Is the German Chancellor a member of the Bundestag?

Factual Questions
1

Is the German Chancellor a member of the Bundestag, on the Westminster model? Or separate from the Bundestag, on the dualism approach of some other western European parliaments?

And are the cabinet minsters also members of the Bundestag?

2

The Chancellor and her cabinet are considered a separate branch of government from the Bundestag/Bundesrat. But as Elendil_s_Heir writes below, they can still be members of the Bundestag.

~Max

3

Interesting questions.

Some good info here:

Yes, Chancellor Angela Merkel is a member of the Bundestag, and has been since 1990.

Some but not all Cabinet ministers are also members of the Bundestag. Of the top five members of the Cabinet in protocol order after the Chancellor:

The Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance is not.

The Minister of the Interior also is not.

However, the Foreign Minister is the member for Saarland.

The Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy is the member for Saarlouis.

And the Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection is the member for Hesse.

4

Interesting. So neither Westminster nor dualism.

5

Not ex officio, but normally the chancellor will be someone who is a member of the Bundestag (because they’ve been previously ellected into the Bundestag like any other member). So the two are not mutually incompatible. So far there was only one chancellor since 1949 who was not at the same time a member of teh Bundestag; that was Kiesinger, 1966-1969.