Vice Chancellor of Germany

The Vice Chancellor is the deputy of the Federal Chancellor. He acts for the Chancellor if he cannot act, or if there is no chancellor. The Vice Chancellor is also a federal minister, and in a coalition government is usually the leader of the minority party.

List of Vice Chancellors

Name	Start of Term	End of Term	Party	Portfolio
German Empire
Graf Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode	1878	1881
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher	1881	1897
Arthur Graf von Posadowsky-Wehner	1897	1907
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg	1907	1909
Clemens von Delbrück	1909	1916
Karl Helfferich	1916	1917
Friedrich von Payer	1917	1918
Weimar Republic
Eugen Schiffer (1860 – 1954)	13 February 1919	19 April 1919	DDP
Bernhard Dernburg (1865 – 1937)	30 April 1919	20 Juni 1919	DDP
Matthias Erzberger (1875 – 1921)	21 June 1919	3 October 1919	Centre Party
Eugen Schiffer (1860 – 1954)	3 October 1919	27 March 1920	DDP
Erich Koch-Weser (1875 – 1944)	27 March 1920	21 June 1920	DDP
Rudolf Heinze (1865 – 1928)	25 June 1920	4 May 1921	German People's Party
Gustav Bauer (1870 – 1944)	10 May 1921	14 November 1922	SPD
Robert Schmidt (1864 – 1943)	13 August 1923	3 November 1923	SPD
Karl Jarres (1874 – 1951)	30 November 1923	15 December 1924	DVP
Oskar Hergt (1869 – 1967)	28 January 1927	12 June 1928	German National People's Party
Hermann Dietrich (1879 – 1954)	30 March 1930	30 May 1932	DStP
Franz von Papen (1879 – 1969)	30 January 1933	1 July 1934	no party
Federal Republic of Germany
Franz Blücher (1896 – 1959)	20 September 1949	29 October 1957	FDP/FVP	Marshall Plan
Ludwig Erhard (1897 – 1977)	29 October 1957	16 October 1963	CDU	Economics
Erich Mende (1916 – 1998)	17 October 1963	28 October 1966	FDP	Intra-German Relations
Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1903 – 1967)	8 November 1966	30 November 1966	CDU	Transport
Willy Brandt (1913 – 1992)	1 December 1966	20 October 1969	SPD	Foreign Minister
Walter Scheel (1919 – 2016)	21 October 1969	16 May 1974	FDP	Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927 – 2016)	17 May 1974	17 September 1982	FDP	Foreign Minister
Egon Franke (1913 – 1995)	17 September 1982	1 October 1982	SPD	Intra-German Relations
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927 – 2016)	1 October 1982	17 May 1992	FDP	Foreign Minister
Jürgen Möllemann (1945 – 2003)	18 May 1992	21 January 1993	FDP	Economics
Klaus Kinkel (b. 1936)	21 January 1993	26 October 1998	FDP	Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer (b. 1948)	27 October 1998	22 November 2005	Green	Foreign Minister
Franz Müntefering (b. 1940)	22 November 2005	21 November 2007	SPD	Labour and Social Affairs
Frank-Walter Steinmeier (b. 1956)	21 November 2007	28 October 2009	SPD	Foreign Minister
Guido Westerwelle (1961 – 2016)	28 October 2009	16 May 2011	FDP	Foreign Minister
Philipp Rösler (b. 1973)	16 May 2011	17 December 2013	FDP	Economics and Technology
Sigmar Gabriel (b. 1959)	17 December 2013	14 March 2018	SPD	Economics and Technology / Foreign Minister
Olaf Scholz (b. 1958)	14 March 2018	Incumbent	SPD	Finance Minister

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• Government of Germany