The Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (, ; abbreviated BMWSB) is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is headquartered in Berlin. The current minister is Verena Hubertz, 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.
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. 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.
Federal Ministers Political Party:
Portrait Name(Born-Died) Party Term of Office Chancellor(Cabinet) 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) 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 KiesingerBrandt(I) 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(1927–2024) 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) 16 Klara Geywitz(born 1976) SPD 8 December 2021 2025 Scholz(I) 17 Verena HubertzSPD 6 May 2025IncumbentMerz (I)
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