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This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1871-1919), Federal Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1919-1945) and Federal Ministers of Foreign Affairs in West Germany (1945-1990) and the reunified Germany from 1990 onwards.

See also: Foreign Minister of Prussia, Foreign Minister of the GDR, Foreign Office (Germany)

[edit] State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs (Außenstaatssekretäre), 1871-1919
No.	Name	Begin of office	End of office
1	Hermann von Thile	1871	1872
2	Hermann Ludwig von Balan1	1872	1873
3	Bernhard Ernst von Bülow	1873	1879
4	Josef Maria von Radowitz1	1879	1880
5	Chlodwig Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst1	1880	1880
6	Friedrich Graf zu Limburg Stirum1	1880	1881
7	Clemens Busch1	1881	1881
8	Paul Graf von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg	1881	1885
9	Herbert Fürst von Bismarck2	1885	1890
10	Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein	1890	1897
11	Bernhard Fürst von Bülow	1897	1900
12	Oswald Freiherr von Richthofen	1900	1906
13	Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky und Bögendorff	1906	1907
14	Wilhelm Freiherr von Schoen	1907	1910
15	Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter	1910	1912
16	Gottlieb von Jagow	1913	1916
17	Arthur Zimmermann	1916	1917
18	Richard von Kühlmann	1917	1918
19	Paul von Hintze	1918	1918
20	Wilhelm Solf	1918	1918
21	Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau	1918	1919
1 Exertion of office only provisory. 2 Exertion of office provisory until May 17th 1886.
[edit] Federal Foreign Ministers (Reichsminister des Auswärtigen), 1919-1945
No.	Name	Begin of office	End of office	Party
1	Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau	February 13th 1919	June 20th 1919	none
2	Hermann Müller	June 21st 1919	March 26th 1920	SPD
3	Adolf Köster	April 10th 1920	June 8th 1921	SPD
4	Walter Simons	June 25th 1920	May 4th 1921	none
5	Friedrich Rosen	May 10th 1921	October 22nd 1921	none
6	Joseph Wirth	October 26th 1921	January 31st 1922	Zentrum
7	Walther Rathenau	February 1st 1922	June 21st 1922	DDP
8	Joseph Wirth	June 21st 1922	November 14th 1922	Zentrum
9	Friedrich von Rosenberg	November 22nd 1922	August 11th 1923	none
10	Gustav Stresemann	August 13th 1923	Oktober 3rd 1929	DVP
11	Julius Curtius	October 4th 1929	October 9th 1931	DVP
12	Heinrich Brüning	October 9th 1931	May 30th 1932	Zentrum
13	Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath	June 1st 1932	February 4th 1938	NSDAP (since 1937)
14	Joachim von Ribbentrop	February 4th 1938	May 1st 1945	NSDAP
15	Arthur Seyß-Inquart	May 1st 1945	1945	NSDAP
16	Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk	1945	1945	none
[edit] Federal Foreign Ministers (Bundesminister des Auswärtigen), since 1951
No.	Name	Begin of office	End of office	Party
1	Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)	March 15th 1951	June 6th 1955	CDU
2	Heinrich von Brentano (1904-1964)	June 6th 1955	October 17th 1961	CDU
3	Gerhard Schröder (1910-1989)	November 14th 1961	November 30th 1966	CDU
4	Willy Brandt (1913-1992)	December 1st 1966	October 20th 1969	SPD
5	Walter Scheel (*1919)	October 21st 1969	May 15th 1974	FDP
6	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (*1927)	May 17th 1974	September 17th 1982	FDP
7	Helmut Schmidt (*1918)	September 17th 1982	Oktober 1st 1982	SPD
8	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (*1927)	October 1st 1982	May 17th 1992	FDP
9	Klaus Kinkel (*1936)	May 18th 1992	October 26th 1998	FDP
10	Joschka Fischer (*1948)	October 27th 1998	November 22nd 2005	GRÜNE
11	Frank-Walter Steinmeier (*1956)	November 2nd 2005	Incumbent	SPD

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