Cabinet Kohl V
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The fifth and final cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on November 15, 1994 and laid down its function on October 27, 1998. The cabinet was formed after the 1994 elections
. It laid down its function after the formation of the Cabinet Schröder I
, which was formed following the 1998 elections
.
The cabinet had the following composition:
The composition of the cabinet changed three times:
German federal election, 1994
The 13th German federal election, 1994 was conducted on October 16, 1994, to elect members to the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany.-Issues and Campaign:The SPD let its members elect a candidate for Chancellor against Helmut Kohl...
. It laid down its function after the formation of the Cabinet Schröder I
Cabinet Schröder I
The first cabinet led by Gerhard Schröder was sworn in on October 27, 1998 after the 1998 elections and laid down its function on October 22, 2002 after the formation of the Schröder Cabinet II, which was formed following the 2002 elections....
, which was formed following the 1998 elections
German federal election, 1998
A German federal election was conducted on September 27, 1998, to elect members to the 14th Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany.- Issues and campaign :...
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The cabinet had the following composition:
- Helmut KohlHelmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...
(CDUChristian Democratic Union (Germany)The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
) - Chancellor - Klaus KinkelKlaus KinkelKlaus Kinkel is a German civil servant, lawyer, and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party . He served as Federal Minister of Justice , Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the government of Helmut Kohl. He was also chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 1993...
(FDP) - Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs - Friedrich Bohl (CDU) - Minister of Special Tasks and Chief of the Chancellery
- Volker RüheVolker RüheVolker Rühe is a German politician affiliated with the CDU. He served as German Defence minister from April 1, 1992, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl, to the end of the fifth Kohl Cabinet on October 27, 1998...
(CDU) - Minister of Defense - Manfred KantherManfred KantherManfred Kanther is a German conservative politician and was Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998. He has been a member of the CDU .- Life and education :...
(CDU) - Minister of the Interior - Theo Waigel (CSUChristian Social Union of BavariaThe Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...
) - Minister of Finance - Sabine Leutheusser-SchnarrenbergerSabine Leutheusser-SchnarrenbergerSabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the pro-business Free Democratic Party. Within the FDP, she is a leading figure of the small social-liberal wing...
(FDP) - Minister of Justice - Günter RexrodtGünter RexrodtGünter Rexrodt was a German politician. He lived in Berlin.-Education and work:After the Abitur in 1960 in Arnstadt, Thuringia and an extra year in West Berlin, he graduated with a Diplom in business studies from the Free University Berlin where he also received his doctorate in 1971...
(FDP) - Minister of Economics - Norbert BlümNorbert BlümNorbert Blüm is a German federal legislator from North Rhine-Westphalia, Chairman of the CDU there , and former minister for labor and social affairs ....
(CDU) - Minister of Labour and Social Affairs - Jochen BorchertJochen BorchertJochen Borchert is a German politician and member of the CDU. He was minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet from 1993 to 1998. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Bundestag.- External links :* *...
(CDU) - Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry - Matthias WissmannMatthias WissmannMatthias Wissmann is the president of the Verband der Automobilindustrie.Since 1999 he has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.-Education:...
(CDU) - Minister of Transport - Klaus TöpferKlaus TöpferKlaus Töpfer is a German politician and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme ....
(CDU) - Minister of Construction - Claudia NolteClaudia NolteClaudia Nolte was born Claudia Wiesemüller on February 7, 1966 in Rostock, a town that then lay in East Germany. Nolte became a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union party , becoming the youngest cabinet minister in German history whilst in office from 1994–98...
(CDU) - Minister of Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth - Horst SeehoferHorst SeehoferHorst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician . He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008...
(CSU) - Minister of Health - Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) - Minister of Education, Science, Research, and Technology
- Carl-Dieter Spranger (CSU) - Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development
- Angela MerkelAngela MerkelAngela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...
(CDU) - Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Reactor Security - Wolfgang BötschWolfgang BötschWolfgang Bötsch is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Between 1974 and 1976 he represented the Landtag of Bavaria and between 1993 and 1997 he was the Minister of Post and Telecommunications.-References:...
(CSU) - Minister of Posts and Communications
The composition of the cabinet changed three times:
- January 17, 1996 - Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (FDP) succeeds Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Minister of Justice.
- December 31, 1997 - The Ministry of Posts and Communications is abolished.
- January 14, 1998 - Eduard Oswald succeeds Töpfer as Minister of Construction.