Bundesrat
Leadership of the Bundesrat
President of the Bundesrat
Karl Arnold
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1901; d. June 29 1958.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1949 – 1950
Peter Altmeier
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1899; d. August 28 1977.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1954 – 1955
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1913; d. May 8 1997.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1955 – 1956
Willy Brandt
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1913; d. October 8 1992.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1957 – 1958
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 6 1904; d. March 9 1988.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1962 – 1963
Peter Altmeier
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1899; d. August 28 1977.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1965 – 1966
Hans Koschnick
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 2 1929; d. April 21 2016.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1970 – 1971
Hans Karl Filbinger
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1913; d. April 1 2007.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1973 – 1974
Bernhard Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 19 1932; d. March 2 2025.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1976 – 1977
Hans Koschnick
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 2 1929; d. April 21 2016.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1981 – 1982
Lothar Späth
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1937; d. March 18 2016.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1984 – 1985
Bernhard Vogel
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 19 1932; d. March 2 2025.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1987 – 1988
Björn Engholm
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 9 1939.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1988 – 1989
Oskar Lafontaine
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1943.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1992 – 1993
Klaus Wedemeier
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1944.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1993 – 1994
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1941.
Christian Social Union
1995 – 1996
Gerhard Fritz Kurt “Gerd” Schröder
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 7 1944.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1997 – 1998
Kurt Beck
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1949.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2000 – 2001
Dieter Althaus
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 29 1958.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2003 – 2004
Ole von Beust
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1955.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2007 – 2008
Peter Aloysius Müller
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1955.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2008 – 2009
Jens Böhrnsen
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1949.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2009 – 2010
Hannelore Kraft
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1961.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2010 – 2011
Horst Lorenz Seehofer
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 4 1949.
Christian Social Union
2011 – 2012
Winfried Kretschmann
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1948.
Alliance 90/The Greens
2012 – 2013
Volker Bouffier
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1951.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2014 – 2015
Rainer Michael Müller
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 9 1964.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2017 – 2018
Bundestag
Leadership of the Bundestag
President of the Reichstag
Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Göring
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1893; d. October 15 1946.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
1932 – 1945
President of the Bundestag
Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 25 1906; d. March 13 1986.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1954 – 1969
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1913; d. May 8 1997.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1969 – 1972
Annemarie Renger
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 7 1919; d. March 3 2008.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1972 – 1976
Karl Carstens
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 14 1914; d. May 30 1992.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1976 – 1979
Richard Stücklen
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 20 1916; d. May 2 2002.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1979 – 1983
Rainer Candidus Barzel
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 20 1924; d. August 26 2006.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1983 – 1984
Rita Süssmuth
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 17 1937; d. February 1 2026.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1988 – 1998
Wolfgang Schäuble
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 18 1942; d. December 26 2023.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2017 – 2021
Vice President of the Bundestag
Thomas Dehler
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 14 1897; d. July 21 1967.
Free Democratic Party
1960 – 1967
Walter Scheel
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1919; d. August 24 2016.
Free Democratic Party
1967 – 1969
Liselotte Funcke
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1918; d. August 1 2012.
Free Democratic Party
1969 – 1976
Annemarie Renger
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 7 1919; d. March 3 2008.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1976 – 1990
Antje Vollmer
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 31 1943; d. March 15 2023.
Alliance ’90/The Greens
1994 – 2005
Rudolf Seiters
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1937.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1998 – 2002
Gerda Hasselfeldt
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1950.
Christian Social Union
2005 – 2011
Thomas Ludwig Albert Oppermann
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1954; d. October 25 2020.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2017 – 2020