List of the Prime Ministers of the German states

The list of minister-presidents of the German states contains all heads of government of the German states since 1945.

Acting Prime Ministers

The following table lists the incumbent Prime Ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany (as of August 27, 2020) .

country	Head of Government	Date of birth	Political party	Taking office	Term of office	Next state election	State government	Ruling parties
Baden-Württemberg	Winfried Kretschmann	75400948625 ♠May 17, 1948	Green	77838482700 ♠May 12, 2011	3396 days	Spring 2021	Cabinet Kretschmann II	Green-black ( Greens , CDU )
Bavaria	Markus Söder	76123194725 ♠0Jan. 5, 1967	CSU	78103790000 ♠16. Mar. 2018	896 days	Autumn 2023	Söder II cabinet	Black-orange ( CSU , Free Voters )
Berlin	Michael Mueller	76040216425 ♠0Dec 9, 1964	SPD	77975322475 ♠Dec 11, 2014	2087 days	Autumn 2021	Senate Müller II	Red-red-green ( SPD , Die Linke , Grüne )
Brandenburg	Dietmar Woidke	75919376950 ♠Oct 22, 1961	SPD	77926298300 ♠28 Aug 2013	2557 days	Autumn 2024	Cabinet Woidke III	Kenya ( SPD , CDU , Greens )
Bremen	Andreas Bovenschulte	76067193675 ♠Aug 11, 1965	SPD	78157279375 ♠15th Aug 2019	379 days	Spring 2023	Senate Bovenschulte	Red-green-red ( SPD , Greens , Die Linke )
Hamburg	Peter Tschentscher	76085891700 ♠Jan. 20, 1966	SPD	78104906300 ♠28 Mar 2018	884 days	Early 2025	Tschentscher II Senate	Red-Green ( SPD , Greens )
Hesse	Volker Bouffier	75537974450 ♠Dec 18, 1951	CDU	77810482175 ♠Aug 31, 2010	3650 days	Autumn 2023	Bouffier III cabinet	Black-Green ( CDU , Greens )
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Manuela Schwesig	76407665175 ♠May 23, 1974	SPD	78075882500 ♠04th July 2017	1151 days	Autumn 2021	Schwesig cabinet	Red-black ( SPD , CDU )
Lower Saxony	Stephan Weil	75808584175 ♠Dec 15, 1958	SPD	77907600275 ♠19th Feb. 2013	2747 days	Autumn 2022	Weil II cabinet	Red-black ( SPD , CDU )
North Rhine-Westphalia	Armin Laschet	75895190450 ♠Feb. 18, 1961	CDU	78075045275 ♠June 27, 2017	1158 days	Spring 2022	Laschet cabinet	Black-yellow ( CDU , FDP )
Rhineland-Palatinate	Malu Dreyer	75894074150 ♠0Feb 6, 1961	SPD	77904344400 ♠Jan. 16, 2013	2781 days	Spring 2021	Dreyer II cabinet	Traffic light ( SPD , FDP , Greens )
Saarland	Tobias Hans	76551481825 ♠0Feb. 1, 1978	CDU	78102394625 ♠01st Mar 2018	911 days	Spring 2022	Cabinet Hans	Black-red ( CDU , SPD )
Saxony	Michael Kretschmer	76444875175 ♠0May 7th 1975	CDU	78091603725 ♠Dec 13, 2017	989 days	Autumn 2024	Cabinet Kretschmer II	Kenya ( CDU , Greens , SPD )
Saxony-Anhalt	Pure Haseloff	75624394675 ♠Feb 19, 1954	CDU	77836157075 ♠April 19, 2011	3419 days	Spring 2021	Cabinet Haseloff II	Kenya ( CDU , SPD , Greens )
Schleswig-Holstein	Daniel Günther	76375013400 ♠July 24, 1973	CDU	78075138300 ♠June 28, 2017	1157 days	Spring 2022	Cabinet Günther	Jamaica ( CDU , Greens , FDP )
Thuringia	Bodo Ramelow	75701512400 ♠Feb 16, 1956	The left	78180070500 ♠04th Mar 2020	177 days	Autumn 2024 (announced but not yet decided: April 25, 2021)	Cabinet Ramelow II	Red-red-green ( Die Linke , SPD , Greens ; minority government )

Acting Deputy Heads of Government
Deputy	Political party	country	State government
Thomas Strobl	CDU	Baden-Württemberg	Cabinet Kretschmann II
Hubert Aiwanger	Free voters	Bavaria	Söder II cabinet
Klaus Lederer	The left	Berlin	Senate Müller II
Ramona Pop	Green	Berlin	Senate Müller II
Michael Stübgen	CDU	Brandenburg	Cabinet Woidke III
Ursula Nonnemacher	Green	Brandenburg	Cabinet Woidke III
Maike Schaefer	Green	Bremen	Senate Bovenschulte
Katharina Fegebank	Green	Hamburg	Senate Tschentscher I
Tarek Al-Wazir	Green	Hesse	Cabinet Bouffier II
Lorenz Caffier	CDU	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Schwesig cabinet
Bernd Althusmann	CDU	Lower Saxony	Weil II cabinet
Joachim Stamp	FDP	North Rhine-Westphalia	Laschet cabinet
Volker Wissing	FDP	Rhineland-Palatinate	Dreyer II cabinet
Anke Rehlinger	SPD	Saarland	Cabinet Hans
Wolfram Günther	Green	Saxony	Cabinet Kretschmer II
Martin Dulig	SPD	Saxony	Cabinet Kretschmer II
Petra Grimm-Benne	SPD	Saxony-Anhalt	Cabinet Haseloff II
Claudia Dalbert	Green	Saxony-Anhalt	Cabinet Haseloff II
Monika Heinold	Green	Schleswig-Holstein	Cabinet Günther
Heiner Garg	FDP	Schleswig-Holstein	Cabinet Günther
Wolfgang Tiefensee	SPD	Thuringia	Cabinet Ramelow II
Anja Siegesmund	Green	Thuringia	Cabinet Ramelow II

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Overview of the Prime Ministers

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Baden-Württemberg

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Predecessor countries of Baden-Württemberg 1945 to 1952
State parliament in the state capital Stuttgart

Predecessor countries from 1945 to 1952:
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Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
June 2, 1945 - December 3, 1946	Ministerial directorate with changing chairmen: Alfred Bund ( BCSV ), Karl Ott (independent), Adolf Schwarz (died on June 3, 1945), Paul Haußer ( DemP , from June 4, 1945), Ludwig Ganter (until August 1945), Paul Zürcher (BCSV, from September 1945), Friedrich Leibbrandt ( SPB , from January 1, 1946), Philipp Martzloff (SPB, from February 20, 1946) and Carl Diez (BCSV, from February 20, 1946)
December 3, 1946 - April 25, 1952	Leo Wohleb	BCSV later: CDU	State Secretariat Wohleb , Cabinet Wohleb I , II , III	Official title initially "President of the State Secretariat", from 1947 "State President"	Leo Wohleb
Württemberg-Baden
Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
September 24, 1945 - April 25, 1952	Reinhold Maier	DVP	Cabinet Maier I , II , III	First appointed by the USA, democratically confirmed in 1946
Württemberg-Hohenzollern
Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
December 9, 1946 - July 8, 1947	Carlo Schmid	SPD	Cabinet Schmid II	Appointed by France
July 8, 1947 - August 3, 1948	Lorenz Bock	CDU	Cabinet buck	Died in office	Lorenz Bock (left)
August 3, 1948 - August 13, 1948	Carlo Schmid	SPD	-	provisional
August 13, 1948 - April 25, 1952	Gebhard Müller	CDU	Cabinet Müller
from 1952:
Baden-Württemberg
Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
April 25, 1952 - October 7, 1953	Reinhold Maier	DVP / FDP	Maier's cabinet	Resignation after the poor performance of the FDP Baden-Württemberg in the federal election in 1953
October 7, 1953 - December 17, 1958	Gebhard Müller	CDU	Cabinet Müller I , II	Resignation because of his election as President of the Federal Constitutional Court
December 17, 1958 - December 1, 1966	Kurt Georg Kiesinger	CDU	Cabinet Kiesinger I , II , III	Resignation because of his upcoming election as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
December 1, 1966 - December 16, 1966	Wolfgang Haussmann	FDP / DVP	-	provisional
December 16, 1966 - August 30, 1978	Hans Filbinger	CDU	Cabinet Filbinger I , II , III , IV	Resignation because of the so-called " Filbinger Affair "
August 30, 1978 - January 13, 1991	Lothar Späth	CDU	Cabinet Späth I , II , III , IV	Resignation because of the so-called " dream ship affair "
January 13, 1991 - April 29, 2005	Erwin the devil	CDU	Cabinet Teufel I , II , III , IV	Resignation for reasons of age
April 29, 2005 - February 9, 2010	Günther Oettinger	CDU	Cabinet Oettinger I , II	Resignation due to his upcoming appointment as European Commissioner for Energy
February 10, 2010 - May 12, 2011	Stefan Mappus	CDU	Cabinet Mappus	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
Since May 12, 2011	Winfried Kretschmann	Alliance 90 / The Greens	Cabinet Kretschmann I , II

Bavaria

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Maximilianeum , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Munich

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
May 28, 1945 - September 28, 1945	Fritz Schäffer	CSU	Schäffer cabinet	Appointed by the USA
September 28, 1945 - December 21, 1946	Wilhelm Hoegner	SPD	Cabinet Hoegner I	Appointed by the USA
December 21, 1946 - December 14, 1954	Hans Ehard	CSU	Cabinet Ehard I , II , III
December 14, 1954 - October 16, 1957	Wilhelm Hoegner	SPD	Cabinet Hoegner II	Resignation after losing the majority in the state parliament
October 16, 1957 - January 26, 1960	Hanns Seidel	CSU	Cabinet Seidel I , II	Resignation for health reasons
January 26, 1960 - December 11, 1962	Hans Ehard	CSU	Cabinet Ehard IV
December 11, 1962 - November 7, 1978	Alfons Goppel	CSU	Cabinet Goppel I , II , III , IV
November 7, 1978 - October 3, 1988	Franz Josef Strauss	CSU	Cabinet Strauss I , II , III	Died in office
October 19, 1988 - May 28, 1993	Max Streibl	CSU	Cabinet Streibl I , II	Resignation because of the so-called " Amigo Affair "	Streibl (middle)
May 28, 1993 - October 9, 2007	Edmund Stoiber	CSU	Cabinet Stoiber I , II , III , IV	resignation
October 9, 2007 - October 27, 2008	Günther Beckstein	CSU	Beckstein cabinet	Resignation from office after significant loss of votes by the CSU in the state elections in 2008
October 27, 2008 - March 13, 2018	Horst Seehofer	CSU	Cabinet Seehofer I , II	Resignation due to the upcoming appointment as Federal Minister of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs
Since March 16, 2018	Markus Söder	CSU	Cabinet Söder I , II

Berlin

Situation in Germany
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Prussian Landtag , seat of the Berlin House of Representatives

1945 to 1948:
Greater Berlin
Term of office	Lord Mayor	Political party	magistrate	Remarks	image
May 17, 1945 - December 5, 1946	Arthur Werner	independent	Magistrate Werner	Appointed by the USSR
December 5, 1946 - April 17, 1947	Otto Ostrowski	SPD	Magistrate Ostrowski	Voted out by the city council at the request of its own parliamentary group by means of a vote of no confidence due to differences over how to deal with the SED
May 8, 1947 - December 7, 1948	Louise Schroeder	SPD	Magistrate Schroeder	acting; Ernst Reuter was elected Lord Mayor on June 24, 1947, but was not allowed to take office due to the veto of the Soviet military administration
1948 to 1991: The political status of Berlin after 1948 is complicated. West Berlin was de facto equal to a Land of the Federal Republic of Germany in many areas , but still formally under the Allied Occupation Statute with certain restrictions. Among other things, there was no conscription in West Berlin, and the West Berlin representatives in the German Bundestag and Bundesrat only had limited voting rights. After the administrative reform of 1952, there were no more states in the GDR, only districts . As the capital of the GDR, East Berlin did not belong to any district and did not form a separate district, but was increasingly treated as a district in administrative practice.
West Berlin
Term of office	Governing Mayor (until January 11, 1951: Lord Mayor)	Political party	senate	Remarks	image
December 7, 1948 - September 29, 1953	Ernst Reuter	SPD	Senate Reuter	Died in office
October 22, 1953 - January 11, 1955	Walther Schreiber	CDU	Senate clerk	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
January 11, 1955 - August 30, 1957	Otto Suhr	SPD	Senate Suhr	Died in office	Otto Suhr (center)
August 30, 1957 - October 3, 1957	Franz Amrehn	CDU	Senate Suhr	provisional	Franz Amrehn (left)
October 3, 1957 - December 1, 1966	Willy Brandt	SPD	Senate Brandt I , II , III	Resignation due to the upcoming appointment as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Federal Chancellor
December 14, 1966 - October 19, 1967	Heinrich Albertz	SPD	Senate Albertz I , II	Provisional from December 1, 1966. Resignation due to the shooting of Benno Ohnesorg at the demonstration on June 2, 1967 in West Berlin
October 19, 1967 - May 2, 1977	Klaus Schütz	SPD	Senate Schütz I , II , III	Resignation after several financial scandals
May 2, 1977 - January 23, 1981	Dietrich Stobbe	SPD	Senate Stobbe I , II	Resigned after a Senate reshuffle in the House of Representatives that became necessary as a result of the Garski affair failed	Dietrich Stobbe (right)
January 23, 1981 - June 11, 1981	Hans-Jochen Vogel	SPD	Senate bird	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
June 11, 1981 - February 9, 1984	Richard von Weizsäcker	CDU	Weizsäcker Senate	Resignation because of his upcoming election as Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
February 9, 1984 - March 16, 1989	Eberhard Diepgen	CDU	Senate Diepgen I , II	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
March 16, 1989 - January 24, 1991	Walter Momper	SPD	Senate Momper	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
from 1991:
Berlin (after reunification)
January 24, 1991 - June 16, 2001	Eberhard Diepgen	CDU	Senate Diepgen III , IV , V	Voted out by a constructive vote of no confidence
June 16, 2001 - December 11, 2014	Klaus Wowereit	SPD	Senate Wowereit I , II , III , IV	resignation
Since December 11, 2014	Michael Mueller	SPD	Senate Müller I , II

Brandenburg

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City palace , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Potsdam

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
July 4, 1945 - October 1949	Karl Steinhoff	SED / SPD	Steinhoff cabinet	Appointed by the USSR; October 1949 Interior Minister of the GDR
December 5, 1949 - July 23, 1952	Rudolf Jahn	SED	Cabinet Jahn I , II		Rudolf Jahn (right)
From July 25, 1952 to October 3, 1990, the state of Brandenburg was suspended.
November 1, 1990 - June 25, 2002	Manfred Stolpe	SPD	Cabinet Stolpe I , II , III	resignation
June 25, 2002 - August 28, 2013	Matthias Platzeck	SPD	Cabinet Platzeck I , II , III	Resignation for health reasons
Since August 28, 2013	Dietmar Woidke	SPD	Cabinet Woidke I , II , III

Bremen

Situation in Germany
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House of Citizenship, seat of the Bremen Citizenship

Term of office	Mayor and President of the Senate	Political party	senate	Remarks
May 4, 1945 - July 31, 1945	Erich Vagts	independent	Senate Vagts	Appointed by the USA
August 1, 1945 - July 19, 1965	Wilhelm Kaisen	SPD	Senate Kaisen I , II , III , IV , V , VI , VII	Appointed by the USA, democratically confirmed in 1947
July 20, 1965 - November 27, 1967	Willy Dehnkamp	SPD	Senate Dehnkamp
November 28, 1967 - September 17, 1985	Hans Koschnick	SPD	Senate Koschnick I , II , III , IV , V
September 18, 1985 - July 3, 1995	Klaus Wedemeier	SPD	Senate Wedemeier I , II , III	Resignation from office after significant loss of votes by the SPD in the 1995 state elections
July 4, 1995 - November 7, 2005	Henning Scherf	SPD	Senate Scherf I , II , III	Resignation for reasons of age
November 7, 2005 - July 15, 2015	Jens Boehrnsen	SPD	Senate Böhrnsen I , II , III	Resignation from office after significant loss of votes by the SPD in the 2015 general election
July 15, 2015 - August 15, 2019	Carsten Sieling	SPD	Senate Sieling	Resignation from office after significant loss of votes by the SPD in the 2019 general election
Since August 15, 2019	Andreas Bovenschulte	SPD	Senate Bovenschulte

Hamburg

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Hamburg City Hall , seat of the citizenship and the Senate

Term of office	First Mayor and President of the Senate	Political party	senate	Remarks	image
May 15, 1945 - November 15 (22), 1946	Rudolf Petersen	CDU (from June 1946)	Senate Petersen	Appointed by the United Kingdom
November 15 (22), 1946 - December 2, 1953	Max Brewer	SPD	Senate Brauer I , II	Senate election November 15, 1946 (swearing in November 22) by the Hamburg citizenship . After the state election in 1953 deselection by vote of no confidence
December 2, 1953 - December 4, 1957	Kurt Sieveking	CDU	Senate Sieveking
December 4, 1957 - December 31, 1960	Max Brewer	SPD	Senate Brewer III	Resignation and agreed handover to a younger successor within the electoral term
January 1, 1961 - June 9, 1965	Paul Nevermann	SPD	Senate Nevermann I , II	Resignation due to press scandal after a state visit (non-compliance with "protocol obligations" of the separated wife)	Paul Nevermann (left)
June 9, 1965 - June 9, 1971	Herbert Weichmann	SPD	Senate Weichmann I , II , III	Resignation for reasons of age
June 9, 1971 - November 4, 1974	Peter Schulz	SPD	Senate Schulz I , II	Resignation because of the poor performance of the SPD in the 1974 general election
November 12, 1974 - May 25, 1981	Hans-Ulrich Klose	SPD	Senate Klose I , II	Resignation due to internal party disputes over the Brokdorf nuclear power plant
June 24, 1981 - June 8, 1988	Klaus von Dohnanyi	SPD	Senate of Dohnanyi I , II , III , IV	Temporarily minority or provisional Senate due to a lack of majorities after the citizenship elections in 1982 and 1986
June 8, 1988 - October 8, 1997	Henning Voscherau	SPD	Senate Voscherau I , II , III	Resignation after significant loss of votes by the SPD in the 1997 general election
November 12, 1997 - October 30, 2001	Ortwin round	SPD	Senate round	First head of government directly elected by the Hamburg citizenship . Loss of office due to electoral defeat
October 31, 2001 - August 25, 2010	Ole von Beust	CDU	Senate of Beust I , II , III	Resigns halfway through his third term
August 25, 2010 - March 7, 2011	Christoph Ahlhaus	CDU	Senate Ahlhaus	From November 29, 2010 to March 7, 2011 with a minority government. Loss of office due to electoral defeat
March 7, 2011 - March 13, 2018	Olaf Scholz	SPD	Senate Scholz I , II	Resignation due to the appointment as Federal Minister of Finance and Deputy Federal Chancellor
Since March 28, 2018	Peter Tschentscher	SPD	Tschentscher Senate I , II

Hesse

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City palace , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Wiesbaden

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
1945 to 1946:
Greater Hessen
October 16, 1945 - November 30, 1946	Karl Geiler	independent	Cabinet Geiler	Appointed by the USA
from 1946:
Hesse
December 20, 1946 - December 14, 1950	Christian Stock	SPD	Cabinet floor
December 14, 1950 - October 3, 1969	Georg-August Zinn	SPD	Cabinet pewter I , II , III , IV , V		Georg-August Zinn (center)
October 3, 1969 - October 3, 1976	Albert Osswald	SPD	Cabinet Osswald I , II , III	Resignation due to the Helaba scandal
October 12, 1976 - April 23, 1987	Holger Borner	SPD	Cabinet Börner I , II , III	Managing director from December 1, 1982 to July 4, 1984. To state election in 1987 did not stand as the leading candidate of his party
April 23, 1987 - April 5, 1991	Walter Wallmann	CDU	Wallmann's cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
April 5, 1991 - April 7, 1999	Hans Eichel	SPD	Cabinet Eichel I , II	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
April 7, 1999 - August 31, 2010	Roland Koch	CDU	Cabinet Koch I , II , III	Managing director from April 5, 2008 to February 5, 2009. Resignation due to an upcoming appointment as a member of the Executive Board at Bilfinger Berger
Since August 31, 2010	Volker Bouffier	CDU	Cabinet Bouffier I , II , III

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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Schwerin Castle , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Schwerin

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
From December 9, 1946 to July 23, 1952, the state was called Mecklenburg .
July 4, 1945 - July 19, 1951	Wilhelm Höcker	SPD / SED	Cabinet Höcker I , II	Appointed by the USSR
July 19, 1951 - July 28, 1951	Kurt Bürger	SED	Cabinet Citizens
August 24, 1951 - July 23, 1952	Bernhard Quandt	SED	Quandt's cabinet		Bernhard Quandt (left)
From July 25, 1952 to October 3, 1990, the state of Mecklenburg was suspended.
October 27, 1990 - March 18, 1992	Alfred Gomolka	CDU	Gomolka Cabinet	Resignation due to the so-called " shipyard crisis "
March 19, 1992 - November 2, 1998	Berndt page	CDU	Cabinet page I , II	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
November 3, 1998 - October 5, 2008	Harald Ringstorff	SPD	Cabinet Ringstorff I , II , III	Resignation for reasons of age
October 5, 2008 - July 4, 2017	Erwin Sellering	SPD	Cabinet Sellering I , II , III	Resignation for health reasons
Since July 4th 2017	Manuela Schwesig	SPD	Schwesig cabinet

Lower Saxony

Situation in Germany
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Leineschloss , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Hanover

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
Predecessor countries 1945/46:
Braunschweig
May 1945 - May 7, 1946	Hubert Schlebusch	SPD	Schlebusch cabinet
May 7, 1946 - November 23, 1946	Alfred Kubel	SPD	Cabinet Kubel		Alfred Kubel (left)
Hanover
August 23, 1946 - December 9, 1946	Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf	SPD	Cabinet head	Appointed by the United Kingdom
Oldenburg
May 1945 - November 23, 1946	Theodor Tantzen	FDP	Cabinet Tantzen II
Schaumburg-Lippe
June 1945 - April 30, 1946	Heinrich Drake	independent	Cabinet Drake I.	Appointed by the United Kingdom; at the same time Prime Minister (official title: State President) of Lippe
from 1946:
Lower Saxony
Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
November 23, 1946 - May 26, 1955	Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf	SPD	Cabinet head I , II , III , IV	Appointed by the United Kingdom
May 26, 1955 - May 12, 1959	Heinrich Hellwege	DP	Hellwege cabinet I , II	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
May 12, 1959 - December 21, 1961	Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf	SPD	Cabinet head V	Died in office
December 29, 1961 - July 8, 1970	Georg Diederichs	SPD	Diederich's cabinet I , II , III , IV
July 8, 1970 - February 6, 1976	Alfred Kubel	SPD	Cabinet Kubel I , II	Resignation for reasons of age	Alfred Kubel (left)
February 6, 1976 - June 21, 1990	Ernst Albrecht	CDU	Cabinet Albrecht I , II , III , IV , V	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
June 21, 1990 - October 27, 1998	Gerhard Schröder	SPD	Cabinet Schröder I , II , III	Resignation due to upcoming election as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
October 28, 1998 - December 15, 1999	Gerhard Glogowski	SPD	Glogowski's cabinet	Resignation after allegations of taking advantage
December 15, 1999 - March 4, 2003	Sigmar Gabriel	SPD	Cabinet Gabriel	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
March 4, 2003 - June 30, 2010	Christian Wulff	CDU	Cabinet Wulff I , II	Resignation due to the assumption of the office of Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
June 30, 2010 - July 1, 2010	Jörg Bode	FDP	Cabinet Wulff II	provisional
July 1, 2010 - February 19, 2013	David McAllister	CDU	McAllister Cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
Since February 19, 2013	Stephan Weil	SPD	Cabinet Weil I , II

North Rhine-Westphalia

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State parliament in the state capital Düsseldorf

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
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May 1945 - January 21, 1947	Heinrich Drake	independent	Cabinet Drake VIII	Appointed by the United Kingdom; at the same time Prime Minister (official title: State President) of Schaumburg-Lippe (from June 1945 to April 1946)

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks
North Rhine-Westphalia
August 30, 1946 - April 19, 1947	Rudolf Amelunxen	independent, from 1947 center	Cabinet Amelunxen I , II	Appointed by the United Kingdom
June 16, 1947 - February 19, 1956	Karl Arnold	CDU	Cabinet Arnold I , II , III	Voted out by a constructive vote of no confidence
February 20, 1956 - July 20, 1958	Fritz Steinhoff	SPD	Steinhoff cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
July 21, 1958 - December 7, 1966	Franz Meyers	CDU	Meyer's cabinet I , II , III	Voted out by a constructive vote of no confidence
December 8, 1966 - September 19, 1978	Heinz Kühn	SPD	Cabinet Kühn I , II , III
September 20, 1978 - May 26, 1998	Johannes Rau	SPD	Cabinet Rau I , II , III , IV , V
May 27, 1998 - October 20, 2002	Wolfgang Clement	SPD	Cabinet Clement I , II	Resignation due to upcoming appointment as Federal Minister for Economics and Labor
October 21, 2002 - November 5, 2002	Michael Vesper	Green	Cabinet Clement II	provisional
November 6, 2002 - June 21, 2005	Peer Steinbruck	SPD	Steinbrück Cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
June 21, 2005 - July 14, 2010	Jürgen Rüttgers	CDU	Rüttger's cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
July 14, 2010 - June 27, 2017	Hannelore Kraft	SPD	Cabinet Kraft I , II	From July 14, 2010 to June 20, 2012 with a minority government Loss of office due to electoral defeat
Since June 27, 2017	Armin Laschet	CDU	Laschet cabinet

Rhineland-Palatinate

Situation in Germany
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Deutschhaus , seat of the state parliament in the state capital Mainz

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
December 1, 1946 - July 8, 1947	Wilhelm Boden	CDU	Cabinet floor I , II	Appointed by France
July 9, 1947 - May 18, 1969	Peter Altmeier	CDU	Cabinet Altmeier I , II , III , IV , V , VI	The longest uninterrupted term of office of all German Prime Ministers after 1945
May 19, 1969 - December 1, 1976	Helmut Kohl	CDU	Cabinet Kohl I , II , III	Resignation due to taking over the chairmanship of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
December 2, 1976 - December 7, 1988	Bernhard Vogel	CDU	Cabinet Vogel I , II , III , IV	Resignation due to internal party disputes
December 8, 1988 - May 20, 1991	Carl-Ludwig Wagner	CDU	Cabinet Wagner	Loss of office due to electoral defeat	Carl-Ludwig Wagner (center)
May 21, 1991 - October 26, 1994	Rudolf Scharping	SPD	Scharping cabinet	Resignation due to taking over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
October 26, 1994 - January 16, 2013	Kurt Beck	SPD	Cabinet Beck I , II , III , IV , V	Resignation for health reasons
Since January 16, 2013	Malu Dreyer	SPD	Dreyer cabinet I , II

Saarland

Situation in Germany
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Flag from 1947 to 1956
State parliament in the state capital Saarbrücken

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
October 20, 1946 - December 20, 1947	Erwin Müller	CVP	Administrative commission	Chairman of the Administrative Commission
Saarland with the constitution of 1947 as an autonomous area:
December 15, 1947 - October 23, 1955	Johannes Hoffmann	CVP	Cabinet Hoffmann I , II , III , IV
October 29, 1955 - January 10, 1956	Heinrich Welsch	independent	Cabinet Welsch	Transitional Cabinet
January 10, 1956 - March 26, 1957	Hubert Ney	CDU	Cabinet Ney
Saarland after joining the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957:
June 4, 1957 - April 23, 1959	Egon Reinert	CDU	Cabinet Reinert I , II	Died in office
April 30, 1959 - June 25, 1979	Franz-Josef Röder	CDU	Cabinet Röder I , II , III , IV , V , VI	Died in office	Franz-Josef Röder (right)
June 26, 1979 - July 4, 1979	Werner Klumpp	FDP	Cabinet Röder VI	provisional
July 5, 1979 - April 8, 1985	Werner Zeyer	CDU	Cabinet Zeyer I , II , III	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
April 9, 1985 - October 27, 1998	Oskar Lafontaine	SPD	Lafontaine cabinet I , II , III	Resignation due to the upcoming appointment as Federal Minister of Finance
November 10, 1998 - September 28, 1999	Reinhard Klektiven	SPD	Cabinet climbs	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
September 28, 1999 - August 10, 2011	Peter Müller	CDU	Cabinet Müller I , II , III	Resignation due to upcoming election as judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
August 10, 2011 - March 1, 2018	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer	CDU	Cabinet Kramp-Karrenbauer I , II , III	Resignation due to election as General Secretary of the CDU
Since March 1, 2018	Tobias Hans	CDU	Cabinet Hans

Saxony

Situation in Germany
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State parliament in the state capital Dresden

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks
July 4, 1945 - June 13, 1947	Rudolf Friedrichs	SPD / SED	Cabinet of Friedrich I , II	Appointed by the USSR. Died in office
July 30, 1947 - July 23, 1952	Max Seydewitz	SED	Cabinet Seydewitz I , II
The state of Saxony was suspended from July 25, 1952 to October 3, 1990.
October 27, 1990 - April 18, 2002	Kurt Biedenkopf	CDU	Cabinet Biedenkopf I , II , III	resignation
April 18, 2002 - May 28, 2008	Georg Milbradt	CDU	Cabinet Milbradt I , II	Resignation due to the Sachsen LB affair
May 28, 2008 - December 13, 2017	Stanislaw Tillich	CDU	Cabinet Tillich I , II , III	resignation
Since December 13, 2017	Michael Kretschmer	CDU	Cabinet Kretschmer I , II

Saxony-Anhalt

Situation in Germany
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State parliament in the state capital Magdeburg
Palais am Fürstenwall , seat of the State Chancellery in Magdeburg

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks	image
July 16, 1945 - October 1, 1949	Erhard Hubener	LDPD	Cabinet Hübener I , II	The first cabinet was appointed by SMAD
October 10, 1949 - July 23, 1952	Werner Bruschke	SED	Cabinet Bruschke I , II
The state of Saxony-Anhalt was suspended from July 25, 1952 to October 3, 1990.
October 28, 1990 - July 4, 1991	Gerd Gies	CDU	Cabinet Gies	resignation	Gerd Gies (right)
July 4, 1991 - November 28, 1993	Werner Münch	CDU	Münch cabinet	Resignation because of the so-called " salary affair "
December 2, 1993 - July 21, 1994	Christoph Bergner	CDU	Bergner cabinet	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
July 21, 1994 - May 16, 2002	Reinhard Höppner	SPD	Cabinet Höppner I , II	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
May 16, 2002 - April 19, 2011	Wolfgang Böhmer	CDU	Cabinet Böhmer I , II	To state election in 2011 did not stand as the leading candidate of his party
Since April 19, 2011	Pure Haseloff	CDU	Cabinet Haseloff I , II

Schleswig-Holstein

Situation in Germany
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State House , seat of the State Parliament in the state capital Kiel

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks
November 15, 1945 - April 19, 1947	Theodor Steltzer	CDU	Cabinet Steltzer I , II	Appointed by the United Kingdom (as Chief President until 23 August 1946)
April 29, 1947 - August 29, 1949	Hermann Lüdemann	SPD	Cabinet Lüdemann
August 29, 1949 - September 5, 1950	Bruno Diekmann	SPD	Cabinet Diekmann
September 5, 1950 - June 25, 1951	Walter Bartram	CDU	Bartram cabinet	resignation
June 25, 1951 - October 11, 1954	Friedrich Wilhelm Luebke	CDU	Cabinet Lübke I , II	Resignation for health reasons
October 11, 1954 - January 7, 1963	Kai-Uwe von Hassel	CDU	Cabinet of Hassel I , II	Resignation due to the upcoming appointment as Federal Minister of Defense
Jan. 7, 1963 - May 24, 1971	Helmut Lemke	CDU	Cabinet Lemke I , II	Resignation after the state elections in 1971 and change to the office of state parliament president
May 24, 1971 - October 4, 1982	Gerhard Stoltenberg	CDU	Cabinet Stoltenberg I , II , III	Resignation due to the upcoming appointment as Federal Minister of Finance
October 14, 1982 - October 2, 1987	Uwe Barschel	CDU	Cabinet Barschel I , II	Resignation because of the so-called " Barschel Affair "
October 2, 1987 - May 31, 1988	Henning Schwarz	CDU	Cabinet black	provisional
May 31, 1988 - May 4, 1993	Bjorn Engholm	SPD	Cabinet Engholm I , II	Resignation because of the so-called " drawer affair "
May 19, 1993 - April 27, 2005	Heath Simonis	SPD	Cabinet Simonis I , II , III	First woman as elected head of government in a German country. Withdrawal from state politics after the formation of a red-green minority government failed
April 27, 2005 - June 12, 2012	Peter Harry Carstensen	CDU	Cabinet Carstensen I , II	To state election in 2012 did not stand as the leading candidate of his party
June 12, 2012 - June 28, 2017	Torsten Albig	SPD	Cabinet Albig	Loss of office due to electoral defeat
Since June 28, 2017	Daniel Günther	CDU	Cabinet Günther

Thuringia

Situation in Germany
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State parliament in the state capital Erfurt

Term of office	Prime Minister	Political party	government	Remarks
June 15th - July 15th 1945	Hermann Brill	SPD	Cabinet Brill	Appointed by the USA and in July 1945 by the USSR
July 16, 1945 - September 1, 1947	Rudolf Paul	Independent / SED	Cabinet Paul I , II	Appointed by the USSR
October 9, 1947 - July 23, 1952	Werner Eggerath	SED	Cabinet Eggerath I , II	Semi-free election (1946) , fake election 1950
From July 25, 1952 to October 3, 1990, the state of Thuringia was suspended.
November 8, 1990 - February 5, 1992	Josef Duchač	CDU	Duchač cabinet	Resignation due to lack of support in his party
February 5, 1992 - June 5, 2003	Bernhard Vogel	CDU	Cabinet Vogel I , II , III	Resignation for reasons of age
June 5, 2003 - October 30, 2009	Dieter Althaus	CDU	Cabinet Althaus I , II	Resignation after significant loss of votes by the CDU in the 2009 state elections
October 30, 2009 - December 5, 2014	Christine Lieberknecht	CDU	Cabinet Lieberknecht	After the state elections in 2014 , the previous coalition partner, the SPD, decided against further cooperation
December 5, 2014 - February 5, 2020	Bodo Ramelow	left	Cabinet Ramelow I	Attempt of a red-red-green minority government after the state elections in 2019 , but in the third ballot for the office of prime minister with 44 to 45 votes defeated the competitor of the FDP
February 5, 2020 - March 4, 2020	Thomas Kemmerich	FDP	no cabinet	Resigned on February 8, 2020 due to the controversy surrounding the circumstances of his election . Then executive in office.
since March 4, 2020	Bodo Ramelow	left	Cabinet Ramelow II	Minority government

particularities

Prime Ministers per country

Most of the regularly elected (i.e. not appointed by the occupying powers or acting on a provisional basis) heads of government have seen the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, where the thirteenth First Mayor and Prime Minister are currently in power. In Bavaria the twelfth Prime Minister is currently in office and in Berlin (West) there were also twelve different governing mayors (from 1948 to 1991). In contrast, Malu Dreyer is only the seventh elected head of government in Rhineland-Palatinate. That is the lowest number if you consider the countries that have belonged to the Federal Republic in unchanged form since 1949.

The mayors of Berlin (East) and the Prime Ministers of the five eastern German states between 1949 and 1952 were not taken into account in this count. Among the eastern German states, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are the record holders with six prime ministers each. Brandenburg was governed most continuously (three Prime Ministers). If you count only the governing mayors in Berlin from 1990, i.e. from the first election to the House of Representatives after the unification of the previously divided city, you come to three.

Administration with interruption

A number of people have held the office of head of government intermittently.

Even before the Nazi era, Heinrich Drake was chairman of the state presidium in the Free State of Lippe in a position comparable to that of a prime minister, until he was replaced by a state government led by the NSDAP in 1933 and was briefly a member of the Reichstag. In 1945 the Allies made him head of government in Lippe and, for a short time, in Schaumburg-Lippe . The latter opened up in Lower Saxony in 1946 . Lippe was integrated into the newly formed North Rhine-Westphalia in 1947 . As a result, Drake was not only Prime Minister of two different countries, but also involved in the dissolution of these. From 1947 to 1966 he held various regional offices.

Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) was appointed Prime Minister of Bavaria by the US occupation forces in September 1945 . After the 1946 election , however, the CSU was by far the strongest force, whereupon the SPD entered into a coalition with the CSU as a junior partner and Hoegner remained in the government as deputy to Prime Minister Hans Ehard . In 1954, four parties under the leadership of the SPD formed a coalition against the CSU, whereby Hoegner was again prime minister. The coalition broke up in 1957, whereupon Hanns Seidel from the CSU became his successor.

Hans Ehard ( CSU ), in turn, also came to a second term. He was CSU Chairman for a few years and from 1955 President of the State Parliament, when he succeeded Hanns Seidel, who retired due to illness, in 1960 and remained in office until the end of 1962. Under his successor Alfons Goppel he remained Minister of Justice until 1966.

Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf ( SPD ) was appointed in August 1946 by the British occupying power as prime minister of the country Hanover and officiated after the merger the state of Lower Saxony until 1955. He retired then from politics, but in 1957, Interior Minister in the cabinet of Heinrich Hellwege of the DP , although its party had far fewer mandates than the SPD. In 1959 Kopf became Prime Minister again and remained in office until he died in late 1961.

Max Brauer (SPD) in Hamburg was elected first mayor in 1946 and lost this office after an election victory of the bourgeois Hamburg block . He returned in 1957 after a clear election victory, but resigned in 1960 and went into federal politics for some time.

Eberhard Diepgen ( CDU ) was elected Governing Mayor of Berlin in 1984. In the 1989 election he suffered an election defeat, in which the CDU was barely able to get the most votes and the coalition partner FDP passed the five percent hurdle , so that Walter Momper took over the office of the SPD. After reunification, the CDU was again clearly the strongest party in the 1990 election and Diepgen held office again until the coalition broke up after the Berlin banking scandal and he was voted out of office by a vote of no confidence.

Bodo Ramelow ( Die Linke ) was Prime Minister of Thuringia from 2014 to February 2020 at the head of a red-red-green coalition, which could no longer achieve a majority in the 2019 election . In the election for Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich was surprisingly elected by the FDP, which led to a government crisis. After Kemmerich's resignation, Ramelow returned to the office of Prime Minister in March 2020.

Administration in several countries

Prime ministers of several countries after 1945 were Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (one after the other from August to October 1946 in Hanover and from November 1946 in Lower Saxony), Heinrich Drake (simultaneously in Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe), Alfred Kubel (1946 in Braunschweig and 1970 to 1976 in Lower Saxony ). After the formation of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952, two former heads of government of the predecessor countries officiated as minister-presidents of the new state: first Reinhold Maier (previously Württemberg-Baden) and then Gebhard Müller (previously Württemberg-Hohenzollern). Bernhard Vogel, who ruled in Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia, is so far the only politician who has ruled in two states of the Federal Republic that are neither successor states nor neighboring states.

Particularly long terms in office

The record holder after term of office in a single country is the former Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Peter Altmeier, who was Prime Minister from 1947 to 1969 for a total of 21 years, ten months and nine days. Besides him, only the Saarland Prime Minister Franz-Josef Röder held office in a country for more than 20 years. The 20-year mark was narrowly missed by the Mayor of Bremen, Wilhelm Kaisen, who left office in 1965 twelve days before his twentieth anniversary in office, which would have taken place on August 1, 1965. Contrary to what is often reported in the media, Johannes Rau has also not reached his twentieth anniversary as Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia. He resigned on May 27, 1998, just under four months before his jubilee, which would have taken place on September 20, 1998.

The case of the CDU politician Bernhard Vogel, who was Prime Minister in two countries: from 1976 to 1988 in Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1992 to 2003 in Thuringia, is unique. He can look back on a total of 23 years, four months and five days in office as Prime Minister and was in office longer than his predecessor Peter Altmeier in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The current head of government (since March 14, 2018) is the Prime Minister of Hesse, who has been in office since August 2010, Volker Bouffier .

Particularly short terms of office

Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) was surprisingly elected prime minister on February 5, 2020 in the election against Bodo Ramelow (left) with 45 against 44 votes. His election led to the government crisis in Thuringia in 2020 . After only 3 days in office, he resigned from his office on February 8, 2020, but remained in office as managing director. On March 4, 2020, he was replaced by his predecessor Ramelow after just 28 days.

Heinrich Welsch was Prime Minister of Saarland from October 29, 1955 to January 10, 1956 (74 days).

Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) became Governing Mayor of Berlin on January 23, 1981, succeeding the resigned Dietrich Stobbe . After losing the House of Representatives election , he was voted out of office on June 11, 1981 after 4 months and 19 days in office.

Christoph Ahlhaus was elected First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on August 25, 2010 after the resignation of Ole von Beust . After losing the new election of the citizens , he was voted out of office on March 7, 2011 after 6 months and 13 days in office.

Christoph Bergner was elected Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt on December 2, 1993 after Werner Münch had resigned . After losing the state election in June 1994 , he was voted out of office on July 21, 1994 after 7 months and 19 days in office.

Gerd Gies (CDU) became the first Prime Minister of the re-established state of Saxony-Anhalt on October 28, 1990. Gies (and his entire government) resigned on July 4, 1991, after 9 months and 7 days in office.

Walter Bartram (CDU) became Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein on September 5, 1950. He resigned on June 25, 1951 after his party withdrew his trust. He was in office for 9 months and 20 days.

Prime Ministers

So far, six women have headed a German country; two are currently still in office:

Heide Simonis (SPD) led the state government of Schleswig-Holstein from May 19, 1993 to April 27, 2005. She was the first woman to head a state nationwide. The former finance minister took office after her predecessor Björn Engholm resigned and was confirmed in office in the 1996 and 2000 state elections. In 2005 she ran again and was also able to form a red-green coalition with tolerance of the SSW , but failed in the election as prime minister because a member of the parliamentary groups that supported her refused to vote. After four failed ballots, she withdrew.
Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) led the state government of the Free State of Thuringia from October 30, 2009 to December 5, 2014; she succeeded her party colleague Dieter Althaus, who resigned after the CDU lost a lot of votes in the 2009 state elections . After the state elections in 2014 , Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke) was elected as her successor.
Hannelore Kraft (SPD) was elected Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia on July 14, 2010. She is the first woman who succeeded in replacing an incumbent Prime Minister on the basis of a vote by the voters. However, it did not initially have its own majority, but led a red-green minority government . From November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011, she was the first female President of the Federal Council . From the state elections in 2012 to the state elections in 2017, she ruled with a majority government. Since her coalition lost its majority in the 2017 election, Armin Laschet was elected her successor on June 27, 2017.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) was elected Prime Minister by the Saarland state parliament on August 10, 2011 . She was previously Minister of Social Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Peter Müller, who resigned the day before. She led the Jamaica coalition until the beginning of 2012, but then resigned. After early elections , she led a grand coalition made up of CDU and SPD, which was confirmed in office after the 2017 state elections . After her election as CDU General Secretary, she resigned as Prime Minister at the end of February 2018.
Malu Dreyer (SPD) was elected Prime Minister by the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament on January 16, 2013. She was previously Minister for Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography in the cabinet of her predecessor Kurt Beck. Dreyer was confirmed in office after the state elections in 2016.
Manuela Schwesig (SPD) was elected Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on July 4, 2017 after Erwin Sellering's resignation due to health reasons. She was previously represented under Sellering as a minister in the state government from 2008 to 2013 and was Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth from 2013 to 2017 .

Top candidates

Including the aforementioned politicians, the following women have run as candidates from established parties in elections to the state parliament for the office of head of government (or have already been nominated as top candidates of their parties for upcoming elections):

Rita Süssmuth ( CDU ) in Lower Saxony in 1990 (although it was agreed that incumbent Ernst Albrecht would serve as Prime Minister for two more years after the state elections and Süssmuth would succeed him in 1992)
Anke Fuchs ( SPD ) in Saxony in 1990
Renate Schmidt (SPD) in 1994 and 1998 in Bavaria
Ingrid Stahmer (SPD) in Berlin in 1995
Heide Simonis (SPD) in 1996 , 2000 and 2005 in Schleswig-Holstein
Ute Vogt (SPD) 2001 and 2006 in Baden-Württemberg
Cornelia Pieper ( FDP ) 2002 in Saxony-Anhalt
Dagmar Enkelmann ( PDS ) 2004 in Brandenburg
Andrea Ypsilanti (SPD) in Hesse in 2008
Kerstin Kaiser ( Die Linke ) in Brandenburg in 2009
Johanna Wanka (CDU) in Brandenburg in 2009
Hannelore Kraft (SPD) 2010 , 2012 and 2017 in North Rhine-Westphalia
Julia Klöckner (CDU) in 2011 and 2016 in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rita Mohr-Lüllmann (CDU) 2011 in Bremen
Renate Künast ( Greens ) 2011 in Berlin
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) in Saarland in 2012 and 2017
Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) in Thuringia in 2014
Heike Taubert (SPD) in Thuringia in 2014
Elisabeth Motschmann (CDU) 2015 in Bremen
Katrin Budde (SPD) in Saxony-Anhalt in 2016
Malu Dreyer (SPD) 2016 in Rhineland-Palatinate
Anke Rehlinger (SPD) in Saarland in 2017
Natascha Kohnen (SPD) in Bavaria in 2018
Katharina Fegebank (Alliance 90 / The Greens) 2020 in Hamburg

Trivia

Bernhard Vogel and Hans-Jochen Vogel were the only brothers who were prime ministers.

Party affiliations

Number of prime ministers per party at the beginning of the year. The party (s) with the highest number is (are) highlighted.

year	CDU	CSU	SPD	LEFT	GREEN	DP	FDP
1950	4th	1	6th				1
1951	5	1	5				1
1952	5	1	5				1
1953	3	1	5				1
1954	6th	1	3
1955	6th		4th
1956	5		4th			1
1957	4th		5			1
1958	4th	1	5			1
1959	5	1	4th			1
1960	5	1	5
1961	5	1	5
1962	5	1	5
1963	5	1	5
1964	5	1	5
1965	5	1	5
1966	5	1	5
1967	4th	1	6th
1968	4th	1	6th
1969	4th	1	6th
1970	4th	1	6th
1971	4th	1	6th
1972	4th	1	6th
1973	4th	1	6th
1974	4th	1	6th
1975	4th	1	6th
1976	4th	1	6th
1977	5	1	5
1978	5	1	5
1979	5	1	5
1980	5	1	5
1981	5	1	5
1982	6th	1	4th
1983	6th	1	4th
1984	6th	1	4th
1985	6th	1	4th
1986	5	1	5
1987	5	1	5
1988	6th	1	4th
1989	5	1	5
1990	4th	1	6th
1991	7th	1	8th
1992	6th	1	9
1993	6th	1	9
1994	6th	1	9
1995	5	1	10
1996	5	1	10
1997	5	1	10
1998	5	1	10
1999	4th	1	11
2000	6th	1	9
2001	6th	1	9
2002	6th	1	9
2003	7th	1	8th
2004	8th	1	7th
2005	8th	1	7th
2006	10	1	5
2007	10	1	5
2008	10	1	5
2009	10	1	5
2010	10	1	5
2011	9	1	6th
2012	7th	1	7th		1
2013	6th	1	8th		1
2014	5	1	9		1
2015	4th	1	9	1	1
2016	4th	1	9	1	1
2017	4th	1	9	1	1
2018	6th	1	7th	1	1
2019	6th	1	7th	1	1
2020	6th	1	7th	1	1
current	6th	1	7th	1	1

So far most of the Prime Ministers of the federal states belonged to the parties of the SPD or CDU / CSU, exceptions are:

The FDP / DVP politician Reinhold Maier was Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden from 1949 to 1952 and subsequently Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1953.
From 1955 to 1959 Heinrich Hellwege ( German Party ) was Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.
Winfried Kretschmann of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen has been Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg since May 12, 2011 .
From December 5, 2014 to February 5, 2020, and again since March 4, 2020, Bodo Ramelow of the Left Party was Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia. This means that all parties represented in the Bundestag during the 18th electoral term simultaneously provided at least one Prime Minister - a novelty in the history of the Federal Republic.
On February 5, 2020, Thomas Kemmerich was elected by the FDP as Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia . He replaced Bodo Ramelow from the party Die Linke. On February 8, 2020, Thomas Kemmerich resigned as Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia, but remained in office until March 4, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ Lists of the Senate Chancellery / Press Office: First Mayor of Hamburg 1507–2008 i. V. m. Overview of the senates since 1945 and Schütt: Die Chronik Hamburgs , Chronik-Verlag 1991.

[1] Lists of the Senate Chancellery / Press Office: First Mayor of Hamburg 1507–2008 i. V. m. Overview of the senates since 1945 and Schütt: Die Chronik Hamburgs , Chronik-Verlag 1991.