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The chancellor of Germany [1] is the political leader of Germany and the head of the federal government. The office holder is responsible for selecting all other members of the government and chairing cabinet meetings. [2] The office was created in the North German Confederation in 1867, [3] when Otto von Bismarck became the first chancellor.
This is a list of chancellors of Germany by time in office from 1867 to 2021, including the Federal Republic of Germany and its predecessors. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.
Germany: Chancellor: Berlin Germany: Suicide – shooting [137] Juan Antonio Ríos: 1946 Chile: President: Santiago Chile: Illness – cancer Gualberto Villarroel: 1946 Bolivia: President: La Paz Bolivia: Assassination – shooting Per Albin Hansson: 1946 Sweden: Prime Minister: Stockholm Sweden: Heart attack [138] Nguyen Van Thinh: 1946 ...
Kurt Georg Kiesinger of the CDU was elected Chancellor of West Germany in coalition with the SPD. 1967: 2 June: The unarmed student Benno Ohnesorg, a member of the German student movement, was shot and killed by Karl-Heinz Kurras, a Berlin Police inspector and East German spy, while protesting the state visit of shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of ...
Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed the duties of head of state as Führer and Chancellor from 1934 until his suicide in April 1945. In 1949, Germany was divided into two states. The Federal President, head of state of West Germany, became head of state for all of Germany following German reunification in 1990.
Chancellor Vice Chancellor Cabinet Parties Seats 1965–1966 Ludwig Erhard: Erich Mende: Erhard II: CDU: 294 of 496 FDP: CSU: 1966–1969: Kurt Georg Kiesinger: Willy Brandt: Kiesinger: CDU: 447 of 496 SPD: CSU
In March 2010, Infratest dimap asked 1500 people for their view of the term in office of German chancellors. The given numbers show the percentage of people agreeing with the statement that the named chancellor was a good one: [5] Helmut Schmidt – 75%; Willy Brandt – 68%; Angela Merkel – 67%; Helmut Kohl – 59%; Gerhard Schröder – 47%
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer [b] (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a newly founded Christian-democratic party, which became the dominant force in ...