First Kohl cabinet

First Cabinet of Helmut Kohl Cabinet Kohl I
13th Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany
4 October 1982 – 30 March 1983
Helmut Kohl
Date formed	1 October 1982
Date dissolved	30 March 1983 (5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
People and organisations
President	Karl Carstens
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl
Vice-Chancellor	Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Member party	Christian Democratic Union   Christian Social Union   Free Democratic Party
Status in legislature	Coalition government led by CDU/CSU 279/497 (56%)
Opposition party	Social Democratic Party   The Greens
Opposition leader	Herbert Wehner (SPD)
History
Election	Constructive vote of no confidence led by Helmut Kohl against incumbent Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
Legislature terms	9th Bundestag
Predecessor	Schmidt III
Successor	Kohl II

The first Kohl cabinet (German: Kabinett Kohl I) was the 13th cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was formed in 1 October 1982 following a successful constructive vote of no confidence, by which Helmut Kohl replaced Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor. The other cabinet members were appointed and sworn in on 4 October 1982. It was the first (and as yet only) German federal cabinet formed after a constructive vote of no confidence. After ascending to the chancellorship, Kohl and his coalition sought to bring about new elections as quickly as possible, which he achieved by deliberately losing a confidence motion and then having the Bundestag dissolved by the president at the chancellor's request. The following 1983 federal election on 6 March 1983 resulted in a re-election of Kohl and his newly formed CDU/CSU/FDP-coalition. On 30 March 1983, Kohl was again elected chancellor by the Bundestag and formed his second cabinet. With a duration of just under half a year, the first Kohl cabinet was the shortest-lived German government since the Schleicher cabinet (3 December 1932–28 January 1933) during the Weimar Republic and is, as yet, the shortest-lived cabinet in the history of the Federal Republic.

The first Kohl cabinet had 17 ministers.^[1]