List of German foreign ministers - Definition and Overview

This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1873-1918), and Ministers of Foreign Affairs under succeeding governments thereafter. See also Foreign Minister of Prussia.

State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, 1873-1918

• Bernhard Ernst von Bülow 1873-1879
• Count Paul von Hatzfeld 1881-1885
• Prince Herbert von Bismarck 1886-1890
• Baron Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein 1890-1897
• Count Bernhard von Bülow 1897-1900
• Baron Oswald von Richthofen 1900-1906
• Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky 1906-1907
• Baron Wilhelm von Schoen 1907-1910
• Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter 1910-1912
• Gottlieb von Jagow 1913-1916
• Arthur Zimmermann 1916-1917
• Richard von Kühlmann 1917-1918
• Paul von Hintze 1918
• Wilhelm Solf 1918

Ministers of Foreign Affairs, 1918-1945

• Wilhelm Solf 1918
• Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau 1918-1919
• Hermann Müller (SPD) 1919-1920
• Adolf Köster (SPD) 1920
• Walter Simons 1920-1921
• Friedrich Rosen 1921
• Joseph Wirth (Z) 1921-1922
• Walther Rathenau (DDP) 1922
• Joseph Wirth (Z) 1922
• Friedrich von Rosenberg 1922-1923
• Gustav Stresemann (DVP) 1923-1929
• Julius Curtius (DVP) 1929-1931
• Heinrich Brüning (Z) 1931-1932
• Baron Konstantin von Neurath 1932-1938
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (NSDAP) 1938-1945
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart (NSDAP) 1945
• Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk 1945

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1951-present

• Konrad Adenauer (CDU) 1951-1955
• Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo (CDU) 1955-1961
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU) 1961-1966
• Willy Brandt (SPD) 1966-1969
• Walter Scheel (FDP) 1969-1974
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) 1974-1982
• Helmut Schmidt (SPD) 1982
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) 1982-1992
• Klaus Kinkel (FDP) 1992-1998
• Joschka Fischer (Green) 1998-

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990

• Georg Dertinger 1949-1953
• Anton Ackermann (acting) 1953
• Lothar Bolz 1953-1965
• Otto Winzer 1965-1975
• Oskar Fischer 1975-1990
• Markus Meckel 1990
• Lothar de Maizière 1990