Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture

and consumer protection

As a member of the Federal Government, the Federal Minister is responsible for the direction of German food, agriculture and consumer policy and heads the Federal Ministry. It goes back to the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which was founded on February 13, 1919.

From 1949 to 2001 the ministry was called the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry, and since 2005 it has been the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture. The order was arranged alphabetically to show the equality of the individual departments.

The inclusion of consumer protection instead of forest in the name goes back to Renate Künast.

Due to the changes in society, the Federal Minister now sees himself much more responsible for data protection issues.

Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, since 2005

CSU 11/22/2005 10/27/2008

name	party	Beginning of term	End of term
Use Aigner	CSU	10/31/2008	in office
Horst Seehofer

Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture

Renate Künast GREEN 01/12/2001 04.10.2005 Juergen Trittin GREEN 04.10.2005 10/18/2005

name	party	Beginning of term	End of term

Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry, 1949-2001

Karl-Heinz Funke SPD 10/27/1998 01/12/2001 Jochen Borchert CDU 01/21/1993 10/26/1998 Ignaz Kiechle CSU 03/30/1983 01/21/1993 Josef Ertl Free Democratic Party 10/04/1982 03/29/1983 Bjorn Engholm SPD 09/17/1982 10/01/1982 Josef Ertl Free Democratic Party 10/22/1969 09/17/1982 Hermann Hoecherl CSU 10/26/1965 10/21/1969 Werner Schwarz Heinrich Lübke Wilhelm Niklas CSU 09/20/1949 10/20/1953

name	party	Beginning of term	End of term
CDU	09/30/1959	10/26/1965
CDU	10/20/1953	09/15/1959

Agriculture Minister of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990

name Hans Reichelt DBD 03/19/1955 03/01/1960 Paul Scholz DBD DBD DBD DBD 11/08/1950 05/01/1952 Ernst Goldenbaum 10/11/1949

party	Beginning of term	End of term
11/01/1953	03/19/1955		Hans Reichelt
05/16/1953	11/01/1953		Wilhelm Schroeder
05/01/1952	05/16/1953		Paul Scholz
			DBD
11/08/1950			Minister of Agriculture, Collection and Forestry

name

party Beginning of term End of term 03/01/1960

			Hans Reichelt DBD
02/06/1963			Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Sector of the German Democratic Republic, 1972-1990

name

party Beginning of term End of term 04/20/1990 10/02/1990 Peter Pollack non-party 04/12/1990 08/16/1990 Hans Watzek DBD 11/18/1989 04/12/1990 Bruno Lietz 11/07/1989 12/03/1982 09/17/1973

			Gottfried Haschke CDU
		SED	12/03/1982
	Heinz Kuhrig	SED	10/03/1973
	George Ewald	SED	01/01/1972
		Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture of the German Reich, 1919-1949

name

party 05/23/1945 05/16/1942 DNVP 01/30/1933 06/26/1933 Magnus Freiherr von Braun DNVP 06/01/1932 01/28/1933 Martin Schiele CNBL 03/30/1930 05/30/1932 Herman Dietrich non-party 06.10.1923 05.12.1925 Hans Luther non-party 0112.1922 04.10.1923 Karl Mueller center 11/22/1922 11/25/1922 Anton Fehr BBB 03/31/1922 11/21/1922 Andrew Hermes center 03/27/1920 03/10/1922 Robert Smith SPD 02/13/1919 03/26/1920

Beginning of term	End of term	Herbert Backe	NSDAP 05/23/1942
	Richard Walther Darré	NSDAP	06/29/1933
	Alfred Hugenberg
	DDP	06/28/1928	03/27/1930
Martin Schiele	DNVP	01/28/1927	06/12/1928
Heinrich Haslinde	center	01/19/1925	12/17/1926
Gerhard Graf von Kanitz