Gomolka Cabinet

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Gomolka Cabinet
1. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Alfred Gomolka
Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka
choice 1990
Legislative period 1.
education October 28, 1990
The End March 19, 1992
Duration 1 year and 143 days
successor Cabinet page I.
composition
Party (s) CDU and FDP
representation
Parliament
33/66
Opposition leader Harald Ringstorff ( SPD )
Alfred Gomolka (December 1990)

The Gomolka cabinet was the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after the state elections in 1990 . Prime Minister was Alfred Gomolka ( CDU ). The black-yellow coalition was in office from October 28, 1990 until Gomolka's resignation on March 19, 1992.

Government formation

In the first election of the state parliament since the re-establishment of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as a result of the reunification of Germany , the CDU was, as expected, by far the strongest force in the Schwerin state parliament. Nevertheless, there was a stalemate: Both the Union and the FDP on the one hand, and the SPD and PDS on the other, each received 33 mandates. The transfer of Wolfgang Schulz , a member of the SPD until September 1990, to the CDU dissolved the stalemate, so that the CDU was able to form a coalition with the FDP, which had just managed to overcome the five percent hurdle . Schulz was involved in government work as an ombudsman .

Alfred Gomolka was elected Prime Minister on October 27, 1990. The CDU also occupied seven ministries, the FDP received two departments. With the exception of Justice Minister Ulrich Born , who worked for a long time in the Federal Press Office, all ministers came from the GDR . Half of the cabinet members, including Gomolka, were already members of the CDU and LDPD block parties .

Balance sheet of the black and yellow government under Gomolka

The government was marked by fierce controversy within the CDU. These were sparked primarily by the privatization of the shipbuilding industry . CDU state chief and Federal Transport Minister Günther Krause spoke out against the partial privatization planned by Gomolka and the liberal Economics Minister Conrad-Michael Lehment . There were also personal tensions within the cabinet and conflicts between the state government and the CDU state parliamentary group. After only 18 months in office, Gomolka resigned on March 19, 1992. His successor in office was the previous Secretary General of the CDU, Berndt Seite ( Cabinet Seite I ).

List of Cabinet Members

minister Surname Political party State Secretaries
Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka CDU Hans-Joachim Kalendrusch (Parliamentary State Secretary, CDU)

Wolfgang Schulz (Ombudsman with the rank of Parliamentary State Secretary) (SPD)

Matthias Zender (Head of the State Chancellery)

Deputy Prime Minister Klaus Gollert FDP
Interior Georg Diederich CDU Volker Pollehn , CDU
Justice , federal and European affairs Ulrich Born
until March 14, 1992
Alfred Gomolka as
managing director from March 15, 1992 		CDU Rüdiger Annecke
Finances Bärbel Kleedehn CDU Merten Drevs
economy Conrad-Michael Lehment FDP Wolfgang Pfletschinger , FDP
Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Martin Brick CDU Brar C. Roeloffs
environment Petra Uhlmann CDU Peter-Uwe Conrad , CDU
Cult Oswald Wutzke CDU Thomas de Maizière , CDU
Work, health and social order Klaus Gollert FDP Neithart Neitzel , FDP

See also

literature

  • Karsten Grabow : The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Parties and party systems in the German states. Edited by Oskar Niedermayer, Uwe Jun and Melanie Haas, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-90912-7 , pp. 265–290.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 268.