, born in Berlin, learned the profession of piano manufacturer. From 1893 to 1902 he was editor for the social-democratic newspaper Vorwärts....

(1864–1943) 13 February 1919 26 March 1920 SPD

Social Democratic Party of Germany

The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

2 Andreas Hermes

Andreas Hermes

Andreas Hermes was a German Christian Democratic Union politician, agricultural scientist, Finance Minister of the Weimar Republic, and a member of the resistance to Nazism.- Life :...

(1878–1964) 27 March 1920 10 March 1922 Zentrum

Centre Party (Germany)

The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...

3 Anton Fehr
(1881–1954) 31 March 1922 21 November 1922 BBB 4 Karl Müller

Karl Müller

Karl Müller may refer to:*Karl Otfried Müller , German classical scholar and admirer of Dorians and Spartans*Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller , German classical scholar and editor of Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum...

(1884–1964) 22 November 1922 25 November 1922 Zentrum 5 Hans Luther

Hans Luther

Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918...

(1879–1962) 1 December 1922 4 October 1923 — 6 Gerhard Graf von Kanitz
(1885–1949) 6 October 1923 5 December 1925 — 7 Heinrich Haslinde
(1881–1958) 19 January 1926 17 December 1926 Zentrum 8 Martin Schiele
(1870–1939) 28 January 1927 12 June 1928 DNVP

German National People's Party

The German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and...

9 Hermann Dietrich
(1879–1954) 28 June 1928 27 March 1930 DDP 10 Martin Schiele
(1870–1939) 30 March 1930 30 May 1932 CNBL 11 Magnus Freiherr von Braun

Magnus von Braun (senior)

Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German jurist and politician.-Biography:Braun was born at his family's manor of Neucken, an estate the von Brauns had owned since 1803, near Pr...

(1878–1972) 1 June 1932 28 January 1933 12 Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Hugenberg

Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. Hugenberg, a leading figure within nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, became the country's leading media proprietor within the inter-war period...

(1865–1951) 1933 1933 DNVP 13 Richard Walther Darré
(1895–1953) 1933 1944 NSDAP 14 Herbert Backe

Herbert Backe

Herbert Backe was a German Nazi politician and Obergruppenführer in the SS.Backe was born in Batumi, Georgia, the son of a trader. He studied at the Tbilisi Gymnasium from 1905 and was interned on the outbreak of World War I as an enemy alien...

(1896–1947) 1944 1945 NSDAP

Ministers for Food, Agriculture, and Forests of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–2001)

{ border=0 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" Federal Ministers for Food, Agriculture and Forests # Name (Lifespan) Assumption of Office End of Service Party 1 Wilhelm Niklas
(1887–1957) 20 September 1949 20 October 1953 CSU 2 Heinrich Lübke

Heinrich Lübke

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

(1894–1972) 20 October 1953 15 September 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) 14 October 1959 26 October 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) 26 October 1965 21 October 1969 CSU 5 Josef Ertl
(1925–2000) 22 October 1969 17 September 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....

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(b. 1939) 17 September 1982 1 October 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) 4 October 1982 29 March 1983 FDP 7 Ignaz Kiechle

Ignaz Kiechle

Ignaz Kiechle was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....

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

Federal Ministers for Food, Consumer Protection, and Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany

{ border=0 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" Federal Ministers for Food, Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture # Name (Lifespan) 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) 12 January 2001 4 October 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...

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(b. 1954) 4 October 2005 18 October 2005 Alliance '90/The Greens 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. 1945) 22 November 2005 4 November 2008 CSU 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) 4 November 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...