Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)

The **Federal Ministry of Education and Research** () (BMBF) is a Federal Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The headquarters of the Ministry are in the so-called "cross buildings" (Kreuzbauten) in Bonn, a second office is in Berlin.

## History

The Federal Ministry of Education and Science was founded as the _Federal Ministry for Nuclear Affairs_ on October 20, 1955. It was renamed the _Federal Ministry of Nuclear Affairs and Water-supply and Distribution_ in 1957, and again in 1962 to Federal Ministry of Scientific Research.

It became the _Federal Ministry for Education and Science_ in 1969 which it kept 1994 up to the reunification with the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology.
The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology had been founded only 1972.

The Ministry got its present name in 1998.

## Federal Ministers

|No|Name (life data)|Term start|Term end|Party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Franz Josef Strauß (1915-1988)|October 21, 1955|October 16, 1956|CSU|
|2|Siegfried Balke (1902-1984)|October 16, 1956|December 11, 1962|CSU|
|1|Siegfried Balke (1902-1984)|October 16, 1956|December 11, 1962|CSU|
|1|Siegfried Balke (1902-1984)|October 16, 1956|December 11, 1962|CSU|
|1|Hans Lenz (1907-1968)|December 14, 1962|October 26, 1965|FDP|
|2|Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928-2001)|October 26, 1965|October 21, 1969|CDU|
|1|Hans Leussink (1912-2008)|October 20, 1969|March 15, 1972|independent|
|2|Klaus von Dohnanyi (1928-)|March 15, 1972|May 16, 1974|SPD|
|3|Helmut Rohde (1925-2016)|May 16, 1974|February 16, 1978|SPD|
|4|Jürgen Schmude (1936-)|February 16, 1978|January 28, 1981|SPD|
|5|Björn Engholm (1939-)|January 28, 1981|October 4, 1982|SPD|
|6|Dorothee Wilms (1929-)|October 4, 1982|February 18, 1987|CDU|
|7|Jürgen Möllemann ( 1945-2003)|February 18, 1987|December 20, 1990|FDP|
|8|Rainer Ortleb (1944-)|December 20, 1990|October 4, 1994|FDP|
|9|Karl Hans Laermann (1929-)|October 4, 1994|November 10, 1994|FDP|
|1|Horst Ehmke (1927-2017)|December 13, 1972|May 16, 1974|SPD|
|1|Hans Matthöfer (1925-2009)|May 16, 1974|February 16, 1978|SPD|
|2|Volker Hauff (1940-)|February 16, 1978|November 4, 1980|SPD|
|3|Andreas von Bülow (1937-)|November 4, 1980|October 4, 1982|SPD|
|4|Heinz Riesenhuber (1935-)|October 4, 1982|January 21, 1993|CDU|
|5|Matthias Wissmann (1949-)|January 21, 1993|May 13, 1993|CDU|
|6|Paul Krüger (1950-)|May 13, 1993|November 10, 1994|CDU|
|1|Jürgen Rüttgers (1951-)|November 10, 1994|October 26, 1998|CDU|
|1|Edelgard Bulmahn (1951-)|October 26, 1998|October 18, 2005|SPD|
|2|Annette Schavan (1955-)|October 18, 2005|February 14, 2013|CDU|
|3|Johanna Wanka (1951-)|February 14, 2013|14 March 2018|CDU|
|4|Anja Karliczek (1971-)|14 March 2018|8 December 2021|CDU|
|5|Bettina Stark-Watzinger (1968-)|8 December 2021||FDP|

## References

- Peter Weingart: _Das Wissensministerium : ein halbes Jahrhundert Forschungs- und Bildungspolitik in Deutschland_ VelbruÌck Wiss., Weilerswist 2006,

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- **nativename**: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- **logo**: Bundesadler Bundesorgane.svg
- **jurisdiction**: top tier
- **formed**: 20 October 1955 <small>(Federal Ministry for Nuclear Energy Affairs)</small>
- **headquarters**: Bonn
- **minister1 name**: Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Free Democratic Party (Germany), FDP
<small>Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung</small>
- **website**: [http://www.bmbf.de/ www.bmbf.de/]