Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building

Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen (BMWSB)
Agency overview
Formed20 September 1949 (as the Federal Ministry for Reconstruction)
8 December 2021 (re-established; as the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development, and Building)
Dissolved27 October 1998 (then as the Federal Ministry for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development)
JurisdictionGovernment of Germany
HeadquartersBerlin
Minister responsible
  • Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building
Agency executives
Websitehttps://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 [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈvoːnən ˈʃtatʔɛntˌvɪklʊŋ ʊnt ˈbaʊ̯ˌveːzn̩] ⓘ), 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

Klara Geywitz

Political Party:   FDP   CDU   SPD

Portrait Name
(Born-Died) 		Party Term of Office Chancellor
(Cabinet)
Federal Minister for Reconstruction (1949)
Federal Minister for Housing (1950–1961)
Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development
and Regional Planning (1961–1965)
1 Eberhard Wildermuth
(1890–1952) 		FDP 20 September 1949 9 March 1952 Adenauer
(I)
2 Fritz Neumayer
(1917–1989) 		FDP 19 July 1952 20 October 1953 Adenauer
(I)
3 Victor-Emanuel Preusker
(1913–1991) 		FDP 20 October 1953 29 October 1957 Adenauer
(II)
4 Paul Lücke
(1914–1976) 		CDU 29 October 1957 26 October 1965 Adenauer
(III • IV)
Erhard (I)
Federal Minister for Housing and Urban Development (1965–1969)
Federal Minister for Urban Development and Housing (1969–1972)
5 Ewald Bucher
(1914–1991) 		FDP 26 October 1965 28 October 1966 Erhard
(II)
6 Bruno Heck
(1917–1989) 		CDU 8 November 1966 30 November 1966 Erhard
(II)
7 Lauritz Lauritzen
(1910–1980) 		SPD 1 Dezember 1966 15 December 1972 Kiesinger
Brandt
(I)
Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development
8 Hans-Jochen Vogel
(1926–2020) 		SPD 15 December 1972 16 May 1974 Brandt
(II)
9 Karl Ravens
(1927–2017) 		SPD 16 May 1974 16 February 1978 Schmidt
(I • II)
10 Dieter Haack
(born 1934) 		SPD 16 February 1978 1 October 1982 Schmidt
(II • III)
11 Oscar Schneider
(born 1927) 		CSU 1 October 1982 21 April 1989 Kohl
(I • II • III)
12 Gerda Hasselfeldt
(born 1950) 		CSU 21 April 1989 18 January 1991 Kohl
(III)
13 Irmgard Schwaetzer
(born 1942) 		FDP 18 January 1991 17 November 1994 Kohl
(IV)
14 Klaus Töpfer
(1938–2024) 		CDU 17 November 1994 14 January 1998 Kohl
(V)
15 Eduard Oswald
(born 1947) 		CSU 14 January 1998 26 October 1998 Kohl
(V)
The Federal Ministry was dissolved from 26 October 1998 to 8 December 2021.
Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building
16 Klara Geywitz
(born 1976) 		SPD 8 December 2021 incumbent Scholz
(I)

References

  1. ^ "Bundesbauministerin Geywitz" (in German). Tageschau. ARD. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  2. ^ / Bundesministerium für Raumordnung, Bauwesen und Städtebau
  3. ^ / Bekanntmachung des Organisationserlasses des Bundeskanzlers, October 1998
  4. ^ Fabricius, Michael (22 November 2021). "Ein eigenes Bauministerium – wird der Ruf der Branche jetzt erhört?" (in German). Die Welt. Axel Springer SE. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
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