The Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture ( German : Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft ), abbreviated BMEL , is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany . Its primary headquarters are located in Bonn with a secondary office in Berlin . From 1949 to 2001 it was known as the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry ( German : Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten ). Through an organizational order by the German ChancellorOn January 22, 2001, it became the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture after the Consumer Protection Function was transferred from the Federal Ministry for Health ( Bundesministerium für Gesundheit ). The name Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was adopted on 22 November 2005.
Organization
The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Christian Schmidt . The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Maria Flachsbarth and Peter Bleser . Robert Kloos is the Permanent State Secretary. In addition to the Ministry Management, it consists of six departments (as of October 2014):
- Department 1: Central Division
- Department 2: Nutrition, product safety, innovation
- Department 3: Food safety, animal health
- Department 4: Rural Development, Agricultural markets
- Department 5: Bio-based economy, sustainable agriculture and forestry
- Department 6: EU policy, International cooperation, fisheries
Agencies
Under the auspices of the BMEL are various Federal agencies, legally independent institutions under the law and government research institutes:
- Federal Office of Consumer Safety and Food Safety
- Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
- Federal Office of Plant Varieties
- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
- Julius Kühn-Institute , Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
- Friedrich-Loeffler Institute , Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
- Max Rubner Institute, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries
- Agency for Renewable Resources
Federal Ministers
Political Party: CSU CDU FDP SPD Green
| Name (Born-Died) |
Party | Term of Office | Chancellor (Cabinet) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests | |||||
| Wilhelm Niklas (1887-1957) |
CSU | September 20, 1949 | 20 October 1953 | Adenauer ( I ) |
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| Heinrich Lübke (1894-1972) |
CDU | 20 October 1953 | September 15, 1959 | Adenauer (II • III) |
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| Werner Schwarz (1900-1982) |
CDU | September 30, 1959 | 26 October 1965 | Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I) |
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| Hermann Höcherl (1912-1989) |
CSU | 26 October 1965 | 21 October 1969 | Erhard (II) Kiesinger ( I ) |
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| Josef Ertl (1925-2000) |
FDP | October 22, 1969 | September 17, 1982 | Brandt ( I • II ) Schmidt ( I • II • III) |
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| Björn Engholm ( b.1939 ) |
SPD | September 17, 1982 | 1 October 1982 | Schmidt (III) |
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| Josef Ertl (1925-2000) |
FDP | 4 October 1982 | March 29, 1983 | Kohl ( I ) |
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| Ignaz Kiechle (1930-2003) |
CSU | March 30, 1983 | 21 January 1993 | Kohl ( II • III • IV ) |
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| Jochen Borchert (1940) |
CDU | 21 January 1993 | October 26, 1998 | Kohl ( IV • V ) |
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| Karl-Heinz Funke ( b.1946 ) |
SPD | 27 October 1998 | January 12, 2001 | Schröder ( I ) |
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| Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture | |||||
| Renate Künast (b 1955) |
Green | January 12, 2001 | 4 October 2005 | Schröder ( I • II ) |
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| Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection | |||||
| Horst Seehofer (b 1949) |
CSU | November 22, 2005 | 27 October 2008 | Merkel ( I ) |
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| Ilse Aigner (b 1964) |
CSU | 31 October 2008 | 30 September 2013 | Merkel ( I • II ) |
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| Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture | |||||
| Hans-Peter Friedrich (b 1957) |
CSU | 17 December 2013 | February 14, 2014 | Merkel ( III ) |
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| Christian Schmidt (b 1957) |
CSU | February 14, 2014 | incumbent | ||
See also
- List of Federal Ministers of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany)
- Julius Kühn-Institute
- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)