GERMAN GOVERNMENT TEAM

Regional representation: East Germany still lags behind

German Government Team: under-representation over-representation

Chancellor West Germany 7%

Head of Government -30% East Germany
Federal Minister
Head of Federal Ministry
Saarland 225%
Parliamentary State Secretary Hamburg 79%
Member of Parliament who
represents a federal minister in Hesse 30%
specific policy areas; the posts Brandenburg 30%
intend to improve the connection
between a ministry and the Lower Saxony 22%
parliament
Rhineland-Palatinate 19%
Ministers of State Bavaria 13%
Parliamentary State Secretaries at
the Federal Chancellery and the Baden-Wuerttemberg 3%
Federal Foreign Office 0% Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
-9% Berlin
-19% North Rhine-Westphalia
-25% Thuringia
-44% Schleswig-Holstein
CDU/CSU
-60% Saxony
SPD -100% Bremen
Grand Total -100% Saxony-Anhalt

32 + 19
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Continuity and change: significant personal renewal

25% 45% 50.4 average age:

Officials remaining in office New personnel in office In 2018 the incoming government
team is 1.2 years younger than the
2013 government team

39% female representatives:

In 2018 the overall share of women
in the government team has sunken
24% 6%
New personnel, but served
from 43% to 39% compared to 2013
Incumbent personnel
moved to new posts in government prior to 2013

U 33% lawyers:
/ CS SP
D
The 2018 government team is staffed

D U with 17 trained lawyers and 14 politi-

C cal scientists

22%

32%
53%
31% 41%
11%
6% 5%