First Adenauer cabinet

First Konrad Adenauer Cabinet
Cabinet of West Germany
20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953
Date formed	20 September 1949
Date dissolved	20 October 1953
People and organisations
Head of state	Theodor Heuss
Head of government	Konrad Adenauer
Member party	CDU/CSU FDP DP
Status in legislature	Grand coalition
Opposition party	SPD KPD BP WAV DRP SSW
History
Election	West German federal election, 1949
Legislature term	1st legislature of the Bundestag
Predecessor	Adenauer II

The first cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in on 20 September 1949, and laid down its function on 20 October 1953. The cabinet was formed after the 1949 elections. It laid down its function after the formation of the Second Adenauer cabinet, which was formed following the 1953 elections.

Composition

Office	Incumbent		Term	Party
Chancellor	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Konrad Adenauer	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Vice-Chancellor Federal Minister for Matters of the Marshall Plan	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Franz Blücher	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	FDP
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Konrad Adenauer	15 March 1951 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister of the Interior	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Gustav Heinemann	20 September 1949 – 11 October 1950	CDU
	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Robert Lehr	11 October 1950 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister of Justice	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Thomas Dehler	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	FDP
Federal Minister of Finance	style="background-color: Template:Christian Social Union of Bavaria/meta/color" |	Fritz Schäffer	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CSU
Federal Minister of Economics	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Ludwig Erhard	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry	style="background-color: Template:Christian Social Union of Bavaria/meta/color" |	Wilhelm Niklas	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CSU
Federal Minister of Labour	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Anton Storch	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister for Transport	style="background-color: Template:German Party/meta/color" |	Hans-Christoph Seebohm	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	DP
Federal Minister for Post and Communications	style="background-color: Template:Christian Social Union of Bavaria/meta/color" |	Hans Schuberth	1 April 1950 – 20 October 1953	CSU
Federal Minister of Public Housing	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth	20 September 1949 – 9 March 1952	FDP
	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Fritz Neumayer	19 July 1952 – 20 October 1953	FDP
Federal Minister of Displaced Persons	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Hans Lukaschek	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister of All-German Affairs	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Jakob Kaiser	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	CDU
Federal Minister for Affairs of the Bundesrat of Germany	style="background-color: Template:German Party/meta/color" |	Heinrich Hellwege	20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953	DP