# Cabinet Weil II

The second Weil cabinet was the state government of Lower Saxony between 2017 and 2022, sworn in on 22 November 2017 after Stephan Weil was elected as Minister-President of Lower Saxony by the members of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. It was the 29th Cabinet of Lower Saxony.
It was formed after the 2017 Lower Saxony state election by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Excluding the Minister-President, the cabinet comprised ten ministers. Five were members of the SPD and five were members of the CDU.
The second Weil cabinet was succeeded by the third Weil cabinet on 8 November 2022.

## Formation

The previous cabinet was a coalition government of the SPD and The Greens led by Minister-President Stephan Weil of the SPD.
The election took place on 15 October 2017, and resulted in a modest improvement for the SPD and losses for the Greens. The opposition CDU fell to second place behind the SPD. The FDP also took small losses, while the AfD debuted at 6%.
Overall, the incumbent coalition lost its majority as the decline in Greens support outweighed SPD gains. The FDP ruled out a coalition with the SPD and Greens while the Greens ruled out a coalition with the CDU and FDP, leaving a grand coalition of the SPD and CDU as the only practical option. The two parties agreed to begin discussions on 26 October. On 16 November, they announced that they had come to an agreement, which was approved by the SPD party congress two days later and the CDU congress on the 20th. It was formally signed the next day.
Weil was elected as Minister-President by the Landtag on 22 November 2017, winning 104 votes out of 137 cast.

## Composition

| Portfolio | Minister | Party | Took office | Left office | State secretaries |
| Minister-President | Stephan Weil born (1958-12-15)15 December 1958 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Jörg Mielke (Head of the State Chancellery) Anke Pörksen (Speaker for the State Government) |
| Deputy Minister-PresidentMinister for Economics, Labour, Transport and Digitalisation | Bernd Althusmann born (1966-12-03)3 December 1966 | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Berend Lindner (Economics, Labour and Transport) Stefan Muhle (Digitalisation) |
| Minister for Interior and Sport | Boris Pistorius born (1960-03-14)14 March 1960 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Stephan Manke |
| Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection | Barbara Otte-Kinast born (1964-09-18)18 September 1964 | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Ludwig Theuvsen |
| Minister for Finance | Reinhold Hilbers born (1964-07-25)25 July 1964 | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Doris Nordmann |
| Minister for Justice | Barbara Havliza born (1958-03-13)13 March 1958 | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Frank-Thomas Hett |
| Minister for Education | Grant Hendrik Tonne born (1976-06-22)22 June 1976 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Gaby Willamowius |
| Minister for Science and Culture | Björn Thümler born (1970-11-22)22 November 1970 | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Sabine Johannsen |
| Minister for Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection | Olaf Lies born (1967-05-08)8 May 1967 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Frank Doods |
| Minister of Social Affairs, Health, and Equality | Carola Reimann born (1967-08-25)25 August 1967 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 1 March 2021 | Heiger Scholz |
| Minister of Social Affairs, Health, and Equality | Daniela Behrens [de] born (1968-05-12)12 May 1968 | SPD | 5 March 2021 | 7 November 2022 | Heiger Scholz |
| Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development | Birgit Honé born (1960-11-08)8 November 1960 | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | Matthias Wunderling-Weilbier |