Bismarck cabinet

Cabinet Bismarck
1st Cabinet of Germany
1871-1890
Date formed	21 March 1871
Date dissolved	20 March 1890
People and organisations
Head of state	Kaiser Wilhelm I Kaiser Friedrich III Kaiser Wilhelm II
Head of government	Otto von Bismarck
History
Predecessor	n/a
Successor	Cabinet von Caprivi

The Bismarck Cabinet was the first cabinet of the German Empire, led by Otto von Bismarck from the unification of Germany in 1871 until 1890.

List of ministers

Cabinet Bismarck 21 March 1871 – 20 March 1890
Reich Chancellor	Otto von Bismarck
Vice-Chancellor from 17 March 1878	Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode to 20 June 1881 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher
Foreign Office	Hermann von Thile 1871 to 30 September 1872 Hermann Ludwig von Balan acting Bernhard Ernst von Bülow 9 October 1873 – 20 October 1879 Joseph Maria von Radowitz 1879–1880, acting Chlodwig Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1880, acting Friedrich Graf zu Limburg-Stierum 1880–1881, acting Clemens Busch 1881, acting Paul Graf von Hatzfeld zu Wildenburg 1881–1885 Herbert Fürst von Bismarck from 1885 to 1886, acting
Interior from 24 December 1879	Karl von Hofmann to 1880 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher
Justice from 1 January 1877	Heinrich von Friedberg to 30 October 1879 Hermann von Schelling to 31 January 1889 Otto von Oehlschläger from 19 February 1889
Navy from 1 January 1872	Albrecht von Stosch to 20 March 1883 Leo Graf von Caprivi to 5 July 1888 Alexander von Monts to 19 January 1889 Karl Eduard Heusner
Post from 1880	Heinrich von Stephan
Treasury from 1880	Adolf von Scholz to July 1882 Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard to November 1886 Karl Rudolf Jacobi to 14 September 1888 Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn

Sources

• Regenten und Regierungen der Welt, Vol. 2,3. Neueste Zeit: 1492–1917, ed. by B. Spuler; 2nd edition, Würzburg, Ploetz, 1962.