Cabinet page I.

Cabinet page
2. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Prime Minister	Berndt page
choice	1990
Legislative period	1.
education	March 19, 1992
The End	December 8, 1994
Duration	2 years and 264 days
predecessor	Gomolka Cabinet
successor	Cabinet page II
composition
Party (s)	CDU and FDP
representation
Parliament	33/66
Opposition leader	Harald Ringstorff ( SPD )

The cabinet page I was the state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern after Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka had resigned from his post. His successor was Berndt Seite . The cabinet was in office from March 19, 1992 to December 8, 1994.

Alfred Gomolka resigns as Prime Minister

After the state elections in 1990 , the first free and democratic election of the state parliament after the fall of the Berlin Wall , a coalition of CDU and FDP was formed under Alfred Gomolka. The government was marked by fierce controversy within the CDU. These were sparked primarily by the privatization of the shipbuilding industry . CDU state chief and Federal Transport Minister Günther Krause spoke out against the partial privatization planned by Gomolka and the liberal Minister of Economics Conrad-Michael Lehment . There were also personal tensions within the cabinet and differences between the government and the CDU parliamentary group. Faced with these conflicts, Gomolka resigned after only 18 months in office.

The cabinet under Berndt's side

Gomolka's successor was Berndt . Page had come across the CDU through the New Forum , since 1990 district administrator in the Röbel / Müritz district and since 1991 general secretary of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . First of all, Justice Minister Ulrich Born and Georg Diederich as the new Prime Minister were also in discussion. Born spoke against the fact that he had sent an undesirable signal as a "Westimport". Diederich, in turn, had been involved in the fall of Gomolka. Since the coalition only had a single majority in parliament and was therefore dependent on Gomolka's, the external candidate appeared to be the less problematic choice.

While the first state government, with the exception of Justice Minister Ulrich Born, consisted exclusively of East Germans, after taking office, Seite appointed several experienced West German politicians. Born was replaced by Herbert Helmrich , the previous Berlin State Secretary Steffie Schnoor replaced Oswald Wutzke as Minister of Education. In addition, in February 1993 the West German state politician Rudi Geil joined the cabinet on behalf of Lothar Kupfer , who had only been appointed interior minister in place of Georg Diederich , who had resigned . Copper was accused of failure in connection with the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and their processing.

During the term of office of Cabinet I, Günther Krause , who stumbled upon one of his numerous affairs, was replaced by Angela Merkel as state party leader of the CDU in June 1993. With the exception of the parliamentary group leader Eckhardt Rehberg , the entire first leadership of the CDU after the reunification was in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been exchanged.

The FDP remained an inconspicuous coalition partner of the CDU. With the replacement of Rainer Ortleb as Federal Research Minister , your only influential federal politician lost his office. In the following state elections in 1994 it remained well below the five percent hurdle , so that the CDU lost its coalition partner and formed a grand coalition with the SPD ( cabinet page II ).

List of Cabinet Members

minister	Surname	Political party		State Secretaries
Prime Minister	Berndt page		CDU	Gabriele Wurzel (Head of the State Chancellery, CDU) Wolfgang Schulz (Ombudsman with the rank of Parliamentary State Secretary, SPD)
Deputy Prime Minister	Klaus Gollert		FDP
Interior	Georg Diederich managing until March 30, 1992 Lothar Kupfer March 31, 1992 to February 11, 1993 Herbert Helmrich managing from February 11 to 18, 1993 Rudi Geil since February 19, 1993		CDU	Klaus Baltzer , CDU
Justice , federal and European affairs	Herbert Helmrich		CDU	Klaus Letzgus , CSU
Finances	Bärbel Kleedehn		CDU	Wilhelm Burke
economy	Conrad-Michael Lehment		FDP	Wolfgang Pfletschinger , FDP
Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	Martin Brick		CDU	Brar Roeloffs
nature and environment	Petra Uhlmann until March 30, 1993 Martin Brick managing director March 31 to April 19, 1993 Frieder Jelen since April 20, 1993		CDU	Peter-Uwe Conrad , CDU (until 1993) Karlheinz Anding (from 1993)
Cult	Oswald Wutzke managing director until March 30, 1992 Steffie Schnoor since March 31, 1992		CDU	Thomas de Maizière , CDU
Work, health and social order	Klaus Gollert		FDP	Neithart Neitzel , FDP

See also

• List of members of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament (1st electoral period)

literature

• Karsten Grabow : The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Parties and party systems in the German states. Edited by Oskar Niedermayer, Uwe Jun and Melanie Haas, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-90912-7 , pp. 265–290.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 268.
2. ↑ Hans Jörg Hennecke : The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , in: Parties and Politics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , published by Nikolaus Werz and Hans Jörg Hennecke, Munich 2000, p. 32.
3. ↑ Hans Jörg Hennecke: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , in: Parties and Politics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , edited by Nikolaus Werz and Hans Jörg Hennecke, Munich 2000, p. 37.