First Brandt cabinet
The general election for the 6th German Bundestag took place on 28 September 1969. She took a deep incision with them: for the first time in its 20-year history of the Federal Republic of Germany presented the Union parties after a general election no longer the Chancellor ( although since 1949 presented the strongest faction again and continuously).
Cabinet
Prehistory
On November 30, 1966 there was a change of Chancellor in the current parliamentary term: Chancellor Ludwig Erhard resigned after the coalition of CDU / CSU and FDP was broken on questions of economic policy.
His successor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger was elected ( by then Minister President of Baden -Württemberg); he formed a grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD (Cabinet Kiesinger ). German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor was the former mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt. The appointment to the federal government was decisive for Willy Brandt, but to compete again against a declared after the 1965 Bundestag elections waiver of a renewed candidacy for chancellor.
Brandt joined so on for the third time as chancellor candidate of the SPD, Kiesinger for the CDU / CSU for the first time.
The election in 1969 went from scarce. During the night agreed Brandt and FDP leader Walter Scheel recording of coalition negotiations.
Changes
After nearly nine months in office, joined the former Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ralf Dahrendorf, at his own request with effect from July 1, 1970 as a Trade Commissioner in the European Commission. He was succeeded on July 2, 1970 Karl Moersch.
After some time had been due to possible differences with the Federal Minister of Economics Schiller about the resignation of the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Klaus Dieter Arndt, speculation, he finally resigned on 14 September 1970 and went back to all his duties as President of the German Institute for economic Research. Since August 1970 it was clear that Philip Rosenthal to be his successor.
Since he could no longer share the growing expenditure needs of other ministries, Federal filed Finance Minister Alexander Möller (1903-1985) on May 13, 1971, his resignation. Then took over the German Economics Minister Karl Schiller as a " super minister" in addition, the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Also on May 13, 1971 arbitration, the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance, Gerhard Reischl, from office. His successor is the former deputy chairman of the Budget Committee, Hans Hermsdorf appointed.
Once the relationship between the Economic and Finance Minister Karl Schiller and the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Philip Rosenthal, was already more than broken, Rosenthal joined the occasion of a new delay in the establishment of a plan for participation of workers in the productive capital on 17 November 1971 back.
On January 24, 1972 Holger Börner was elected National Secretary of the SPD. His successor in the office of the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Post and Telecommunications was posted on February 7, 1972 Ernst hair.
After the nonparty Federal Education Minister Hans Leussink had announced his retirement in January 1972, the previous Parliamentary State Secretary Klaus von Dohnanyi was appointed as the new Minister of Education and Science on 15 March 1972. Dohnanyi's successor in office, the Parliamentary State Secretary was Joachim Raffert.
After the resignation of Secretary of State civil servants Heinz Haller was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics and Finance on March 15, 1972 Rainer Offergeld - appointed - especially with the responsibility for the stalled project of a tax reform.
On 7 July 1972, the Federal Minister of Economics and Finance, Karl Schiller resigned after he had lost from his view, the support of Chancellor Brandt and the week had suffered previously in a monetary question in the federal cabinet voted down. His successor was the former Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt. For new Federal Minister of Defence of the former Federal Minister for Transport and Posts and Telecommunications, Georg Leber, was appointed. The Ministry of Transport and Post Office was also taken over by Federal Minister of Building Lauritz Lauritzen.
In August 1972, the two Parliamentary Secretaries came tungsten mandrel ( Home Affairs) and Joachim Raffert ( Education and Science) for consultant contracts with the Heinrich Bauer Verlag in the criticism; both were then back on August 31, 1972. Given the already scheduled for November 19, 1972 federal election no successor was appointed, respectively.