Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Finance (German: Bundesministerium der Finanzen) (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.

Federal Ministry of Finance

Bundesministerium der Finanzen
Agency overview
Formed	1880 as the "Reichsschatzamt"
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Berlin
Minister responsible	Christian Lindner, Bundesminister der Finanzen
Website	bundesfinanzministerium.de

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 Finance
No	Name	Life data	Term start	Term end	Party
1	Fritz Schäffer	1888-1967	20 September 1949	29 October 1957	CSU
2	Franz Etzel	1902-1970	29 October 1957	14 November 1961	CDU
3	Heinz Starke	1911-2001	14 November 1961	19 November 1962	FDP
4	Rolf Dahlgrün	1908-1969	13 December 1962	28 October 1966	FDP
5	Kurt Schmücker	1919-1996	8 November 1966	30 November 1966	CDU
6	Franz Josef Strauß	1915-1988	2 December 1966	20 October 1969	CSU
7	Alexander Möller	1903-1985	22 October 1969	13 May 1971	SPD
8	Karl Schiller	1911-1994	13 May 1971	7 July 1972	SPD
9	Helmut Schmidt	1918-2015	7 July 1972	15 May 1974	SPD
10	Hans Apel	1932-2011	16 May 1974	15 February 1978	SPD
11	Hans Matthöfer	1925-2009	16 February 1978	28 April 1982	SPD
12	Manfred Lahnstein	1937-	28 April 1982	4 October 1982	SPD
13	Gerhard Stoltenberg	1928-2001	4 October 1982	21 April 1989	CDU
14	Theodor Waigel	1939-	21 April 1989	27 October 1998	CSU
15	Oskar Lafontaine	1943-	27 October 1998	18 March 1999	SPD
16	Hans Eichel	1941-	12 April 1999	22 November 2005	SPD
17	Peer Steinbrück	1947-	22 November 2005	27 October 2009	SPD
18	Wolfgang Schäuble	1942-	28 October 2009	14 March 2018	CDU
19	Olaf Scholz	1958-	14 March 2018	8 December 2021	SPD
20	Christian Lindner	1979-	8 December 2021	incumbent	FDP

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