Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Finance () (BMF) is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is based in Berlin and Bonn. It is led by the Minister of Finance, whose office is in the Detlev-Rohwedder House in Wilhelmstraße, Berlin. This was the old Reich Air Ministry Building. The ministry is supported by a scientific advisory board.

Responsibility
The ministry works out how much the government can spend each year, and how to raise that money, in income tax and other taxes.

To help it do this, the ministry controls :
 the Federal Forestry Commission, Bundesforstverwaltung
 Federal Spirits Monopoly Administration, Bundesmonopolverwaltung für Branntwein
 Federal Portfolio Management, Bundesvermögensverwaltung, and

Federal Ministers of Finance since 1949
Ministers of FinanceNoName Life dataTerm startTerm endParty1Fritz Schäffer1888-196720 September 194929 October 1957CSU2Franz Etzel1902-197029 October 195714 November 1961CDU3Heinz Starke1911-200114 November 196119 November 1962FDP4Rolf Dahlgrün1908-196913 December 196228 October 1966FDP5Kurt Schmücker1919-19968 November 196630 November 1966CDU6Franz Josef Strauß1915-19882 December 196620 October 1969CSU7Alexander Möller1903-198522 October 196913 May 1971SPD8Karl Schiller1911-199413 May 19717 July 1972SPD9Helmut Schmidt1918-20157 July 197215 May 1974SPD10Hans Apel1932-201116 May 197415 February 1978SPD11Hans Matthöfer1925-200916 February 197828 April 1982SPD12Manfred Lahnstein1937-28 April 19824 October 1982SPD13Gerhard Stoltenberg1928-20014 October 198221 April 1989CDU14Theodor Waigel1939-21 April 198927 October 1998CSU15Oskar Lafontaine1943-27 October 199818 March 1999SPD16Hans Eichel1941-12 April 199922 November 2005SPD17Peer Steinbrück1947-22 November 200527 October 2009SPD18Wolfgang Schäuble1942-28 October 200914 March 2018CDU19Olaf Scholz1958-14 March 20188 December 2021SPD20Christian Lindner1979-8 December 20217 November 2024FDP21Jörg Kukies1968-7 November 20246 May 2025SPD22Lars Klingbeil1978-6 May 2025presentSPD

Between 1990 and 1993, the senior civil servant () was Horst Köhler (CDU) who went on to become Federal President in, 2004.

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