Above all, the Union in southern Baden sees itself well represented in the new green-black state government
Almost two months after the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, the Greens and CDU agreed on their new cabinet on Monday (May 10th, 2021). Of the total of eleven ministerial offices, only one will go to a politician from a constituency in southern Baden. In return, there were three positions as future state secretaries for other representatives from the region.
The 49-year-old lawyer Marion Gentges (CDU) from the Lahr-Kinzigtal constituency is to become the new Minister of Justice in the southwest, succeeding incumbent Guido Wolf. Gentges was born in Haslach in the Kinzig valley and grew up in the Ortenau region. After being admitted to the bar at the end of the 1990s, she first worked in a law firm in Hesse and then set up in Zell am Harmersbach in 2004. She has been a member of the Stuttgart state parliament since 2016, but has been politically active in the Union since she was a teenager.
Three state secretaries from constituencies in southern Baden and a native of Freiburg from Waiblingen
In the run-up, the 49-year-old Offenburg lawyer Volker Schebesta (CDU) was actually traded as a possible new Minister of Justice, but he now remains State Secretary in the Ministry of Education. The 49-year-old graduate in business administration Sandra Boser (GREEN) from Wolfach won the direct mandate in the state elections in the Lahr district and is also set to become the new State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture. Before that, she had already worked out the position of spokeswoman for education policy for the Greens in the Stuttgart state parliament.
The forest scientist and former paramedic Patrick Rapp (CDU) has been a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament since 2011 and was once again able to win re-election in the Breisgau district. The 53-year-old is now waiting for the office of State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he will also focus on tourism in the south-west.
Strictly speaking, the 43-year-old police officer Siegfried Lorek (CDU) does not belong to the South Baden squad. Although he was born in Freiburg and worked there for a long time on patrol duty, he ran again for the Waiblingen constituency in the election. As a member of parliament, he already worked actively in the committee for home affairs, digitization and migration, as well as in the culture, youth and sports committee in the last term of office. With a second mandate, he was able to move into the state parliament again in 2021 and will support Justice Minister Gentges in the new government as state secretary.
On the other hand, the former South Baden Finance Minister Edith Sitzmann (GREEN) from Freiburg and the State Secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs Bärbl Mielich (GREEN), who had stood for the Breisgau in the years before, left. Both had announced their withdrawal from state politics at the end of the legislative period.
dpa / (fw)
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