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Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Agency overview
Formed	1949
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Rochusstr. 1, 53123 Bonn
Employees	920 (Feb. 2010)
Minister responsible	Christian Schmidt;
Agency executives	Maria Flachsbarth, Parliamentary State Secretary; Peter Bleser, Parliamentary State Secretary; Robert Kloos, Permanent State Secretary;
Website	http://www.bmelv.de

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The Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (German: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft), abbreviated BMEL, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its headquarters are located in Bonn with a second major office in Berlin. From 1949 to 2001 it was known as the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (German: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten). Through an organizational order by the German Chancellor on 22 on January 2001 it became the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture after the Consumer protection function was transferred from the Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit). The name Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was adopted on 22 November 2005 simply to alphabetize its functional parts in the German language.

Organization

The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Christian Schmidt. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Maria Flachsbarth and Peter Bleser. Robert Kloos is the Permanent State Secretary. In addition to the Ministry Management (including management staff), it consists of six departments (as of October 2014):

Department 1: Central Division
Department 2: Nutrition, product safety, innovation
Department 3: Food safety, animal health
Department 4: Rural Development, Agricultural markets
Department 5: Bio-based economy, sustainable agriculture and forestry
Department 6: EU policy, International cooperation, fisheries

Agencies

Under the auspices of the BMELV are various Federal agencies, legally independent institutions under public law and government research institutes:

Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
Federal Office of Plant Varieties
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries
Agency for Renewable Resources

Federal Ministers

Political Party: CSU CDU FDP SPD Green

Name (Born-Died)		Party	Term of Office		Chancellor (Cabinet)
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957)	CSU	20 September 1949	20 October 1953	Adenauer (I)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" \|	Heinrich Lübke (1894–1972)	CDU	20 October 1953	15 September 1959	Adenauer (II • III)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" \|	Werner Schwarz (1900–1982)	CDU	30 September 1959	26 October 1965	Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I)
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Hermann Höcherl (1912–1989)	CSU	26 October 1965	21 October 1969	Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I)
style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color;" \|	Josef Ertl (1925–2000)	FDP	22 October 1969	17 September 1982	Brandt (I • II) Schmidt (I • II • III)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" \|	Björn Engholm (b. 1939)	SPD	17 September 1982	1 October 1982	Schmidt (III)
style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color;" \|	Josef Ertl (1925–2000)	FDP	4 October 1982	29 March 1983	Kohl (I)
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Ignaz Kiechle (1930–2003)	CSU	30 March 1983	21 January 1993	Kohl (II • III • IV)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" \|	Jochen Borchert (b. 1940)	CDU	21 January 1993	26 October 1998	Kohl (IV • V)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" \|	Karl-Heinz Funke (b. 1946)	SPD	27 October 1998	12 January 2001	Schröder (I)
Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture
style="background:Template:Alliance '90/The Greens/meta/color;" \|	Renate Künast (b. 1955)	Green	12 January 2001	4 October 2005	Schröder (I • II)
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Horst Seehofer (b. 1949)	CSU	22 November 2005	27 October 2008	Merkel (I)
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Ilse Aigner (b. 1964)	CSU	31 October 2008	30 September 2013	Merkel (I • II)
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Hans-Peter Friedrich (b. 1957)	CSU	17 December 2013	14 February 2014	Merkel (III)
style="background:Template:Christian Social Union in Bavaria/meta/color;" \|	Christian Schmidt (b. 1957)	CSU	14 February 2014	Incumbent	Merkel (III)

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+| [[Willy Brandt|Brandt]] <small>([[First Brandt cabinet|I]] • [[Second Brandt cabinet|II]])</small><br> [[Helmut Schmidt|Schmidt]] <small>([[First Schmidt cabinet|I]] • [[Second Schmidt cabinet|II]] • III)
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