Vice Prime Minister of Besmenia

Vice Prime Minster of the Federal Republic of Besmenia
Vizepremierminister der Bundesrepublik Besmenien
Incumbent Ivar Combrinck and Anna Stucklein since 9 September 2021
Status	Deputy of the head of government
Nominator	Prime Minister of Besmenia
Appointer	President of Besmenia
Constituting instrument	Basic Law of Besmenia
Formation	2 July 1920
First holder	Martin Bolstein

The Vice Prime Minister of Besmenia (Besmenian: Vizepremierminister von Besmenien) is the deputy for the Prime Minister of Besmenia.

The Vice Prime Minister is not the Prime Minister's successor if the Prime Minister's office ceases without a successor having been appointed (e.g. by resignation). The Prime Minister is obliged to continue in office on an executive basis if the Federal President requests him to do so. If, for example, the Prime Minister has passed away or other reasons speak against the management, the Federal President can also ask the vice prime minister or another minister. A new Prime Minister should be sworn in as soon as possible.

The currently incumbent Vice Prime Ministers are Ivar Combrinck (First Vice Prime Minister) and Anna Stucklein (Second Vice Prime Minister), who belong to the Rademacher cabinet and were sworn in on September 9, 2021. It is the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Besmenia that the office of the Vice Prime Minister is held by two people at the same time.

Appointment

The Prime Minister must appoint a permanent deputy, both when his cabinet is appointed and later when a deputy's office ends. The appointment must be made within a reasonable period of time. The decision is made by the Prime Minister alone, without the participation of the Federal President. This differs from the appointment of federal ministers in general: if someone is to become federal minister, the prime minister proposes them and the federal president appoints them.

Only one deputy is appointed. The prime minister is constitutionally free to select a deputy from among the federal ministers, so there is no federal minister that he cannot appoint. It is unimportant, for example, whether the federal minister leads a federal ministry or is a minister without portfolio. Due to his strong constitutional position, the Federal Chancellor always has the last word over the ministers, so that no minister could establish his own position of power through the deputy office.

List of Besmenian Vice Prime Ministers

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Party	Portfolio	Cabinet
	File:Martin Bolstein.png	Martin Bolstein (1869–1945)	2 July 1920	10 October 1924	4 years, 100 days	Social Democratic Union	Foreign Affairs	Falk I Falk II
		Peter Gruber (1878–1960)	10 October 1924	1 October 1932	7 years, 357 days	Social Democratic Union	Internal Affairs	Dimmler I Dimmler II
	File:Theodor Ernst.png	Theodor Ernst (1876–1945)	1 October 1932	21 October 1936	4 years, 20 days	Besmenian People's Party	Economic Affairs	Dimmler III
	File:Josef Brocke.jpg	Josef Brocke (1881–1959)	21 Ocotber 1936	6 October 1940	3 years, 360 days	Social Democratic Union	Justice	Dimmler IIV
		Albrecht Neumann (1878–1969)	3 October 1940	6 October 1944	4 years, 3 days	Liberal Citizen's Party of Besmenia	Foreign Affairs	Bock
	File:Heinrich Farn.png	Heinrich Farn (1897–1987)	3 October 1944	1 October 1952	7 years, 364 days	Social Democratic Union		Neumann I Neumann II
		Johannes Schmidt (1908–1996)	1 October 1952	7 October 1964	12 years, 6 days	Social Democratic Union	Internal Affairs	Neumann III Brecht I Brecht II Butz
		Helmut Glaubrecht (1901–1985)	7 October 1964	6 May 1969	4 years, 211 days	Besmenian People's Party	Internal Affairs	Schmidt I Schmidt II
	File:Rudolf Meindt.png	Rudolf Meindt (1912–2005)	6 May 1969	21 February 1972	2 years, 291 days	Besmenian People's Party	Justice	Schmidt II
		Konrad Berger (1910–1993)	21 February 1972	13 March 1980	8 years, 21 days	Besmenian Republican Party	Foreign Affairs	Gleitzmann I Gleitzmann II
		Friedrich Bender (1931–2009)	13 March 1980	13 February 1984	3 years, 337 days	Social Democratic Union	Economy	Beiter I Beiter II
		Doris Klammer-Brunt (1939–)	13 February 1984	25 October 1993	9 years, 254 days	Social Democratic Union	Finance	Beiter II Beiter III Beiter IV Stöger
		Ludwig Bröckler (1936–2022)	25 September 1993	1 October 2001	7 years, 341 days	Green Party of Besmenia	Foreign Affairs	Tautenbach I Tautenbach II
	File:Wolfgang Brügmann.png	Wolfgang Brügmann (1947–)	2 October 2000	27 September 2004	3 years, 361 days	Social Democratic Union	Finance	Kummstein I
		Franz Bauer (1953–)	27 September 2004	24 September 2012	7 years, 363 days	Besmenian People's Party	Economy	Kummstein II Kummstein III
	File:Walter Fricke.jpg	Walter Fricke (1957–)	24 September 2012	6 September 2016	3 years, 348 days	Social Democratic Union	Defense	Sidemann I