The Federal Ministry of Marshall Plan Affairs, founded in 1949, was a ministry of the

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charged with overseeing the rebuilding of the new republic using money and aid given by the

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as part of the European Recovery Program (also called

Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion (equivalent of about $ in ) in economic re ...

). The Ministry was renamed Ministry for Economic Cooperation in 1953. In 1957 it was transformed into the Minister for Federal Patrimony, which existed until 1969.

List of Federal Ministers

The first and only Minister was Franz Blücher ( FDP and later FVP), who also was

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Political Party:

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