Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building explained

Agency Name:Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
Nativename:Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen (BMWSB)
Headquarters:Berlin
Formed:20 September 1949 (as the Federal Ministry for Reconstruction)
8 December 2021 (re-established; as the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development, and Building)
Dissolved:27 October 1998 (then as the Federal Ministry for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development)
Jurisdiction:Government of Germany
Minister1 Name:Klara Geywitz
Minister1 Pfo:Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building
Chief1 Name:Sören Bartol
Chief1 Position:Parliamentary State Secretary
Chief2 Name:Cansel Kiziltepe
Chief2 Position:Parliamentary State Secretary
Website:https://www.bmwsb.bund.de/Webs/BMWSB/DE/startseite/startseite-node.html

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (German: Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen, pronounced as /de/), abbreviated BMWSB, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is headquartered in Berlin. The current minister is Klara Geywitz,[1] of the Social Democratic Party. The Federal Ministry existed between 1949 and 1998 and was re-established in December 2021.

History

In 1949 the ministry was founded under the name Federal Ministry for Reconstruction. In 1950 the ministry renamed in Federal Ministry for Housing and in 1961 was it renamed in Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning. From 1965 the name of the ministry was the Federal Ministry for Housing and Urban Development (or 1969–72 with the reverse order of the two terms), until it finally received the name Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development in 1972, which it bore until its dissolution in 1998.[2]

In 1998, the ministry was merged with the Federal Ministry of Transport in to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing by an organizational decree from Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.[3] Its first Minister was Franz Müntefering (SPD).

From 2013 to 2018 the construction area was affiliated to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, from 2018 to 2021 it belonged to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

With the organizational decree of December 8, 2021, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered on the day of his appointment and with immediate effect that a Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building be re-established.[4]

Federal Ministers

Political Party:

PortraitName
(Born-Died)
PartyTerm of OfficeChancellor
(Cabinet)
1Eberhard Wildermuth
(1890–1952)
FDP20 September 19499 March 1952Adenauer
(I)
2Fritz Neumayer
(1917–1989)
FDP19 July 195220 October 1953Adenauer
(I)
3Victor-Emanuel Preusker
(1913–1991)
FDP20 October 195329 October 1957Adenauer
(II)
4Paul Lücke
(1914–1976)
CDU29 October 195726 October 1965Adenauer
(IIIIV)
Erhard (I)
5Ewald Bucher
(1914–1991)
FDP26 October 196528 October 1966Erhard
(II)
6Bruno Heck
(1917–1989)
CDU8 November 196630 November 1966Erhard
(II)
7Lauritz Lauritzen
(1910–1980)
SPD1 Dezember 196615 December 1972Kiesinger
Brandt
(I)
8Hans-Jochen Vogel
(1926–2020)
SPD15 December 197216 May 1974Brandt
(II)
9Karl Ravens
(1927–2017)
SPD16 May 197416 February 1978Schmidt
(III)
10Dieter Haack
(born 1934)
SPD16 February 19781 October 1982Schmidt
(IIIII)
11Oscar Schneider
(born 1927)
CSU1 October 198221 April 1989Kohl
(IIIIII)
12Gerda Hasselfeldt
(born 1950)
CSU21 April 198918 January 1991Kohl
(III)
13Irmgard Schwaetzer
(born 1942)
FDP18 January 199117 November 1994Kohl
(IV)
14Klaus Töpfer
(1938–2024)
CDU17 November 199414 January 1998Kohl
(V)
15Eduard Oswald
(born 1947)
CSU14 January 199826 October 1998Kohl
(V)
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16Klara Geywitz
(born 1976)
SPD8 December 2021incumbentScholz
(I)

References

  1. News: Bundesbauministerin Geywitz. 25 January 2022 . . Tageschau. 18 December 2021. de.
  2. https://www.wissen.de/lexikon/bundesministerium-fuer-raumordnung-bauwesen-und-staedtebau / Bundesministerium für Raumordnung, Bauwesen und Städtebau
  3. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bkorgerl1998bek/BJNR328800998.html / Bekanntmachung des Organisationserlasses des Bundeskanzlers
  4. News: Fabricius . Michael . Ein eigenes Bauministerium – wird der Ruf der Branche jetzt erhört? . 23 January 2022 . . . 22 November 2021 . de.

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