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Heads Of The German Chancellery
The Head of the Chancellery (, abbreviated ''ChefBK'') is the highest ranking official of the German Chancellery and the principal assistant of the Chancellor of Germany. The Chief of Staff is in charge of the running of the German Chancellery as well as with coordinating the federal government's work. The Chief of Staff is either a member of the federal cabinet with the rank of Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany, Federal Minister for Special Affairs or holds the rank of Parliamentary State Secretary, Secretary of State. All Chiefs of Staff since 2005 have been members of the Cabinet of Germany, federal cabinet. Government of Germany List of the heads of the Federal Chancellery References {{Reflis ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorsten Frei
Thorsten Frei (born 8 August 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Head of the Federal Chancellery of Germany, Head of the Federal Chancellery in the Merz cabinet, government of Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. Frei has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2013. Political career Frei became mayor of Donaueschingen in 2004, a position he relinquished when he first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. From 2013 until 2017, he was a member of the Committee on European Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Civilian Crisis Prevention. From 2018 to 2021, Frei served as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Volker Kauder. In this capacity, he coordinated the group's legislative activities on consume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Globke
Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) was a Nazi collaborator and a German administrative lawyer, who worked in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior in the Reich, during the Weimar Republic and Nazism. Later, he was the Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery in West Germany from 28 October 1953 to 15 October 1963 under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He is the most prominent example of the continuity of the administrative elites between Nazi Germany and the early West Germany. In 1936, Globke wrote a legal annotation on the antisemitic Nuremberg Race Laws that did not express any objection to the discrimination against Jews, placing the Nazi Party on a firmer legal ground and setting the path to the Holocaust during World War II. By 1938, Globke had been promoted to ''Ministerialdirigent'' in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, where he produced the , a law that forced Jewish men to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F059126-0020, Bonn, Bundestagswahlparty SPD-FDP-Regierung (cropped)
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Grabert
Horst Grabert (12 December 1927 – 10 October 2011) was a German politician and diplomat. Early life and education Grabert's father worked as an accountant after serving as a front officer in the First World War. Although Grabert, like his Jewish mother, was baptized as a Protestant in 1939, he had to leave the Steglitz high school in 1942. After an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman, he was sent to a labor camp in 1944. Without a high school diploma, he was able to study at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ... from 1946 after a special examination and became a qualified civil engineer in 1952. Career In 1952 Grabert joined the West Berlin Senate Administration and became a government construction trainee at the Senator for C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F042001-0033, Bonn, Plenarsitzung Des Bundesrates, Horst Grabert
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together with Lars Klingbeil, who joined her in December 2021. After losing the 2025 federal election, the party is part of the Merz government as the junior coalition partner. The SPD is a member of 12 of the 16 German state governments and is a leading partner in seven of them. The SPD was founded in 1875 from a merger of smaller socialist parties, and grew rapidly after the lifting of Germany's repressive Anti-Socialist Laws in 1890 to become the largest socialist party in Western Europe until 1933. In 1891, it adopted its Marxist-influenced Erfurt Program, though in practice it was moderate and focused on building working-class organizations. In the 1912 federal election, the SPD won 34.8 percent of votes and became the largest party in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Ehmke
Horst Paul August Ehmke (4 February 1927 – 12 March 2017) was a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969), Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs (1969–1972) and Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Post (1972–1974). Life Ehmke was born in the Free City of Danzig, where he passed his Abitur.''Der Spiegel'', 4 February 2007Der flotte Hotte sah sich als kommenden exzellenten Kanzler/ref> In 1944, at the age of 17, Ehmke was enrolled as a member of the Nazi Party, although when this became public knowledge in 2007 as part of a media investigation of Nazi archives, he stated that he had made no application and was previously unaware of the enrollment. Following the Expulsion of Germans after World War II he came as a refugee to western Germany. He studied Law and Economics in Göttingen and Political science and History at Princeton Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F041575-0018, Horst Ehmke Bei Pressekonferenz
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Carstens
Karl Carstens (; 14 December 1914 – 30 May 1992) was a German politician. He served as the president of West Germany from 1979 to 1984. Early life and education Carstens was born in the City of Bremen, the son of a commercial school teacher, who had been killed at the Western Front of World War I shortly before his birth. He studied law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt, Dijon, Munich, Königsberg, and Hamburg from 1933 to 1936, gaining a doctorate in 1938 and taking the Second '' Staatsexamen'' degree in 1939. In 1949 he also received a Master of Laws ( LL.M.) degree from Yale Law School. World War II From 1939 to 1945, during the Second World War, Carstens was a member of an anti-aircraft artillery (''Flak'') unit in the Luftwaffe, reaching the rank of ''Leutnant'' (Second Lieutenant) by the war's end. In 1940 he joined the Nazi Party; reportedly, he had applied for admission in 1937 to avoid detrimental treatment when he worked as a law clerk. He had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Carstens (cropped)
Karl Carstens (; 14 December 1914 – 30 May 1992) was a German politician. He served as the president of West Germany from 1979 to 1984. Early life and education Carstens was born in the City of Bremen, the son of a commercial school teacher, who had been killed at the Western Front of World War I shortly before his birth. He studied law and political science at the universities of Frankfurt, Dijon, Munich, Königsberg, and Hamburg from 1933 to 1936, gaining a doctorate in 1938 and taking the Second ''Staatsexamen'' degree in 1939. In 1949 he also received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Yale Law School. World War II From 1939 to 1945, during the Second World War, Carstens was a member of an anti-aircraft artillery (''Flak'') unit in the Luftwaffe, reaching the rank of ''Leutnant'' (Second Lieutenant) by the war's end. In 1940 he joined the Nazi Party; reportedly, he had applied for admission in 1937 to avoid detrimental treatment when he worked as a law clerk. He had, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Knieper
Werner Knieper (December 24, 1909 – July 17, 1977) was a German political official and manager. Life and profession Knieper studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin. In Heidelberg he was a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg from 1930. After completing his studies, he entered the civil service. He became a member of the SA. During World War II he served in the artillery as a reserve captain, most recently in the Wehrmacht command staff. Until 1966 he was head of the department for armament affairs in the Federal Ministry of Defence. From December 13, 1966, to December 31, 1967, Knieper was Head of the Federal Chancellery as State Secretary. After retiring as Secretary of State, he went into industry as a manager. On May 15, 1968, Knieper became chairman of the board of the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) in Bremen. After the merger of VFW with Fokker Fokker (; ) was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer that operated from 1912 to 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F023682-0010A, Bonn, Kanzler Kiesinger Ernennt Staatssekretär (cropped)
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
