Merkel III cabinet

Merkel III cabinet
23rd Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
choice	2013
Legislative period	18th
Appointed by	Federal President Joachim Gauck
education	17th December 2013
The End	March 14, 2018
Duration	4 years and 87 days
predecessor	Merkel II cabinet
successor	Merkel IV cabinet
composition
Party (s)	CDU / CSU, SPD
minister	15th
State Secretaries	33
representation
German Bundestag	until 2017: 502/630
Opposition leader	until 2015: Gregor Gysi ( Die Linke ) from 2015 to 2017: Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch ( Die Linke )

The Merkel III cabinet was the 23rd government cabinet in the Federal Republic of Germany. The 18th German Bundestag , elected on September 22, 2013, was constituted on October 22, 2013 and, in its fourth session on December 17, 2013, elected Angela Merkel, who has been Chancellor since 2005, with 462 votes in favor, 150 against and 9th Abstentions in the first ballot for Federal Chancellor of a grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD . Previously, a vote among all members of the SPD had confirmed the coalition agreement with 75.96 percent of the valid votes. Merkel and the federal ministers proposed by her were immediately appointed by the Federal President on December 17, 2013 and sworn in before the Bundestag.

The changed responsibilities of the ministries resulted from the organizational decree of the Federal Chancellor of December 17, 2013 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 4310 ). Before the federal elections and during the coalition negotiations, the term GroKo established itself in media and everyday language as an abbreviation for Grand Coalition , which was ultimately chosen as word of the year .

On October 24, 2017, one month after the 2017 Bundestag election , the federal government was dismissed by Federal President  Frank-Walter Steinmeier ; she remained in office - for longer than any before - until a new government was appointed on March 14, 2018.

cabinet

Merkel III Cabinet - December 17, 2013 to October 24, 2017 ( charged with running the business
until March 14, 2018 )

Office or department	image	Surname	Political party		Parliamentary state secretaries or state ministers	Political party
Chancellor		Angela Merkel		CDU	Helge Braun Reduction of bureaucracy and better regulation, federal-state relations Monika Grütters culture and media		CDU
					Aydan Özoğuz Migration, Refugees and Integration		SPD
Deputy Chancellor		Sigmar Gabriel		SPD
Foreign		Frank-Walter Steinmeier until January 27, 2017		SPD	Maria Böhmer Foreign cultural and educational policy		CDU
		Sigmar Gabriel from January 27, 2017			Michael Roth Europe		SPD
Interior		Thomas de Maizière		CDU	Günter Krings Ole Schröder		CDU
Justice and consumer protection		Heiko Maas		SPD	Ulrich Kelber Consumer Protection Christian Lange		SPD
Finances		Wolfgang Schäuble until October 24, 2017		CDU	Steffen Kampeter until July 3, 2015 Michael Meister Jens Spahn from July 3, 2015		CDU
		Peter Altmaier provisionally from October 24, 2017
Economy and energy		Sigmar Gabriel until January 27, 2017		SPD	Uwe Beckmeyer Maritime Economy Iris Gleicke New Federal States, SMEs and Tourism Brigitte Zypries Aerospace until January 27, 2017 Dirk Wiese from January 27, 2017		SPD
		Brigitte Zypries from January 27, 2017
Work and social		Andrea Nahles until September 28, 2017		SPD	Anette Kramme Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller		SPD
		Katarina Barley provisional from September 28, 2017
Food and Agriculture		Hans-Peter Friedrich until February 17, 2014		CSU	Peter Bleser Maria Flachsbarth		CDU
		Christian Schmidt from February 17, 2014
defense		Ursula von der Leyen		CDU	Ralf Brauksiepe Politics, Planning, Armed Forces Management, Strategy and Operations, Budget and Controlling Markus Grübel Equipment, Information Technology and Use, Law, Personnel, Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services		CDU
Family, seniors, women and youth		Manuela Schwesig until June 2, 2017		SPD	Elke Ferner Caren Marks		SPD
		Katarina Barley from June 2nd, 2017
health		Hermann Gröhe		CDU	Ingrid Fischbach Annette Widmann-Mauz		CDU
Transport and digital infrastructure		Alexander Dobrindt until October 24, 2017		CSU	Dorothee Bär Freight Transport and Logistics		CSU
		Christian Schmidt provisionally from October 24, 2017			Enak Ferlemann Katherina Reiche until February 4, 2015 Norbert Barthle from February 11, 2015		CDU
Environment, nature conservation, construction and reactor safety		Barbara Hendricks		SPD	Florian Pronold Construction and Urban Development Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter Nature conservation, climate protection, reactor safety, immission control, environment & health and chemical safety		SPD
Education and Research		Johanna Wanka		CDU	Stefan Müller Vocational training, key technologies and innovation strategies, energy and climate research		CSU
					Thomas Rachel Science System, Universities and Research Organizations, Life Sciences and Research for Health, European and International Cooperation and Budget		CDU
economical co-operation and Development		Gerd Müller		CSU	Hans-Joachim Fuchtel		CDU
					Christian Schmidt until February 17, 2014 Thomas Silberhorn from February 17, 2014		CSU
Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery		Peter Altmaier		CDU

Changes

On February 14, 2014, Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) announced his resignation from the post of Federal Minister of Agriculture in connection with the scandal surrounding the politician Sebastian Edathy (SPD) from his time as Federal Minister of the Interior. His successor as Federal Minister of Agriculture was the previous Parliamentary State Secretary at the Development Ministry Christian Schmidt (CSU), his successor as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Development Aid Ministry Thomas Silberhorn (CSU).

There was a major reshuffle of the cabinet on January 27, 2017: Frank-Walter Steinmeier resigned from his position as Foreign Minister in order to be elected Federal President on February 12, 2017. The previous Minister of Economic Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, took over his post as Foreign Minister, and the previous Parliamentary State Secretary from the Ministry and former Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries as the new Minister of Economic Affairs.

On June 2, 2017, Manuela Schwesig resigned from her position as Federal Minister for Family Affairs in order to take over the office of Prime Minister from Erwin Sellering in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Her successor was the previous General Secretary of the SPD , Katarina Barley .

On September 28, 2017, Labor Minister Andrea Nahles left the cabinet to take over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in the newly elected Bundestag; the Ministry of Labor was also temporarily taken over by Katarina Barley for the remaining term of the cabinet.

In the constituent session of the 19th German Bundestag on October 24, 2017, Wolfgang Schäuble was elected President of the Bundestag. He resigned from the office of Federal Minister of Finance, which was taken over by Peter Altmaier as managing director. At the same time, Alexander Dobrindt gave up his post as Federal Minister of Transport in order to concentrate on his duties as chairman of the CSU regional group and as chief negotiator of the CSU (alongside Horst Seehofer ) in the coalition negotiations. Federal Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt temporarily took over his role .

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Merkel III cabinet in the German Bundestag , 2014 (excluding Peter Altmaier and Heiko Maas )

Others

According to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation , 79 percent of the 188 specific agreements in the coalition agreement of 2013 were fully or partially implemented.

Web links

Commons : Kabinett Merkel III  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.bundesregierung.de : The Federal Cabinet (PDF; 801 kB)
• Cabinet list: These are Merkel's most important ministers , in: spiegel.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 1:50 p.m.
• Live blog on the grand coalition: Party executive board approves the SPD's list of candidates , in: zeit.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 1:50 p.m.
• Böhmer becomes Minister of State in the Foreign Office , in: welt.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 4:43 p.m.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 18/4 , of December 17, 2013
2. ^ Dismissal of the federal government. Office of the Federal President, October 24, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Change of position: Federal President dismisses Andrea Nahles from the government . In: Spiegel Online . September 28, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 10, 2019]).
4. ↑ www.schwarzelühr-sutter.de
5. ↑ Agriculture Minister Friedrich resigns ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), heute.de , February 14, 2014
6. ↑ Friedrich's successor: State Secretary Schmidt becomes the new Minister of Agriculture. In: zeit.de. February 17, 2014, accessed December 7, 2014 . 
7. ↑ State Secretary Schmidt becomes the new Minister of Agriculture. In: Spiegel Online. February 17, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 . 
8. ^ Federal President dismisses Andrea Nahles from the government. In: Spiegel Online. September 28, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017 . 
9. ^ Dismissal of the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs. Office of the Federal President, September 28, 2017, accessed on September 28, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Katarina Barley. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2019 ; accessed on March 10, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Peter Altmaier is the Managing Minister of Finance. In: Federal Ministry of Finance. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2017 . 
12. ↑ https://bahnblogstelle.net/2017/10/25/ministerwechsel-im-bundesverkehrsministerium-schmidt-uebernnahm-fuer-dobrindt
13. ↑ Federal Government: Ministry of Transport could get a new shape. In: handelsblatt.com. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017 . 
14. ↑ FAZ.net February 24, 2018