Cabinet Kraft II

Cabinet Kraft II
23. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia
Prime Minister	Hannelore Kraft
choice	2012
Legislative period	16.
education	June 20, 2012
The End	June 27, 2017
Duration	5 years and 7 days
predecessor	Cabinet Kraft I.
successor	Laschet cabinet
composition
Party (s)	SPD and GREEN
minister	12
State Secretaries	16
representation
Parliament	127/237
Opposition leader	Armin Laschet ( CDU )

The Kraft II cabinet formed the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia from June 20, 2012 to June 27, 2017 under Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft . The Social Democratic Party and Alliance 90 / The Greens strove for their success in the early elections in May 2012 , the continuation of the red-green coalition ( Cabinet Kraft I on).

On June 12, 2012, the party and parliamentary group leaders presented the coalition agreement, which was passed on June 15 at the party congresses of both coalition partners.

On June 20, Hannelore Kraft was elected Prime Minister by the state parliament with 137 votes. She received nine more votes than the red-green coalition holds in parliament. Several members of the Pirate Party in the state parliament had announced that they would vote for Kraft.

Only the green members of the government had been announced in advance; the composition of the entire cabinet took place on June 21, 2012. There were hardly any changes compared to the first cabinet; the previous Ministry of Economics, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport was split between two ministries. Their ministers, Garrelt Duin and Michael Groschek , were also the only new additions to the cabinet. The previous Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport Harry Voigtsberger announced on June 19 that he no longer wanted to belong to the new cabinet.

The state secretary positions for internal affairs and integration remained vacant for a few months, which was criticized by CDU member Lutz Lienenkämper , among others . According to the State Chancellery, they wanted to take their time when deciding on the new appointment. On December 17, 2013, three new state secretaries were appointed; in addition to the vacant posts, the office of state secretary in the Ministry of Health was also filled.

Another new appointment took place on June 1, 2014, when Michael von der Mühlen became the new State Secretary in the Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport. He succeeded Gunther Adler, who moved to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as State Secretary .

Office or department	image	Incumbent	Political party		State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister		Hannelore Kraft		SPD	Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (Head of the State Chancellery) (until October 1, 2015)		SPD
					Thomas Breustedt (government spokesman )		SPD
Deputy Prime Minister		Sylvia Löhrmann		Green
School and further education					Ludwig Hecke		Green
Finances		Norbert Walter-Borjans		SPD	Rüdiger Messal		SPD
Economy, energy, industry, medium-sized businesses and crafts		Garrelt Duin		SPD	Günther Horzetzky		SPD
Internal and communal		Ralf Jäger		SPD	Hans-Ulrich Krüger (until October 2013) Bernhard Nebe (since December 17, 2013)		SPD
Work, integration and social issues		Guntram Schneider (until October 1, 2015) Rainer Schmeltzer (since October 1, 2015)		SPD	Wilhelm Schäffer
					Zülfiye Kaykin (for integration; until September 11, 2013)		SPD
					Thorsten Klute (since December 17, 2013)		SPD
Judiciary		Thomas Kutschaty		SPD	Karl-Heinz Krems		SPD
Climate protection, the environment, agriculture, nature and consumer protection		Johannes Remmel		Green	Udo Paschedag (until February 19, 2013) Peter Knitsch (since February 19, 2013) Horst Becker (Parliamentary State Secretary)		Green
Building, housing, urban development and transport		Michael Groschek		SPD	Gunther Adler (until March 31, 2014)		SPD
					Michael von der Mühlen (since June 1, 2014)		SPD
Innovation, science and research		Svenja Schulze		SPD	Helmut Dockter (until September 30, 2014)		SPD
					Thomas Grünewald (since October 1, 2014)		SPD
Family, children, youth, culture and sport		Ute Schäfer (until October 1, 2015) Christina Kampmann (since October 1, 2015)		SPD	Klaus Schäfer (until October 1, 2012)
					Bernd Neuendorf (since October 1, 2012)		SPD
Health, emancipation, care and old age		Barbara Steffens		Green	Marlis Bredehorst (until December 17, 2013)		Green
					Martina Hoffmann-Badache (since December 17, 2013)		Green
Federal affairs, Europe and the media since October 1, 2015 also head of the State Chancellery		Angelica Schwall-Düren (until October 1, 2015) Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (since October 1, 2015)		SPD	Marc Jan Eumann		SPD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red-green coalition agreement 2012 for NRW. (PDF; 6.5 MB) Retrieved June 13, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Party congresses agree to coalition agreement. Retrieved June 13, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Hannelore Kraft elected Prime Minister. Retrieved June 20, 2012 . 
4. ^ Voigtsberger's retreat - farewell to a quiet minister Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 19, 2012
5. ↑ Top positions have been vacant for months: Kraft is looking for new state secretaries Report from the Rheinische Post dated December 9, 2013
6. ↑ Klute, Nebe and Hoffmann-Badache: North Rhine-Westphalia has three new State Secretaries Article of the Rheinische Post from December 17, 2013
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
8. ↑ According to the state constitution, state secretaries are not members of the government.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} http://www.land.nrw/de/stabwechsel-im-landeskabinett
10. ↑ Zülfiye Kaykin: Cabinet dismisses State Secretary after allegations of fraud. Report of the Bonn General Gazette dated September 11, 2013
11. ↑ http://www.nrw.de/landesregierung/peter-knitsch-ist-zum-neuen-staatssekretaer-im-nrw-umweltministerium-bestellt-worden-14047/
12. ↑ Prime Minister Kraft and Minister Schulze say goodbye to State Secretary Dockter into retirement ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Ministry of Science of September 30, 2014, accessed on August 3, 2015. 
13. ↑ Thomas Grünewald appointed as new State Secretary in the Ministry of Science Press release of the Ministry of Science of October 1, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015.

Web links

• State government website
• The SPD and the Greens agree on a coalition agreement , Spiegel Online, June 12, 2012.