List of Justice Ministers of North Rhine-Westphalia

Justice Minister North Rhine-Westphalia (since 1946)

Surname	Taking office	cabinet	Political party
Eduard Kremer	August 29, 1946	Amelunxes I	-
Artur Strater	December 5, 1946	Amelunxen II	CDU
Gustav Heinemann	June 17, 1947	Arnold I	CDU
Artur Strater	September 7, 1948	Arnold I	CDU
Rudolf Amelunxen	September 15, 1950 July 27, 1954 February 20, 1956	Arnold II Arnold III Steinhoff	center
Otto Flehinghaus	July 21, 1958	Meyers I	CDU
Artur Strater	July 23, 1962	Meyers II	CDU
Franz Meyers	July 25, 1966	Meyers III	CDU
Friedrich Vogel	5th October 1966	Meyers III	CDU
Josef Neuberger	December 8, 1966 July 28, 1970	Kühn I Kühn II	SPD
Diether Posser	December 8, 1970 June 4, 1975	Kühn II Kühn III	SPD
Inge Donnepp	January 17, 1978 September 20, 1978 May 29, 1980	Kühn III Rau I Rau II	SPD
Dieter Haak	December 15, 1983	Rau II	SPD
Diether Posser	January 16, 1985	Rau II	SPD
Rolf Krumsiek	May 30, 1985 June 12, 1990	Rau III Rau IV	SPD
Fritz Behrens	July 17, 1995 June 17, 1998	Rau V Clement I.	SPD
Reinhard Rauball (acting)	March 1, 1999	Clement I	SPD
Jochen Dieckmann	March 23, 1999 June 27, 2000	Clement I Clement II	SPD
Wolfgang Gerhards	November 12, 2002	Steinbrück	SPD
Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter	June 24, 2005	Rüttgers	CDU
Thomas Kutschaty	July 15, 2010	Force I.	SPD
Peter Biesenbach	June 30, 2017	Lash	CDU