List of the incumbent German state health ministers

State Health Minister lead in the German states that each of the health competent state ministry .

The department is represented by its own ministry in almost all countries, except in four countries. There it is located in the Ministry of Social Affairs. In all countries, the minister is also responsible for other departments, often for social affairs or labor market policy.

Within the framework of cooperative federalism , the health ministers of the federal states work together in the health ministers' conference ( GMK for short ), at whose meetings the responsible federal minister regularly takes part.

Acting state health ministers of the German federal states

Of the current 16 state health ministers, eleven are women and five are men. Six incumbents belong to the SPD , four to the Union parties ( CDU / CSU ), three to the Greens , two to the Left and one to the FDP .

Melanie Huml (CSU, in Bavaria since 2013) has the longest term of office of the current state health minister .

state	Ministry / Authority	Surname	Taking office	Government / s 1	Political party		image
Baden-Württemberg	Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration	Manfred Lucha	May 12, 2016	Kretschmann II		Green
Bavaria	Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care	Melanie Huml	October 10th, 2013	Seehofer II Söder I Söder II		CSU
Berlin	Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality	Dilek Kalayci	December 8, 2016	Müller II		SPD
Brandenburg	Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection	Ursula Nonnemacher	20th November 2019	Woidke III		Green
Bremen	Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection	Claudia Bernhard	15th August 2019	Bovenschulte		left
Hamburg	Authority for Labor, Health, Social Affairs, Family and Integration	Melanie Leonhard	June 10, 2020	Tschentscher II		SPD
Hesse	Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration	Kai Klose	18th January 2019	Bouffier III		Green
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Ministry of Economy, Labor and Health of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Harry Glawe	November 1, 2016	Sellering III Schwesig		CDU
Lower Saxony	Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality	Carola Reimann	22nd November 2017	Because II		SPD
North Rhine-Westphalia	Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia	Karl-Josef Laumann	June 30, 2017	Lash		CDU
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate	Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	November 12, 2014	Dreyer I Dreyer II		SPD
Saarland	Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family	Monika Bachmann	November 12, 2014	Kramp ‑ Karrenbauer II Kramp ‑ Karrenbauer III Hans		CDU
Saxony	Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion	Petra Köpping	20th December 2019	Kretschmer II		SPD
Saxony-Anhalt	Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Integration of the State of Saxony-Anhalt	Petra Grimm-Benne	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II		SPD
Schleswig-Holstein	Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Youth, Family and Seniors of the State of Schleswig-Holstein	Heiner Garg	June 28, 2017	Günther		FDP
Thuringia	Thuringian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family	Heike Werner	4th March 2020	Ramelow II		left

¹In the federal states of Berlin , Bremen and Hamburg the government is called the “ Senate ”, in Bavaria and Saxony “State Government”, in Rhineland-Palatinate “Council of Ministers” and in the other federal states “ State Government ”.