Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its headquarters are in Bonn, but it has a second seat in Berlin.

The Ministry was formed on 22 November 2005.
 Organisation 
The ministry has two "parliamentary permanent secretaries", Gerd Müller, CSU and Ursula Heinen, CDU, and the top civil servant is Gert Lindemann. He is the "established permanent secretary".

The ministry’s work is done in six departments
 Department 1: Central division
 Department 2: Consumer protection, diet, and biological and genetic engineering
 Department 3: Food safety, the veterinary surgeon
 Department 4: Agricultural markets, planning bases
 Department 5: Rural room, social system, vegetable production, forest and timber industry
 Department 6: EU matters, international matters, fishing

 The Federal Ministers 

Food, Agriculture and Forests19492001NoName (life data.)Term startTerm endParty1Wilhelm Niklas (1887-1957)20 September 194920 October 1953CSU2Heinrich Lübke (1894-1972)20 October 195315 September 1959CDU3Werner Schwarz (1900-1982)14 October 195926 October 1965CDU4Hermann Höcherl (1912-1989)26 October 196521 October 1969CSU5Josef Ertl (1925-2000)22 October 196917 September 1982FDP6Björn Engholm (1939-)17 September 19821 October 1982SPD7Josef Ertl (1925-2000)4 October 198229 March 1983FDP8Ignaz Kiechle (1930-2003)30 March 198321 January 1993CSU9Jochen Borchert (1940-)21 January 199326 October 1998CDU10Karl-Heinz Funke (1946-)27 October 199812 January 2001SPDConsumer Protection, Food, and Agriculture20012005NoName (life data.)Term startTerm endParty1Renate Künast (1955-)12 January 20014 October 2005Bündnis 90/Die Grünen2Jürgen Trittin (acting) (1954-)4 October 200518 October 2005Bündnis 90/Die GrünenFood, Agriculture and Consumer Protection20052013NoName (life data.)Term startTerm endParty1Horst Seehofer (1949-)22 November 200527 October 2008CSU2Ilse Aigner (1964-)31 October 200830 September 2013CSUFood and Agriculture2013PresentNoName (life data.)Term startTerm endParty1Hans-Peter Friedrich (1957-)17 December 201314 February 2014CSU2Christian Schmidt (1957-)14 February 201414 March 2018CSU3Julia Klöckner (1972-)14 March 20188 December 2021CDU4Cem Özdemir (1965-)8 December 2021Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

 Competition 
The ministry organizes the nationwide competition "Our Village has a Future".

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