Federal Government of Germany

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Federal Government of Germany
Bundesregierung
Federal government
Logo (top) and Bundesadler (bottom) of the Federal Government
Overview
State	Germany
Leader	Federal Chancellor (Friedrich Merz)
Appointed by	Federal President (Frank-Walter Steinmeier)
Ministries	16 Federal Ministries [de]
Responsible to	Bundestag
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
Website	bundesregierung.de

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The Federal Government^[1][2] (German: Bundesregierung, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁeˌɡiːʁʊŋ] ^ⓘ; abbr. BReg)^[3] 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.^[4] 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 to be also members of the Bundestag (though they are not required to be).

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 [de] and the Personal Advisor to the Federal Chancellor.^[5] 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).