Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

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Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz (BMUV)
Government of Germany
HeadquartersRobert-Schuman-Platz 3, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Employees814
Annual budget€2.657 billion (2021)[1]
Minister responsible
Child agencies
  • Federal Environmental Agency
  • Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  • Federal Office for Radiation Protection
Websitewww.bmuv.de
Headquarters in Bonn
Seat in Berlin on Alexanderplatz

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (

Federal Republic of Germany. It has branches in Bonn and Berlin
.

The ministry was established on 6 June 1986 in response to the

Agriculture and Health
.

Functions

The ministry's primary functions include:[5]

  • Fundamental national environmental policy
  • Informing and educating the public about environmental issues
  • Environmental remediation and development in Eastern Germany
  • Climate protection and energy
  • Air quality
    control
  • Noise abatement
  • Conservation of groundwater, rivers, lakes and seas
  • Soil conservation and remediation of contaminated sites
  • Waste management and recycling policy
  • Chemicals safety, environment and health
  • Precautions against emergencies in industrial plants
  • Protection, maintenance and sustainable utilization of biodiversity
  • Safety of nuclear facilities
  • Nuclear supply and disposal
  • Radiological protection

Organization

The ministry is led by the Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The current Minister is

state secretaries (public servants)[6] who manage the ministry's nine directorates:[7]

Federal Environment Ministers

Political Party:   

CDU
  
Green
   SPD

Name
(Born-Died) 		Portrait Party Term of Office Chancellor
(Cabinet)
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation,
and Reactor Safety
1 Walter Wallmann
(1932-2013)
CDU
 6 June 1986 22 April 1987
II
)
2 Klaus Töpfer
(born 1938) 		CDU 7 May 1987 17 November 1994
IV
)
3 Angela Merkel
(born 1954) 		CDU 17 November 1994 27 October 1998
V
)
4 Jürgen Trittin
(born 1954)
Green
 27 October 1998 22 November 2005
II
)
5 Sigmar Gabriel
(born 1959) 		SPD 22 November 2005 28 October 2009
I
)
6 Norbert Röttgen
(born 1965) 		CDU 28 October 2009 22 May 2012
II
)
7 Peter Altmaier
(born 1958) 		CDU 22 May 2012 17 December 2013
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Housing,
and Reactor Safety
8 Barbara Hendricks
(born 1952) 		SPD 17 December 2013 14 March 2018 Merkel
(III)
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety
9 Svenja Schulze
(born 1968) 		SPD 14 March 2018 8 December 2021 Merkel
(IV)
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
10 Steffi Lemke
(born 1968) 		Green 8 December 2021 Incumbent Scholz
(I)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bundeshaushalt". www.bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Geschichte der deutschen Umweltpolitik | BPB".
  3. ^ "Publikation: Gamechanger: Die Liberalen und die Anfänge der deutschen Umweltpolitik".
  4. ^ ""Ich mache mir große Sorgen um die Demokratie im Osten."". MSN.
  5. ^ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety - primary functions Archived 25 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 25-May-2012
  6. ^ BMUB. "Heads of the Ministry". bmub.bund.de. BMUB. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  7. ^ BMUB (4 March 2015). "Organisational Chart - Heads of Ministry". bmub.bund.de. BMUB. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-18.

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