Cabinet page II

Cabinet page II
	3. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Prime Minister	Berndt page
choice	1994
Legislative period	2.
education	December 8, 1994
The End	November 2, 1998
Duration	3 years and 329 days
predecessor	Cabinet page I.
successor	Cabinet Ringstorff I
composition
Party (s)	CDU and SPD
representation
Parliament	53/71
Opposition leader	Caterina Muth ( PDS )

The Cabinet Page II was after the state election in 1994 formed state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The cabinet was in office from December 8, 1994 to November 2, 1998. The grand coalition of CDU and SPD replaced the previously ruling black and yellow government ( cabinet page I ). Minister-President was again Berndt Seite .

requirements

In the first legislative period from 1990 to 1994 a coalition of CDU and FDP ruled. The first Prime Minister, Alfred Gomolka , resigned after only 18 months after fierce controversies within the CDU, which were sparked primarily by the privatization of the shipbuilding industry , as well as personal tensions within the cabinet and differences between the government and the CDU parliamentary group. On March 19, 1992 Berndt Seite took over the office of Prime Minister.

With the state elections in 1994, the spectrum of parties represented in parliament concentrated on the CDU, SPD and PDS. While the CDU lost slightly and the SPD gained 2.5 percent, the PDS added seven percent and came to 22.7 percent. The CDU now had 30, the SPD 23 and the PDS 18 seats.

Government formation

The SPD chairman and top candidate Harald Ringstorff had flirted openly with the first red-red coalition under his leadership, but was slowed down by the SPD's federal headquarters so that the social democrats became junior partners in a grand coalition under Berndt's side. Since the CDU had lost its previous coalition partner, the FDP , there was no other option than an alliance with the SPD.

Already in the coalition negotiations , which were marked by disputes and mistrust, the atmospheric tensions of the future government became apparent. The CDU provided four ministers and the prime minister in the new cabinet, the SPD took over three departments. Culture minister was the non-party Regine Marquardt , who, however, had already belonged to Harald Ringstorff's shadow cabinet and later joined the SPD. Head of the State Chancellery was the previous State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Thomas de Maizière . The previous ministers Herbert Helmrich , Frieder Jelen and Steffie Schnoor lost their departments.

The black and red cabinet under Berndt's page

The CDU-SPD coalition was permanently marked by internal tensions and failures. Large industrial projects such as the construction of a Transrapid line or the establishment of Airbus production in Rostock failed. The unemployment rate was 20 to 30 percent.

The coalition almost broke when Finance Minister Bärbel Kleedehn agreed a concept for the crisis-ridden shipbuilding industry with the federal government without involving Economics Minister Ringstorff. Thereupon Ringstorff sounded out again the possibilities of a coalition with the PDS, but was again slowed down by the federal party headquarters. In this coalition crisis, Ringstorff gave up his ministerial office, was again chairman of the parliamentary group and from then on acted like an opposition politician. Ringstorff's withdrawal from the government triggered an extensive cabinet reshuffle.

List of Cabinet Members

minister	Surname		State Secretaries
Prime Minister	Berndt page	CDU	Thomas de Maizière (Head of the State Chancellery, CDU) Karla Staszak (Parliamentary State Secretary, Women's and Equal Opportunities Commissioner, SPD) Gabriele Wurzel (State Secretary for Federal Affairs and representative of the state at the federal level, CDU)
Deputy Prime Minister	Harald Ringstorff until May 6, 1996 Hinrich Kuessner since May 7, 1996	SPD
Interior	Rudi Geil until May 12, 1997 Armin Jäger since May 13, 1997	CDU	Klaus Letzgus , CSU (until 1996) Gustav-Adolf Stange , CDU (from 1997)
Justice until May 6, 1996 Justice and European affairs since May 7, 1996	Rolf Eggert	SPD	Joachim Babendreyer , SPD
Finances	Bärbel Kleedehn until May 6, 1996	CDU	Ulrich Mann , CDU (until 1996)
Finances	Sigrid Keler since May 7, 1996	SPD	Otto Ebnet , SPD (from 1996)
Economy and European affairs until May 6, 1996 Economy since May 7, 1996	Harald Ringstorff until May 6, 1996 Jürgen Seidel since May 7, 1996	SPD	Otto Ebnet , SPD (until 1996)
		CDU	Armin Jäger (1996 to 1997) Frieder Henf , CDU (from 1997)
Agriculture and nature conservation	Martin Brick	CDU	Hermann Steitz
Construction, Land Development and Environment	Jürgen Seidel until May 6, 1996 Bärbel Kleedehn since May 7, 1996	CDU	Armin Jäger , CDU (until 1996) Ulrich Mann , CDU (from 1996)
Cult	Regine Marquardt	independent	Hans-Christoph Ehmann (until 1997)
Work, health and social affairs	Hinrich Kuessner	SPD	Michael Baumann

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

↑ 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.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer, GWV, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 269.
↑ 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. 43.
↑ Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer, GWV, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 270.

[1] 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.

[Grabow_269-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer, GWV, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 269.

[Hennecke_43-3] 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. 43.

[4] Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer, GWV, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 270.