Schröder II cabinet (Lower Saxony)

The Schröder II cabinet formed the Lower Saxony state government from June 23, 1994 to March 30, 1998 . The cabinet in the previous electoral term was supported by a red-green coalition. Thanks to the state elections on March 13, 1994 , the SPD had a wafer-thin absolute majority of state parliament seats (81 out of 160 seats) and was able to govern alone without a coalition partner.

Office	Surname	Political party	State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister	Gerhard Schröder	SPD	Head of the State Chancellery: Willi Waike (Minister) (until October 30, 1996) , Frank-Walter Steinmeier (from October 30, 1996) , Government Spokesman: Uwe-Karsten Heye , State Representation at the Federal Government : Helmut Holl (from 1996)	SPD
Deputy Prime Minister	Gerhard Glogowski	SPD	---
Interior minister	Gerhard Glogowski	SPD	Claus Henning Schapper	SPD
Minister for Economy, Technology and Transport	Peter Fischer	SPD	Alfred Tacke	SPD
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests	Karl-Heinz Funke	SPD	Uwe Bartels	SPD
Finance minister	Hinrich Swieter (until November 1, 1996)	SPD	Peter Neuber (until summer 1994) Frank Ebisch (from summer 1994)	SPD
Finance minister	Willi Waike (from November 1, 1996)	SPD	Frank Ebisch	SPD
Minister of Justice	Heidrun Merk	SPD	Horst Henze (until October 31, 1996) Rainer Litten (from November 1, 1996)	SPD
Minister of Education	Rolf Wernstedt	SPD	Renate Juergens-Pieper	SPD
Minister for Science and Culture	Helga Schuchardt	independent	Uwe Reinhardt	SPD
Environment Minister	Monika Griefahn	SPD	Dietmar Schulz	SPD
Minister of Social Affairs	Walter Hiller (until October 15, 1996)	SPD	Birgit Gantz-Rathmann (until 1997)	SPD
Minister of Social Affairs	Wolf Weber (from October 15, 1996)	SPD	Brigitte Zypries (from 1997)	SPD
Minister of Women	Christina Bührmann	SPD	Gabriele Witt (until 1996)	SPD
Minister for European Affairs	Heidrun Merk (from November 5, 1996, also as Minister of Justice)	SPD	---

Individual evidence

^ Result of the election and allocation of seats at Wahlrecht.de
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 1st session of the 13th electoral period on June 23, 1994, p. 20
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 3rd session of the 13th electoral period on July 13, 1994, p. IV, downloadable from www.landtag-niedersachsen.de/parlamentsdokumente/steno/13_wp/endber003.pdf
^ Lower Saxony Landtag, 13th electoral period, Landtag printed matter 13/2944, Urgent question by the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group "Introduction of the 65-hour week as an 'instrument of a modern economic policy'"
^ Lower Saxony State Parliament, Stenographic Report, 5th session of the 13th electoral period on September 14, 1994, p. IV
↑ ^a ^b State Secretaries of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice on the Ministry's website
↑ ^a ^b Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 4th session of the 13th electoral period on July 14, 1994, p. IV

[1] Result of the election and allocation of seats at Wahlrecht.de

[Prot_III-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 1st session of the 13th electoral period on June 23, 1994, p. 20

[Prot3Si_IV-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 3rd session of the 13th electoral period on July 13, 1994, p. IV, downloadable from www.landtag-niedersachsen.de/parlamentsdokumente/steno/13_wp/endber003.pdf

[4] Lower Saxony Landtag, 13th electoral period, Landtag printed matter 13/2944, Urgent question by the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group "Introduction of the 65-hour week as an 'instrument of a modern economic policy'"

[5] Lower Saxony State Parliament, Stenographic Report, 5th session of the 13th electoral period on September 14, 1994, p. IV

[StMJ_Liste-6] State Secretaries of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice on the Ministry's website

[Prot4Si_IV-7] Lower Saxony State Parliament, stenographic report, 4th session of the 13th electoral period on July 14, 1994, p. IV