Hessian state government

Coat of arms of the Hessian state government

Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden , seat of the state government

The Hessian state government is the government of the state of Hesse . The current state government , formed by the CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , began its work on January 18, 2019. The Prime Minister is the lawyer Volker Bouffier , who comes from Gießen , for the other members of the government see the article Bouffier III cabinet . Government spokesman is State Secretary Michael Bußer .

According to Article 101 of the Constitution of the State of Hesse (HV), the Prime Minister is elected by the Hessian State Parliament. The other members of the state government, the ministers, are appointed by the Prime Minister. They need the special confidence of the state parliament, which is given to them by resolution (Art. 101 IV HV). According to Article 111, the Prime Minister takes his oath of office before the State Parliament, the ministers before the Prime Minister in the presence of the State Parliament. The legal relationships of the members of the government are regulated in the law on the remuneration of the members of the state government of July 27, 1993.

The official seat of the Prime Minister and the meeting place of the state government is the Hessian State Chancellery , which has resided in the former Hotel Rose on Kranzplatz in Wiesbaden since 2004 . The State Chancellery was previously based in a villa on Bierstadter Strasse not far from Warmen Damm and Wilhelmstrasse . Before the Second World War, the state government of the then people's state of Hesse had its seat in Darmstadt .

Hessian state governments until 1918

→ Main article : Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse

Before the November Revolution of 1918, the Grand Duke was the Hessian head of state. He appointed after the constitution of 1820 , members of the state government and put the two chambers (of which only the members of the second set were) existing country stands before the bills. The state government (“total ministry”) was headed by a president, but only as head of government, not as head of state.

Official	Term of office	Remarks
Karl von Grolman	1821-1829
Karl you Thil	1829-1848
Heinrich von Gagern	1848	Prime Minister for three months during the March Revolution , member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Carl Wilhelm Zimmermann	1848	In the summer of 1848 in office for a few weeks
Heinrich Karl Jaup	1848-1850	Member of the Committee of Seventeen and the Frankfurt National Assembly
Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk	1852-1871	Under Grand Duke Ludwig III. , Dismissed in 1871 under pressure from Prussia
Friedrich von Lindelof	1871-1872	Under Grand Duke Ludwig III.
Karl Wilhelm Hofmann	1872-1876	Under Grand Duke Ludwig III.
Philipp Freiherr Rinck gen. Starck	1876-1879	Under Grand Duke Ludwig III, after his death in 1877 under Grand Duke Ludwig IV.
Jakob Finger	1884-1898	Under Grand Duke Ludwig IV, after his death in 1892 under Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig
Carl Rothe	1898-1906	Under Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig
Christian Wilhelm Carl Ewald	1906-1918	Under Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, until the November Revolution

In addition to the Grand Duchy, there were two other Hessian states until 1866, the Electorate of Hesse- Kassel and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg .

State governments of the People's State of Hesse

During the time of the People's State of Hesse (1919 to 1945), the Hessian Prime Minister carried the official title of State President in accordance with Article 37 of the Hessian Constitution , the cabinet the title of “General Ministry”. As today, the government was elected by the Hessian state parliament.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, state governments were in favor of the regional branches of the NSDAP ( " Reichsgaue largely disempowered").

State and Prime Ministers of the People's State of Hesse were:

President	cabinet	Parties involved	Term of office	Remarks
Carl Ulrich ( SPD )	Cabinet Ulrich I	SPD, DDP , center	1919-19
Carl Ulrich (SPD)	Cabinet Ulrich II	SPD, DDP, center	1919-1927	President from 1920
Carl Ulrich (SPD)	Cabinet Ulrich III	SPD, DDP, center	1927-1928
Bernhard Adelung (SPD)	Cabinet Adelung	SPD, DDP, center	1928-33	President
Ferdinand Werner ( NSDAP )	Cabinet Werner	NSDAP	1933	Elected president, then appointed prime minister
Philipp Wilhelm Jung (NSDAP)	Cabinet Jung	NSDAP	1933-35	Prime Minister
Jakob Sprenger (NSDAP)	Cabinet Sprenger	NSDAP	1935-45	As Reich Governor at the same time leader of the state government

Hessian state governments since 1945

Since the founding of today's state of Hesse, seven different parties have been involved in Hessian state governments. From 1945 to 1987 and 1991–1999 the SPD led the respective state governments, 1987–91 and since 1999 the CDU. Since 1945 nine politicians have held the office of Hessian Prime Minister, five of them belonged to the SPD and three to the CDU, one was non-party. Georg-August Zinn (SPD) was Prime Minister for 19 years, making him the incumbent with the longest period of service to date.

The first two Prime Ministers after the end of the war, Ludwig Bergstrasse ( SPD ) and Karl Geiler ( non-party ), were not elected but were appointed by the American occupation forces. The first state election after the war took place on December 1, 1946.

Prime Minister	cabinet	Parties involved	Term of office
Karl Geiler	Hornier	SPD , CDU , KPD , non-party	1945-46
Christian Stock	floor	SPD, CDU	1946 -50
Georg-August Zinn	Tin I	SPD	1950 -54
	Tin II	SPD, GB / BHE	1954 -58
	Tin III		1958 -62
	Tin IV	SPD, GDP	1962 -66
	Tin V	SPD	1966 -69 (resignation)
Albert Osswald	Osswald I		1969-70
	Osswald II	SPD, FDP	1970 -74
	Osswald III		1974 - 76 (resignation)
Holger Borner	Borner I		1976-78
	Borner II		1978 -84
	Borner III	SPD, Greens	1984 -87
Walter Wallmann	Wallmann	CDU, FDP	1987 -91
Hans Eichel	Acorn i	SPD, Greens	1991 -95
	Glans II		1995 -99
Roland Koch	Cook I.	CDU, FDP	1999 -2003
	Cook II	CDU	2003 -2009
	Cook III	CDU, FDP	2009 - 2010 (resignation)
Volker Bouffier	Bouffier I.		2010-2014
	Bouffier II	CDU, Greens	2014-2019
	Bouffier III		since 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GVBl. I p. 339, last amended by law of May 27, 2013, GVBl., P. 218.
2. ^ Prime Minister Zinn announces his resignation, August 27, 1969. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Anti-Semitism Officer

Until 2019, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the Hessian state government was Felix Semmelroth , his successor is Uwe Becker .

Web links

• Official website of the Hessian state government

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Highly respected personality" Uwe Becker is Hesse's new anti-Semitism officer , Hessenschau April 9, 2019
2. ↑ Uwe Becker Hessen has a new representative against anti-Semitism , FAZ April 9, 2019
3. ↑ Frankfurt Mayor Uwe Becker is the new anti-Semitism officer in Hesse , by Georg Leppert Frankfurter Rundschau April 10, 2019