The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth is a Ministry of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is headquartered in Berlin with a secondary seat in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

. The present minister is Kristina Schröder of the CDU

Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

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History

The original organization was first founded in 1953 as the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs (Bundesministerium für Familienfragen). In 1957, this was changed to the Ministry for Family and Youth Affairs (Bundesministerium für Familien- und Jugendfragen) and in 1963 to the Federal Ministry for Family and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie und Jugend. In 1969 after the incorporation of the 1961-created Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit), it was changed to the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family and Health (Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit). In 1986, it was renamed to the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women, and Health (Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit). The area of health was removed in 1991 and transferred to the Federal Ministry for Health (now the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security, Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung). The remaining Ministry was divided into the Federal Ministry for Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Frauen und Jugend) and the Federal Ministry for Family and Senior Citizens (Bundesministerium für Familie und Senioren). In 1994, these divided areas were combined into the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend).

The Ministry was highlighted in 2007 when the contents of one of the leaflets it distributed was claimed to encourage sexual massage between parents and their children. The booklets were removed from circulation when the matter became national news.

Federal Ministers for Youth, Family and Health (1969 - 1991)

• 1969 - 1972: Käte Strobel
  Käte Strobel
  Käte Strobel was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .Born in Nuremberg, from 1923 to 1938 Käte Müller worked in the office of agricultural organisations in Bavaria. In 1928, she married Hans Strobel, who in 1934 was arrested for planning high treason against the Nazis...
  
   (SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
  )
• 1972 - 1976: Katharina Focke (SPD)
• 1976 - 1982: Antje Huber (SPD)
• 1982 - 1982: Anke Fuchs
  Anke Fuchs
  Anke Fuchs is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She served as Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health and as Vice President of the Bundestag . Since 2003, she has been the President of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.-Biography:She was born Anke...
  
   (SPD)
• 1982 - 1985: Heiner Geißler
  Heiner Geißler
  Heiner Geißler is a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union party.Geißler studied law and philosophy in Munich and Tübingen, where he graduated in 1960....
  
   (CDU
  Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
  The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
  
  )
• 1985 - 1988: Rita Süssmuth
  Rita Süssmuth
  Rita Süssmuth is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union .From 1985 to 1988, Süssmuth was Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth under Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She was a member of the German Bundestag from 1987 to 2002...
  
   (CDU)
• 1988 - 1991: Ursula Lehr (CDU)

Federal Minister for Family Affairs and Senior Citizens (1991 - 1994)

• 1991 - 1994: Hannelore Rönsch
  Hannelore Rönsch
  Hannelore Rönsch is a German conservative politician.She was member of the German Parliament from 1983 until 2002, and was Family Minister in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl from 1991 until 1994.-Quotes:...
  
   (CDU)

Federal Ministers for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth since 1994

• 1994 - 1998: Claudia Nolte
  Claudia Nolte
  Claudia Nolte was born Claudia Wiesemüller on February 7, 1966 in Rostock, a town that then lay in East Germany. Nolte became a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union party , becoming the youngest cabinet minister in German history whilst in office from 1994–98...
  
   (CDU)
• 1998 - 2002: Christine Bergmann (SPD)
• 2002 - 2005: Renate Schmidt
  Renate Schmidt
  thumb|Renate SchmidtRenate Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician.-Early life:Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave school a year before she would have received her Abitur...
  
   (SPD)
• 2005 - 2009 : Ursula von der Leyen
  Ursula von der Leyen
  Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union.Since 30 November 2009, she has served as the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the Second Cabinet Merkel. In the First Cabinet Merkel , she served as Federal Minister of Family...
  
   (CDU)
• since 2009: Kristina Schröder, née Köhler (CDU)\

External links

• Official Website of the BMFSFJ (German)