Federal Government of Germany
the government of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Federal Government (German: Bundesregierung, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁeˌɡiːʁʊŋ] ; abbr. BReg) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany and exercises executive power at the federal level. It consists of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Ministers. The fundamentals of the government's organisation, as well as the method of its election and appointment, along with the procedure for its dismissal, are set down in the sixth section (articles 62 to 69) of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz).
The Chancellor and the other members of the government are allowed also to be members of the Bundestag, but are not required to be so.
An extended body is the Federal Cabinet (Bundeskabinett), which includes the Federal Government (consisting of the Federal Chancellor and Federal Ministers), the Head of the Federal Chancellery and its Parliamentary State Secretary, the Head of the Office of the Federal President, the Head of the Federal Press Office and the Personal Advisor to the Federal Chancellor. In addition, the word "cabinet" is commonly used to distinguish between previous and current Federal Governments. For example, the fourth federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel was the Fourth Merkel cabinet (Kabinett Merkel IV).
Election and appointment
The Chancellor is Germany's chief executive leader; accordingly, a government's tenure is linked to the Chancellor's tenure, which is in turn linked to parliamentary confidence. The Chancellor's term begins with their appointment and ends when a newly elected Bundestag sits for the first time.
“Federal Government of Germany” enters the record as the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Federal, Government and Germany can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q313827. VIAF identifies the subject as 144929054. The Library of Congress control number is n50082948. 4 of 10 selected statements include explicit references; 4 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.
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