The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1999.
 From May 1971 to December 1972, it was temporarily merged with the Federal Ministry of Finance, in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Finance
 The ministry is further divided into two departments: the Department of School Education and Literacy, which deals with primary, secondary and higher secondary education, adult education and literacy, and the Department of Higher Education, which deals with university level education, technical education, scholarships, etc

