Lower Saxony state government

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The Lower Saxony state government is the government of the state of Lower Saxony . The state government consists of the prime minister and the ministers . The current state government has been in office since November 22, 2017 and is a coalition government based on an agreement between the SPD and CDU . The Prime Minister is Stephan Weil , a lawyer from Hanover . Its official seat is in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery in Hanover, Planckstrasse 2.

According to Article 29 of the Lower Saxony Constitution , the Prime Minister is elected by the Lower Saxony State Parliament in a secret ballot. This appoints the ministers. The state government requires confirmation from the state parliament in order to take office. According to Article 30, however, this requirement does not apply if it is not met within 21 days of the meeting of the state parliament or the resignation of the government and the state parliament does not dissolve afterwards, but re-elects a prime minister, as happened in 1976 when Ernst Albrecht was elected. The ministers may neither exercise a profession nor belong to the Bundestag , the European Parliament or the people's representatives of other countries . However, they may belong to the Lower Saxony state parliament. The legal relationships of the members of the state government are regulated in the Lower Saxony Ministerial Law.

Bernd Althusmann Stefan Wenzel Jörg Bode (Politiker) Philipp Rösler Walter Hirche Renate Jürgens-Pieper Heidrun Merk Gerhard Glogowski Josef Stock Wilfried Hasselmann Rötger Groß Wilfried Hasselmann Rötger Groß Kurt Partzsch Richard Langeheine Carlo Graaff Hermann Ahrens August Wegmann Friedrich von Kessel Richard Borowski Theodor Tantzen Stephan Weil David McAllister Christian Wulff Sigmar Gabriel Gerhard Glogowski Gerhard Schröder Ernst Albrecht Alfred Kubel Georg Diederichs Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf Heinrich Hellwege Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf

tasks

The tasks of the state government are regulated by the Lower Saxony constitution in the third section (Articles 28 to 39). The state government is the executive of the state of Lower Saxony, it exercises the executive power (Article 28 Lower Saxony constitution). The Prime Minister has the authority to issue guidelines (Article 37 Constitution of Lower Saxony, "determines the guidelines of politics"), the ministers run within these guidelines "their business independently and on its own responsibility" (Article 37). The individual ministries and the state authorities in their area of ​​responsibility report to the ministers . The Cabinet shall submit to the parliament draft laws before and acts through the Bundesrat in the legislation of the covenant with.

The work of the state government, the state chancellery and the ministries is regulated by the joint rules of procedure of the state government and the ministries in Lower Saxony . These rules of procedure determine tasks, cooperation, participation and decision-making procedures. It contains a catalog of the matters to be decided by the state government. It also regulates the representation of ministers.

Ministries and State Chancellery

particularities

The Lower Saxony State Center for Civic Education was dissolved on December 31, 2004 by a cabinet decision of the Lower Saxony State Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Christian Wulff . This led to considerable protests, including by the Federal Agency for Civic Education . The tasks of the Lower Saxony state center for political education were taken over by the Federal Working Group on Political Education Online . Lower Saxony was the only German federal state without a state center for political education until the state center was re-established on January 25, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nds-voris.de Third Section of the Lower Saxony Constitution, published in the Lower Saxony regulations Information System, accessed October 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ nds-voris.de published in the Lower Saxony Regulations Information System , accessed on October 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ nds-voris.de published in the Lower Saxony Regulations Information System , accessed on October 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ nds-voris.de published in the Lower Saxony Regulations Information System , accessed on October 24, 2013.
  5. ^ Federal Center for Civic Education (ed.): Closure of the State Center for Civic Education in Lower Saxony . July 23, 2004 ( HTML [accessed November 3, 2010]).
  6. ↑ German Association for Political Education (Ed.): Democracy needs political education Political education work needs strong partners - needs the state centers for political education . ( dvpb.de ( Memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on July 14, 2011]). Democracy needs political education Political education work needs strong partners - needs the state headquarters for political education ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dvpb.de
  7. ↑ Democracy begins with you - Lower Saxony has a new state center for political education. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .