The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (German: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʔaʁbaɪt ʔʊnt zoˈtsi̯aːləs] ; abbreviated BMAS) is a federal ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany headed by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs as a member of the Cabinet of Germany (Bundesregierung). Its first location is on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, the second in Bonn.
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Formed | 1919 (Weimar Republic), 1949 (West Germany) |
Jurisdiction | Government of Germany |
Headquarters | Wilhelmstraße 49 10117 Berlin 52°30′45″N 13°23′01″E / 52.51250°N 13.38361°E |
Annual budget | €164.920 billion (2021) |
Minister responsible |
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Website | www |

History
The Reich Ministry of Labour of the Weimar Republic was established on 13 February 1919 as the successor of the Labour Office (Reichsarbeitsamt) of the German Empire. The Social Democratic politician Gustav Bauer became the first Minister for Labour under Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann, whom he succeeded on 21 June that year. On the day of the Machtergreifung in January 1933, the German National politician and Der Stahlhelm leader Franz Seldte was appointed Minister for Labour in the Cabinet Hitler, a position he officially held until 1945, though the day-to-day affairs of the Ministry were managed largely by the State Secretaries Johannes Krohn (1933–1939) and Friedrich Syrup (1939–1945).
The West German Ministry for Labour was re-established in Bonn on 20 September 1949 with the Cabinet Adenauer I. According to the 1991 Berlin/Bonn Act it moved to its present seat in Berlin-Mitte in 2000, on premises formerly used by Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry and the East German National Front organisation.
During the Cabinet Schröder II from 2002 to 2005, the ministry had been dissolved and its responsibilities allocated to the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security. Responsibilities were re-allocated once again when a new government was formed under Chancellor Angela Merkel following the Bundestag elections of 2005. The German name was changed from Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung to Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
Ministers
German Reich (until 1945)

- Reich Ministers
Political Party: Centre SPD NSDAP Independent
No. | Portrait | Minister of Labour | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Cabinet |
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Weimar Republic (1919–1933) | |||||||
1 | (1870–1944) | Gustav Bauer13 February 1919 | 20 June 1919 | 127 days | SPD | Scheidemann | |
2 | (1863–1940) | Alexander Schlicke21 June 1919 | 21 June 1920 | 1 year, 0 days | SPD | Bauer Müller | |
3 | (1868–1939) | Heinrich Brauns25 June 1920 | 12 June 1928 | 7 years, 353 days | Centre | Fehrenbach Wirth I–II Cuno Stresemann I–II Marx I–II Luther I–II Marx III–IV | |
4 | (1869–1962) | Rudolf Wissell28 June 1928 | 27 March 1930 | 1 year, 272 days | SPD | Müller II | |
5 | (1874–1945) | Adam Stegerwald30 March 1930 | 30 May 1932 | 2 years, 61 days | Centre | Brüning I–II | |
– | (1876–1976) Acting | Hermann Warmbold1 June 1932 | 6 June 1932 | 5 days | Independent | Papen | |
6 | (1875–1945) | Hugo Schäffer7 June 1932 | 17 November 1932 | 163 days | Independent | Papen | |
7 | (1881–1945) | Friedrich Syrup3 December 1932 | 28 January 1933 | 56 days | Independent | Schleicher | |
Nazi Germany (1933–1945) | |||||||
8 | (1882–1947) | Franz Seldte30 January 1933 | 30 April 1945 | 12 years, 90 days | NSDAP | Hitler | |
9 | (1906–1993) | Theo Hupfauer30 April 1945 | 5 May 1945 | 5 days | NSDAP | Goebbels | |
(8) | (1882–1947) | Franz Seldte5 May 1945 | 23 May 1945 | 18 days | NSDAP | Flensburg |
Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present)
- Federal Ministers
Political Party: CDU SPD
Name (Born-Died) | Portrait | Party | Term of Office | Chancellor (Cabinet) | |||||
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Federal Minister for Labour (1949–1957) Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs (1957–2002) | |||||||||
1 | Anton Storch (1892–1975) | ![]() | CDU | 20 September 1949 | 29 October 1957 | Adenauer (I • II) | |||
2 | Theodor Blank (1905–1972) | ![]() | CDU | 29 October 1957 | 26 October 1965 | Adenauer (III • IV • V) Erhard (I) | |||
3 | Hans Katzer (1919–1996) | ![]() | CDU | 26 October 1965 | 21 October 1969 | Erhard (II) Kiesinger (I) | |||
4 | Walter Arendt (1925–2005) | ![]() | SPD | 22 October 1969 | 16 December 1976 | Brandt (I • II) Schmidt (I) | |||
5 | Herbert Ehrenberg (1926–2018) | ![]() | SPD | 16 December 1976 | 28 April 1982 | Schmidt (II • III) | |||
6 | Heinz Westphal (1924–1998) | ![]() | SPD | 28 April 1982 | 1 October 1982 | Schmidt (III) | |||
7 | Norbert Blüm (1935–2020) | ![]() | CDU | 1 October 1982 | 27 October 1998 | Kohl (I • II • III • IV • V) | |||
8 | Walter Riester (b. 1943) | ![]() | SPD | 27 October 1998 | 22 October 2002 | Schröder (I) | |||
Federal Minister for Economics and Labour | 22 October 2002 | 22 November 2005 | Schröder (II) | ||||||
9a | Wolfgang Clement (1940–2020) | ![]() | SPD | ||||||
Federal Minister for Health and Social Security | |||||||||
9b | Ulla Schmidt (b. 1949) | ![]() | SPD | ||||||
Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs | |||||||||
10 | Franz Müntefering (b. 1940) | ![]() | SPD | 22 November 2005 | 21 November 2007 | Merkel (I) | |||
11 | Olaf Scholz (b. 1958) | ![]() | SPD | 21 November 2007 | 28 October 2009 | ||||
12 | Franz Josef Jung (b. 1949) | ![]() | CDU | 28 October 2009 | 27 November 2009 | Merkel (II) | |||
13 | Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958) | ![]() | CDU | 30 November 2009 | 17 December 2013 | ||||
14 | Andrea Nahles (b. 1970) | ![]() | SPD | 17 December 2013 | 28 September 2017 | Merkel (III) | |||
Katarina Barley was acting Federal Minister from 28 September 2017 to 14 March 2018. | |||||||||
15 | Hubertus Heil (b. 1972) | ![]() | SPD | 14 March 2018 | Incumbent | Merkel (IV) Scholz (I) |
Parliamentary State Sectretaries
- 1969–1974: Helmut Rohde (SPD)
- 1972–1976: Herbert Ehrenberg (SPD)
- 1974–1982: Hermann Buschfort (SPD)
- 1980–1982: Anke Fuchs (SPD)
- 1982: Rudolf Dreßler (SPD)
- 1982: Jürgen Egert (SPD)
- 1982–1991: Wolfgang Vogt (CDU)
- 1982–1984: Heinrich Franke (CDU)
- 1984–1989: Stefan Höpfinger (CSU)
- 1989–1992: Horst Seehofer (CSU)
- 1991–1998: Horst Günther (CDU)
- 1992–1998: Rudolf Kraus (CSU)
- 1998–2008: Gerd Andres (SPD)
- 1998–2002: Ulrike Mascher (SPD)
- 2002–2005: Ditmar Staffelt (SPD)
- 2002–2005: Rezzo Schlauch (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- 2002–2009: Franz Thönnes (SPD)
- 2005–2009: Klaus Brandner (SPD)
- 2009–2013: Ralf Brauksiepe (CDU)
- 2009–2013: Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (CDU)
- 2013–2018: Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller (SPD)
- since 2013: Anette Kramme (SPD)
- since 2018: Kerstin Griese (SPD)
State secretaries
As of December 2021,[update] The Secretaries of State are , Björn Böhning and .
Building
The ministry is located within the former Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. For the building's interior courtyard, artist Daniel Buren was commissioned with his large-scale installation La Grande Fenêtre (2001).
Notes
- Former German name: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung. The English translation used by the ministry is the same.
References
- "Bundeshaushalt". www.bundeshaushalt.de. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- German name: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
- Michael Z. Wise (7 June 1998), Where the Past Haunts, Berlin Embraces the New New York Times.
External links
- Official Web site
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The Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs German Bundesministerium fur Arbeit und Soziales pronounced ˈbʊndesminɪsˌteːʁiʊm fyːɐ ˈʔaʁbaɪt ʔʊnt zoˈtsi aːles abbreviated BMAS is a federal ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany headed by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs as a member of the Cabinet of Germany Bundesregierung Its first location is on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin the second in Bonn Federal Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsBundesministerium fur Arbeit und SozialesAgency overviewFormed1919 Weimar Republic 1949 West Germany JurisdictionGovernment of GermanyHeadquartersWilhelmstrasse 49 10117 Berlin 52 30 45 N 13 23 01 E 52 51250 N 13 38361 E 52 51250 13 38361Annual budget 164 920 billion 2021 Minister responsibleHubertus Heil Federal Minister for Labour and Social AffairsWebsitewww wbr bmas wbr de Main Entrance on WilhelmstrasseHistoryThe Reich Ministry of Labour of the Weimar Republic was established on 13 February 1919 as the successor of the Labour Office Reichsarbeitsamt of the German Empire The Social Democratic politician Gustav Bauer became the first Minister for Labour under Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann whom he succeeded on 21 June that year On the day of the Machtergreifung in January 1933 the German National politician and Der Stahlhelm leader Franz Seldte was appointed Minister for Labour in the Cabinet Hitler a position he officially held until 1945 though the day to day affairs of the Ministry were managed largely by the State Secretaries Johannes Krohn 1933 1939 and Friedrich Syrup 1939 1945 The West German Ministry for Labour was re established in Bonn on 20 September 1949 with the Cabinet Adenauer I According to the 1991 Berlin Bonn Act it moved to its present seat in Berlin Mitte in 2000 on premises formerly used by Goebbels Propaganda Ministry and the East German National Front organisation During the Cabinet Schroder II from 2002 to 2005 the ministry had been dissolved and its responsibilities allocated to the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security Responsibilities were re allocated once again when a new government was formed under Chancellor Angela Merkel following the Bundestag elections of 2005 The German name was changed from Bundesministerium fur Arbeit und Sozialordnung to Bundesministerium fur Arbeit und Soziales MinistersGerman Reich until 1945 Hubertus Heil Reich Ministers Political Party Centre SPD NSDAP Independent No Portrait Minister of Labour Took office Left office Time in office Party Cabinet Weimar Republic 1919 1933 1Bauer Gustav Gustav Bauer 1870 1944 13 February 191920 June 1919127 daysSPDScheidemann 2Schlicke Alexander Alexander Schlicke 1863 1940 21 June 191921 June 19201 year 0 daysSPDBauer Muller 3Brauns Heinrich Heinrich Brauns 1868 1939 25 June 192012 June 19287 years 353 daysCentreFehrenbach Wirth I II Cuno Stresemann I II Marx I II Luther I II Marx III IV 4Wissell Rudolf Rudolf Wissell 1869 1962 28 June 192827 March 19301 year 272 daysSPDMuller II 5Stegerwald Adam Adam Stegerwald 1874 1945 30 March 193030 May 19322 years 61 daysCentreBruning I II Warmbold Hermann Hermann Warmbold 1876 1976 Acting1 June 19326 June 19325 daysIndependentPapen 6Schaffer Hugo Hugo Schaffer 1875 1945 7 June 193217 November 1932163 daysIndependentPapen 7Syrup Friedrich Friedrich Syrup 1881 1945 3 December 193228 January 193356 daysIndependentSchleicher Nazi Germany 1933 1945 8Seldte Franz Franz Seldte 1882 1947 30 January 193330 April 194512 years 90 daysNSDAPHitler 9Hupfauer Theo Theo Hupfauer 1906 1993 30 April 19455 May 19455 daysNSDAPGoebbels 8 Seldte Franz Franz Seldte 1882 1947 5 May 194523 May 194518 daysNSDAPFlensburg Federal Republic of Germany 1949 present Federal Ministers Political Party CDU SPD Name Born Died Portrait Party Term of Office Chancellor Cabinet Federal Minister for Labour 1949 1957 Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs 1957 2002 1 Anton Storch 1892 1975 CDU 20 September 1949 29 October 1957 Adenauer I II 2 Theodor Blank 1905 1972 CDU 29 October 1957 26 October 1965 Adenauer III IV V Erhard I 3 Hans Katzer 1919 1996 CDU 26 October 1965 21 October 1969 Erhard II Kiesinger I 4 Walter Arendt 1925 2005 SPD 22 October 1969 16 December 1976 Brandt I II Schmidt I 5 Herbert Ehrenberg 1926 2018 SPD 16 December 1976 28 April 1982 Schmidt II III 6 Heinz Westphal 1924 1998 SPD 28 April 1982 1 October 1982 Schmidt III 7 Norbert Blum 1935 2020 CDU 1 October 1982 27 October 1998 Kohl I II III IV V 8 Walter Riester b 1943 SPD 27 October 1998 22 October 2002 Schroder I Federal Minister for Economics and Labour 22 October 2002 22 November 2005 Schroder II 9a Wolfgang Clement 1940 2020 SPD Federal Minister for Health and Social Security 9b Ulla Schmidt b 1949 SPD Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs 10 Franz Muntefering b 1940 SPD 22 November 2005 21 November 2007 Merkel I 11 Olaf Scholz b 1958 SPD 21 November 2007 28 October 2009 12 Franz Josef Jung b 1949 CDU 28 October 2009 27 November 2009 Merkel II 13 Ursula von der Leyen b 1958 CDU 30 November 2009 17 December 2013 14 Andrea Nahles b 1970 SPD 17 December 2013 28 September 2017 Merkel III Katarina Barley was acting Federal Minister from 28 September 2017 to 14 March 2018 15 Hubertus Heil b 1972 SPD 14 March 2018 Incumbent Merkel IV Scholz I Parliamentary State Sectretaries1969 1974 Helmut Rohde SPD 1972 1976 Herbert Ehrenberg SPD 1974 1982 Hermann Buschfort SPD 1980 1982 Anke Fuchs SPD 1982 Rudolf Dressler SPD 1982 Jurgen Egert SPD 1982 1991 Wolfgang Vogt CDU 1982 1984 Heinrich Franke CDU 1984 1989 Stefan Hopfinger CSU 1989 1992 Horst Seehofer CSU 1991 1998 Horst Gunther CDU 1992 1998 Rudolf Kraus CSU 1998 2008 Gerd Andres SPD 1998 2002 Ulrike Mascher SPD 2002 2005 Ditmar Staffelt SPD 2002 2005 Rezzo Schlauch Bundnis 90 Die Grunen 2002 2009 Franz Thonnes SPD 2005 2009 Klaus Brandner SPD 2009 2013 Ralf Brauksiepe CDU 2009 2013 Hans Joachim Fuchtel CDU 2013 2018 Gabriele Losekrug Moller SPD since 2013 Anette Kramme SPD since 2018 Kerstin Griese SPD State secretariesAs of December 2021 update The Secretaries of State are Bjorn Bohning and BuildingThe ministry is located within the former Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda For the building s interior courtyard artist Daniel Buren was commissioned with his large scale installation La Grande Fenetre 2001 NotesFormer German name Bundesministerium fur Arbeit und Sozialordnung The English translation used by the ministry is the same References Bundeshaushalt www bundeshaushalt de Retrieved 10 May 2021 German name Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Arbeit Michael Z Wise 7 June 1998 Where the Past Haunts Berlin Embraces the New New York Times External linksOfficial Web site