List of incumbent German state consumer protection ministers

The ministers responsible for consumer protection in the German federal states are colloquially referred to as state consumer protection ministers , regardless of the official name of the department. Since the BSE scandal in 2001 , the consumer protection ministers of the federal states have been working together in their own conference of specialist ministers , the Conference of Consumer Protection Ministers (VSMK), in which the responsible federal minister also takes part.

Since consumer protection tasks are divided between several ministries in some countries, the VSMK currently consists of 20 country ministers as well as Federal Minister Christine Lambrecht (Justice and Consumer Protection) and Julia Klöckner (Food and Agriculture).

The chairmanship changes annually in alphabetical order of the federal states, in 2020 Saxony-Anhalt will hold the chairmanship.

Acting consumer protection ministers of the German federal states

Fourteen of the state ministers are women and six are men. Eight are members of the Greens, five of the CDU, four of the SPD as well as two of the Left and one of the Free Voters.

Till Backhaus from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania currently has the longest term of office (since November 2006).

state	Surname	Taking office	government	Political party
Baden-Württemberg	Peter Hauk	May 12, 2016	Kretschmann II	CDU
Bavaria	Thorsten Glauber	November 12, 2018	Söder II	Free voters
Berlin	Dirk Behrendt	December 8, 2016	Müller II	Green
Brandenburg	Ursula Nonnemacher	20th November 2019	Woidke III	Green
Bremen	Claudia Bernhard	15th August 2019	Bovenschulte	left
Hamburg	Anna Gallina	June 10, 2020	Tschentscher II	Green
Hesse	Priska Hinz	January 18, 2014 January 18, 2019	Bouffier II Bouffier III	Green
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Till Backhaus	November 7, 2006 October 6, 2008 October 25, 2011 November 1, 2016 July 4, 2017	Ringstorff III Sellering I Sellering II Sellering III Schwesig	SPD
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Katy Hoffmeister	November 1st, 2016 July 4th, 2017	Sellering III Schwesig	CDU
Lower Saxony	Barbara Otte-Kinast	22nd November 2017	Because II	CDU
North Rhine-Westphalia	Ursula Heinen-Esser	29 May 2018	Lash	CDU
Rhineland-Palatinate	Anne Spiegel	May 18, 2016	Dreyer II	Green
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ulrike Höfken	May 18, 2016	Dreyer II	Green
Saarland	Reinhold Jost	January 15, 2014 May 17, 2017 March 1, 2018	Kramp-Karrenbauer II Kramp-Karrenbauer III Hans	SPD
Saxony	Petra Köpping	20th December 2019	Kretschmer II	SPD
Saxony-Anhalt	Petra Grimm-Benne	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II	SPD
Saxony-Anhalt	Claudia Dalbert	April 25, 2016	Haseloff II	Green
Schleswig-Holstein	Jan Philipp Albrecht	1st September 2018	Günther	Green
Schleswig-Holstein	Claus Christian Claussen	4th May 2020	Günther	CDU
Thuringia	Heike Werner	December 5, 2014 March 4, 2020	Ramelow I Ramelow II	left

State Working Group for Consumer Protection (LAV)

Founded in 2002 as the national working group for health consumer protection (LAGV) by the Agriculture Ministers (AMK) and the Health Ministers Conference, it was renamed in 2007 and works for the VSMK and AMK. Since enforcement is regularly a matter for the federal states, it serves to ensure that the law is applied in a coordinated manner in the areas

Food and feed safety and nutrition,
Animal welfare and health,
economic consumer protection and
related professional law.

To this end, working groups have been formed which, together with representatives of the highest state authorities and with the involvement of experts and practitioners, answer questions of interpretation and develop application aids for the local administrative, i.e. also the police, authorities. The manuals developed by the Working Group on Animal Welfare (LAV-AGT) for the control of animal transports, livestock rearing and slaughtering are of great practical importance, since most German official veterinarians follow these enforcement instructions.

Web link

Official homepage of the VSMK

Explanations

↑ members of VSMK . Conference of Consumer Protection Ministers. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
↑ https://www.konserschutzministerkonferenz.de/documents/vsmk-geschaeftsordnung--stand-1972019_1563966980.pdf
↑ In the federal states of Berlin , Hamburg and Bremen the government is called the “ Senate ”, in Bavaria and Saxony “State Government”, in Rhineland-Palatinate “Council of Ministers” and in the remaining federal states “ State Government ”.
↑ own representation of VMSK
↑ no. 7 of the LAV's rules of procedure
↑ available from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
↑ using the example of the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture and Energy Saxony-Anhalt

[1] rs of VSMK . Conference of Consumer Protection Ministers. Retrieved May 20, 2017.

[2] ttps://www.konserschutzministerkonferenz.de/documents/vsmk-geschaeftsordnung--stand-1972019_1563966980.pdf

[3] In the federal states of Berlin , Hamburg and Bremen the government is called the “ Senate ”, in Bavaria and Saxony “State Government”, in Rhineland-Palatinate “Council of Ministers” and in the remaining federal states “ State Government ”.

[4] wn representation of VMSK

[5] . 7 of the LAV's rules of procedure

[6] vailable from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

[7] using the example of the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture and Energy Saxony-Anhalt