Cabinet Kraft
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Cabinet Kraft is the name of the incumbent government of the German state
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...

 of North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

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Its leader is Minister-President Hannelore Kraft
Hannelore Kraft
Hannelore Kraft is a German politician. She is the leader of the Social Democratic Party in North Rhine-Westphalia and the current Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia. Kraft is the first woman to fill this post since it was created in 1946...

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Kraft was elected and sworn in as Minister-President by the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state diet of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It convenes in Düsseldorf and currently consists of 181 members of five Parties...

 on 14 July 2010. The following day she appointed and swore in her cabinet.

The following table shows cabinet members, who hold the office of ministers of their respective portfolio except when denoted otherwise. Note that the Secretaries of State in each ministry are not members of the cabinet, except for the Parliamentary Secretary of State. The Head of the Minister-President's Office, as a Secretary of State, is not an official member of cabinet, but is invited as non-voting attendee.
Office Name Party Secretary of State
Minister-President Hannelore Kraft
Hannelore Kraft
Hannelore Kraft is a German politician. She is the leader of the Social Democratic Party in North Rhine-Westphalia and the current Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia. Kraft is the first woman to fill this post since it was created in 1946...

 
SPD Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense 
Head of the Minister-President's Office
Thomas Breustedt 
Government Spokesman
Deputy Prime Minister
Schools and Education
Sylvia Löhrmann
Sylvia Löhrmann
Sylvia Löhrmann is a German politician.Löhrmann is a member of the Green Party, and since 1995 an elected member of the parliament of the German state North-Rhine Westphalia. Since July 15, 2010 she serves as Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Schools and Education in the incumbent...

 
Greens Ludwig Hecke
Finance Norbert Walter-Borjans  SPD Rüdiger Messal
Interior and Local Government Ralf Jäger  SPD Hans-Ulrich Krüger
Justice Thomas Kutschaty  SPD Brigitte Mandt
Economics, Energy, Transport and Building Harry Voigtsberger  SPD Horst-Helmut Becker 
Deputy Minister & Secretary of State for Transport
Günther Horzetzky
Innovation, Science and Research Svenja Schulze  SPD Helmut Dockter
Labour, Integration and Social Affairs Guntram Schneider  SPD Wilhelm Schäffer 
Zülfiye Kaykin
Secretary of State for Integration
Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport Ute Schäfer  SPD Klaus Schäfer
Climate Change, Environment, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Johannes Remmel  Greens Udo Paschedag
Health, Emancipation, Care and the Elder Barbara Steffens  Greens Marlis Bredehorst
Federal Affairs, Europe and Media Angelica Schwall-Düren  SPD Marc Jan Eumann
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