Irmgard Schwaetzer (born 5 April 1942) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and a Protestant church official.

[4] In January 1991 Schwaetzer was appointed Federal Minister of Spatial Planning, Construction and Urbanism, succeeding Gerda Hasselfeldt.

During her time in office, she oversaw various architectural design competitions on construction projects that eventually permitted Germany's Parliament and government to move from Bonn to Berlin after German reunification.

[6] In a surprise decision, her own FDP parliamentary group rejected her nomination shortly after and voted instead to name Justice Minister Klaus Kinkel to head the Foreign Office.

[7] Schwaetzer later became the target of public criticism in 1993 when she said in a contribution to a house organ published by Munich-based Germania Investment Management that the company could make "valuable contributions" to solving the problems of housing and office space, both of which were in acute shortage in the formerly Communist eastern part of the country at the time.