List of the incumbent German state ministers for education, science and culture

In Germany , the state responsibility for cultural affairs including responsibility for schools and colleges after is Basic Law (Article 30) principle among the countries settled (so-called. Cultural sovereignty of the countries ). For coordination at the federal level, the states work together in the conference of ministers of education ; there is also the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , which is only responsible for certain sub-areas (e.g. vocational and extracurricular education, transnational research funding).

Within the individual state governments, responsibility for the areas of education , science and culture is often divided between several ministries, the design and designation of which can also change occasionally in the context of changes of government and cabinet reshuffles. The following overview shows the situation in the incumbent state cabinets.

state	School / education	Party took office department cut		Science and research	Party took office department cut		Culture / art	Party took office department cut		cabinet
Baden-Württemberg	Susanne Eisenmann		CDU May 12, 2016 Culture, youth and sport	Theresia Bauer					Green May 12, 2011 Science, Research and Art	Kretschmann II
Bavaria	Michael Piazolo		FW November 12, 2018 Lessons and culture	Bernd Sibler					CSU November 12, 2018 Science and Art	Söder II
Berlin	Sandra Scheeres		SPD December 1, 2011 Education, Youth and Family	Michael Mueller		SPD December 11, 2014 Senate Chancellery (science and research)	Klaus Lederer		Die Linke December 8, 2016 Culture and Europe	Müller II
Brandenburg	Britta Ernst		SPD September 28, 2017 Education, Youth and Sport	Manja Schüle					SPD November 20, 2019 Science, research and culture	Woidke III
Bremen	Claudia Bogedan		SPD July 15, 2015 Children and Education	Claudia Schilling		SPD August 15, 2019 Science and Ports	Andreas Bovenschulte		SPD August 15, 2019 Culture	Bovenschulte
Hamburg	Ties raven		SPD March 23, 2011 School and vocational training	Katharina Fegebank		Green April 15, 2015 Science, Research, Equality and Districts	Carsten Brosda		SPD February 1, 2017 Culture and Media	Tschentscher II
Hesse	Alexander Lorz		CDU January 18, 2014 Kultus	Angela Dorn					Green January 18, 2019 Science and Art	Bouffier III
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Bettina Martin								SPD May 22, 2019 Education, Science and Culture	Schwesig
Lower Saxony	Grant Hendrik Ton		SPD November 22, 2017 Kultus	Björn Thümler					CDU November 22, 2017 Science and Culture	Because II
North Rhine-Westphalia	Yvonne Gebauer		FDP June 30, 2017 School and Education	Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen					Independent June 30, 2017 Culture and Science	Lash
Rhineland-Palatinate	Stefanie Hubig		SPD May 18, 2016 Education	Konrad Wolf					SPD May 18, 2016 Science, further education and culture	Dreyer II
Saarland	Christine Streichert-Clivot (also for culture)		SPD September 18, 2019 Education and Culture	Tobias Hans		CDU March 1, 2018 State Chancellery (science, universities, technology)	Christine Streichert-Clivot (also for education)		SPD September 18, 2019 Education and Culture	Hans
Saxony	Christian Piwarz		CDU December 13, 2017 Kultus	Sebastian Gemkow		CDU December 20, 2019 Science	Barbara Klepsch		CDU December 20, 2019 Culture and Tourism	Kretschmer II
Saxony-Anhalt	Marco Tullner		CDU April 25, 2016 Education	Armin Willingmann		SPD November 16, 2016 Economy, science and digitization	Rainer Robra		CDU April 25, 2016 State Chancellery, Ministry of Culture	Haseloff II
Schleswig-Holstein	Karin Prien								CDU June 28, 2017 Education, Science and Culture	Günther
Thuringia	Helmut Holter		Die Linke March 4th, 2020 Education, youth and sport	Wolfgang Tiefensee		SPD March 4, 2020 Economy, science and digital society	Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff		Die Linke March 4th, 2020 Culture, federal and European affairs	Ramelow II

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