Cabinet Kohl I
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The first cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on October 4, 1982 and took power on March 29, 1983.
The cabinet was the first cabinet to be formed after a constructive vote of no confidence
Constructive vote of no confidence
The constructive vote of no confidence is a variation on the motion of no confidence which allows a parliament to withdraw confidence from a head of government only if there is a positive majority for a prospective successor...

. It was succeeded by the Cabinet Kohl II
Cabinet Kohl II
The second cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on March 29, 1983 and laid down its function on March 11, 1987. The cabinet was formed after the 1983 elections...

, which was formed after the 1983 elections
German federal election, 1983
The tenth German federal election was conducted on March 6, 1983, to elect members to the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany.-Issues and campaign:...

.

It had the following composition:
  • Helmut Kohl
    Helmut Kohl
    Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...

     (CDU
    Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
    The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

    ) - Chancellor
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher
    Hans-Dietrich Genscher
    Hans-Dietrich Genscher is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party . He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 and, after a two-week pause, from 1982 to 1992, making him Germany's longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor...

     (FDP) - Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Manfred Wörner
    Manfred Wörner
    Manfred Hermann Wörner was a German politician and diplomat. He served as the defense minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988. He then served as the seventh Secretary General of NATO from 1988 to 1994. His term as Secretary General saw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification...

     (CDU) - Minister of Defense
  • Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) - Minister of the Interior
  • Gerhard Stoltenberg
    Gerhard Stoltenberg
    Gerhard Stoltenberg was a German politician and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as minister-president of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982 and as such as President of the Bundesrat in 1977/78.-Life:Stoltenberg was...

     (CDU) - Minister of Finance
  • Hans Engelhard (FDP) - Minister of Justice
  • Otto Graf Lambsdorff
    Otto Graf Lambsdorff
    Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff, known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff, was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.- Biography :...

     (FDP) - Minister of Economics
  • Norbert Blüm
    Norbert Blüm
    Norbert Blüm is a German federal legislator from North Rhine-Westphalia, Chairman of the CDU there , and former minister for labor and social affairs ....

     (CDU) - Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
  • Josef Ertl (FDP) - Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
  • Werner Dollinger
    Werner Dollinger
    Dr. Werner Dollinger was a German politician and economist. Born in Neustadt an der Aisch, he helped found the Christian Socialist Union Party in 1946. Dollinger was a member of the Bundestag , minister for the Treasury , minister of postal services and telecommunication and minister of transport...

     (CSU) - Minister of Transport
  • Oscar Schneider (CSU) - Minister of Construction
  • Heiner Geissler (CDU) - Minister of Youth, Family, and Health
  • Heinz Riesenhuber
    Heinz Riesenhuber
    Heinz Riesenhuber is a German politician and was minister in the cabinets of Helmut Kohl from 1982 until 1993.-Life and education:...

     (CDU) - Minister of Research and Technology
  • Dorothee Wilms
    Dorothee Wilms
    Dorothee Wilms is a German politician.From 1982 to 1987 she was the Federal Minister for Education and Science and from 1987 to 1991 the Federal Minister for Inner-German relations.-Education and career:...

     (CDU) - Minister of Education and Science
  • Jürgen Warnke (CSU) - Minister of Economic Cooperation
  • Christian Schwarz-Schilling
    Christian Schwarz-Schilling
    Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling , is a German politician and entrepreneur. He is the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and is married to the author Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling with whom he has two children...

     (CDU) - Minister of Posts and Communications
  • Rainer Barzel
    Rainer Barzel
    Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the CDU.Born in Braunsberg, East Prussia , Barzel served as Chairman of the CDU from 1971 and 1973 and ran as the CDU's candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 1972 federal elections, losing to Willy Brandt's SPD.The 1972 election is commonly...

    (CDU) - Minister of Intra-German Relations
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