The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth is not a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
 This transformations aimed to consolidate the policy-fields of economics and labour market, on which the second term of chancellor Gerhard Schrder wanted to focus, into one hand
 Because the new Ministry was very large and important, it was often referred to as a super-ministry (Superministerium) and its minister as a super-minister (Superminister)

