List of German foreign ministers
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This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1871-1919), Imperial Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1919-1945), Ministers of Foreign Affairs of East Germany (1945-1990) and Federal Ministers of Foreign Affairs in West Germany (1945-1990) and the reuinified Germany from 1990 onwards.
See also: Foreign Minister of Prussia.
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State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs (Außenstaatssekretäre), 1871-1919 | ||||
| No. | Name | Begin of office | End of office |
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| 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. | ||||
Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs (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 |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (Minister für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten der DDR), 1949-1990 | ||||
| No. | Name | Begin of office | End of office | Party |
| 1 | Georg Dertinger (1902-1968) | October 12th 1949 | January 15th 1953 | CDU |
| 2 | Anton Ackermann1 (1905-1973) | January 15th 1953 | July 1953 | SED |
| 3 | Lothar Bolz (1903-1986) | July 1953 | 1965 | NDPD |
| 4 | Otto Winzer (1902-1975) | 1965 | March 3rd 1975 | SED |
| 5 | Oskar Fischer (*1923) | March 1975 | April 12th 1990 | SED |
| 6 | Markus Meckel (*1952) | April 12th 1990 | August 20th 1990 | SPD |
| 7 | Lothar de Maizière2 (*1940) | August 20th 1990 | October 2nd 1990 | CDU |
| 1 Exertion of office only provisory. 2 Lothar de Maizière exerted the office after the SPD's retreat from government on a provisory basis and in personal union as Minister-President of the GDR. | ||||
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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