Gerhard Schröder

:This article discusses the Social Democratic German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. For the 1950s/1960s CDU politician with the same name, see Gerhard Schröder (CDU).

Schröder's first cabinet, 27 October 1998 – 22 October 2002

• Gerhard Schröder (SPD) — Chancellor
• Joschka Fischer (Gr) — Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Rudolf Scharping (SPD) — Minister of Defence
• Otto Schily (SPD) — Minister of the Interior
• Oskar Lafontaine (SPD) — Minister of Finance
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin (SPD) — Minister of Justice
• Werner Müller — Minister of Economics
• Walter Riester (SPD) — Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
• Karl-Heinz Funke (SPD) — Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
• Franz Müntefering (SPD) — Minister of Transport and Construction
• Christine Bergmann (SPD) — Minister of Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth
• Andrea Fischer (Gr) — Minister of Health
• Edelgard Bulmahn (SPD) — Minister of Education and Research
• Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (SPD) — Minister of Economic Co-operation and Development
• Jürgen Trittin (Gr) — Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Security
• Bodo Hombach (SPD) — Minister without portfolio and Director of the Federal Chancellery

Changes

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• 18 March 1999 — Werner Müller succeeds Lafontaine as acting Minister of Finance, remaining also Minister of Economics.
• 12 April 1999 — Hans Eichel (SPD) succeeds Müller as Minister of Finance.
• 31 July 1999 — Bodo Hombach leaves the cabinet.
• 17 September 1999 — Jürgen Trittin (Gr) succeeds Müntefering as acting Minister of Transport and Construction.
• 7 October 1999 — Reinhard Klimmt (SPD) succeeds Trittin as Minister of Transport and Construction
• 20 November 2000 — Kurt Bodewig (SPD) succeeds Klimmt as Minister of Transport and Construction.
• 18 January 2001 — Renate Künast (Gr) succeeds as Funke as Minister of Consumer Protection, Food, and Agriculture. Ulla Schmidt (SPD) succeeds Fischer as Minister of Health
• 19 July 2002 — Peter Struck (SPD) succeeds Scharping as Minister of Defence