German Chancellery

Federal Chancellery

Bundeskanzleramt
Agency overview
Formed	1949
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Federal Chancellery building, Berlin (primary) Bonn (secondary)
Annual budget	€3.861 billion (2022)[1]
Agency executive	Wolfgang Schmidt, Head of the Chancellery
Website	bundesregierung.de

The German Chancellery (German: Bundeskanzleramt, pronounced [bʊndəsˈkant͡slɐˌʔamt] ^ⓘ, more faithfully translated as Federal Chancellery or Office of the Federal Chancellor) is an agency serving the executive office of the chancellor of Germany, the head of the federal government, currently Olaf Scholz. The Chancellery's primary function is to assist the chancellor in coordinating the activities of the federal government. The head of the Chancellery (Chef des Bundeskanzleramtes) holds the rank of either a Secretary of State (Staatssekretär) or a Federal Minister (Bundesminister), currently held by Wolfgang Schmidt. The headquarters of the German Chancellery is at the Federal Chancellery building in Berlin, which is the largest government headquarters in the world.^[2]