Cabinet Kretschmann I

Cabinet Kretschmann I
22. State government of Baden-Württemberg
Prime Minister	Winfried Kretschmann
choice	2011
Legislative period	15th
education	May 12, 2011
The End	May 11, 2016
Duration	4 years and 365 days
predecessor	Cabinet Mappus
successor	Cabinet Kretschmann II
composition
Party (s)	Greens and SPD
representation
Parliament	71/138
Opposition leader	until January 2015: Peter Hauk ( CDU ), from January 2015: Guido Wolf (CDU)

The Kretschmann I cabinet formed the state government of Baden-Württemberg from May 12, 2011 to May 11, 2016 . Winfried Kretschmann led a green-red coalition of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and SPD , which was formed as a result of the state elections in 2011 . He is the first Prime Minister in Germany to belong to the Greens and the ninth head of government of the state of Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1952. Seven line ministers were appointed by the Social Democrats, four line ministries and the State Ministry were headed by the Greens. Members of the government with voting rights were also a State Secretary and an honorary State Councilor , both of whom belong to the Greens. There were also three political state secretaries who were not members of the government and a ministerial director with the official title of state secretary. The office holders were sworn in on May 12, 2011 in the state parliament.

The coalition agreement is entitled "The change begins". The Greens and the SPD agreed on the following division of responsibilities:

Cabinet Kretschmann I - May 12, 2011 to May 11, 2016
Office / department	photo	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister		Winfried Kretschmann	Green
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy		Nils Schmid	SPD
Minister in the Ministry of State		Silke Krebs (until March 18, 2016)	Green
Interior		Reinhold Gall	SPD
Judiciary		Rainer Stickelberger	SPD
Culture, youth and sport		Gabriele Warminski-Leitheußer (until January 7, 2013) Andreas Stoch (from January 23, 2013)	SPD
Science, research and art		Theresia Bauer	Green
Work and social order, family, women and senior citizens		Katrin Altpeter	SPD
Transport and infrastructure		Winfried Hermann	Green
Environment, climate and energy industry		Franz Untersteller	Green
Rural area and consumer protection		Alexander Bonde	Green
integration		Bilkay Öney	SPD
Minister for Federal Council, Europe and International Affairs in the State Ministry		Peter Friedrich	SPD
State Councilor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation		Gisela Erler	Green
State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport (right to vote in the government)		Gisela Splett	Green
State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (no voting rights in the government)		Frank Mentrup (until March 1, 2013) Marion von Wartenberg (from March 1, 2013)	SPD
State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economy (no voting rights in the government)		Ingo Rust (until January 31, 2015) Peter Hofelich (from February 1, 2015)	SPD
State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (no voting rights in the government)		Jürgen Walter	Green
State Secretary in the State Ministry ( Ministerial Director with the official title State Secretary, no voting rights in the government)		Klaus-Peter Murawski	Green

Web links

• baden-wuerttemberg.de: State government
• Coalition agreement, distribution of ministries on p. 85 (PDF; 900 kB)
• Pictures of the cabinet members (SWR)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gruene-bw.de (PDF)