| Cabinet Name: | Second Cabinet of Stephan Weil |
| Cabinet Number: | 29th |
| Cabinet Type: | Cabinet |
| Jurisdiction: | Lower Saxony |
| Flag: | Coat of arms of Lower Saxony.svg |
| Flag Border: | true |
| Incumbent: | 22 November 2017 – 7 November 2022 |
| Date Formed: | 22 November 2017 |
| Date Dissolved: | 7 November 2022 |
| Government Head Title: | Minister-President |
| Government Head: | Stephan Weil |
| Deputy Government Head Title: | Deputy Minister-President |
| Deputy Government Head: | Bernd Althusmann |
| Members Number: | 10 |
| Political Parties: | Social Democratic Party Christian Democratic Union |
| Legislature Status: | Grand coalition government |
| Opposition Parties: | Alliance 90/The Greens Free Democratic Party Alternative for Germany |
| Election: | 2017 Lower Saxony state election |
| Legislature Term: | 18th Landtag of Lower Saxony |
| Predecessor: | First Weil cabinet |
| Successor: | Third Weil cabinet |
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.
See also: 2017 Lower Saxony state election. 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.[1] On 16 November, they announced that they had come to an agreement, which was approved by the SPD party congress two days later[2] and the CDU congress on the 20th.[3] 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.[4]
| Portfolio | Minister | Party | Took office | Left office | State secretaries | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister-President | Stephan Weil | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Deputy Minister-President Minister for Economics, Labour, Transport and Digitalisation | Bernd Althusmann | bgcolor= | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Interior and Sport | Boris Pistorius | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection | Barbara Otte-Kinast | bgcolor= | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Finance | Reinhold Hilbers | bgcolor= | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Justice | Barbara Havliza | bgcolor= | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Education | Grant Hendrik Tonne | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Science and Culture | Björn Thümler | bgcolor= | CDU | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister for Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection | Olaf Lies | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||
| Minister of Social Affairs, Health, and Equality | Carola Reimann | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 1 March 2021 | ||||
| bgcolor= | SPD | 5 March 2021 | 7 November 2022 | ||||||
| Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development | Birgit Honé | bgcolor= | SPD | 22 November 2017 | 7 November 2022 | ||||