Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
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The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (Template:Langx,Template:Efn Script error: No such module "IPA".; abbreviated BMAS) is a federal ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany headed by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs as a member of the Cabinet of Germany (Script error: No such module "Lang".). Its first location is on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, the second in Bonn.
History
The Reich Ministry of Labour of the Weimar Republic was established on 13 February 1919 as the successor of the Labour Office (Reichsarbeitsamt) of the German Empire. The Social Democratic politician Gustav Bauer became the first Minister for Labour under Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann, whom he succeeded on 21 June that year. On the day of the Machtergreifung in January 1933, the German National politician and Der Stahlhelm leader Franz Seldte was appointed Minister for Labour in the Cabinet Hitler, a position he officially held until 1945, though the day-to-day affairs of the Ministry were managed largely by the State Secretaries Johannes Krohn (1933–1939) and Friedrich Syrup (1939–1945).
The West German Ministry for Labour was re-established in Bonn on 20 September 1949 with the Cabinet Adenauer I. According to the 1991 Berlin/Bonn Act it moved to its present seat in Berlin-Mitte in 2000, on premises formerly used by Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry and the East German National Front organisation.
During the Cabinet Schröder II from 2002 to 2005, the ministry had been dissolved and its responsibilities allocated to the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour[1] and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security. Responsibilities were re-allocated once again when a new government was formed under Chancellor Angela Merkel following the Bundestag elections of 2005. The German name was changed from Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung to Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
Ministers
German Reich (until 1945)
- Reich Ministers
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Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present)
- Federal Ministers
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| Name (Born-Died) |
Portrait | Party | Term of Office | Chancellor (Cabinet) | |||||
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| Federal Minister for Labour (1949–1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (1957–2002)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 1 | Anton Storch (1892–1975) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P003647, Anton Storch (cropped).jpg | CDU | 20 September 1949 | 29 October 1957 | Adenauer (I • II) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 2 | Theodor Blank (1905–1972) |
File:Bundeswehr-Foto BVM001 Theodor Blank.jpg | CDU | 29 October 1957 | 26 October 1965 | Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 3 | Hans Katzer (1919–1996) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F061786-0010, Hamburg, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Katzer (cropped).jpg | CDU | 26 October 1965 | 21 October 1969 | Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 4 | Walter Arendt (1925–2005) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F042673-0001, Bonn, Sitzung des SPD Präsidiums, Arendt (cropped).jpg | SPD | 22 October 1969 | 16 December 1976 | Brandt (I • II) Schmidt (I) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 5 | Herbert Ehrenberg (1926–2018) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F060860-0034, Bonn, Sitzung Bundesrat, Ehrenberg (cropped).jpg | SPD | 16 December 1976 | 28 April 1982 | Schmidt (II • III) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 6 | Heinz Westphal (1924–1998) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F064991-0007, Bonn, SPD-Pressekonferenz, Heinz Westphal.jpg | SPD | 28 April 1982 | 1 October 1982 | Schmidt (III) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 7 | Norbert Blüm (1935–2020) |
File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F073617-0027, Mainz, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Kiep, Blüm (cropped).jpg | CDU | 1 October 1982 | 27 October 1998 | Kohl (I • II • III • IV • V) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 8 | Walter Riester (b. 1943) |
File:Walter Riester (cropped).jpg | SPD | 27 October 1998 | 22 October 2002 | Schröder (I) | |||
| Federal Minister for Economics and Labour | 22 October 2002 | 22 November 2005 | Schröder (II) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 9a | Wolfgang Clement (1940–2020) |
File:Wolfgang Clement.jpg | SPD | ||||||
| Federal Minister for Health and Social Security | |||||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 9b | Ulla Schmidt (b. 1949) |
File:SPD Bundesparteitag Leipzig 2013 by Moritz Kosinsky 003.jpg | SPD | ||||||
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| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 10 | Franz Müntefering (b. 1940) |
File:Franz muentefering crop.jpg | SPD | 22 November 2005 | 21 November 2007 | Merkel (I) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 11 | Olaf Scholz (b. 1958) |
File:Olaf Scholz – Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg 2015 02.jpg | SPD | 21 November 2007 | 28 October 2009 | ||||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 12 | Franz Josef Jung (b. 1949) |
File:MK19946 Franz Josef Jung (cropped).jpg | CDU | 28 October 2009 | 27 November 2009 | Merkel (II) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 13 | Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958) |
File:Von der Leyen 2010.jpg | CDU | 30 November 2009 | 17 December 2013 | ||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 14 | Andrea Nahles (b. 1970) |
File:2017-05-09 Andrea Nahles (re-publica 17) by Sandro Halank–17 (cropped).jpg | SPD | 17 December 2013 | 28 September 2017 | Merkel (III) | |||
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| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 15 | Hubertus Heil (b. 1972) |
File:2018-05-02 re-publica 18 by Sandro Halank–053.jpg | SPD | 14 March 2018 | 6 May 2025 | Merkel (IV) Scholz (I) | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 16 | Bärbel Bas (b. 1972) |
SPD | 6 May 2025 | Incumbent | Merz (I) | ||||
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Parliamentary State Sectretaries
- 1969–1974: Helmut Rohde (SPD)
- 1972–1976: Herbert Ehrenberg (SPD)
- 1974–1982: Hermann Buschfort (SPD)
- 1980–1982: Anke Fuchs (SPD)
- 1982: Rudolf Dreßler (SPD)
- 1982: Jürgen Egert (SPD)
- 1982–1991: Wolfgang Vogt (CDU)
- 1982–1984: Heinrich Franke (CDU)
- 1984–1989: Stefan Höpfinger (CSU)
- 1989–1992: Horst Seehofer (CSU)
- 1991–1998: Horst Günther (CDU)
- 1992–1998: Rudolf Kraus (CSU)
- 1998–2008: Gerd Andres (SPD)
- 1998–2002: Ulrike Mascher (SPD)
- 2002–2005: Ditmar Staffelt (SPD)
- 2002–2005: Rezzo Schlauch (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- 2002–2009: Franz Thönnes (SPD)
- 2005–2009: Klaus Brandner (SPD)
- 2009–2013: Ralf Brauksiepe (CDU)
- 2009–2013: Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (CDU)
- 2013–2018: Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller (SPD)
- since 2013: Anette Kramme (SPD)
- since 2018: Kerstin Griese (SPD)
State secretaries
since December 2021,[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Secretaries of State are Leonie Gebers, Björn Böhning and Rolf Schmachtenberg.
Building
The ministry is located within the former Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. For the building's interior courtyard, artist Daniel Buren was commissioned with his large-scale installation La Grande Fenêtre (2001).[2]
Notes
References
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- ↑ German name: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
- ↑ Michael Z. Wise (7 June 1998), Where the Past Haunts, Berlin Embraces the New New York Times.
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