List of incumbent German state labor ministers

State Labor Minister lead in the German countries that for the labor market policy competent state ministry . Previously existed more often separate the highest regional authorities for the division is "work" this department today in every country part of mixed authorities with other responsibilities, including "social" and "economic".

Within the framework of cooperative federalism , the labor ministers of the federal states work together in the labor and social ministers' conference ( ASMK for short ), at whose meetings the federal minister responsible for labor and social affairs regularly takes part. Through their membership in the Federal Council - in particular in its committee for labor, integration and social policy - the labor ministers participate in federal legislation .

Acting state labor ministers of the German states

Of the current 16 state labor ministers, nine are women and seven are men. Six office holders belong to the SPD , five to the Union parties ( CDU / CSU ), three to the Left and one each to the FDP and Alliance 90 / The Greens .

Anke Rehlinger (SPD, since January 2014 in Saarland ) has the longest term of office of the current state labor ministers .

country	Supreme state authority	Incumbent	Taking office	Government / s 1	Political party		image
Baden-Württemberg	Ministry of Economy, Labor and Housing	Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut	May 12, 2016	Kretschmann II		CDU
Bavaria	Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labor and Social Affairs	Carolina Trautner	February 6, 2020	Söder II		CSU
Berlin	Senate Department for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs	Elke Breitenbach	December 8, 2016	Müller II		The left
Brandenburg	Ministry of Economy, Labor and Energy	Jörg Steinbach	20th November 2019	Woidke III		SPD
Bremen	The Senator for Economy, Labor and Europe	Kristina Vogt	15th August 2019	Bovenschulte		The left
Hamburg	Authority for Labor, Health, Social Affairs, Family and Integration	Melanie Leonhard	October 1, 2015	Scholz II Tschentscher I Tschentscher II		SPD
Hesse	Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration	Kai Klose	18th January 2019	Bouffier III		Alliance 90 / The Greens
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Ministry of Economy, Labor and Health	Harry Glawe	November 1, 2016	Sellering III Schwesig		CDU
Lower Saxony	Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor, Transport and Digitization	Bernd Althusmann	22nd November 2017	Because II		CDU
North Rhine-Westphalia	Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs	Karl-Josef Laumann	June 30, 2017	Lash		CDU
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography	Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	November 12, 2014	Dreyer I Dreyer II		SPD
Saarland	Ministry of Economy, Labor, Energy and Transport	Anke Rehlinger	15th January 2014	Kramp ‑ Karrenbauer II Kramp ‑ Karrenbauer III Hans		SPD
Saxony	Saxon State Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport	Martin Dulig	November 13, 2014	Tillich III Kretschmer I Kretschmer II		SPD
Saxony-Anhalt	Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Integration	Petra Grimm-Benne	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II		SPD
Schleswig-Holstein	Ministry of Economy, Transport, Labor, Technology and Tourism	Bernd Klaus Buchholz	June 28, 2017	Günther		FDP
Thuringia	Thuringian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family	Heike Werner	4th March 2020	Ramelow II		The left

¹In the states of Berlin , Bremen and Hamburg the government is called the " Senate ", in Bavaria and Saxony "State Government" and in the other states " State Government ".