Senate Scholz II

Second Senate of Olaf Scholz Senate Scholz II
15 April 2015 – 28 March 2018
Olaf Scholz
Date formed	15 April 2015
Date dissolved	28 March 2018 (2 years, 11 months, 1 week and 6 days)
People and organisations
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
First Mayor	Olaf Scholz (until 13 March 2018) Katharina Fegebank (Acting; from 13 March 2018)
Second Mayor	Katharina Fegebank
Member party	Social Democratic Party Alliance 90/The Greens
Opposition party	Christian Democratic Union Free Democratic Party The Left Alternative for Germany
Opposition leader	Christian Democratic Union
History
Election(s)	2015 Hamburg state election
Legislature term(s)	21th Hamburg Parliament
Predecessor	Senate Scholz I
Successor	Senate Tschentscher I

The Senate Scholz II (Senat Scholz II) was the government of the German city-state of Hamburg from 15 April 2015 to 28 March 2018 following Senate Scholz I. The Cabinet was, for the second time, headed by First Mayor Olaf Scholz and was formed by the Social Democratic Party, who lost their overall majority in the last state-elections, along with Alliance 90/The Greens. On 15 April 2015 Scholz was elected and sworn in as Mayor by the state assembly. Afterwards he appointed the Senators and had them confirmed by the assembly.

Cabinet members hold the office of Senators and heads of their respective agency, except denoted otherwise.

Katharina Fegebank became acting head of the government on 13 March 2018, after Olaf Scholz retired.^[1] Scholz was succeeded by Peter Tschentscher on 28 March 2018, who formed the new state government.