States of Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Minister-President of the Kingdom of Württemberg
Karl Hugo Freiherr von Weizsäcker
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 25 1853; d. February 2 1926.
Non-Partisan
1906 – 1918
Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
Reinhold Maier
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1889; d. August 19 1971.
Democratic People’s Party (1945 – 1948); Free Democratic Party (1948 – 1953)
1945 – 1953
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 6 1904; d. March 9 1988.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1958 – 1966
Hans Karl Filbinger
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1913; d. April 1 2007.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1966 – 1978
Lothar Späth
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1937; d. March 18 2016.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1978 – 1991
Winfried Kretschmann
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1948.
Alliance 90/The Greens
2011 – present
Bavaria
Minister-President of Bavaria
Hans Ehard
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 10 1887; d. October 18 1980.
Christian Social Union
1946 – 1954
Hans Ehard
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 10 1887; d. October 18 1980.
Christian Social Union
1960 – 1962
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
Ilse Aigner (*acting)
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 7 1964.
Christian Social Union
2018
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 5 1967.
Christian Social Union
2018 – present
Deputy Minister President of Bavaria
Ilse Aigner
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 7 1964.
Christian Social Union
2013 – 2018
Bremen
President of the Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic Free City of Bremen
Hans Koschnick
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 2 1929; d. April 21 2016.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1967 – 1985
Klaus Wedemeier
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1944.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1985 – 1995
Henning Scherf
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 31 1938.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1995 – 2005
Jens Böhrnsen
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1949.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2005 – 2015
Carsten Günter Erich Sieling
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 13 1959.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2015 – 2019
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
Gerhard Glogowski
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1943.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1998 – 1999
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 of Germany
2003 – 2010
David James McAllister
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1971.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2010 – 2013
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
Rudolf Amelunxen
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1888; d. April 21 1969.
German Centre Party
1946 – 1947
Karl Arnold
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1901; d. June 29 1958.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1947 – 1956
Fritz Steinhoff
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 23 1897; d. October 22 1969.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1956 – 1958
Heinz Kühn
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 18 1912; d. March 12 1992.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1966 – 1978
Johannes Rau
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1931; d. January 27 2006.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1978 – 1998
Wolfgang Clement
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1940; d. September 27 2020.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1998 – 2002
Peer Steinbrück
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 10 1947.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2002 – 2005
Hannelore Kraft
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1961.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2010 – 2017
Prussia
Minister-President of Prussia
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Fürst von Bismarck
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 1 1815; d. July 30 1898.
Independent
1862 – 1873
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Fürst von Bismarck
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 1 1815; d. July 30 1898.
Independent
1873 – 1890
Friedrich Ebert
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 4 1871; d. February 28 1925.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1918
Hermann Wilhelm Göring
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1893; d. October 15 1946.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
1933 – 1945
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
Rudolf Albert Scharping
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 2 1947.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1991 – 1994
Kurt Beck
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1949.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1994 – 2013
Saarland
Minister-President of the Saarland
Oskar Lafontaine
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1943.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1985 – 1998
Peter Aloysius Müller
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1955.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1999 – 2011
Schleswig-Holstein
Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1913; d. May 8 1997.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1954 – 1963
Gerhard Stoltenberg
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1928; d. November 23 2001.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1971 – 1982
Björn Engholm
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 9 1939.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1988 – 1993
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 of Germany
1981 – 1984
Eberhard Diepgen
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1941.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1984 – 1989
Walter Momper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1945.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1989 – 1991
Eberhard Diepgen
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1941.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
1991 – 2001
Gregor Florian Gysi
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1948.
Party of Democratic Socialism
2002
Rainer Michael Müller
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 9 1964.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
2014 – 2021
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