Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

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Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- BMEL -

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State level Federation
position supreme federal authority
founding February 13, 1919 as Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture
Headquarters Bonn
Authority management Julia Klöckner ( CDU ), Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture
Servants approx. 900
Budget volume EUR 6 billion (2017)
Web presence www.bmel.de
Julia Klöckner (CDU), Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( BMEL for short ) is a supreme federal authority in the Federal Republic of Germany . Its head office or first office is located in the federal city of Bonn , its second office in Berlin . Julia Klöckner ( CDU ) has held the office of Federal Minister and Head of Authority since March 14, 2018 .

history

The original name was between 1949 and 2001 "Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests".

In 2001 the ministry was renamed "Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture". The inclusion of consumer protection instead of forests in the name goes back to Renate Künast and is to be seen against the background of the BSE scandal at the time. The renaming is not just an expansion of competencies . It is rather an expression of social changes that are reflected both here and in other departments, at ministerial level. Ilse Aigner, for example, saw herself much more responsible for data protection issues than was the case with her predecessors. The Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was formed from the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture through an organizational decree of the Federal Chancellery . The order was arranged alphabetically in order to show the equality of the individual departments.

With the establishment of the Merkel III cabinet in 2013, responsibility for consumer protection was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection . The nine-member council of experts for consumer issues founded by this Federal Ministry on November 7, 2014 also advises the nutrition department of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

The reorganization of a home ministry into the interior ministry could mean losses for the federal ministry of agriculture in the area of ​​rural development.

Research into the history of the Federal Ministry

In 2016, an independent commission of historians set up by Christian Schmidt, the then incumbent minister of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, began its work. The publication of the research results is planned for summer 2019. In particular, the following aspects should be examined by the Historians' Commission:

"- the re-establishment of the Ministry in 1949
- the history of its predecessor institutions
- the question of personal and material continuity or discontinuity
- the attitude towards its predecessor institutions
- the role of the associations
- the parallel developments in the German Democratic Republic."

As part of the research work of this commission, the period from the establishment of the Reich Ministry of Food (1919) to the reunification of the German Democratic Republic (1990) with the Federal Republic of Germany is taken into account.

organization

The Berlin office in the building of the former secret civil cabinet in Wilhelmstrasse

In addition to the ministry management (including management staff), it consists of eight further departments (as of January 2020):

  • Department 1: Central Department
  • Department 2: Consumer health protection, nutrition, product safety
  • Department 3: Food Safety, Animal Health
  • Department 4: Agricultural Markets, Food Industry, Export
  • Department 5: Forests, Sustainability, Renewable Resources
  • Department 6: EU Affairs, International Cooperation, Fisheries
  • Department 7: Agricultural Production, Horticulture, Agricultural Policy
  • Department 8: Rural Development, Digital Innovation

Various higher federal authorities , legally independent bodies under public law and federal research institutes , some of which were restructured with effect from January 1, 2008, are subordinate to the BMEL :

Federal Minister since 1949

One of the buildings (House 9) of the Ministry in Bonn
Julia Klöckner Christian Schmidt Hans-Peter Friedrich Ilse Aigner Horst Seehofer Jürgen Trittin Renate Künast Karl-Heinz Funke Jochen Borchert Ignaz Kiechle Josef Ertl Björn Engholm Josef Ertl Hermann Höcherl Werner Schwarz Heinrich Lübke Wilhelm Niklas

After the break of the social-liberal coalition on September 17, 1982, the then Federal Minister for Education and Science Björn Engholm also took over the Ministry of Agriculture. This state of affairs only lasted until October 1, 1982, when Helmut Kohl was elected Chancellor by a constructive vote of no confidence .

No. Surname Life dates Political party Beginning of the term of office Term expires Cabinet (s)
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests
1 Wilhelm Niklas 1887-1957 CSU September 20, 1949 October 20, 1953 Adenauer I.
2 Heinrich Luebke 1894-1972 CDU October 20, 1953 September 15, 1959 Adenauer II
Adenauer III
3 Werner Schwarz 1900-1982 CDU September 30, 1959 October 26, 1965 Adenauer III
Adenauer IV
Adenauer V
Erhard I
4th Hermann Höcherl 1912-1989 CSU October 26, 1965 October 21, 1969 Erhard II
Kiesinger
5 Josef Ertl 1925-2000 FDP October 22, 1969 17th September 1982 Brandt I
Brandt II
Schmidt I
Schmidt II
Schmidt III
6th Bjorn Engholm * 1939 SPD 17th September 1982 October 1, 1982 Schmidt III
7th Josef Ertl 1925-2000 FDP 4th October 1982 March 29, 1983 Cabbage I
8th Ignaz Kiechle 1930-2003 CSU March 30, 1983 January 21, 1993 Kohl II
Kohl III
Kohl IV
9 Jochen Borchert * 1940 CDU January 21, 1993 October 26, 1998 Kohl IV
Kohl V
10 Karl-Heinz Funke * 1946 SPD October 27, 1998 January 12, 2001 Schröder I
Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture
11 Renate Künast * 1955 Green January 12, 2001 October 4, 2005 Schröder I
Schröder II
Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin took over the management until the formation of a new federal government .
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
12 Horst Seehofer * 1949 CSU November 22, 2005 October 27, 2008 Merkel I
13 Ilse Aigner * 1964 CSU October 31, 2008 September 30th, 2013 Merkel I
Merkel II
Until the formation of a new federal government, Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich took over the management.
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture
14th Hans-Peter Friedrich * 1957 CSU 17th December 2013 17th February 2014 Merkel III
15th Christian Schmidt * 1957 CSU 17th February 2014 March 14, 2018 Merkel III
16 Julia Kloeckner * 1972 CDU March 14, 2018 in office Merkel IV

Parliamentary State Secretaries

Official State Secretaries

Competitions

Every three years the ministry organizes the national competition “ Our village has a future ”. The aim is to increase the motivation of the local population to implement their own projects to secure the future of the village. In this context, places that have achieved good placements through preliminary work can then receive funding to increase awareness and projects in their rural areas.

Consumer guide

The consumer guide was launched by Ilse Aigner on December 10, 2012 with the aim of answering citizens' questions about their consumer rights. Consumers can contact the consumer guide by phone or e-mail and either receive the information they want directly or are directed to the responsible office. The consumer guide is not allowed to provide individual legal advice.

The Federation of German Consumer Organizations sees potential in the project of the Federal Ministry of Consumers if the consumer guides can actually name the right contact person. However, other parties such as the Greens and the SPD consider this form of consumer service to be superfluous. The Handelsblatt Online found in a random test six weeks after the start of the consumer guide that the help of the guide remained superficial in many cases.

See also

Web links

Commons : Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Law on the adoption of the federal budget for the financial year 2017 (Budget Law 2017). (PDF; 31.5 MB) In: bundeshaushalt-info.de. Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), December 20, 2016, p. 16 , accessed on March 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ List of Abbreviations. (PDF; 49 kB) Abbreviations for the constitutional organs, the highest federal authorities and the highest federal courts. In: bund.de. Federal Office of Administration (BVA), accessed on August 14, 2016 .
  3. Merkel wants to propose Klöckner as Minister of Agriculture
  4. Independent Commission of Historians at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (ed.): History of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Context of the 20th Century. Continuity and discontinuity. Interim report, p. 1. Without a year (probably 2017) - cf. on this, the Commission of Historians to review the history of the BMEL - submission of the interim report . Both links accessed March 25, 2019.
  5. Independent Commission of Historians at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (ed.): History of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Context of the 20th Century. Continuity and discontinuity. Interim report, p. 6. Without a year (probably 2017) - cf. on this, the Commission of Historians to review the history of the BMEL - submission of the interim report . Both links accessed March 25, 2019.
  6. Independent Commission of Historians at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (ed.): History of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Context of the 20th Century. Continuity and discontinuity. Interim report, p. 1. Without a year (probably 2017) - cf. on this, the Commission of Historians to review the history of the BMEL - submission of the interim report . Both links accessed March 25, 2019.
  7. Independent Commission of Historians at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (ed.): History of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Context of the 20th Century. Continuity and discontinuity. Interim report, p. 5. Without a year (probably 2017) - cf. on this, the Commission of Historians to review the history of the BMEL - submission of the interim report . Both links accessed March 25, 2019.
  8. Organization plan . (PDF) Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  9. State Secretary Aeikens stops at the end of the year. September 30, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  10. Press release, Beate Kasch becomes the new State Secretary. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  11. BMELV consumer guide ( Memento of July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, last accessed on July 5, 2013.
  12. consumer guide disappointed , finanzen.de, last accessed on July 5, 2013.
  13. Consumer protection: You will not be helped here , Handelsblatt Online, last accessed on July 5, 2013.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 41.3 ″  E