Third Kohl cabinet

The third cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on March 12, 1987. The cabinet was formed after the 1987 elections. It laid down its function on January 17, 1991, after the formation of the Cabinet Kohl IV, which was formed following the 1990 elections. This cabinet oversaw the German Reunification.

The cabinet had the following composition:

Helmut Kohl (CDU) – Chancellor
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) – Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) – Minister for Special Affairs and Chief of the Chancellery
Manfred Wörner (CDU) – Minister of Defense
Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) – Minister of the Interior
Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) – Minister of Finance
Hans Engelhard (FDP) – Minister of Justice
Martin Bangemann (FDP) – Minister of Economics
Norbert Blüm (CDU) – Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Ignaz Kiechle (CSU) – Minister of Food, Agriculture, And Forestry
Jürgen Warnke (CSU) – Minister of Transport
Oscar Schneider (CSU) – Minister of Construction
Rita Süssmuth (CDU) – Minister of Youth, Family, Women, and Health
Heinz Riesenhuber (CDU) – Minister of Research and Technology
Jürgen Möllemann (FDP) – Minister of Education and Science
Hans Klein (CSU) – Minister of Economic Cooperation
Walter Wallmann (CDU) – Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Reactor Security
Christian Schwarz-Schilling (CDU) – Minister of Posts and Communications
Dorothee Wilms (CDU) – Minister of Intra-German Relations
Albert Probst (CSU) – Minister for Research and Technology

Composition of the cabinet changed six times:

April 22, 1987 – Klaus Töpfer (CDU) succeeds Wallmann as Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Reactor Security.
May 18, 1988 – Rupert Scholz (CDU) succeeds Wörner as Minister of Defense.
December 9, 1988 – Helmut Haussmann (FDP) succeeds Bangemann as Minister of Economics.
April 21, 1989 – major reshuffle: Rudolf Seiters (CDU) enters the Cabinet as Minister for Special Affairs and Chief of the Chancellery, replacing Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU). Schäuble becomes Minister of the Interior, replacing Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU). Zimmermann becomes Minister of Transport, replacing Jürgen Warnke (CSU). Warnke becomes Minister of Economic Cooperation, replacing Hans Klein (CSU). Klein becomes (second) Minister for Special Affairs with the function of Government Spokesman-in-chief, replacing Friedhelm Ost (not of Cabinet rank). In addition Gerda Hasselfeldt (CSU) replaces Oscar Schneider (CSU) as Minister of Construction.
October 3, 1990 – Five East German Ministers – Lothar de Maizière (CDU), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (CDU), Günther Krause (CDU), Rainer Ortleb (FDP), and Hans Joachim Walther (DSU) – enter the cabinet as Ministers for Special Affairs (adding one other party to the coalition).
December 19, 1990 – De Maizière leaves the cabinet.

References

German cabinets

German Empire (1871–1918)	Bismarck Caprivi Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Bülow Bethmann Hollweg Michaelis Hertling Baden

Weimar Republic (1918–33)	Council of the People's Deputies Scheidemann Bauer Müller I Fehrenbach Wirth I Wirth II Cuno Stresemann I Stresemann II Marx I Marx II Luther I Luther II Marx III Marx IV Müller II Brüning I Brüning II von Papen von Schleicher I

Nazi Germany (1933–45)	Hitler Schwerin von Krosigk

West Germany (1949–1990)	Adenauer I Adenauer II Adenauer III Adenauer IV Adenauer V Erhard I Erhard II Kiesinger Brandt I Brandt II Schmidt I Schmidt II Schmidt III Kohl I Kohl II Kohl III

Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)	Kohl IV Kohl V Schröder I Schröder II Merkel I Merkel II Merkel III

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