It replaced the first Buhl cabinet, which collapsed due to the Telegram Crisis in November 1942, when the Germans demanded changes to the Danish government.

Following the August Rebellion [da] in 1943, the Germans put forward more demands, which the Danish authorities refused.

The government therefore filed a resignation request for the King on 29 August 1943, who refused to accept it.

The government de facto ceased to function, though still formally in power.

Some of the terms in the table begin before after 9 November 1942 because the minister was in the fourth Stauning cabinet as well.