The Saxon state government is led by a prime minister who is secretly elected by the Saxon state parliament . The seat of the government is the Saxon State Chancellery in Dresden's government district in the Inner Neustadt .
The CDU has been by far the strongest party in Saxony since German reunification and has been the prime minister ever since. Kurt Biedenkopf ruled from 1990 to April 2002 in a single CDU government . He was followed by Georg Milbradt , who after the 2004 election entered into a black-red coalition with the SPD . After Milbradt's resignation in May 2008, Stanislaw Tillich took over the office of Prime Minister and continued the CDU-SPD coalition until the 2009 state elections . In the following five years, Tillich ruled in a black-yellow coalition together with the FDP , until it failed in the subsequent state elections in the summer of 2014 because of the five percent hurdle and Tillich re-entered a CDU-SPD coalition. In December 2017, Tillich resigned from office due to the low election results of the CDU for the 2017 federal election and Michael Kretschmer was elected as the new Prime Minister. In the state election in 2019 both coalition parties significant losses suffered. After lengthy coalition negotiations, Alliance 90 / The Greens joined the government to form a so-called Kenya coalition . More than 3½ months after the state elections, Michael Kretschmer was re-elected Prime Minister.
Acting state government
Prime Minister : Michael Kretschmer (CDU)
Saxon State Chancellery , Minister of State and Head of the State Chancellery: Oliver Schenk (CDU)
Energy, climate protection, environment and agriculture , Minister of State and first deputy to the Prime Minister: Wolfram Günther (Greens)
Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport , Minister of State and second deputy to the Prime Minister: Martin Dulig (SPD)
Saxon State Ministry of Finance , Minister of State: Hartmut Vorjohann (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry of the Interior , Minister of State: Roland Wöller (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry of Justice , State Minister: Katja Meier (Greens)
Saxon State Ministry for Culture , State Minister: Christian Piwarz (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism
Social and societal cohesion , Minister of State: Petra Köpping (SPD)
Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development , State Minister: Thomas Schmidt (CDU)
Former Governments
Weimar Republic 1918–1933
Prime Minister
involved parties
Period
cabinet
Richard Lipinski (USPD)
USPD, SPD
1918-1919
Lipinski's cabinet
Georg Gradnauer (SPD)
SPD
1919
Gradnauer I cabinet
SPD, DDP
1919-1920
Gradnauer II cabinet
Wilhelm Buck (SPD)
SPD, DDP
1920
Cabinet Buck I
SPD, USPD, DDP
1920-1922
Cabinet Buck II
SPD
1922-1923
Cabinet Buck III
Erich Zeigner (SPD)
SPD, KPD
1923
Cabinet Zeigner
Alfred Fellisch (SPD)
SPD
1923-1924
Cabinet Fellisch
Max Heldt (SPD / ASPS)
SPD / ASPS, DDP, DVP
1924-1927
Cabinet Heldt I
ASPS, DDP, DVP, WP
1927
Cabinet Heldt II
ASPS, DDP, DVP, DNVP, WP, People's Law
1927-1929
Cabinet Heldt III
Wilhelm Bünger (DVP)
DVP, DNVP, WP, ASPS, non-party
1929-1930
Cabinet Bünger
Walther Schieck (DVP)
DVP, DDP, non-party
1930-1933
Schieck's cabinet
Period of National Socialism 1933–1945
Soviet occupation zone and German Democratic Republic 1945–1952
Prime Minister
involved parties
Period
cabinet
Rudolf Friedrichs (SPD / SED)
SPD, KPD, CDU, LDP, non-party; from 17 Sep 1945 SED, CDU, LDP
1945-1946
Cabinet of Frederick I
SED, CDU, LDP
1946-1947
Cabinet of Frederick II
Max Seydewitz (SED)
SED, CDU, LDP, DBD
1947-1950
Cabinet Seydewitz I
SED, CDU, LDP, DBD, NDPD, FDGB
1950-1952
Cabinet Seydewitz II
Federal Republic of Germany since 1990
Former government member since 1990
Saxon State Ministry of Finance
1990-2001 Georg Milbradt (CDU)
2001–2002 Thomas de Maizière (CDU)
2002-2007 Horst Metz (CDU)
2007-2008 Stanislaw Tillich (CDU)
2008-2017 Georg Unland (CDU)
2017–2019 Matthias Haß (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry of the Interior
Saxon State Ministry of Justice
Saxon State Ministry for Culture
Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs (since 2009: Social Affairs and Consumer Protection )
Saxon State Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forests (until 1998)
Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Regional Development (until 1998)
1990–1991 Karl Weise (CDU)
1991–1998 Arnold Vaatz (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture (from 1998)
1998–1999 Rolf Jähnichen (CDU)
1999-2004 Steffen Flath (CDU)
2004-2007 Stanislaw Tillich (CDU)
2007-2008 Roland Wöller (CDU)
2008-2014 Frank Kupfer (CDU)
Saxon State Ministry for Economics and Labor
Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art
Web links
State governments of German states
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