Dr. Philipp Rösler is the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology. The State Secretaries support him in fulfilling his responsibilities.

The State Secretaries are civil servants responsible for the Directorates-General within the Ministry. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are political appointees. They represent the Minister in the political arena.

The Ministry's legislative, administrative and coordinating functions in areas such as competition policy, regional policy, SME policy, energy policy, and external economic policy are geared to this task. The Ministry's organisation reflects the spectrum of its activities.

The ministry's budget amounts to €6.119bn in 2013. The ministry is thus playing its part in the efforts to consolidate the public-sector budgets whilst targeting investment at growth and innovation.

Parliamentary State Secretaries Ernst Burgbacher, Hans-Joachim Otto and Peter Hintze serve as co-ordinators and/or commissioners of the Federal Government.

The advisory boards at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology are composed of panels of experts who advise the Federal Minister on special issues of economic policy.

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has six agencies. This section provides a brief overview of their work and remit, and links to their websites.