Cabinet Althaus I

Cabinet Althaus I
	5. Thuringian state government
Prime Minister	Dieter Althaus
choice	1999
Legislative period	3
education	June 5, 2003
The End	July 8, 2004
Duration	1 year and 33 days
predecessor	Cabinet Vogel III
successor	Cabinet Althaus II
composition
Party (s)	CDU
minister	9
representation
Parliament	49/88

The Cabinet Althaus I formed the Thuringian state government from 2003 to 2004 . The CDU state chairman Dieter Althaus was elected by the Thuringian state parliament on June 5, 2003 as the third Thuringian Prime Minister since 1990. Althaus continued the sole CDU government of his predecessor Bernhard Vogel , which had been in office since the 1999 state elections , and presented the ministers to the new state government the following day .

Bernhard Vogel (CDU), who has been in office since 1992 and is now 70 years old, resigned from the office of Prime Minister in order to hand over the leadership of the state government to Dieter Althaus, who was 26 years younger than he was before the forthcoming fourth state election on June 13, 2004 .

With the meeting of the 4th Thuringian State Parliament on July 8, 2004, the term of office of the state government ended in accordance with Article 75, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia .

Cabinet Althaus I - June 6, 2003 to July 8, 2004
Office	Surname
Prime Minister	Dieter Althaus	CDU
Deputy Prime Minister	Andreas Trautvetter	CDU
Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the State Chancellery	Hans Kaiser	CDU
Interior minister	Andreas Trautvetter	CDU
Minister of Education	Michael Krapp	CDU
Minister of Justice	Karl Heinz Gasser	CDU
Finance minister	Birgit Diezel	CDU
Minister for Economy, Labor and Infrastructure	Jürgen Reinholz	CDU
Minister for Social Affairs, Family and Health	Klaus Zeh	CDU
Minister for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and the Environment	Volker Sklenar	CDU
Minister for Science, Research and the Arts	Dagmar Schipanski	CDU

Individual evidence

^ Government declaration by the Prime Minister; Election of a new prime minister; Swearing in of the Prime Minister. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: Plenary Minutes 3/86. Thuringian State Parliament, June 5, 2003, pp. 7481–7504 , accessed on April 17, 2017 .
^ Announcement of the ministers appointed by the Prime Minister; Swearing in of the ministers. (PDF; 364 kB) In: Plenary Minutes 3/87. Thuringian State Parliament, June 6, 2003, pp. 7582-7585 , accessed on April 17, 2017 .
↑ Third amendment to the resolution of the Thuringian state government on the responsibility of the individual ministries according to Article 76, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia of June 17, 2003. (PDF; 372 kB) In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Free State of Thuringia. July 10, 2003, pp. 389-390 , accessed April 17, 2017 .

[1] Government declaration by the Prime Minister; Election of a new prime minister; Swearing in of the Prime Minister. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: Plenary Minutes 3/86. Thuringian State Parliament, June 5, 2003, pp. 7481–7504 , accessed on April 17, 2017 .

[2] Announcement of the ministers appointed by the Prime Minister; Swearing in of the ministers. (PDF; 364 kB) In: Plenary Minutes 3/87. Thuringian State Parliament, June 6, 2003, pp. 7582-7585 , accessed on April 17, 2017 .

[3] Third amendment to the resolution of the Thuringian state government on the responsibility of the individual ministries according to Article 76, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia of June 17, 2003. (PDF; 372 kB) In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Free State of Thuringia. July 10, 2003, pp. 389-390 , accessed April 17, 2017 .