History of Germany since 1990 Helmut Kohl was reelected as Chancellor for his fifth and last term. The ruling liberal-conservative coalition government, consisting of the CDU/CSU and the FDP, lost the German federal election, 1998, and Gerhard Schröder was elected as Chancellor, the head of a coalition government consisting of his own SPD party and The Greens. Joschka Fischer, a leading Green politician, became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. Shortly after the formation of the government, Minister of Finance Oskar Lafontaine, a former SPD chairman and rival of Schröder, resigned from the cabinet. He was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Hans Eichel. In 1998,
Feminism in Germany, The Emergence of the Second Wave a former member of the national council, Helene Weber became part of the parliament council, at the behest of Konrad Adenauer, who was elected the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. While creating the German Grundgesetz, the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) politician invested in addressing the meaning and creating phrasings to emphasise the importance of human life and dignity. After hesitance in regards to women's rights, she eventually proposed: “Männer und Frauen stehen bei Wahl und Ausübung des Berufes gleich, verrichten sie gleiche Arbeit, so haben sie Anspruch auf gleiche Entlohnung.“ – "Men and Women are