List of incumbent German state social ministers

Higher Social Minister lead the country's Ministry of Social Services in question.

At the moment 16 people hold the office of Minister of Social Affairs, 12 of them are women. Six incumbents belong to the SPD, four to the Greens, three to the Union parties , two to the Left and one to the FDP.

Anja Stahmann (Greens, Bremen, since 2011) has the longest term of office of the current state social minister .

state	Surname	Taking office	government	Political party		image
Baden-Württemberg	Manfred Lucha	May 12, 2016	Kretschmann II		Green
Bavaria	Carolina Trautner	February 6, 2020	Söder II		CSU
Berlin	Elke Breitenbach	December 8, 2016	Müller II		The left
Brandenburg	Ursula Nonnemacher	20th November 2019	Woidke III		Green
Bremen	Anja Stahmann	June 30, 2011 July 15, 2015 August 15, 2019	Böhrnsen III Sieling Bovenschulte		Green
Hamburg	Melanie Leonhard	October 1, 2015 March 28, 2018 June 10, 2020	Scholz II Tschentscher I Tschentscher II		SPD
Hesse	Kai Klose	18th January 2019	Bouffier III		Green
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Stefanie Drese	November 1st, 2016 July 4th, 2017	Sellering III Schwesig		SPD
Lower Saxony	Carola Reimann	22nd November 2017	Because II		SPD
North Rhine-Westphalia	Karl-Josef Laumann	June 30, 2017	Lash		CDU
Rhineland-Palatinate	Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler	November 12, 2014 May 18, 2016	Dreyer I Dreyer II		SPD
Saarland	Monika Bachmann	November 12, 2014 May 17, 2017 March 1, 2018	Kramp-Karrenbauer II Kramp-Karrenbauer III Hans		CDU
Saxony	Petra Köpping	20th December 2019	Kretschmer II		SPD
Saxony-Anhalt	Petra Grimm-Benne	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II		SPD
Schleswig-Holstein	Heiner Garg	June 28, 2017	Günther		FDP
Thuringia	Heike Werner	December 5, 2014 March 4, 2020	Ramelow I Ramelow II		The left

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Explanations

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