Federal Ministry for Defense (Besmenia)

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Federal Ministry for Defense
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung
File:Logo of BMLV.png
Agency overview
FormedJuly 2, 1920
JurisdictionGovernment of Besmenia
HeadquartersMelmingen
Annual budgetBS3.397 billion (2021)
Minister responsible

The Federal Ministry for Defense (BMLV), is one of the ministries of the Federal Republic of Besmenia and as such a supreme federal authority. It is headquartered in Melmingen. The federal ministry is the specialist department within the federal government for military defense and all Besmenian Federal Army affairs.

The current Federal Minister for Defense is Gerhard Range (BVP).

History

Tasks

List of Besmenian defense ministers

Name
(Born-Died)
Portrait Party Term of Office Duration Prime Minister
(Cabinet)
Federal Minister for the Army
1 Wilhelm Felder
(1871-1938)
File:Wilhelm Felder.jpg BDP 2 July 1920 10 October 1924 4 years, 100 days Falk
(I) • (II)
2 Friedrich Schneidmann
(1870-1951)
File:Friedrich Schneidmann.jpg BVP 10 October 1924 21 December 1934 10 years, 72 days Dimmler
(I) • (II) • (III)
3 Walter Schiller
(1880-1959)
File:Walter Schiller.jpg BVP 21 December 1934 3 October 1940 5 years, 287 days Dimmler
(III) • (IV)
4 Franz Staudinger
(1880-1972)
File:Franz Staudinger.jpg BVP 3 October 1940 6 October 1944 4 years, 3 days Bock
(I)
5 Walter Wollweber
(1889-1964)
File:Walter Wollweber.jpg LBB 6 October 1944 9 May 1947 2 years, 215 days Neumann
(I)
6 Heinrich Kühling
(1893-1974)
File:Heinrich Kühling.jpg LBB 9 May 1947 3 October 1956 9 years, 147 days Neumann
(I) • (II) • (III)
Federal Minister for Defense
7 Klaus Schanzenbach
(1900-1981)
File:Klaus Schanzenbach.jpg BVP 3 October 1956 7 October 1964 8 years, 4 days Brecht
(I) • (II)
Butz
(I)
8 Gerhard Beichert
(1906-1991)
File:Gerhard Beichert.jpg SDU 7 October 1964 16 June 1969 4 years, 252 days Schmidt
(I) • (II)
9 Wolfgang Dröscher
(1909-2003)
File:Gerhard Beichert.jpg SDU 16 June 1969 16 October 1972 3 years, 122 days Schmidt
(II)
10 Werner Kaltmann
(1910-2002)
Werner Kaltmann.png BVP 16 October 1972 6 October 1980 7 years, 356 days Gleitzmann
(I) • (II)
Federal Minister for Defense and Sport
11 Jürgen Rothmann
(1921-2004)
Jürgen Rothmann.png FBBP 6 October 1980 10 October 1989 9 years, 4 days Beiter
(I) • (II) • (III)
12 Reinhard Höninger
(1929-2018)
File:Reinhard Höninger.png FBBP 10 October 1989 25 October 1993 4 years, 15 days Beiter
(IV)
Stöger
(I)
Federal Minister for Defense
13 Paul Weiger
(1943-)
File:Paul Weiger.png BVP 25 October 1993 1 October 2001 7 years, 341 days Tautenbach
(I) • (II)
14 Manfred Lunkel
(1946-)
File:Manfred Lunkel.png FBBP 1 October 2001 13 October 2005 4 years, 12 days Kummstein
(I)