Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)
The Federal Ministry of Defence, abbreviated BMVg, is a top-level federal agency, headed by the Federal Minister of Defence as a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The ministry is headquartered at the Hardthöhe district in Bonn and has a second office in the Bendlerblock building in Berlin, which is occasionally used as a metonym to denote the entire Ministry.
Entrance to the Hardthöhe, Bonn
Bendlerblock, Berlin-Tiergarten, secondary seat since 1993
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Image: Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Strauß (4909816836)
The Federal Cabinet, or according to the German Basic Law, the Federal Government, is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany. It consists of the Federal Chancellor and cabinet ministers. The fundamentals of the cabinet's organisation, as well as the method of its election and appointment, along with the procedure for its dismissal, are set down in articles 62 through 69 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz).
Image: Olaf Scholz in 2023 (cropped)
Image: Robert Habeck at Washington D.C
Image: 2021 12 07 Unterzeichnung des Koalitionsvertrages der 20. Wahlperiode des Bundestages by Sandro Halank–013
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