Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Agency overview
Formed	1919 (Weimar Republic), 1949 (West Germany)
Jurisdiction	Government of Germany
Headquarters	Wilhelmstraße 49 10117 Berlin 52°30′45″N 13°23′01″E
Annual budget	€150.222 billion (2020)
Minister responsible	Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs
Website	http://www.bmas.de

Main Entrance on Wilhelmstrasse

The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (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 (Bundesregierung). 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 June 21 of the same 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 without actual power.

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 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

Hubertus Heil.

Main article: List of German labour ministers

Reich Ministers

Political Party:   Centre   SPD   NSDAP   Independent

No.	Portrait	Minister of Labour	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Party	Cabinet
1		Bauer, GustavGustav Bauer (1870–1944)	13 February 1919	20 June 1919	127 days	SPD	Scheidemann
2		Schlicke, AlexanderAlexander Schlicke (1863–1940)	21 June 1919	21 June 1920	1 year, 0 days	SPD	Bauer Müller
3		Brauns, HeinrichHeinrich Brauns (1868–1939)	25 June 1920	12 June 1928	7 years, 353 days	Centre	Fehrenbach Wirth I–II Cuno Stresemann I–II Marx I–II Luther I–II Marx III–IV
4		Wissell, RudolfRudolf Wissell (1869–1962)	28 June 1928	27 March 1930	1 year, 272 days	SPD	Müller II
5		Stegerwald, AdamAdam Stegerwald (1874–1945)	30 March 1930	30 May 1932	2 years, 61 days	Centre	Brüning I–II
–		Warmbold, HermannHermann Warmbold (1876–1976) Acting	1 June 1932	6 June 1932	5 days	Independent	Papen
6		Schäffer, HugoHugo Schäffer (1875–1945)	7 June 1932	17 November 1932	163 days	Independent	Papen
7		Syrup, FriedrichFriedrich Syrup (1881–1945)	3 December 1932	28 January 1933	56 days	Independent	Schleicher
8		Seldte, FranzFranz Seldte (1882–1947)	30 January 1933	30 April 1945	12 years, 90 days	NSDAP	Hitler
9		Hupfauer, TheoTheo Hupfauer (1906–1993)	30 April 1945	2 May 1945	2 days	NSDAP	Goebbels
(8)		Seldte, FranzFranz Seldte (1882–1947)	2 May 1945	23 May 1945	21 days	NSDAP	Flensburg

Federal Ministers

Political Party:   CDU   SPD

Name (Born-Died)		Portrait	Party	Term of Office		Chancellor (Cabinet)
Federal Minister for Labour
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Anton Storch (1892–1975)		CDU	20 September 1949	29 October 1957	Adenauer (I • II)
Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Theodor Blank (1905–1972)		CDU	29 October 1957	26 October 1965	Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Hans Katzer (1919–1996)		CDU	26 October 1965	21 October 1969	Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Walter Arendt (1925–2005)		SPD	22 October 1969	16 December 1976	Brandt (I • II) Schmidt (I)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Herbert Ehrenberg (1926–2018)		SPD	16 December 1976	28 April 1982	Schmidt (II • III)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Heinz Westphal (1924–1998)		SPD	28 April 1982	1 October 1982	Schmidt (III)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Norbert Blüm (1935–2020)		CDU	1 October 1982	27 October 1998	Kohl (I • II • III • IV • V)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Walter Riester (b. 1943)		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:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Wolfgang Clement (b. 1940)		SPD
Federal Minister for Health and Social Security
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Ulla Schmidt (b. 1949)		SPD
Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Franz Müntefering (b. 1940)		SPD	22 November 2005	21 November 2007	Merkel (I)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Olaf Scholz (b. 1958)		SPD	21 November 2007	28 October 2009
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Franz Josef Jung (b. 1949)		CDU	28 October 2009	27 November 2009	Merkel (II)
style="background:Template:CDU/CSU/meta/color;" |	Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958)		CDU	30 November 2009	17 December 2013
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Andrea Nahles (b. 1970)		SPD	17 December 2013	28 September 2017	Merkel (III)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Katarina Barley (acting) (b. 1968)		SPD	28 September 2017	14 March 2018	Merkel (III)
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" |	Hubertus Heil (b. 1972)		SPD	14 March 2018	Incumbent	Merkel (IV)

State secretaries

The Parliamentary Secretary of States are Klaus Brandner and Franz Thönnes.

The Secretaries of State are Detlef Scheele, Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense and Kajo Wasserhövel.

External links

• Official Web site