Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building

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 Klara Geywitz, of the Social Democratic Party. The Federal Ministry existed between 1949 and 1998 and was re-established in December 2021.

## Federal Ministers

**Political Party:**

|colspan=2|Portrait|Name <small>(Born-Died)</small>|Party|colspan=2|Term of Office|Chancellor <small>(Cabinet)</small>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Eberhard Wildermuth** <small>(1890–1952)</small>|FDP|20 September 1949|9 March 1952|Adenauer <small>(I)</small>||
||**Fritz Neumayer** <small>(1917–1989)</small>|FDP|19 July 1952|20 October 1953|Adenauer <small>(I)</small>||
||**Victor-Emanuel Preusker** <small>(1913–1991)</small>|FDP|20 October 1953|29 October 1957|Adenauer <small>(II)</small>||
||**Paul Lücke** <small>(1914–1976)</small>|CDU|29 October 1957|26 October 1965|Adenauer <small>(III • IV)</small> Erhard <small>(I)</small>||
||**Ewald Bucher** <small>(1914–1991)</small>|FDP|26 October 1965|28 October 1966|Erhard <small>(II)</small>||
||**Bruno Heck** <small>(1917–1989)</small>|CDU|8 November 1966|30 November 1966|Erhard <small>(II)</small>||
||**Lauritz Lauritzen** <small>(1910–1980)</small>|SPD|1 Dezember 1966|15 December 1972|Kiesinger Brandt <small>(I)</small>||
||**Hans-Jochen Vogel** <small>(1926–2020)</small>|SPD|15 December 1972|16 May 1974|Brandt <small>(II)</small>||
||**Karl Ravens** <small>(1927–2017)</small>|SPD|16 May 1974|16 February 1978|Schmidt <small>(I • II)</small>||
||**Dieter Haack** <small>(born 1934)</small>|SPD|16 February 1978|1 October 1982|Schmidt <small>(II • III)</small>||
||**Oscar Schneider** <small>(born 1927)</small>|CSU|1 October 1982|21 April 1989|Kohl <small>(I • II • III)</small>||
||**Gerda Hasselfeldt** <small>(born 1950)</small>|CSU|21 April 1989|18 January 1991|Kohl (III)||
||**Irmgard Schwaetzer** <small>(born 1942)</small>|FDP|18 January 1991|17 November 1994|Kohl <small>(IV)</small>||
||**Klaus Töpfer** <small>(1938–2024)</small>|CDU|17 November 1994|14 January 1998|Kohl <small>(V)</small>||
||**Eduard Oswald** <small>(born 1947)</small>|CSU|14 January 1998|26 October 1998|Kohl <small>(V)</small>||
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||**Klara Geywitz** <small>(born 1976)</small>|SPD|8 December 2021|_incumbent_|Scholz <small>(I)</small>||

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
- **nativename**: _Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen (BMWSB)_
- **logo**: File:BMWSB Logo.svg
- **logo width**: 260px
- **headquarters**: Berlin
- **formed**: 20 September 1949 <small>(as the _Federal Ministry for Reconstruction_)</small>
8 December 2021 <small>(re-established; as the _Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development, and Building_)</small>
- **dissolved**: 27 Oktober 1998 <small>(then as the _Federal Ministry for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development_)</small>
- **jurisdiction**: Government of Germany
- **minister1 name**: Klara Geywitz
- **minister1 pfo**: Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building
- **chief1 name**: Sören Bartol
- **chief1 position**: Parliamentary State Secretary
- **chief2 name**: Elisabeth Kaiser
- **chief2 position**: Parliamentary State Secretary
- **website**: https://www.bmwsb.bund.de/Webs/BMWSB/DE/startseite/startseite-node.html