# Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (German: Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen, pronounced ; abbreviated BMWSB) is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is headquartered in Berlin. The current minister is Klara Geywitz, 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:  FDP  CDU  SPD
| Portrait | Name (Born-Died) | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Chancellor (Cabinet) |
| Federal Minister for Reconstruction (1949) Federal Minister for Housing (1950–1961) Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning (1961–1965) |||||||
| 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) |
| Federal Minister for Housing and Urban Development (1965–1969) Federal Minister for Urban Development and Housing (1969–1972) |||||||
| 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 | Kiesinger Brandt (I) |
| Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development |||||||
| 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) |
| The Federal Ministry was dissolved from 26 October 1998 to 8 December 2021. |||||||
| Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building |||||||
| 16 | Klara Geywitz (born 1976) | SPD | 8 December 2021 | incumbent | Scholz (I) |