Cabinet Vogel II (Thuringia)

Cabinet Vogel II
3. Thuringian state government
Prime Minister	Bernhard Vogel
choice	1994
Legislative period	2
education	November 30, 1994
The End	October 1, 1999
Duration	4 years and 305 days
predecessor	Cabinet Vogel I
successor	Cabinet Vogel III
composition
Party (s)	CDU, SPD
minister	9
representation
Parliament	71/88

The Vogel II cabinet formed the Thuringian state government from 1994 to 1999 . After the 2nd state parliament election on October 16, 1994, the FDP , the previous coalition partner of the CDU state chairman and Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel , was no longer represented in the Thuringian state parliament. Since the CDU had to accept a slight loss of votes in the election (minus 2.8 percentage points ) and could not govern alone, it entered into a “ grand coalition ” with the strengthened SPD (plus 6.8 percentage points). Together, the governing parties held 71 of the 88 mandates in the state parliament ; 17 seats were held by the only opposition party, the PDS .

Bernhard Vogel was re-elected Prime Minister of Thuringia on November 30, 1994 and presented his government to the grand coalition on the same day . She held office unchanged until the 3rd Thuringian Parliament met on October 1, 1999.

Cabinet Vogel II - November 30, 1994 to October 1, 1999

Office	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Bernhard Vogel		CDU
Deputy Prime Minister	Gerd Schuchardt		SPD
Minister for Federal Affairs in the State Chancellery	Christine Lieberknecht		CDU
Interior minister	Richard Dewes		SPD
Minister of Education	Dieter Althaus		CDU
Minister for Justice and European Affairs	Otto Kretschmer		SPD
Finance minister	Andreas Trautvetter		CDU
Minister for Economy and Infrastructure	Franz Schuster		CDU
Minister for Social Affairs and Health	Irene Ellenberger		SPD
Minister for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and the Environment	Volker Sklenar		CDU
Minister for Science, Research and Culture	Gerd Schuchardt		SPD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Election of the Prime Minister; Swearing in of the Prime Minister; Announcement of the ministers appointed by the Prime Minister; Swearing in of the ministers. (PDF; 55 kB) In: Plenary minutes 2/2. Thuringian State Parliament, November 30, 1994, pp. 19-24 , accessed on April 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Responsibility of the individual ministries according to Article 76, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia: Resolution of the Thuringian State Government of March 24, 1995. (PDF; 104 kB) In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Free State of Thuringia. April 20, 1995, pp. 166-180 , accessed April 16, 2017 .