Lower Saxony Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

Lower Saxony Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
State level	country
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1946
Headquarters	Hanover , Lower Saxony
Authority management	Minister Barbara Otte-Kinast
Web presence	http://www.ml.niedersachsen.de/startseite/

Entrance to the Ministry on Calenberger Strasse

View from the Leibnizufer

Minister Barbara Otte-Kinast, 2018

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection is one of nine departments of the country Lower Saxony . It is based on Calenberger Strasse in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . The ministry has been headed by Barbara Otte-Kinast ( CDU ) since 2017 . Ludwig Theuvsen has been State Secretary since February 2020 after Rainer Beckedorf was put into temporary retirement .

tasks

In addition to food, agriculture and consumer protection , the ministry is also responsible for regional planning and spatial planning , forestry and hunting and animal welfare . For example, there is the Lower Saxony regional spatial planning program .

organization

In addition to the ministerial office with the press office, the ministry consists of four departments:

Department 1: Food, Agriculture, Sustainability
Department 2: Consumer Protection, Animal Health, Animal Welfare
Department 3: Spatial Planning, Land Development, Promotion
Department 4: Administration, Law, Forests

Previous ministers

The previous Agriculture Ministers of Lower Saxony were:

	Political party	Term of office
August block	DP	1946-1948
Günther Gereke	CDU	1948-1950
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf	SPD	1950-1951
Friedrich von Kessel	GB / BHE	1951-1957
Kurt Rissling	CDU	1957-1959
Alfred Kubel	SPD	1959-1965
Wilfried Hasselmann	CDU	1965-1970
Klaus-Peter Bruns	SPD	1970-1976
Gerhard Glup	CDU	1976-1986
Burkhard Ritz	CDU	1986-1990
Karl-Heinz Funke	SPD	1990-1998
Uwe Bartels	SPD	1998-2003
Hans-Heinrich Ehlen	CDU	2003-2010
Astrid Grotelüschen	CDU	2010-2011
Gert Lindemann	CDU	2011-2013
Christian Meyer	Green	2013-2017
Barbara Otte-Kinast	CDU	since 2017

History and description

In the post-war period , in the early 1950s , the main building for what was then the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry was built in 1953, parallel to Leibnizufer , according to plans by the State Building Department . Here started the construction initially to Frankiphälen .

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Lower Saxony portal of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery: The Lower Saxony State Government. Retrieved March 18, 2012 .

↑ Contact. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .

↑ Ministry website , accessed May 4, 2020

↑ tasks. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .

↑ Organization plan . (PDF; 87 kB) Retrieved October 18, 2019 .

↑ Lower Saxony Minister of Agriculture. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .

↑ Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 106

↑ . O V. : Frankiphal Baugesellschaft mbH , in Georg bark, Wilhelm Hatopp (Ed.): New Building in Hanover ... ., Vol 1 ... [in the business section without side number]

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[1] Lower Saxony portal of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery: The Lower Saxony State Government. Retrieved March 18, 2012 .

[2] Contact. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .

[3] Ministry website , accessed May 4, 2020

[4] tasks. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .

[5] Organization plan . (PDF; 87 kB) Retrieved October 18, 2019 .

[6] Lower Saxony Minister of Agriculture. Retrieved December 25, 2011 .