Cabinet Name: | First Cabinet of Helmut Kohl Cabinet Kohl I |
Cabinet Number: | 13th |
Jurisdiction: | the Federal Republic of Germany |
Flag: | Flag_of_Germany.svg |
Incumbent: | 14 October 1982 – 30 March 1983 |
Date Formed: | 1 October 1982 |
Date Dissolved: | 30 March 1983 |
Government Head Title: | Chancellor |
Government Head: | Helmut Kohl |
Deputy Government Head Title: | Vice-Chancellor |
Deputy Government Head: | Hans-Dietrich Genscher |
State Head Title: | President |
State Head: | Karl Carstens |
Political Party: | Christian Democratic Union Christian Social Union Free Democratic Party |
Legislature Status: | Coalition government led by CDU/CSU |
Opposition Party: | Social Democratic Party The Greens |
Election: | Constructive vote of no confidence led by Helmut Kohl against incumbent Chancellor Helmut Schmidt |
Legislature Term: | 9th Bundestag |
Previous: | Schmidt III |
Successor: | Kohl II |
The First Kohl cabinet (German: Kabinett Kohl I) was the 13th Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was formed in 1 October 1982 following a successful constructive vote of no confidence, by which Helmut Kohl replaced Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor. The other cabinet members were appointed and sworn in on 4 October 1982. It was the first (and as yet only) German federal cabinet formed after a constructive vote of no confidence. After ascending to the chancellorship, Kohl and his coalition sought to bring about new elections as quickly as possible, which he achieved by deliberately losing a confidence motion and then having the Bundestag dissolved by the president at the chancellor's request. The following 1983 federal election on 6 March 1983 resulted in a re-election of Kohl and his newly formed CDU/CSU/FDP-coalition. On 30 March 1983, Kohl was again elected chancellor by the Bundestag and formed his second cabinet. With a duration of just under half a year, the cabinet Kohl I was the shortest-lived German government since the cabinet von Schleicher (3 December 1932–28 January 1933) during the Weimar Republic and is, as yet, the shortest-lived cabinet in the history of the Federal Republic.
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