Senate Scholz II

Senate Scholz II
28th Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
First Mayor	Olaf Scholz
choice	2015
Legislative period	21st
education	April 15, 2015
The End	March 28, 2018
Duration	2 years and 347 days
predecessor	Senate Scholz I
successor	Senate Tschentscher I
composition
Party (s)	SPD and GREEN
Senators	11
Councilors of State	15th
representation
Citizenship	73/121
Opposition leader	André Trepoll ( CDU )

The red-green Senate Scholz II has been the state government in Hamburg since Olaf Scholz was re- elected as First Mayor on April 15, 2015 . The general election on February 15, 2015 led to the loss of the absolute majority of the SPD in the Hamburg parliament . After coalition talks with the Hamburg Greens , the negotiated coalition agreement was presented to the public on April 8, 2015. At a state members' meeting on April 12, the Greens approved the coalition agreement and the occupation of the Green Senate posts. On April 14th, the Social Democrats approved the agreement.

On April 15, Scholz was re-elected First Mayor with 75 out of 120 votes. Then the senators were elected.

According to the distribution of offices, which was stipulated in the coalition agreement, the Senate Scholz II has been composed as follows since his election on April 15:

senate

Senate Scholz II - April 15, 2015 to March 28, 2018

Office	image	Surname	Political party		Councilors of State	Political party
President of the Senate and First Mayor of the Senate Chancellery		Olaf Scholz (until March 13, 2018)		SPD	Carsten Brosda (until January 31, 2017) State Councilor in the Senate Chancellery for the areas of media and digitization		SPD
					Wolfgang Schmidt State Councilor in the Senate Chancellery; Authorized representative at the federal government, the European Union and for foreign affairs		SPD
					Christoph Krupp Head of the Senate Chancellery and the Personnel Office		SPD
Second mayor		Katharina Fegebank		B'90 / Greens
Science, Research and Equality Authority					Eva Gümbel State Councilor of the Authority for Science, Research and Equality		Green
Judicial authority		Till Steffen		Green	Katja Günther State Councilor of the Judicial Authority		Green
School and Vocational Training Authority		Ties raven		SPD	Michael Voges (until December 31, 2016) State Councilor of the School and Vocational Training Authority Rainer Schulz (from January 1, 2017) State Councilor of the School and Vocational Training Authority		SPD
Authority for Culture and Media (until March 31, 2017 Culture Authority)		Barbara Kisseler (until her death on October 7, 2016) Carsten Brosda (from February 1, 2017)		Kisseler: independent Brosda: SPD	Carsten Brosda (until January 31, 2017) State Councilor of the Cultural Authority Jana Schiedek (from February 1, 2017) State Councilor of the Cultural Authority		SPD
Authority for Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration		Detlef Scheele (until September 30, 2015) Melanie Leonhard (from October 1, 2015)		SPD	Jan Pörksen State Councilor for Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration		SPD
Authority for Health and Consumer Protection		Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks		SPD	Elke Badde State Councilor for the Authority for Health and Consumer Protection		SPD
Authority for Urban Development and Housing		Dorothee Stapelfeldt		SPD	Matthias Kock State Councilor of the Authority for Urban Development and Housing		independent
Environment and Energy Authority		Jens Kerstan		Green	Michael Pollmann State Councilor for the Environment and Energy Agency		Green
Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation		Frank Horch		independent	Rolf Bösinger State Councilor of the Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation (Area Economy and Innovation) Andreas Rieckhof State Councilor of the Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation (Area Transport)		SPD
Department of Home Affairs and Sport		Michael Neumann (until January 18, 2016) Andy Grote (from January 20, 2016)		SPD	Christoph Holstein State Councilor for the Interior and Sport Department (Sport) Bernd Krösser State Councilor for the Interior and Sport Authority (Interior)		Holstein: SPD Krösser: non-party
Tax authority		Peter Tschentscher		SPD	Jens Lattmann (until November 12, 2017) State Councilor for the tax authority Elke Badde (until November 12, 2017) State councilor for the districts in the tax authority Bettina Lentz (from November 13, 2017) State councilor for the tax authority		SPD

Olaf Scholz resigned from his office on March 13, 2018 to move to Berlin as Federal Minister of Finance.

Web links

• Senators
• Councilors of State

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg's Greens approve coalition agreement . NDR . April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
2. ↑ Red-green coalition agreement for Hamburg presented. Retrieved April 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Scholz re-elected by a large majority . NDR . April 15, 2015. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved on April 15, 2015.
4. ^ Text of the Red-Green coalition agreement for Hamburg 2015-2020. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Carsten Brosda becomes the new Senator for Culture. Retrieved February 24, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Stefan Grund: Senator Barbara Kisseler †: She was the ideal cultural politician. In: welt.de. October 10, 2016, accessed October 11, 2016.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Citizenship confirms Brosda as Senator for Culture. (HTTPS) In: ndr.de. February 1, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Social Senator Leonhard officially in office . NDR . October 1, 2015. Archived from the original on October 22, 2015. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
9. ↑ Citizenship confirms Senator for the Interior Grote . NDR . January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.