Cabinet Kohl III

The third cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on March 12, 1987 and laid down its function on January 17, 1991. The cabinet was the formed after the 1987 elections. It laid down its function after the formation of the Cabinet Kohl IV, which was formed following the 1990 elections. This cabinet oversaw the German Reunification.

The cabinet had the following composition:

Helmut Kohl (CDU) - Chancellor
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) - Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) - Minister of Special Tasks and Chief of the Chancellery
Manfred Wörner (CDU) - Minister of Defense
Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) - Minister of the Interior
Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) - Minister of Finance
Hans Engelhard (FDP) - Minister of Justice
Martin Bangemann (FDP) - Minister of Economics
Norbert Blüm (CDU) - Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Ignaz Kiechle (CSU) - Minister of Food, Agriculture, And Forestry
Jürgen Warnke (CSU) - Minister of Transport
Oscar Schneider (CSU) - Minister of Construction
Rita Süssmuth (CDU) - Minister of Youth, Family, Women, and Health
Heinz Riesenhuber (CDU) - Minister of Research and Technology
Jürgen Möllemann (FDP) - Minister of Education and Science
Hans Klein (CSU) - Minister of Economic Cooperation
Walter Wallmann (CDU) - Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Reactor Security
Christian Schwarz-Schilling (CDU) - Minister of Posts and Communications
Dorothee Wilms (CDU) - Minister of Intra-German Relations

Composition of the cabinet changed six times:

April 22, 1987 - Klaus Töpfer (CDU) succeeds Wallmann as Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Reactor Security.
May 18, 1988 - Rupert Scholz (CDU) succeeds Wörner as Minister of Defense.
December 9, 1988 - Helmut Haussmann (FDP) succeeds Bangemann as Minister of Economics.
April 21, 1989 - Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) succeeds Scholz as Minister of Defense. Theo Waigel (CSU) succeeds Stoltenberg as Minister of Finance. Jürgen Warnke (CSU) succeeds Klein as Minister of Economic Cooperation. Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) succeeds Warnke as Minister of Transport. Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) succeeds Zimmermann as Minister of the Interior. Gerda Hasselfeldt (CSU) succeeds Schneider as Minister of Construction. Hans Klein (CSU) and Rudolf Seiters (CDU) becomes Ministers of Special Tasks.
October 3, 1990 - Five East German Ministers - Lothar de Maizière (CDU), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (CDU), Günther Krause (CDU), Rainer Ortleb (FDP), and Hans Joachim Walther (DSU) - enter the cabinet as Ministers of Special Tasks.
December 19, 1990 - De Maizière leaves the cabinet.