First Kohl cabinet

First Cabinet of Helmut Kohl Cabinet Kohl I
13th Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany
14 October 1982 – 30 March 1983
Helmut Kohl
Date formed	4 October 1982
Date dissolved	30 March 1983 (5 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
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
Opposition party	Social Democratic Party The Greens
Opposition leader	Herbert Wehner (SPD)
History
Election(s)	Constructive vote of no confidence led by Helmut Kohl against incumbent Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
Legislature term(s)	9th Bundestag
Predecessor	Schmidt III
Successor	Kohl II

The First Kohl cabinet led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in on October 4, 1982 and was in office until March 29, 1983. The cabinet was the first to be formed after a constructive vote of no confidence. It was succeeded by the Second Kohl cabinet, which was formed after the 1983 elections. By means of a vote of confidence that Kohl initiated and lost, as well as the dissolution of the 9th German Bundestag by President Karl Carstens, the government ended with the meeting of the 10th German Bundestag in 1983. With a duration of just under half a year, the cabinet Kohl I was the shortest-lived German government since the cabinet von Schleicher (3 December 1932–28 January 1933) in the Weimar Republic and is, as yet, the shortest-lived cabinet in the history of the Federal Republic.

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