First Brandt cabinet

The First Brandt cabinet was the government of Germany between 22 October 1969 and 15 December 1972, during the 6th legislature of the Bundestag. Led by the Social Democrat Willy Brandt, the cabinet was a coalition between the Social Democrats (SDP) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Vice-Chancellor was the Free Democrat Walter Scheel (FDP).

Composition

The federal cabinet consisted of the following Ministers:

Office	Incumbent	Party	Parl. State Secretary & Minister of State	Party
Chancellor	Willy Brandt (1913–1992)	SPD	Katharina Focke	SPD
Vice-Chancellor	Walter Scheel (1919-2016)	FDP	–	–
Foreign Affairs	Walter Scheel	FDP	Ralf Dahrendorf until 2 July 1970 Karl Moersch until 2 July 1970	FDP
Interior	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (* 1927)	FDP	Wolfram Dorn until 31 August 1972	FDP
Justice	Gerhard Jahn (1927–1998)	SPD	Alfons Bayerl	SPD
Finance	Alexander Möller (1903–1985) until 13 May 1971 Karl Schiller (1911–1994) until 7 July 1972 Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015)	SPD	Gerhard Reischl until 13 May 1971 Hans Hermsdorf from 13 Mai 1971	SPD
Economics	Karl Schiller until 7 July 1972 Helmut Schmidt	SPD	Klaus Dieter Arndt until 14 September 1970 Philip Rosenthal 14 September 1970 until 17 November 1971 Rainer Offergeld from 15 March 1972	SPD
Food, Agriculture and Forestry	Josef Ertl (1925–2000)	FDP	Fritz Logemann	FDP
Labour and Social Affairs	Walter Arendt (1925–2005)	SPD	Helmut Rohde	SPD
Defence	Helmut Schmidt from 7 July 1972 Georg Leber (* 1920)	SPD	Karl Wilhelm Berkhan	SPD
Youth, Families and Health	Käte Strobel (1907–1996)	SPD	Heinz Westphal	SPD
Transport and Post and Telecommunications	Georg Leber until 7 July 1972 Lauritz Lauritzen (1910–1980)	SPD	Holger Börner until 4 February 1972 Ernst Haar from 7 February 1972	SPD
Planning and Housing	Lauritz Lauritzen	SPD	Karl Ravens	SPD
Internal German Affairs	Egon Franke (1913–1995)	SPD	Karl Herold	SPD
Education and Science	Hans Leussink (1912–2008) until 15 March 1972 Klaus von Dohnanyi (* 1928)	parteilos SPD	Klaus von Dohnanyi until 15 March 1972 Joachim Raffert 15 March 1972 until 31 August 1972	SPD
Economic Cooperation	Erhard Eppler (* 1926)	SPD	Brigitte Freyh	SPD
Special Duties Head of the Chancellor's Office	Horst Ehmke (* 1927)	SPD	–	–

See also

• Cabinet of Germany
• Cabinet Brandt II