Federal Chancellery
The Federal Chancellery—Bundeskanzleramt—is Berlin’s centre of command for Germany’s federal government, supporting the chancellor in coordinating executive work across ministries. Today it serves the office of the chancellor, currently Friedrich Merz, while the head of the Chancellery, the Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes, holds the rank of either a Staatssekretär or a Bundesminister; that role is currently held by Thorsten Frei. The institution’s origins reach back to the North German Confederation in 1867, when the constitution named only the Bundeskanzler as the responsible executive officer. Otto von Bismarck began by establishing a Bundeskanzleramt as the chancellor’s office—initially the country’s only “ministry,” before the Prussian foreign office became the North German foreign office in early 1870. …
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