Second Adenauer cabinet

Second Konrad Adenauer Cabinet
Second Cabinet of West Germany
Date formed	20 October 1953
Date dissolved	29 October 1957
People and organisations
Head of state	Theodor Heuss
Head of government	Konrad Adenauer
Member party	CDU/CSU FDP DP
Status in legislature	Grand coalition
History
Election	West German federal election, 1953
Legislature term	2nd Bundestag
Predecessor	Adenauer I
Successor	Adenauer III

The second cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in on 20 October 1953 after the 1953 elections. It laid down its function after the formation of the Cabinet Adenauer III on 29 October 1957, which was formed following the 1957 elections.

Composition

Office	Incumbent		Term	Party
Chancellor	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Konrad Adenauer	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Vice-Chancellor Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Franz Blücher	20 October 1953 – 26 June 1956	FDP
	style="background-color: Template:Free People's Party (Germany)/meta/color" |		26 June 1956 – 29 October 1957	FVP
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Konrad Adenauer	20 October 1953 – 6 June 1955	CDU
	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Heinrich von Brentano	6 June 1955 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Federal Minister of the Interior	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Gerhard Schröder	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Federal Minister of Justice	style="background-color: Template:Free Democratic Party (Germany)/meta/color" |	Fritz Neumayer	20 October 1953 – 26 June 1956	FDP
	style="background-color: Template:Free People's Party (Germany)/meta/color" |		26 June 1956 – 16 October 1956	FVP
	style="background-color: Template:German Party/meta/color" |	Hans-Joachim von Merkatz	16 October 1956 – 29 October 1957	DP
Federal Minister of Finance	style="background-color: Template:Christian Social Union of Bavaria/meta/color" |	Fritz Schäffer	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CSU
Federal Minister of Economics	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Ludwig Erhard	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Heinrich Lübke	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Federal Minister of Labour	style="background-color: Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color" |	Anton Storch	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	CDU
Federal Minister for Transport	style="background-color: Template:German Party/meta/color" |	Hans-Christoph Seebohm	20 October 1953 – 29 October 1957	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