Kiesinger cabinet
Kiesinger cabinet | |
---|---|
Chancellor | Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
choice | no |
Legislative period | 5. |
Appointed by | Federal President Heinrich Lübke |
education | 1st December 1966 |
The End | 20th October 1969 |
Duration | 2 years and 323 days |
predecessor | Cabinet Erhard II |
successor | Brandt I cabinet |
composition | |
Party (s) | CDU, CSU, SPD |
representation | |
German Bundestag | 468/518 |
Opposition leader | Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm ( FDP ) until January 23, 1968; Wolfgang Mischnick (FDP) from January 23, 1968 |
The Kiesinger cabinet was the German federal government in office from December 1, 1966 to October 21, 1969 in the fifth legislative period . It was the first grand coalition at the federal level in the Federal Republic. For the first time since 1930 , the SPD had government responsibility again. Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt had also been the SPD chairman since February 1964 .
minister
Office | photo | Surname | Political party |
Parliamentary State Secretary or Minister of State |
Political party | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chancellor |
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988) |
CDU |
Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (1921–1972) from April 17, 1967 |
CSU | ||
Vice Chancellor |
Willy Brandt (1913–1992) |
SPD | ||||
Foreign |
Gerhard Jahn (1927–1998) from April 12, 1967 |
SPD | ||||
Interior |
Paul Lücke (1914–1976) until April 2, 1968 |
CDU |
Ernst Benda (1925–2009) April 12, 1967 to April 2, 1968 Heinrich Köppler (1925–1980) from April 19, 1968 |
CDU | ||
Ernst Benda (1925–2009) from April 2, 1968 |
CDU | |||||
Judiciary |
Gustav Heinemann (1899–1976) until March 26, 1969 |
SPD | - | - | ||
Horst Ehmke (1927-2017) |
SPD | |||||
Finances |
Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988) |
CSU |
Albert Leicht (1922–1994) from April 12, 1967 |
CDU | ||
economy |
Karl Schiller (1911–1994) |
SPD |
Klaus Dieter Arndt (1927–1974) from April 12, 1967 |
SPD | ||
Food, Agriculture and Forestry |
Hermann Höcherl (1912–1989) |
CSU | - | - | ||
Work and social order |
Hans Katzer (1919–1996) |
CDU | - | - | ||
defense |
Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989) |
CDU |
Eduard Adorno (1920–2000) from April 19, 1967 |
CDU | ||
traffic |
Georg Leber (1920–2012) |
SPD |
Holger Börner (1931–2006) from April 12, 1967 |
SPD | ||
Post and telecommunications |
Werner Dollinger (1918-2008) |
CSU | - | - | ||
Housing and urban planning |
Lauritz Lauritzen (1910–1980) |
SPD | - | - | ||
Displaced persons, refugees and war victims |
Kai-Uwe von Hassel (1913–1997) until February 5, 1969 |
CDU | - | - | ||
Heinrich Windelen (1921–2015) from February 7, 1969 |
CDU | |||||
All-German questions |
Herbert Wehner (1906–1990) |
SPD | - | - | ||
Federal Council and states |
Carlo Schmid (1896–1979) |
SPD | - | - | ||
Scientific Research |
Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928-2001) |
CDU | - | - | ||
Family and youth |
Bruno Heck (1917–1989) until October 2, 1968 |
CDU | - | - | ||
Aenne Brauksiepe (1912–1997) from October 16, 1968 |
CDU | |||||
treasure |
Kurt Schmücker (1919–1996) |
CDU | - | - | ||
Healthcare |
Kate Strobel (1907-1996) |
SPD | - | - | ||
Economic Cooperation |
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (1922–2005) until October 2, 1968 |
SPD | - | - | ||
Erhard Eppler (1926–2019) from October 16, 1968 |
SPD |
Formation of government after Erhard's resignation
After the federal election in 1965 , the CDU, CSU and FDP initially continued the joint government under Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . A year later, a leadership crisis culminated in the CDU and CDU parliamentary group, triggered among other things by the poor election result of the CDU in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on July 10, 1966 . On November 10, 1966, the Union nominated Kurt Georg Kiesinger as a new candidate for chancellor. After the failure of renewed coalition negotiations with the FDP, a grand coalition was formed ; the Kiesinger cabinet took office on December 1, 1966.
The SPD would also have had a majority in the Bundestag with the FDP (217 plus 50 seats; the Union had 251 seats). Parts of the FDP rejected this, however. Therefore, the SPD was concerned that the narrow majority would not be enough to elect Willy Brandt as Federal Chancellor.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Der Spiegel 46/1966 of November 11, 1966: Dirty Hands