Cabinet Weil I

Cabinet Weil I
28. Lower Saxony state government
Prime Minister	Stephan Weil
choice	2013
Legislative period	17th
education	19th February 2013
The End	22nd November 2017
Duration	4 years and 276 days
predecessor	McAllister Cabinet
successor	Weil II cabinet
composition
Party (s)	SPD and GREEN
minister	9
State Secretaries	12
representation
Parliament	69/137
Opposition leader	Björn Thümler ( CDU )

The Weil I cabinet was sworn in on February 19, 2013 as the new Lower Saxony state government under Prime Minister Stephan Weil ( SPD ). It replaced the black-yellow coalition in office since 2003 (since 2010 under David McAllister ). With the resignation of the Green MP Elke Twesten , the government lost its one-vote majority in early August 2017. On August 7, the parliamentary groups represented in the state parliament agreed on October 15, 2017 as the date for early state elections .

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  The cabinet after the 2013 election in front of the Lower Saxony state parliament , from left: Antje Niewisch-Lennartz , Peter-Jürgen Schneider , Frauke Heiligenstadt , Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić , Christian Meyer , Stephan Weil , Olaf Lies , Cornelia Rundt , Stefan Wenzel and Boris Pistorius

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  Assumption of office in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery ; from left: Christine Hawighorst and David McAllister , Stephan Weil and Jörg Mielke

Weil I cabinet - February 19, 2013 to November 14, 2017 (in office until November
22, 2017)

Office or department	image	Incumbent	Political party		State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister State Chancellery		Stephan Weil		SPD	Jörg Mielke Head of the State Chancellery		SPD
					Michael Rüter Authorized Representative at the Federal Government (until August 22, 2017)		SPD
					Birgit Honé Special State Secretary for Regional Policy . From August 22, 2017 also authorized representatives of the state of Lower Saxony at the federal government		SPD
					Anke Pörksen spokeswoman for the state government		SPD
Deputy Prime Minister		Stefan Wenzel		B'90 / Greens
Heart and sport		Boris Pistorius		SPD	Stephan Manke		SPD
Economy, work and transport		Olaf Lies		SPD	Frank Nägele		SPD
Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection		Christian Meyer		B'90 / Greens	Udo Paschedag (until August 29, 2013) Horst Schörshusen (since September 10, 2013)		B'90 / Greens
Finances		Peter-Jürgen Schneider		SPD	Frank Doods		SPD
Judiciary		Antje Niewisch-Lennartz		B'90 / Greens	Wolfgang Scheibel (until May 31, 2015) Stefanie Otte (since June 1, 2015)
Cult		Frauke Heiligenstadt		SPD	Peter Bräth (until July 31, 2015) Erika Huxhold (since August 1, 2015)
Science and culture		Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić		B'90 / Greens	Andrea Hoops		B'90 / Greens
Environment, energy and climate protection		Stefan Wenzel		B'90 / Greens	Almut Kottwitz		B'90 / Greens
Social, health and equality		Cornelia Rundt		SPD	Jörg Röhmann		SPD

Web links

• The Lower Saxony state government
• Coalition Agreement SPD - B'90 / Greens for the 17th electoral term of the Lower Saxony State Parliament 2013–2018 (PDF; 678 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Change of power in Lower Saxony. Stephan Weil is the new Prime Minister. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 19, 2013.
2. ↑ The state secretaries have also been determined. New cabinet sworn in. ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: Gruene-Niedersachsen.de , February 21, 2013. 
3. ↑ Red-Green loses majority in the Lower Saxony state parliament . In: Zeit Online . 4th August 2017.
4. ↑ Lower Saxony elects a new state parliament in October. In: NDR. August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017 . 
5. ^ NDR: Award affair: Weil dismisses State Secretary Rüter. Retrieved August 22, 2017 . 
6. ^ Cabinet appoints Horst Schörshusen as State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Lower Saxony State Chancellery, accessed on May 4, 2016.
7. ↑ Stefanie Otte, new State Secretary for Justice from today. Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony, accessed on May 4, 2016.
8. ↑ Erika Huxhold new State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture. Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, accessed on May 4, 2016.