Merkel III cabinet
Merkel III cabinet | |
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23rd Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
choice | 2013 |
Legislative period | 18th |
Appointed by | Federal President Joachim Gauck |
education | 17th December 2013 |
The End | March 14, 2018 |
Duration | 4 years and 87 days |
predecessor | Merkel II cabinet |
successor | Merkel IV cabinet |
composition | |
Party (s) | CDU / CSU, SPD |
minister | 15th |
State Secretaries | 33 |
representation | |
German Bundestag | until 2017: 502/630 |
Opposition leader | until 2015: Gregor Gysi ( Die Linke )
from 2015 to 2017: Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch ( Die Linke ) |
The Merkel III cabinet was the 23rd government cabinet in the Federal Republic of Germany. The 18th German Bundestag , elected on September 22, 2013, was constituted on October 22, 2013 and, in its fourth session on December 17, 2013, elected Angela Merkel, who has been Chancellor since 2005, with 462 votes in favor, 150 against and 9th Abstentions in the first ballot for Federal Chancellor of a grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD . Previously, a vote among all members of the SPD had confirmed the coalition agreement with 75.96 percent of the valid votes. Merkel and the federal ministers proposed by her were immediately appointed by the Federal President on December 17, 2013 and sworn in before the Bundestag.
The changed responsibilities of the ministries resulted from the organizational decree of the Federal Chancellor of December 17, 2013 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 4310 ). Before the federal elections and during the coalition negotiations, the term GroKo established itself in media and everyday language as an abbreviation for Grand Coalition , which was ultimately chosen as word of the year .
On October 24, 2017, one month after the 2017 Bundestag election , the federal government was dismissed by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ; she remained in office - for longer than any before - until a new government was appointed on March 14, 2018.
cabinet
Office or department | image | Surname | Political party | Parliamentary state secretaries or state ministers | Political party | ||
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Chancellor | Angela Merkel | CDU |
Helge Braun Reduction of bureaucracy and better regulation, federal-state relations Monika Grütters culture and media |
CDU | |||
Aydan Özoğuz Migration, Refugees and Integration |
SPD | ||||||
Deputy Chancellor | Sigmar Gabriel | SPD | |||||
Foreign |
Frank-Walter Steinmeier until January 27, 2017 |
SPD |
Maria Böhmer Foreign cultural and educational policy |
CDU | |||
Sigmar Gabriel from January 27, 2017 |
Michael Roth Europe |
SPD | |||||
Interior | Thomas de Maizière | CDU |
Günter Krings Ole Schröder |
CDU | |||
Justice and consumer protection | Heiko Maas | SPD |
Ulrich Kelber Consumer Protection Christian Lange |
SPD | |||
Finances |
Wolfgang Schäuble until October 24, 2017 |
CDU |
Steffen Kampeter until July 3, 2015 Michael Meister Jens Spahn from July 3, 2015 |
CDU | |||
Peter Altmaier provisionally from October 24, 2017 |
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Economy and energy | Sigmar Gabriel until January 27, 2017 |
SPD |
Uwe Beckmeyer Maritime Economy Iris Gleicke New Federal States, SMEs and Tourism Brigitte Zypries Aerospace until January 27, 2017 Dirk Wiese from January 27, 2017 |
SPD | |||
Brigitte Zypries from January 27, 2017 |
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Work and social |
Andrea Nahles until September 28, 2017 |
SPD |
Anette Kramme Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller |
SPD | |||
Katarina Barley provisional
from September 28, 2017 |
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Food and Agriculture |
Hans-Peter Friedrich until February 17, 2014 |
CSU |
Peter Bleser Maria Flachsbarth |
CDU | |||
Christian Schmidt from February 17, 2014 |
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defense | Ursula von der Leyen | CDU |
Ralf Brauksiepe Politics, Planning, Armed Forces Management, Strategy and Operations, Budget and Controlling Markus Grübel Equipment, Information Technology and Use, Law, Personnel, Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services |
CDU | |||
Family, seniors, women and youth |
Manuela Schwesig until June 2, 2017 |
SPD |
Elke Ferner Caren Marks |
SPD | |||
Katarina Barley from June 2nd, 2017 |
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health | Hermann Gröhe | CDU |
Ingrid Fischbach Annette Widmann-Mauz |
CDU | |||
Transport and digital infrastructure |
Alexander Dobrindt
until October 24, 2017 |
CSU |
Dorothee Bär Freight Transport and Logistics |
CSU | |||
Christian Schmidt provisionally from October 24, 2017 |
Enak Ferlemann Katherina Reiche until February 4, 2015 Norbert Barthle from February 11, 2015 |
CDU | |||||
Environment, nature conservation, construction and reactor safety | Barbara Hendricks | SPD |
Florian Pronold Construction and Urban Development Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter Nature conservation, climate protection, reactor safety, immission control, environment & health and chemical safety |
SPD | |||
Education and Research | Johanna Wanka | CDU |
Stefan Müller Vocational training, key technologies and innovation strategies, energy and climate research |
CSU | |||
Thomas Rachel Science System, Universities and Research Organizations, Life Sciences and Research for Health, European and International Cooperation and Budget |
CDU | ||||||
economical co-operation and Development | Gerd Müller | CSU | Hans-Joachim Fuchtel | CDU | |||
Christian Schmidt until February 17, 2014 Thomas Silberhorn from February 17, 2014 |
CSU | ||||||
Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery |
Peter Altmaier | CDU |
Changes
On February 14, 2014, Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) announced his resignation from the post of Federal Minister of Agriculture in connection with the scandal surrounding the politician Sebastian Edathy (SPD) from his time as Federal Minister of the Interior. His successor as Federal Minister of Agriculture was the previous Parliamentary State Secretary at the Development Ministry Christian Schmidt (CSU), his successor as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Development Aid Ministry Thomas Silberhorn (CSU).
There was a major reshuffle of the cabinet on January 27, 2017: Frank-Walter Steinmeier resigned from his position as Foreign Minister in order to be elected Federal President on February 12, 2017. The previous Minister of Economic Affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, took over his post as Foreign Minister, and the previous Parliamentary State Secretary from the Ministry and former Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries as the new Minister of Economic Affairs.
On June 2, 2017, Manuela Schwesig resigned from her position as Federal Minister for Family Affairs in order to take over the office of Prime Minister from Erwin Sellering in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Her successor was the previous General Secretary of the SPD , Katarina Barley .
On September 28, 2017, Labor Minister Andrea Nahles left the cabinet to take over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in the newly elected Bundestag; the Ministry of Labor was also temporarily taken over by Katarina Barley for the remaining term of the cabinet.
In the constituent session of the 19th German Bundestag on October 24, 2017, Wolfgang Schäuble was elected President of the Bundestag. He resigned from the office of Federal Minister of Finance, which was taken over by Peter Altmaier as managing director. At the same time, Alexander Dobrindt gave up his post as Federal Minister of Transport in order to concentrate on his duties as chairman of the CSU regional group and as chief negotiator of the CSU (alongside Horst Seehofer ) in the coalition negotiations. Federal Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt temporarily took over his role .
Image of the government
Others
According to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation , 79 percent of the 188 specific agreements in the coalition agreement of 2013 were fully or partially implemented.
Web links
- www.bundesregierung.de : The Federal Cabinet (PDF; 801 kB)
- Cabinet list: These are Merkel's most important ministers , in: spiegel.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 1:50 p.m.
- Live blog on the grand coalition: Party executive board approves the SPD's list of candidates , in: zeit.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 1:50 p.m.
- Böhmer becomes Minister of State in the Foreign Office , in: welt.de , accessed on December 15, 2013, 4:43 p.m.
Individual evidence
- ^ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 18/4 , of December 17, 2013
- ^ Dismissal of the federal government. Office of the Federal President, October 24, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Change of position: Federal President dismisses Andrea Nahles from the government . In: Spiegel Online . September 28, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 10, 2019]).
- ↑ www.schwarzelühr-sutter.de
- ↑ Agriculture Minister Friedrich resigns ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), heute.de , February 14, 2014
- ↑ Friedrich's successor: State Secretary Schmidt becomes the new Minister of Agriculture. In: zeit.de. February 17, 2014, accessed December 7, 2014 .
- ↑ State Secretary Schmidt becomes the new Minister of Agriculture. In: Spiegel Online. February 17, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
- ^ Federal President dismisses Andrea Nahles from the government. In: Spiegel Online. September 28, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
- ^ Dismissal of the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs. Office of the Federal President, September 28, 2017, accessed on September 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Katarina Barley. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2019 ; accessed on March 10, 2019 . 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.
- ↑ Peter Altmaier is the Managing Minister of Finance. In: Federal Ministry of Finance. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ https://bahnblogstelle.net/2017/10/25/ministerwechsel-im-bundesverkehrsministerium-schmidt-uebernnahm-fuer-dobrindt
- ↑ Federal Government: Ministry of Transport could get a new shape. In: handelsblatt.com. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ FAZ.net February 24, 2018