States of Germany
Bavaria
Minister-President of Bavaria
Franz Josef Strauss
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 6 1915; d. October 3 1988.
Christian Social Union
1978 – 1988
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1941.
Christian Social Union
1993 – 2007
Günther Beckstein
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 23 1943.
Christian Social Union
2007 – 2008
Horst Lorenz Seehofer
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 4 1949.
Christian Social Union
2008 – 2018
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 5 1967.
Christian Social Union
2018 – present
Lower Saxony
Minister-President of Lower Saxony
Gerhard Fritz Kurt “Gerd” Schröder
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 7 1944.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1990 – 1998
Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1959.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1999 – 2003
Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1959.
Christian Democratic Union
2003 – 2010
Hesse
Minister-President of Hesse
Volker Bouffier
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1951.
Christian Democratic Union
2010 – 2022
North Rhine-Westphalia
Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia
Johannes Rau
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1931; d. January 27 2006.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1978 – 1998
Peer Steinbrück
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 10 1947.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2002 – 2005
Rhineland-Palatinate
Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate
Peter Altmeier
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1899; d. August 28 1977.
Christian Democratic Union
1947 – 1969
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1930; d. June 16 2017.
Christian Democratic Union
1969 – 1976
Bernhard Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 19 1932; d. March 2 2025.
Christian Democratic Union
1976 – 1988
Kurt Beck
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1949.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1994 – 2013
Schleswig-Holstein
Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
Torsten Albig
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1963.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2012 – 2017
Free State of Thuringia
Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia
Josef Duchač
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 19 1938.
Christian Democratic Union
1990 – 1992
Bernhard Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 19 1932; d. March 2 2025.
Christian Democratic Union
1992 – 2003
Dieter Althaus
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 29 1958.
Christian Democratic Union
2003 – 2009
Municipalities of Germany
Berlin
Governing Mayor of West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1913; d. October 8 1992.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1957 – 1966
Hans-Jochen Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1926; d. July 26 2020.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1981
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 15 1920; d. January 31 2015.
Christian Democratic Union
1981 – 1984
Hamburg
Mayor of Hamburg
Ortwin Rune
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1944.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1997 – 2001
Ole von Beust
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1955.
Christian Democratic Union
2001 – 2010
Olaf Scholz
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 14 1958.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2011 – 2018
Munich
Mayor of Munich
Hans-Jochen Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1926; d. July 26 2020.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1960 – 1972