Politics of Baden-Württemberg
State Period Minister-President Party
Württemberg-Hohenzollern 1945-47 Carlo Schmid SPD
Württemberg-Hohenzollern 1947-48 Lorenz Bock CDU
Württemberg-Hohenzollern 1948-52 Gebhard Müller CDU
Württemberg-Baden 1946-52 Reinhold Maier DVP , then FDP
South Baden 1946-52 Leo Wohleb CDU
Earlier history
The Minister-Presidents of Baden-Württemberg 's predecessor states were :
The Politics of Baden-Württemberg takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Baden-Württemberg. Since 1948 politics in the state has been dominated by the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, in the 2011 election the CDU lost its majority in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg and a green-red coalition government was established.