Federal States of Germany
Baden-Württemberg
25 Apr 1952 Baden-Württemberg
Minister-Presidents
25 Apr 1952 - 30 Sep 1953 Reinhold Maier .................... 1889-1971 FDP
01 Oct 1953 - 17 Dec 1958 Gebhard Müller .................... 1900-1990 CDU
17 Dec 1958 - 30 Nov 1966 Kurt Georg Kiesinger .............. 1904-1988 CDU
01 Dec 1966 - 30 Aug 1978 Hans Filbinger .................... 1913-2007 CDU
30 Aug 1978 - 22 Jan 1991 Lothar Späth ...................... 1937-2016 CDU
22 Jan 1991 - 21 Apr 2005 Erwin Teufel ...................... 1939- CDU
21 Apr 2005 - 10 Feb 2010 Günther Oettinger ................. 1953- CDU
10 Feb 2010 - 11 May 2011 Stefan Mappus ..................... 1966- CDU
11 May 2011 - Winfried Kretschmann .............. 1948- G
Bayern (Bavaria)
28 May 1945 - Freistaat Bayern
Minister-Presidents
28 May - 28 Sep 1945 Friedrich Schäffer ................ 1888-1967
28 Sep 1945 - 21 Dec 1946 Wilhelm Hoegner ................... 1887-1980 SPD
(1st Time)
21 Dec 1946 - 14 Dec 1954 Hans Ehard ........................ 1887-1980 CSU
14 Dec 1954 - 16 Oct 1957 Wilhelm Hoegner (2nd Time)
16 Oct 1957 - 26 Jan 1960 Hanns Wendelin Seidel ............. 1901-1961 CSU
26 Jan 1960 - 11 Dec 1962 Hans Ehard (2nd Time)
11 Dec 1962 - 06 Nov 1978 Alfons Goppel ..................... 1905-1991 CSU
06 Nov 1978 - 03 Oct 1988 Franz Josef Strauss ............... 1915-1988 CSU
03 Oct 1988 - 28 May 1993 Maximilian Balthasar Streibl ...... 1932-1998 CSU
28 May 1993 - 09 Oct 2007 Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber ............ 1941- CSU
09 Oct 2007 - 27 Oct 2008 Günther Beckstein ................. 1943- CSU
27 Oct 2008 - 14 Mar 2018 Horst Lorenz Seehofer ............. 1949- CSU
16 Mar 2018 - Markus Söder ...................... 1967- CSU
Berlin
01 Jan 1871 Imperial Capital
01 Oct 1920 Separated from Brandenburg province as Gross-Berlin
02 May 1945 - 02 Oct 1990 Divided into allied sectors
20 Oct 1946 Greater Berlin
30 Nov 1948 - 02 Oct 1990 Divided into East and West Berlin.
West Berlin closely affiliated,
but not legally part of West Germany.
01 Oct 1950 Stadt Berlin (city of Berlin)
28 Aug 1961 - 09 Nov 1989 City divided by Berlin Wall
03 Oct 1990 East and West Berlin reunited
20 Jun 1991 Restored as German capital
23 Nov 1995 Stadt und Land Berlin (City and State of Berlin)
Mayors
24 Jan 1991 - 16 Jun 2001 Eberhard Diepgen .................. 1941- CDU
16 Jun 2001 - 11 Dec 2014 Klaus Wowereit .................... 1953- SPD
11 Dec 2014 - 21 Dec 2021 Michael Müller .................... 1964- SPD
21 Dec 2021 - 27 Apr 2023 Franziska Süllke Giffey ........... 1978- SPD
27 Apr 2023 - Kai Wegner ........................ 1972- CDU
Brandenburg
1701 - 1945 Prussian province
23 May 1945 - 02 Oct 1990 Part of East Germany
03 Oct 1990 - State of Brandenburg
Minister-Presidents
03 Oct - 31 Oct 1990 Jochen Wolf ....................... 1941- SPD
(Landesbevollmächtigter)
01 Nov 1990 - 26 Jun 2002 Manfred Stolpe .................... 1935-2019 SPD
26 Jun 2002 - 28 Aug 2013 Matthias Platzeck ................. 1953- SPD
28 Aug 2013 - Dietmar Woidke .................... 1961- SPD
Bremen
First Mayors
04 May - 01 Aug 1945 Erich Vagts ....................... 1896-1981 SPD
01 Aug 1945 - 20 Jul 1965 Wilhelm Kaisisen .................. 1887-1979 SPD
20 Jul 1965 - 28 Nov 1967 Wilhelm Dehnkamp .................. 1903-1985 SPD
28 Nov 1967 - 18 Sep 1985 Hans Koschnick .................... 1929-2016 SPD
18 Sep 1985 - 04 Jul 1995 Klaus Wedemeir .................... 1944- SPD
04 Jul 1995 - 08 Nov 2005 Henning Schref .................... 1938- SPD
08 Nov 2005 - 15 Jul 2015 Jens Böhrnsen ..................... 1949- SPD
15 Jul 2015 - 15 Aug 2019 Carsten Günter Erich Sieling ...... 1959- SPD
15 Aug 2019 - Andreas Bovenschulte .............. 1965- SPD
Hamburg
06 Jun 1952 Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Minister-Presidents
15 May 1945 - 22 Nov 1946 Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen ........ 1879-1962
22 Nov 1946 - 02 Dec 1953 Maximilian Brauer (1st Time) ...... 1887-1973 SPD
02 Dec 1953 - 04 Dec 1957 Kurt Sieveking .................... 1897-1986
04 Dec 1957 - 31 Jan 1960 Maximilian Brauer (2nd Time)
01 Jan 1961 - 09 Jun 1965 Paul Nevermann .................... 1902-1979 SPD
09 Jan 1965 - 16 Jun 1971 Herbert Weichmann ................. 1896-1983 SPD
16 Jun 1971 - 12 Nov 1974 Peter Schultz ..................... 1930-2013 SPD
12 Nov 1974 - 24 Jun 1981 Hans-Ulrich Klose ................. 1937-2023 SPD
24 Jun 1981 - 08 Jun 1988 Klaus von Dohnanyi ................ 1928- SPD
08 Jun 1988 - 12 Nov 1997 Henning Voschereau ................ 1941-2016 SPS
12 Nov 1997 - 31 Oct 2001 Ortwin Runde ...................... 1944- SPD
01 Nov 2001 - 25 Aug 2010 Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole,
Freiherr von Beust ............... 1955- CDU
25 Aug 2010 - 07 Mar 2011 Christoph Ahlhaus ................. 1969- CDU
07 Mar 2011 - 13 Mar 2018 Olaf Scholz ....................... 1958- SPD
14 Mar - 28 Mar 2018 Katharina Fegebank ................ 1977- G
(acting)
28 Mar 2018 - Peter Tschenscher ................. 1966- SPD
01 Jan 1934 Reichsgau Mecklenburg
1945 - 02 Oct 1990 Within East Germany
31 Jul 1945 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
01 Mar 1947 Mecklenburg
23 Jul 1952 - 02 Oct 1990 State abolished
03 Oct 1990 - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Minister-Presidents
27 Oct 1990 - 19 Mar 1992 Alfred Gomolka .................... 1942-2020 CDU
19 Mar 1992 - 03 Nov 1998 Berndt Seite ...................... 1940- CDU
03 Nov 1998 - 06 Oct 2008 Harald Ringsdorff ................. 1939- SPD
06 Oct 2008 - 04 Jul 2017 Erwin Sellering ................... 1949- SPD
(resigned due to cancer treatment 30 May 2017)
04 Jul 2017 - Manuela Schwesig .................. 1974- SPD
Hessen
19 Sep 1945 Land Hesse
01 Dec 1946 Hessen
07 Sep 1949 Part of Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-Presidents
19 Sep - 16 Oct 1945 Ludwig Bergsträsser ............... 1883-1960
16 Oct 1945 - 20 Dec 1946 Karl Hermann Geiler ............... 1878-1953
20 Dec 1946 - 14 Dec 1950 Christian Stock ................... 1884-1967 SPD
14 Dec 1950 - 03 Oct 1969 Georg August Zinn ................. 1901-1976 SPD
03 Oct 1969 - 12 Oct 1976 Albert Osswald .................... 1919-1996 SPD
12 Oct 1976 - 23 Apr 1987 Holger Börner ..................... 1931-2006 SPD
23 Apr 1987 - 05 Apr 1991 Walter Wallmann ................... 1932-2013 CDU
05 Oct 1991 - 07 Apr 1999 Hans Eichel ....................... 1941- SPD
07 Apr 1999 - 31 Aug 2010 Roland Koch ....................... 1958- CDU
01 Sep 2010 - 31 May 2022 Volker Bouffier ................... 1951- CDU
31 May 2022 - Boris Rhein ....................... 1972- CDU
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
09 Dec 1946 Merger of Braunschweig, Oldenburg and Hannover
into Neidersachsen
Minister-Presidents
09 Dec 1946 - 26 May 1955 Heinrich Wilhelm Kopf ............ 1893-1961 SPD
(1st Time)
26 May 1955 - 12 May 1959 Heinrich Peter Hellwege .......... 1908-1991
12 May 1959 - 21 Dec 1961 Heinrich Wilhelm Kopf
(2nd Time)
29 Dec 1961 - 08 Jul 1970 Georg Diederichs ................. 1900-1983 SPD
08 Jul 1970 - 06 Feb 1976 Alfred Kubel ..................... 1909-1999 SPD
06 Feb 1976 - 21 Jun 1990 Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht ....... 1930-2014 CDU
21 Jul 1990 - 28 Oct 1998 Gerhard Friedrich Kurt Schröder .. 1944- SPD
28 Oct 1998 - 15 Oct 1999 Gerhard Glogowski ................ 1959- SPD
15 Oct 1999 - 04 Mar 2003 Sigmar Gabriel ................... 1959- CDU
04 Mar 2003 - 30 Jun 2010 Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulf .... 1959- CDU
01 Jul 2010 - 19 Feb 2013 David James McAllister ........... 1971- CDU
19 Feb 2013 - Stephan Weil ..................... 1958- SPD
Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
20 Jun 1945 - 24 Jul 1946 Nordrhein formed from former Prussian Rheinland province
23 Aug 1946 Nordrhein and Westfalen merged to form Nordrhein-Westfalen
07 Sep 1949 Part of Federal Republic of Germany
Oberpräsident of Nordrhein
04 Jul - 02 Oct 1945 Hans Fuchs ....................... 1874-1956
02 Oct 1945 - 24 Jul 1946 Robert Lehr ...................... 1883-1956 CDU
Minister-Presidents
23 Aug 1946 - 16 Jun 1947 Rudolf Amelunxen ................. 1888-1969
17 Jun 1947 - 20 Feb 1956 Karl Arnold ...................... 1901-1958 CDU
20 Feb 1956 - 21 Jul 1958 Friedrich Steinhoff .............. 1897-1969 SPD
21 Jul 1958 - 08 Dec 1966 Franz Meyers ..................... 1908-2002 CDU
08 Dec 1966 - 20 Sep 1978 Heinz Kühn ....................... 1912-1992 SPD
20 Sep 1978 - 27 May 1998 Johannes Rau ..................... 1931-2006 SPD
27 May 1998 - 22 Oct 2002 Wolfgang Clement ................. 1940-2020 SPD
22 Oct - 06 Nov 2002 Michael Vesper ................... 1952- G
(acting)
06 Nov 2002 - 22 Jun 2005 Peer Steinbrück .................. 1947- SPD
22 Jun 2005 - 14 Jul 2010 Jürgen Rüttgers .................. 1951- CDU
14 Jul 2010 - 27 Jun 2017 Hannelore Kraft .................. 1961- SPD
27 Jun 2017 - 26 Oct 2021 Armin Laschet .................... 1961- CDU
26 Oct - 27 Oct 2021 Joachim Stamp .................... 1970- FDP
(acting)
27 Oct 2021 - Hendrik Josef Wüst ............... 1975- CDU
Rheinland-Pfalz (Rheinland-Palatinate)
15 Jun 1945 Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau province
30 Aug 1946 Rhenish-Palatinate (Rheinpfalz)
18 May 1947 - State of Rheinland-Pfalz
Minister-Presidents
19 Nov 1945 - 09 Jul 1947 Wilhelm Boden .................... 1890-1961 CDU
09 Jul 1947 - 19 May 1969 Peter Altmeier ................... 1899-1977 CDU
19 May 1969 - 02 Dec 1976 Helmut Josef Michael Kohl ........ 1930-2017 CDU
02 Dec 1976 - 08 Dec 1988 Bernhard Vogel ................... 1932- CDU
08 Dec 1988 - 21 May 1991 Carl-Ludwig Wagner ............... 1930-2012 CDU
21 May 1991 - 26 Oct 1994 Rudolf Scharping ................. 1947- SPD
26 Oct 1994 - 16 Jan 2013 Kurt Beck ........................ 1949- SPD
16 Jan 2013 - 10 Jul 2024 Marie-Louise "Malu" Dreyer ....... 1961- SPD
10 Jul 2024 - Alexander Schweitzer ............. 1973- SPD
Saarland
11 Nov 1918 - 26 Feb 1920 French occupation
26 Feb 1920 Under League of Nations administration
01 Mar 1935 Re-incorporated into Germany after a
plebliscite with 90.73% in favour
31 Jul 1945 - 31 Dec 1956 French administration
23 Oct 1955 Referendum results in 67% against proposed
independence under West European Union protection
01 Jan 1957 Re-incorporated into Germany
President of the Government
04 May 1945 - 06 Oct 1946 Hans Neureuter ................... 1901-1953
Chairman of the Administration Commission
07 Oct 1946 - 15 Dec 1947 Erwin Müller ..................... 1906-1968
Minister-Presidents
15 Dec 1947 - 30 Oct 1955 Johannes Hoffmann ................ 1890-1967
30 Oct 1955 - 10 Jan 1956 Heinrich Welsch .................. 1888-1976
10 Jan 1956 - 04 Jun 1957 Hubert Ney ....................... 1892-1984 CDU
04 Jun 1957 - 23 Apr 1959 Egon Reinhard .................... 1908-1959 CDU
23 Apr 1959 - 26 Jun 1979 Franz Josef Röder ................ 1909-1979 CDU
26 Jun - 06 Jul 1979 Werner Klupp ..................... 1928-2021
(acting)
05 Jul 1979 - 09 Apr 1985 Werner Zeyer ..................... 1929-2000 CDU
09 Apr 1985 - 10 Nov 1998 Oskar Lafontaine ................. 1943- SPD
10 Nov 1998 - 30 Sep 1999 Reihard Klimt .................... 1942- SPD
01 Oct 1999 - 10 Aug 2011 Peter Aloysius Müller ............ 1955- CDU
10 Aug 2011 - 01 Mar 2018 Annegret Kramp-Karrebauer ........ 1962- CDU
01 Mar 2018 - 25 Apr 2022 Tobias Hans ...................... 1978- CDU
25 Apr 2022 - Anke Moos Rehlinger .............. 1976- CDU
Sachsen (Saxony)
14 Mar 1919 Freistaat Sachsen (Free State of Saxony)
07 Oct 1949 - 02 Oct 1990 Part of East Germany
23 Jul 1952 State dissolved
03 Oct 1990 - State recontructed
Minister-Presidents
27 Oct 1990 - 18 Apr 2002 Kurt Hans Biedenkopf ............. 1930-2021 CDU
18 Apr 2002 - 28 May 2008 Georg Milbrandt .................. 1945- CDU
28 May 2008 - 13 Dec 2017 Stanislaw Tillich ................ 1959- CDU
13 Dec 2017 - Michael Kretschmer ............... 1975- CDU
23 Jul 1945 Province created out of the merger of
Prussian Saxony and Anhalt
21 Jul 1947 State
23 Jul 1952 - 02 Oct 1990 State dissolved, becomes Halle and Magdeburg districts
03 Oct 1990 - Federal State
Minister-Presidents
28 Oct 1990 - 04 Jul 1991 Gerd Gies ........................ 1943- CDU
04 Jul 1991 - 02 Dec 1993 Werner Muench .................... 1940- CDU
02 Dec 1993 - 21 Jun 1994 Christoph Bergner ................ 1948- CDU
21 Jun 1994 - 16 May 2002 Reinhard Hoeppner ................ 1948-2014 SPD
16 May 2002 - 19 Apr 2011 Wolfgang Böhhmer ................. 1936- CDU
19 Apr 2011 - Rainer Haseloff .................. 1954- CDU
Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)
1864 - 1946 Prussian Province
23 Aug 1946 - Federal State
Minister-Presidents
23 Aug 1946 - 29 Apr 1947 Theodor Hans Steltzer ............ 1885-1967 CDU
29 Apr 1947 - 29 Aug 1949 Hermann Ludemann ................. 1880-1959 SPD
29 Aug 1949 - 05 Sep 1950 Bruno Diekmann ................... 1897-1982 SPD
05 Sep 1950 - 25 Jun 1951 Walter Bartram ................... 1893-1971 CDU
25 Jun 1951 - 02 Oct 1954 Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke .......... 1887-1954 CDU
02 Oct 1954 - 14 Jun 1963 Kai-Uwe von Hassel ............... 1913-1997 CDU
14 Jan 1963 - 24 May 1971 Helmut Lemke ..................... 1907-1990 CDU
24 May 1971 - 14 Oct 1982 Gerhard Stoltenburg .............. 1928-2001 CDU
14 Oct 1982 - 02 Oct 1987 Uwe Barschel ..................... 1944-1987 CDU
02 Oct 1987 - 31 May 1988 Henning Schwatz .................. 1928-1993 CDU
01 Jun 1988 - 19 May 1993 Björn Engholm .................... 1939- SPD
19 May 1993 - 27 Apr 2005 Heide Simonis .................... 1943-2023 SPD
27 Apr 2005 - 12 Jun 2012 Peter Heinrich Carstensen ........ 1947- CDU
12 Jun 2012 - 28 Jun 2017 Torsten Albig .................... 1963- SDP
28 Jun 2017 - Daniel Günther ................... 1973- CDU
Schleswig-Holstein (Sleswick-Holsatia)
Thüringen (Thuringia)
14 Jul 1919 Reuss and the Saxon Duchies united as Thüringen
01 May 1920 Freistaat Thüringen (Free State of Thuringia)
07 Oct 1949 - 02 Oct 1990 Part of East Germany
23 Jul 1952 - 02 Oct 1990 State dissolved into the districts of
Erfurt, Gera and Suhl
03 Oct 1990 State of Thuringia
23 Nov 1993 - Free State of Thuringia
Minister-presidents
03 Oct 1990 - 05 Feb 1992 Josef Duchak ..................... 1938- CDU
(Landesbevollmachtigter to 08 Oct 1990)
05 Feb 1992 - 05 Jun 2003 Bernhard Vogel ................... 1932- CDU
05 Jun 2003 - 30 Oct 2009 Dieter Althaus ................... 1958- CDU
30 Oct 2009 - 05 Dec 2014 Christine Lieberknecht ........... 1958- CDU
05 Dec 2014 - 05 Feb 2020 Bodo Ramelow (1st Time) .......... 1956- PDS
05 Feb - 04 Mar 2020 Thomas Kemmerich ................. 1965- FDP
04 Mar 2020 - Bodo Ramelow (2nd Time)
CDU=Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic, conservative).
CSU=Christlich-Soziale Union (Christian Democratic, Bavarian local CDU)
SPD=Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social democratic).
FDP=Freie Demokranische Partei (Liberal).
PDS=Die Linke, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Socialist).
G=Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Environmentalist).