| Agency Name: | Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
| Nativename: | Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales |
| Seal: | DEgov-BMAS-Logo en.svg |
| Headquarters: | Wilhelmstraße 49 10117 Berlin |
| Coordinates: | 52.5125°N 13.3836°W |
| Formed: | 1919 (Weimar Republic), 1949 (West Germany) |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Germany |
| Budget: | €164.920 billion (2021)[1] |
| Minister1 Name: | Hubertus Heil |
| Minister1 Pfo: | Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs |
| Website: | http://www.bmas.de |
The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (German: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, pronounced as /de/), abbreviated BMAS)[2] 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.
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 21 June that 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 the day-to-day affairs of the Ministry were managed largely by the State Secretaries Johannes Krohn (1933–1939) and Friedrich Syrup (1939–1945).
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[3] 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.
Political Party:
|-! colspan="8"| Weimar Republic (1919–1933)|-|-! colspan="8"| Nazi Germany (1933–1945)|-
| Name (Born-Died) | Portrait | Party | Term of Office | Chancellor (Cabinet) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anton Storch (1892–1975) | 75px | CDU | 20 September 1949 | 29 October 1957 | Adenauer (I • II) | |
| 2 | Theodor Blank (1905–1972) | CDU | 29 October 1957 | 26 October 1965 | Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I) | ||
| 3 | Hans Katzer (1919–1996) | 75px | CDU | 26 October 1965 | 21 October 1969 | Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I) | |
| 4 | Walter Arendt (1925–2005) | SPD | 22 October 1969 | 16 December 1976 | Brandt (I • II) Schmidt (I) | ||
| 5 | Herbert Ehrenberg (1926–2018) | SPD | 16 December 1976 | 28 April 1982 | Schmidt (II • III) | ||
| 6 | Heinz Westphal (1924–1998) | 75px | SPD | 28 April 1982 | 1 October 1982 | Schmidt (III) | |
| 7 | Norbert Blüm (1935–2020) | 75px | CDU | 1 October 1982 | 27 October 1998 | Kohl (I • II • III • IV • V) | |
| 8 | 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) | ||||
| 9a | Wolfgang Clement (1940–2020) | SPD | |||||
| Federal Minister for Health and Social Security | |||||||
| 9b | Ulla Schmidt (b. 1949) | SPD | |||||
| 10 | Franz Müntefering (b. 1940) | SPD | 22 November 2005 | 21 November 2007 | Merkel (I) | ||
| 11 | Olaf Scholz (b. 1958) | SPD | 21 November 2007 | 28 October 2009 | |||
| 12 | Franz Josef Jung (b. 1949) | 75px | CDU | 28 October 2009 | 27 November 2009 | Merkel (II) | |
| 13 | Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958) | CDU | 30 November 2009 | 17 December 2013 | |||
| 14 | Andrea Nahles (b. 1970) | SPD | 17 December 2013 | 28 September 2017 | Merkel (III) | ||
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| 15 | Hubertus Heil (b. 1972) | SPD | 14 March 2018 | Incumbent | Merkel (IV) Scholz (I) | ||
The Parliamentary Secretary of States are Anette Kramme and Kerstin Griese.
The Secretaries of State are Leonie Gebers, Björn Böhning and Rolf Schmachtenberg.[4]