List of Saxon Prime Ministers
The list includes the chairmen of the entire Ministry of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony from 1918 to the present day.
From 1831 to 1918 the Saxon king officially presided over the entire ministry according to the constitution . From the beginning, however, a minister was also appointed to chair it. After 1873 the kings hardly took part in the meetings of the cabinet. The title of Prime Minister was not officially introduced until 1919.
List of Saxon Prime Ministers
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Bernhard August von Lindenau (June 11, 1779 - May 21, 1854) |
December 1, 1831 - September 1843 |
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Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz (May 30, 1792 - October 28, 1866) |
September 1843 - March 13, 1848 |
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Alexander Karl Hermann Braun (May 10, 1807 - March 23, 1868) |
March 16, 1848 - February 24, 1849 |
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Gustav Friedrich Held (May 29, 1804 - April 24, 1857) |
February 24, 1849 - May 2, 1849 |
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Ferdinand von Zschinsky (February 22, 1797 - October 28, 1858) |
May 2, 1849 - October 28, 1858 |
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Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (January 13, 1809 - October 24, 1886) |
October 28, 1858 - August 15, 1866 |
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Johann Paul von Falkenstein (June 15, 1801 - January 14, 1882) |
October 1866 - October 1, 1871 |
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Richard Freiherr von Friesen (August 9, 1808 - February 25, 1884) |
October 1, 1871 - November 1, 1876 |
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Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice (May 23, 1818 - March 25, 1891) |
November 1, 1876 - March 25, 1891 |
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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber (April 11, 1823 - December 23, 1891) |
March 25, 1891 - December 23, 1891 |
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Hans von Thümmel (May 25, 1824 - February 12, 1895) |
December 1891 - February 12, 1895 |
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Heinrich Rudolf Schurig (March 4, 1835 - June 15, 1901) |
February 12, 1895 - June 15, 1901 |
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Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach (July 14, 1836 - September 7, 1927) |
June 15, 1901 - April 30, 1906 |
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Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (October 26, 1837 - February 20, 1916) |
April 30, 1906 - December 1, 1910 |
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Victor Alexander von Otto (March 20, 1852 - July 26, 1912) |
December 1, 1910 - May 21, 1912 |
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Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen (December 17, 1846 - March 19, 1922) |
July 26, 1912 - May 21, 1914 |
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Heinrich Gustav Beck (April 11, 1854 - January 9, 1933) |
May 21, 1914 - October 26, 1918 |
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Rudolf Heinze (July 22, 1865 - May 16, 1928) |
October 26, 1918 - November 13, 1918 |
Free State of Saxony from 1918 to 1952 |
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Richard Lipinski (February 6, 1867 - April 18, 1936) |
USPD | November 15, 1918 - January 21, 1919 | Lipinski | |
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Georg Gradnauer (November 16, 1866 - November 18, 1946) |
SPD | January 21, 1919 - March 14, 1919 | Gradnauer I | |
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Georg Gradnauer (November 16, 1866 - November 18, 1946) |
SPD | March 14, 1919 - May 4, 1920 | Gradnauer II | |
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Wilhelm Buck (November 12, 1869 - December 2, 1945) |
SPD | May 4, 1920 - March 21, 1923 |
Buck I Buck II Buck III |
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Erich Zeigner (February 17, 1886 - April 5, 1949) |
SPD | March 21, 1923 - October 29, 1923 | Pointer | |
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Rudolf Heinze ( Reich Commissioner ) (July 22, 1865 - May 16, 1928) |
DVP | October 29, 1923 - October 31, 1923 | - | |
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Alfred Fellisch (June 1, 1884 - March 4, 1973) |
SPD | October 31, 1923 - January 4, 1924 | Fellish | |
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Max Heldt (November 4, 1872 - December 27, 1933) |
SPD / ASPS | January 4, 1924 - June 26, 1929 |
Heldt I Heldt II Heldt III |
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Wilhelm Bünger (October 8, 1870 - March 21, 1937) |
DVP | June 26, 1929 - February 18, 1930 | Bünger | |
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Walther Schieck (August 24, 1874 - April 23, 1946) |
DVP | May 6, 1930 - March 10, 1933 | Schieck | |
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Manfred von Killinger (July 14, 1886 - September 2, 1944) |
NSDAP | March 10, 1933 - February 28, 1935 | Killinger | |
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Martin Mutschmann (March 9, 1879 - February 14, 1947) |
NSDAP | March 1, 1935 - May 7, 1945 | Mutschmann | |
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Rudolf Friedrichs (March 9, 1892 - June 13, 1947) |
SPD / | July 1, 1945 - December 10, 1946 | Frederick I | |
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Rudolf Friedrichs (March 9, 1892 - June 13, 1947) |
SED | December 11, 1946 - June 13, 1947 |
Frederick I Frederick II |
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Max Seydewitz (December 19, 1892 - February 8, 1987) |
SED | July 31, 1947 - July 23, 1952 |
Seydewitz I Seydewitz II |
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| Dissolution of the state of Saxony in 1952 and division into the districts of Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt. | |||||
Free State of Saxony since 1990 |
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Kurt Biedenkopf (born January 28, 1930) |
CDU | November 8, 1990 - April 18, 2002 |
Biedenkopf I Biedenkopf II Biedenkopf III |
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Georg Milbradt (born February 23, 1945) |
CDU | April 18, 2002 - May 28, 2008 |
Milbradt I Milbradt II |
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Stanislaw Tillich (born April 10, 1959) |
CDU | May 28, 2008 - December 13, 2017 |
Tillich I Tillich II Tillich III |
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Michael Kretschmer (born May 7, 1975) |
CDU | in office since December 13, 2017 |
Kretschmer I Kretschmer II |
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literature
- Mike Schmeitzner , Andreas Wagner (ed.): Of power and powerlessness. Saxon Prime Minister in the Age of Extremes 1919–1952 . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-75-4 .
Web links
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