Auswärtiges Amt

Established:	15 March 1951
Minister	Joschka Fischer
Deputy Ministers:	Kerstin Müller, Hans Martin Bury
Budget:	€1.313 billion (2005)

The German Foreign Office (in German, Auswärtiges Amt, or AA) is the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, and is responsible for both its foreign politics and its relationship to the European Union. Since 1998, the ministry has been led by Joschka Fischer. Since 1966, the Federal Foreign Minister has also been by convention the Vice-Chancellor, although brief exceptions occurred in both 1982 and 1992-1993. Image File history File links De_wappen. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bundesminister des Äußeren), is the member of the Cabinet of Germany in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ... Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin Joschka Fischer (born April 12, 1948 in Gerabronn, Baden-Württemberg) has been the German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor in the Red-Green coalition since 1998. ... A foreign minister is a cabinet minister that helps to form foreign policy for sovereign nations. ... For more information on foreign relations, see one of the following links: diplomacy foreign affairs foreign policy international relations This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin Joschka Fischer (born April 12, 1948 in Gerabronn, Baden-Württemberg) has been the German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor in the Red-Green coalition since 1998. ... The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bundesminister des Äußeren), is the member of the Cabinet of Germany in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ... The Vice-Chancellor of Germany (Vizekanzler) in Germany is often the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

The seat of the ministry is at the Werderscher Market, in the historical center of Berlin, not too far from the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).   Berlin[?], IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist country that existed from 1949 to 1990. ...

History

The ministry was established after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and the return of international sovereignty in 1951. However, a Foreign Office had originally come into existence in 1870, as the foreign ministry of the North German Confederation. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The North German Confederation (German Norddeutscher Bund), a transitional grouping which existed (1867 - 1871) between the dissolution of the German Confederation and the founding of the German Empire, cemented Prussian control over the 22 states of Northern Germany and emanated that same control (via the Zollverein) into southern Germany. ...

As was the case in many other federal agencies, very few qualified civil servants remained after World War II so that, in 1968, 580 staff who had also been employed there during the Third Reich were still employed by the ministry. Federal agencies in Germany are established to assist the administration of the federal government. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

German representation overseas

In addition to the ministry's headquarters in Berlin, Germany has established embassies and consulates around the world. A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ... The term Consulate can refer to: the office or the period in office of a consul a diplomatic consulate the French Consulate which governed between 1799 and 1804 a brand of menthol cigarettes Consulate This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...

List of Federal Foreign Ministers

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See also

• Cabinet of Germany