The fact that there are more men than women in Olaf Scholz’s cabinet, including the Chancellor, has met with criticism. On the ntv.de exclusive list of state secretaries and ministers from the SPD, on the other hand, there are more women and one in three is from the East.
The Social Democrats have completed the list of their parliamentary state secretaries and ministers. As already reported in the morning, Carsten Schneider is to become Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for the new federal states. The previous parliamentary managing director replaces Marco Wanderwitz from the CDU as the Eastern Commissioner. Overall, however, there are only two MPs from the East among the 16 positions awarded. Next to Schneider is the Reem Alabali-Radovan.
The 31-year-old daughter of Iraqi immigrants won the constituency of Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Northwest Mecklenburg I in the federal elections. She is one of nine women on the list and one of three state secretaries and ministers of the SPD with a migration background.
In addition to Alabali-Radovan, Cansel Kiziltepe from Berlin will be State Secretary in the Ministry of Building and Housing under Klara Geywitz. Mahmut Özdemir from Duisburg is to become State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Nancy Faeser. The third minister of state of the SPD will be Sarah Ryglewski, who will coordinate federal-state relations at the age of 38. A total of five men and women on the list are under 40 years of age. This also includes Siemtje Möller: The defense politician from the constituency of Friesland / Wilhelmshaven / Wittmund goes to the Ministry of Defense headed by Christine Lambrecht, together with Thomas Hitschler from the Palatinate. Both are 38 years old.
With salvation it stays with the old
The health politician Sabine Dittmar, who had drafted the amendment to the Infection Protection Act for the SPD side, will become State Secretary of the new Health Minister Karl Lauterbach. Second in the group is Edgar Franke from Hessen. The other state secretaries in the Ministry of the Interior are Johann Saathoff, who in the constituency of Aurich-Emden got the best nationwide first vote result with 53 percent of the votes, and Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter from Ratingen.
In addition to Kiziltepe, Sören Bartol from Hamburg becomes State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction. Niels Annen and Bärbel Kofler serve as State Secretary under Svenja Schulze in the Federal Ministry for Development. Hubertus Scholz, who remains Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, will keep his State Secretaries Kerstin Griese and Anette Kramme. Here again the complete overview of the SPD ministries:
- Minister of State
- Eastern representative: Carsten Schneider
- Migration officer: Reem Alabali-Radovan
- Federal-State Coordinator: Sarah Ryglewski
- Work and social
- Minister: Hubertus Heil
- State Secretaries: Kerstin Griese, Anette Kramme
- building and living
- Minister: Klara Geywitz
- State Secretaries: Sören Bartol, Cansel Kiziltepe
- Development cooperation
- Minister: Svenja Schulze
- State Secretaries: Niels Annen, Bärbel Kofler
- Bless you:
- Minister: Karl Lauterbach
- State Secretaries: Sabine Dittmar, Edgar Franke
- Interior
- Minister: Nancy Faeser
- State Secretaries: Mahmut Özdemir, Johann Saathoff, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
- Defense:
- Minister: Christine Lambrecht
- State Secretaries: Siemtja Möller, Thomas Hitschler