Thuringian state government

The Thuringian state government is the government of the Free State of Thuringia . It consists of the Thuringian Prime Minister and the ministers . The Prime Minister is elected by the Thuringian Parliament . He appoints and dismisses the ministers and appoints a minister to be his deputy. The Thuringian State Chancellery is the highest state authority alongside the ministries in the state capital Erfurt to manage the official business of the Prime Minister and the ongoing business of the state government .

State governments since 1990

After the re-establishment of the state (from 1993: the Free State) of Thuringia after German reunification in 1990, the CDU was the strongest party in Thuringia in every state election until 2019 and also provided the prime minister until 2014. Josef Duchač ruled from 1990 to 1992 in a coalition with the FDP . He was followed by Bernhard Vogel , who also led the CDU as the top candidate in the 1994 and 1999 state elections , during the first legislative period of the state parliament . After the departure of the FDP from the state parliament, Vogel ruled in a grand coalition with the SPD from 1994 and, after gaining an absolute majority , in a sole government of the CDU from 1999 .

In June 2003, Vogel handed over the office of prime minister to Dieter Althaus , who succeeded in bringing the CDU sole government through the 2004 state election despite losing votes . After the CDU in state elections in 2009 suffered heavy losses with Althaus as the leading candidate, took Christine Lieberknecht the formation of the state government and was prime minister of a red-black coalition , which after the state election in 2014 on December 5, 2014 by a red-green red coalition under Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke) was replaced. The term of office of the state government ended with the meeting of the state parliament for the 7th electoral term on November 26, 2019 , after which it was in office until February 5, 2020. On February 5, 2020, Thomas Kemmerich ( FDP ) was surprisingly elected as the new Prime Minister. Kemmerich did not appoint any ministers, resigned on February 8, 2020 and was in office until Ramelow's re-election on March 4, 2020.

Overview of the Thuringian state governments since 1990

No.	government	Term of office	Prime Minister	Parties involved
1	Duchač cabinet	1990-1992	Josef Duchač ( CDU )	CDU, FDP
2	Cabinet Vogel I	1992-1994	Bernhard Vogel (CDU)
3	Cabinet Vogel II	1994-1999		CDU, SPD
4th	Cabinet Vogel III	1999-2003		CDU
5	Cabinet Althaus I	2003-2004	Dieter Althaus (CDU)
6th	Cabinet Althaus II	2004-2009
7th	Cabinet Lieberknecht	2009-2014	Christine Lieberknecht (CDU)	CDU, SPD
8th	Cabinet Ramelow I	2014-2020	Bodo Ramelow ( The Left )	Die Linke, SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
9	Prime Minister a. D. Kemmerich	2020	Thomas Kemmerich (FDP)	FDP
10	Cabinet Ramelow II	since 2020	Bodo Ramelow (The Left)	Die Linke, SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

Division of business by the state government

See also : Cabinet Ramelow II

The state government , in office until February 5, 2020 , decided on the delimitation of the ten business areas by resolution of March 31, 2015 . With the election of Thomas Kemmerich as Prime Minister, the term of office of all ministers ended, until March 4, 2020, the ministries were managed by state secretaries. In the Ramelow II cabinet , the departments of the ministries will remain unchanged.

1. Thuringian Prime Minister
2. Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science and Digital Society
3. Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation
4. Thuringian Ministry for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection
5. Thuringian State Chancellery with the Minister for Culture, Federal and European Affairs
6. Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture
7. Thuringian Ministry for Education, Youth and Sport
8. Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
9. Thuringian Ministry of Finance
10. Thuringian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family

Web links

• The Thuringian state government at the Thuringian State Chancellery
• Members of the Federal Council of the Thuringian State Government at the Federal Council
• Third section "The State Government" of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia of October 25, 1993, last amended by the law of October 11, 2004 (GVBl. P. 745)
• Thuringian law on the legal relationships of the members of the state government (Thuringian Ministerial Law - ThürMinG) in the version of the announcement of April 14, 1998 (GVBl. 1998, p. 104), last amended by the law of June 29, 2018 (GVBl. P. 303 )
• Responsibility of the individual ministries according to Article 76, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia - resolution of the Thuringian state government of March 31, 2015, last changed by resolution of December 11, 2018 (GVBl. P. 824)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow asks ministers to continue their official business. In: Media information 197/2019. Thuringian State Chancellery, November 26, 2019, accessed on December 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ mdr.de: Kemmerich is the new Prime Minister in Thuringia - Ramelow voted out | MDR.DE. Retrieved February 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Responsibility of the individual ministries according to Article 76, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia. (PDF; 1.6 MB) Resolution of the Thuringian state government of March 31, 2015. In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Free State of Thuringia, No. 3/2015. Thuringian Parliament, May 4, 2015, pp. 10-29 , accessed on December 10, 2019 . 
4. ↑ A country without a government: What's next in Thuringia? Retrieved on February 13, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Minutes of the Thuringian Parliament, 8th session, 7th electoral term (PDF) Thuringian Parliament, March 4, 2020, pp. 14–15 , accessed on May 12, 2020 .