List of the incumbent German state environment ministers

As state environmental ministers of the German are commonly responsible for Environment Minister states referred to, regardless of the prevailing official departmental name. The environment ministers of the federal states work together in the conference of environment ministers , in which the responsible federal environment minister also takes part.

Of the 16 state environment ministers, nine are currently men and seven women. Eleven ministers are members of the Greens, three of the SPD, one of the CDU and one of the Free Voters . In some countries the minister is also responsible for energy and agriculture .

The currently longest term of office is held by the Environment Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Till Backhaus (since 2006, SPD).

state	Surname	Taking office	government	Political party		Department cut	image
Baden-Württemberg	Franz Untersteller	May 12, 2011 May 12, 2016	Kretschmann I Kretschmann II		Green	Environment, climate and energy industry
Bavaria	Thorsten Glauber	November 12, 2018	Söder II		Free voters	Environment and consumer protection
Berlin	Regine Günther	December 8, 2016	Müller II		Green	Environment, traffic and climate protection
Brandenburg	Axel Vogel	20th November 2019	Woidke III		Green	Agriculture, the environment and climate protection
Bremen	Maike Schaefer	15th August 2019	Bovenschulte		Green	Climate protection, the environment, mobility, urban development and housing construction
Hamburg	Jens Kerstan	April 15, 2015 March 28, 2018 June 10, 2020	Scholz II Tschentscher I Tschentscher II		Green	Authority for the Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture
Hesse	Priska Hinz	January 18, 2014 January 18, 2019	Bouffier II Bouffier III		Green	Environment, climate protection, agriculture and consumer protection
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Till Backhaus	November 7, 2006 October 6, 2008 October 25, 2011 November 1, 2016 July 4, 2017	Ringstorff III Sellering I Sellering II Sellering III Schwesig		SPD	Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection
Lower Saxony	Olaf Lies	22nd November 2017	Because II		SPD	Environment, energy and climate protection
North Rhine-Westphalia	Ursula Heinen-Esser	29 May 2018	Lash		CDU	Environment, agriculture, nature and consumer protection
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ulrike Höfken	May 18, 2011 January 16, 2013 May 18, 2016	Beck V Dreyer I Dreyer II		Green	Environment, agriculture, food, viticulture and forestry
Saarland	Reinhold Jost	January 15, 2014 May 17, 2017 March 1, 2018	Kramp-Karrenbauer II Kramp-Karrenbauer III Hans		SPD	Environment and consumer protection
Saxony	Wolfram Günther	20th December 2019	Kretschmer II		Green	Energy, climate protection, the environment and agriculture
Saxony-Anhalt	Claudia Dalbert	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II		Green	Environment, Agriculture and Energy
Schleswig-Holstein	Jan Philipp Albrecht	1st September 2018	Günther		Green	Energy transition, agriculture, the environment, nature and digitization
Thuringia	Anja Siegesmund	December 5, 2014 March 4, 2020	Ramelow I Ramelow II		Green	Environment, energy and nature conservation

See also

• Environment Ministers Conference

Explanations

1. ↑ Homepage of the Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas SH  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 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 ”.