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The Vice-Chancellor (Vizekanzler) in Germany is often the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is the second highest position in the government, and is usually held by the leader of the government's principal coalition partner.The prefix "Vize-" is derived from the Latin "vicis" meaning "in place of".
1 List of Vice-Chancellors
1.1 German Empire
- 1881-1897 Karl Heinrich von Bötticher
- 1897-1907 Count Arthur Adolf von Posadowsky-Wohner
- 1907-1909 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
- 1909-1916 Klemens Delbrück
- 1916-1917 Karl Helfferich
- 1917-1918 Friedrich von Payer (Progressive Party)
1.2 Weimar Republic
- 1919 Eugen Schiffer ( DDP)
- 1919 Bernhard Dernburg (DDP)
- 1919 Matthias Erzberger (Center Party)
- 1919-1920 Eugen Schiffer (DDP)
- 1920 Erich Koch-Weser (DDP)
- 1920-1921 Rudolf Heinze ( DVP)
- 1921-1922 Gustav Bauer ( SPD)
- 1922-1923 vacant
- 1923 Robert Schmidt (SPD)
- 1923-1925 Karl Jarres (DVP)
- 1925-1927 vacant
- 1927-1928 Oskar Hergt ( DNVP)
- 1928-1930 vacant
- 1930-1932 Hermann R. Dietrich (DDP)
- 1932-1933 vacant
1.3 Nazi Germany
1.4 Federal Republic of Germany
- 1949-1957 Franz Blücher
- 1957-1963 Ludwig Erhard ( CDU)
- 1963-1966 Erich Mende
- 1966 Hans-Christoph Seebohm
- 1966-1969 Willy Brandt ( SPD)
- 1969-1974 Walter Scheel ( FDP)
- 1974-1992 Hans-Dietrich GenscherHans-Dietrich Genscher (Born March 21, 1927) is a German politician with the FDP and a long-serving Foreign Minister of Germany. Born at Reideburg, Saalkreis, near Halle, in what later became East Germany, he served in the Army from 1943 to 1945, as well ( FDP)
- 1992-1993 Jürgen MöllemannJurgen W. Mollemann ( July 15, 1945 June 5, 2003) was a German politician. Born in Augsburg, he used to be a member of the German government as minister of state in the department of foreign affairs ( 1982- 1987), minister for education and science ( 1987 ( FDP)
- 1993-1998 Klaus KinkelKlaus Kinkel (born December 17, 1936) is a German politician ( FDP). He was foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany in the former conservative government. He was born in Metzingen in Baden-Wurttemberg in a Catholic family. He took his Abitur at th ( FDP)
- since 1998: Joschka FischerJoseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born April 12, 1948 near Crailsheim) has been the German vice chancellor and foreign minister in the red-green coalition since 1998. He is seen as a leading figure in the German Green Party and was top candidate in the 200 ( Greens)
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