Cabinet Adenauer IV

Cabinet Adenauer IV
4. Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany
Chancellor	Konrad Adenauer
Legislative period	4th
Appointed by	Federal President Heinrich Lübke
education	November 14, 1961
The End	December 14, 1962
Duration	1 year and 30 days
predecessor	Cabinet Adenauer III
successor	Cabinet Adenauer V
composition
Party (s)	CDU, CSU, FDP
representation
German Bundestag	318/521
Opposition leader	Erich Ollenhauer ( SPD )

The Adenauer IV cabinet was the German federal government in office from November 14, 1961 to December 14, 1962 in the fourth legislative period .

minister

Cabinet Adenauer IV - November 14, 1961 to December 14, 1962
(no commission to carry out business )

Office	photo	Surname	Political party
Chancellor		Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)		CDU
Deputy Federal Chancellor		Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977)		independent
economy
Foreign		Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989)		CDU
Interior		Hermann Höcherl (1912–1989)		CSU
Judiciary		Wolfgang Stammberger (1920–1982) until November 19, 1962		FDP
Finances		Heinz Starke (1911–2001) until November 19, 1962		FDP
Food, Agriculture and Forestry		Werner Schwarz (1900–1982)		CDU
Work and social order		Theodor Blank (1905–1972)		CDU
defense		Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988) was entrusted with the management until December 11, 1962		CSU
traffic		Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1903-1967)		CDU
Post and telecommunications		Richard Stücklen (1916-2002)		CSU
Housing, town planning and spatial planning		Paul Lücke (1914–1976)		CDU
Displaced persons, refugees and war victims		Wolfgang Mischnick (1921–2002) until November 19, 1962		FDP
All-German questions		Ernst Lemmer (1898–1970)		CDU
Affairs of the Federal Council and the states		Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (1905–1982)		CDU
Nuclear energy		Siegfried Balke (1902–1984)		CSU
Family and youth issues		Franz-Josef Wuermeling (1900–1986)		CDU
treasure		Hans Lenz (1907–1968) until November 19, 1962		FDP
Economic Cooperation		Walter Scheel (1919–2016) until November 19, 1962		FDP
Healthcare		Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901–1986)		CDU
Special tasks		Heinrich Krone (1895–1989)		CDU

Problems in forming a coalition

In the federal election on September 17, 1961 , the CDU / CSU received 251 seats, the SPD 203 and the FDP 67. A social-liberal and a grand coalition were possible and were also discussed. The FDP (it had already co-ruled in the Adenauer II cabinet ) opted for coalition negotiations with the CDU / CSU. There were disputes about the successor to Adenauer. Adenauer, then 85 years old, was known as "Chancellor on call", but was able to assert himself again, partly because there was no established succession plan.

One year after the cumbersome government formation, five ministers from the FDP and others from the Union were dismissed at their own request, as Adenauer refused to dismiss the two state secretaries Volkmar Hopf (CSU, Ministry of Defense) and Walter Strauss (CDU, Ministry of Justice). These were accused by the FDP of having orchestrated a police action against the editors of the news magazine Der Spiegel , which would later develop into the so-called Spiegel affair . In the end, Adenauer fired State Secretaries Hopf and Strauss to prevent further resignations and an expansion of the affair. His position was strengthened one last time within his own ranks; he had enough support to set up his fifth cabinet at the end of 1962 . The prerequisite for this, however, was, among other things, that Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (CSU), who was involved in the affair, no longer took over a department.

See also

• List of the German federal governments
• List of German federal ministers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Independent Federal Chancellor on Welt.de (accessed on January 1, 2010)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Evelyn Schmidtke: The Chancellor tension between Chancellor democracy and democracy. A comparison of the government styles of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohls, p. 136ff. Tectum Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3828882782 ; Dissertation ( Chemnitz University of Technology , 2000)