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Defense Minister or in the German Reich Reichswehr Minister was a permanent cabinet post in the various German state systems.
Reich Minister of War in the Provisional Central Authority (1848/1849)
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Reichswehr Minister in the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)
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Reichswehr Minister in the Third Reich (1933–1945)
Minister for National Defense of the GDR (1956–1990)
Federal Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1955)
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Surname
|
Term of office (beginning)
|
Term of office (end)
|
Political party
|
Federal Minister for Affairs of the Federal Defense Council
|
|
Heinrich Krone |
July 13, 1964 |
1st December 1966 |
CDU
|
Federal Minister for Defense
|
|
Theodor Blank |
June 7, 1955 |
October 16, 1956 |
CDU
|
Franz Josef Strauss |
October 16, 1956 |
December 29, 1961 |
CSU
|
Federal Minister of Defense
|
|
Franz Josef Strauss |
December 30, 1961 |
January 9, 1963 |
CSU
|
Kai-Uwe von Hassel |
January 9, 1963 |
1st December 1966 |
CDU
|
Gerhard Schröder |
1st December 1966 |
October 21, 1969 |
CDU
|
Helmut Schmidt |
October 22, 1969 |
July 7, 1972 |
SPD
|
Georg Leber |
July 7, 1972 |
February 16, 1978 |
SPD
|
Hans Apel |
17th February 1978 |
October 1, 1982 |
SPD
|
Manfred Woerner |
4th October 1982 |
May 18, 1988 |
CDU
|
Rupert Scholz |
May 18, 1988 |
April 21, 1989 |
CDU
|
Gerhard Stoltenberg |
April 21, 1989 |
March 31, 1992 |
CDU
|
Volker Rühe |
April 1, 1992 |
October 26, 1998 |
CDU
|
Rudolf Scharping |
October 27, 1998 |
July 19, 2002 |
SPD
|
Peter Struck |
July 19, 2002 |
November 22, 2005 |
SPD
|
Franz Josef Jung |
November 22, 2005 |
October 28, 2009 |
CDU
|
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg |
October 28, 2009 |
March 3, 2011 |
CSU
|
Thomas de Maizière |
March 3, 2011 |
17th December 2013 |
CDU
|
Ursula von der Leyen |
17th December 2013 |
17th July 2019 |
CDU
|
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
|
17th July 2019
|
officiating
|
CDU
|
German ministers by department