Cabinet Kretschmann II

Cabinet Kretschmann II
23. State government of Baden-Württemberg
Prime Minister	Winfried Kretschmann
choice	2016
Legislative period	16.
education	May 12, 2016
Duration	4 years and 112 days
predecessor	Cabinet Kretschmann I
composition
Party (s)	Alliance 90 / The Greens and CDU
representation
Parliament	90/143
Opposition leader	Andreas Stoch ( SPD )

The Kretschmann II cabinet is the state government of Baden-Württemberg .

In his second term as Prime Minister, Winfried Kretschmann leads a green-black coalition made up of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and CDU , which was formed as a result of the state elections in 2016 . The government, also known as the “Kiwi” coalition, is the first coalition of the Greens with the CDU as a junior partner at state level.

The coalition agreement is dated May 9, 2016 and is entitled “Shaping Baden-Württemberg: Reliable. Sustainable. Innovative. ”The design was presented on May 2nd. On May 6, the CDU state party conference in Ludwigsburg and on May 7, 2016, the Green State Delegate Conference in Leinfelden-Echterdingen both approved the coalition agreement with large majorities. An editor of the Südwest Presse revealed that the Greens and the CDU had made secret subsidiary agreements in parallel that were in contradiction to the official coalition agreement; For this he received the 3rd prize in the Guardian Prize of the German daily press in 2017 .

The cabinet list was presented on May 10, 2016. The election of the Prime Minister and the swearing-in of ministers took place on May 12, 2016.

Ruling parties

The government consists of the following parties.

Political party		Party chairperson	Political orientation	European party / group
	Alliance 90 / The Greens Baden-Württemberg (Greens)	Sandra Detzer Oliver Hildenbrand	Green politics, left-wing liberalism	EGP / Greens / EFA
	CDU Baden-Württemberg (CDU)	Thomas Strobl	Christian democracy, conservatism, ordoliberalism	EPP / EPP

cabinet

Office / department	photo	Surname	Political party		State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister Church Commissioner		Winfried Kretschmann		Green	Volker Ratzmann State representative at the federal government until February 2020 Andre Baumann State representative at the federal government since February 2020 Theresa Schopper Political coordination until October 9, 2018 Florian Stegmann Head of the State Chancellery Coordinator of the state government for reducing bureaucracy and better regulation since October 9, 2018		Green
Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, Digitization and Migration State representative for displaced persons and repatriates		Thomas Strobl		CDU	Martin Jäger until March 16, 2018 Wilfried Klenk since April 2018		CDU
Finances		Edith Sitzmann		Green	Gisela Splett		Green
Culture, youth and sport		Susanne Eisenmann		CDU	Volker Schebesta		CDU
Science, research and art		Theresia Bauer		Green	Petra Olschowski
Environment, climate and energy industry		Franz Untersteller		Green
Economy, labor and housing		Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut		CDU	Katrin Schütz		CDU
Social and integration		Manfred Lucha		Green	Bärbl Mielich		Green
Rural area and consumer protection		Peter Hauk		CDU	Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch		CDU
Justice and Europe		Guido Wolf		CDU
traffic		Winfried Hermann		Green
State Councilor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation		Gisela Erler		Green
Minister of State in the Ministry of State		Theresa Schopper since October 9, 2018 Klaus-Peter Murawski Head of the State Chancellery until August 31, 2018		Green

Election of the Prime Minister

Kretschmann was elected Prime Minister by the Baden-Württemberg state parliament on May 12, 2016.

Election of the Prime Minister - 2016
57.75%	1.41%	40.14%	0.7%
Kretschmann	other	No	abstention

142 MPs cast their votes. 82 MPs voted for Winfried Kretschmann and two for another candidate. Who they chose is unknown. 57 MPs voted no, one abstained. Winfried Kretschmann was thus elected Prime Minister in the first ballot.

Web links

• The state government at a glance

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coalition agreement between Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg and the CDU Baden-Württemberg , accessed on May 10, 2016.
2. ↑ Baden-Württemberg: Greens seal the Kiwi coalition in Stuttgart , Der Spiegel , accessed on August 23, 2020
3. ↑ Grün-Schwarz in BW presents cabinet list: These are the new ministers , SWR , accessed on May 10, 2016
4. ^ Green-Black Partnership and Competition , Deutschlandfunk , May 12, 2026
5. ↑ Kretschmann re-elected Prime Minister , Die Zeit , May 12, 2016