The minister for public works (Luxembourgish: Minister fir ëffentlech Aarbechten; French: ministre des travaux publics) was a position in the Luxembourgian cabinet. It was replaced by the position of Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure on 23 June 2009, having previously existed since the first cabinet of Luxembourg, back in 1848, with the exception of some intermittent spells in the nineteenth century.
From 24 March 1936, the title of Minister for Public Works was an official one, although the position had been unofficially known by that name since its creation. From the position's creation until 28 November 1857, the Minister went by the title of Administrator-General.[1] From 1857 until 1936, the Minister went by the title of Director-General.[2]
| Minister | Party | Start date | End date | width=200px | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=5px | Jean-Pierre André | None | 1 August 1848 | 2 December 1848 | G T I de la Fontaine | ||
| Mathias Ulrich | None | 2 December 1848 | 23 September 1853 | Jean-Jacques Willmar | |||
| Mathias Wellenstein | None | 23 September 1853 | 23 September 1854 | Charles-Mathias Simons | |||
| align=center colspan=6 | No minister | ||||||
| Paul de Scherff | None | 24 May 1856 | 2 June 1857 | ||||
| Guillaume-Mathias Augustin | None | 2 June 1857 | 29 November 1857 | ||||
| align=center colspan=6 | No minister | ||||||
| Baron de Tornaco | None | 26 September 1860 | 31 March 1864 | Baron de Tornaco | |||
| Ernest Simons | None | 31 March 1864 | 26 January 1866 | ||||
| No minister | |||||||
| Emmanuel Servais | |||||||
| Victor de Roebé | None | 26 December 1874 | 6 August 1878 | Baron de Blochausen | |||
| No minister | |||||||
| Édouard Thilges | |||||||
| Victor Thorn (first time) | None | 22 September 1888 | 26 October 1892 | Paul Eyschen | |||
| Paul Eyschen | None | 26 October 1892 | 23 June 1896 | ||||
| Charles Rischard | None | 23 June 1896 | 25 October 1905 | ||||
| Charles de Waha | None | 25 October 1905 | 3 March 1915 | ||||
| Victor Thorn (second time) | None | 3 March 1915 | 6 November 1915 | Mathias Mongenast | |||
| Guillaume Soisson (first time) | PD | 6 November 1915 | 24 February 1916 | Hubert Loutsch | |||
| Antoine Lefort | PD | 24 February 1916 | 19 June 1917 | Victor Thorn | |||
| 19 June 1917 | 28 September 1918 | Léon Kauffman | |||||
| Auguste Liesch | LL | 28 September 1918 | 15 April 1921 | Émile Reuter | |||
| Guillaume Leidenbach | PD | 15 April 1921 | 14 April 1923 | ||||
| Guillaume Soisson (second time) | PD | 14 April 1923 | 20 March 1925 | ||||
| Norbert Dumont | LL | 20 March 1925 | 16 July 1926 | Pierre Prüm | |||
| Albert Clemang | PRS | 16 July 1926 | 11 April 1932 | Joseph Bech | |||
| Étienne Schmit | PRL | 11 April 1932 | 5 November 1937 | ||||
| René Blum | POS | 5 November 1937 | 6 April 1940 | Pierre Dupong | |||
| Victor Bodson (first time) | LSAP | 6 April 1940 | 1 March 1947 | ||||
| Robert Schaffner (first time) | GD | 1 March 1947 | 3 July 1951 | ||||
| Victor Bodson (second time) | LSAP | 3 July 1951 | 29 December 1953 | ||||
| 29 December 1953 | 29 March 1958 | Joseph Bech | |||||
| 29 March 1958 | 2 March 1959 | Pierre Frieden | |||||
| Robert Schaffner (second time) | DP | 2 March 1959 | 15 July 1964 | Pierre Werner | |||
| Albert Bousser | LSAP | 15 July 1964 | 6 February 1969 | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Büchler | CSV | 6 February 1969 | 15 June 1974 | ||||
| Jean Hamilius | DP | 15 June 1974 | 16 July 1979 | Gaston Thorn | |||
| René Konen | DP | 16 July 1979 | 20 July 1984 | Pierre Werner | |||
| Marcel Schlechter | LSAP | 20 July 1984 | 14 July 1989 | Jacques Santer | |||
| Robert Goebbels | LSAP | 14 July 1989 | 16 January 1995 | ||||
| 16 January 1995 | 7 August 1999 | Jean-Claude Juncker | |||||
| Erna Hennicot-Schoepges | CSV | 7 August 1999 | 31 July 2004 | ||||
| Claude Wiseler | CSV | 31 July 2004 | 23 July 2009 |
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