The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety's current minister of the environment has been Barbara Hendricks for 5 years.
 After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Ministry of Economics (German: Bundesministerium fr Wirtschaft) existed from 1949 to 1998
 In 1998 the technology section of the Ministry of Research was added, making it the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

