- COMBO PHOTOS - A combination of eight individual portrait pictures shows eight dismissed ministers of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's cabinet. Top row L-R : Rudolf Scharping (defence), Franz Muentefering (transport and construction), Andrea Fischer (health), Oskar Lafontaine (finance). Bottom row L-R: Karl Heinz Funke (agriculture), Bodo Hombach (chancellery), Reinhard Klimmt (transport and construction), Michael Naumann (culture). Schroeder who had called an SPD emergency board meeting said on Thursday he had dismissed Scharping, the eighth minister to be dismissed under his leadership, after he had come under fire over suspect income two month before the general elections.