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This page lists State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs under the German Empire (1871-1919), Reich 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)

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs (Außenstaatssekretäre), 1871-1919
1	Hermann von Thile (1812–1889)	21 March 1871	30 September 1872
2	Hermann Ludwig von Balan (1812–1874)¹	3 October 1872	9 October 1873
3	Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815–1879)	9 October 1873	20 October 1879
4	Josef Maria von Radowitz (1839–1912)¹	6 November 1879	17 April 1880
5	Chlodwig Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819-1901)¹	20 April 1880	1 September 1880
6	Friedrich Graf zu Limburg Stirum (1835–1912)¹	1 September 1880	25 June 1881
7	Clemens Busch (1834–1895)¹	25 June 1881	16 July 1881
8	Paul Graf von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg (1831–1901)	16 July 1881	24 October 1885
9	Herbert Fürst von Bismarck (1849–1904)²	24 October 1885	26 March 1890
10	Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein (1842–1912)	31 March 1890	19 October 1897
11	Bernhard Graf von Bülow (1849–1929)	20 October 1897	23 October 1900
12	Oswald Freiherr von Richthofen (1847–1906)	23 October 1900	17 January 1906
13	Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky und Bögendorff (1858–1916)	24 January 1906	25 October 1907
14	Wilhelm Freiherr von Schoen (1851–1933)	26 October 1907	27 June 1910
15	Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852–1912)	27 June 1910	30 December 1912
16	Gottlieb von Jagow (1863–1935)	11 January 1913	22 November 1916
17	Arthur Zimmermann (1864–1940)	22 November 1916	6 August 1917
18	Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948)	6 August 1917	9 July 1918
19	Paul von Hintze (1864–1941)	9 July 1918	3 October 1918
20	Wilhelm Solf (1862–1936)	3 October 1918	13 December 1918
21	Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928)	13 December 1918	13 February 1919
¹ Held office only provisionally. ² Held office provisionally until May 17, 1886.
Reich Foreign Ministers (Reichsminister des Auswärtigen), 1919-1945
No.	Name	Begin of office	End of office	Party
1	Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928)	February 13th 1919	June 20th 1919	none
2	Hermann Müller (1876–1931)	June 21st 1919	March 26th 1920	SPD
3	Adolf Köster (1883–1930)	April 10th 1920	June 8th 1921	SPD
4	Walter Simons (1861–1937)	June 25th 1920	May 4th 1921	none
5	Friedrich Rosen (1856–1935)	May 10th 1921	October 22nd 1921	none
6	Joseph Wirth (1879–1956)	October 26th 1921	January 31st 1922	Zentrum
7	Walther Rathenau (1867–1922)	February 1st 1922	June 21st 1922	DDP
8	Joseph Wirth (1879–1956)	June 21st 1922	November 14th 1922	Zentrum
9	Friedrich von Rosenberg (1874–1937)	November 22nd 1922	August 11th 1923	none
10	Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929)	August 13th 1923	October 3rd 1929	DVP
11	Julius Curtius (1877–1948)	October 4th 1929	October 9th 1931	DVP
12	Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970)	October 9th 1931	May 30th 1932	Zentrum
13	Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (1873–1956)	June 1st 1932	February 4th 1938	none (NSDAP after 1937)
14	Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946)	February 4th 1938	April 30th 1945	NSDAP
15	Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946)	April 30th 1945	May 2nd 1945	NSDAP
16	Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977)	May 2nd 1945	May 23rd 1945	none
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	October 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 22nd 2005	Incumbent	SPD

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