Bergner cabinet

The Bergner cabinet served as the state government of Saxony-Anhalt from 1993 to 1994 . It was the third cabinet during the first electoral term of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . The Gies cabinet under Prime Minister Gerd Gies (CDU) resigned in July 1991; Gies' successor Werner Münch resigned from office in November 1993. On December 2, 1993, the state parliament elected the previous CDU parliamentary group chairman, Christoph Bergner , as the new prime minister with 60 votes. The second candidate for office, the chairman of the Alliance 90 / Greens parliamentary group, Hans-Jochen Tschiche , received 17 votes. Three MPs abstained; In addition, numerous members of the state parliament, mainly from the SPD faction, did not take part in the election. 83 of 106 possible votes were cast.

Bergner continued the coalition of CDU and FDP and presented his cabinet to the state parliament on December 15, 1993. The four members of the previous government, who came from West Germany and who had come under public pressure in the wake of the “ salaries affair ”, were no longer members of the cabinet. Instead, Bergner relied on “a government with a strong link to parliament”: In addition to himself, eight of the nine ministers belonged to the state parliament; the only exception was in Lower Saxony originating Walter Remmers , of the interior and the Ministry of Justice in personal union led.

The “Ministry for Federal and European Affairs”, which became vacant after Minister Hans-Jürgen Kaesler was dismissed on December 3, 1993, was not filled again; on February 15, 1994 it was dissolved. The “Federal Affairs” division was transferred to the renamed Ministry of Justice and Federal Affairs ; responsibilities for Europe have been divided between the Ministry of Economy, Technology and Transport and the State Chancellery .

In the early election of the Landtag on June 26, 1994 , the FDP left the Landtag . The CDU and SPD did not form a grand coalition . With the meeting of the 2nd Landtag on July 21, 1994, the term of office of the cabinet ended. The next day, a minority government under Reinhard Höppner ( Höppner I cabinet ) came into being.

Members of the state government

Bergner Cabinet - December 15, 1993 to July 21, 1994

Office	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Christoph Bergner		CDU
Deputy Prime Minister	Wolfgang Rauls (from December 16, 1993)		FDP
Minister of the Interior	Walter Remmers		CDU
Minister of Finance	Joachim Kupfer		CDU
Minister for Labor and Social Affairs	Wolfgang Böhmer		CDU
Minister for Science and Research	Rolf Frick		FDP
Minister of Education	Reiner Schomburg		CDU
Minister for Economy, Technology and Transport	Rainhard Lukowitz		FDP
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests	Petra Wernicke		CDU
Minister of Justice ; from February 15, 1994: Minister for Justice and Federal Affairs	Walter Remmers		CDU
Minister for Regional Planning, Urban Development and Housing	Karl-Heinz Daehre		CDU
Minister for the Environment and Nature Conservation	Wolfgang Rauls		FDP

Footnotes

1. ↑ Election of the Prime Minister. (PDF; 602 kB) In: Minutes of the plenary 1/55. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, December 2, 1993, pp. 6492–6494 , accessed on July 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Swearing in of the members of the state government. (PDF; 4.5 MB) In: Minutes of the plenary 1/56. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, December 15, 1993, pp. 6504–6505 , accessed on July 15, 2017 . 
3. ^ Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. In: Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt: Online research. Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ briefing. (PDF; 14 kB) In: Drucksache 1/3326. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, January 4, 1994, accessed on July 15, 2017 .