Minister President of Prussia
Minister President of Prussia | |
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Otto von Bismarck, the most famous and longest serving officeholder | |
Residence | Berlin, Prussia |
Appointer |
King of Prussia: (1702–1918) Landtag of Prussia: (1918–1933) |
Formation | 1702 |
First holder |
Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (as Chief Minister) Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (as Minister President) |
Final holder | Hermann Göring |
Abolished | 23 April 1945 |
Succession | Office abolished |
The office of Minister President (German: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1702 until the abolition of Prussia in 1947.
History of the office
Under the Kingdom of Prussia the Minister President functioned as the chief minister of the King, and presided over the Landtag (the Prussian legislature established in 1848). After the unification of Germany in 1871 and until the collapse in 1918, the office of the Prussian Minister President was usually held ex officio by the Chancellor of the German Empire, beginning with the tenure of Otto von Bismarck.
Under the Weimar Republic the Minister President was the head of the state government in a more traditional parliamentary role. The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of political patronage title after Nazi Germany dismantled Prussia as a state in 1935 (Reichsstatthaltergesetz), and disappeared along with Prussia itself after World War II.
Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia (1702–1848)
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- 1702–1711: Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
- 1711–1728: Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen
- 1728–1739: Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
- 1739–1749: Heinrich von Podewils
- 1749–1753: Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg
- 1749–1777: Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
- 1777–1802: Friedrich Anton von Heinitz
- 1786–1798: Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim
- 1802–1804: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (1st term)
- 1804–1806: Count Karl August von Hardenberg (1st term)
- 1806Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (2nd term) : Count
- 1806–1807: Karl Friedrich von Beyme
- 1807Karl August von Hardenberg (2nd term) : Count
- 1807–1808: Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein
- 1808–1810: Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten
- 1810–1822: Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (3rd term)
- 1822–1823: Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß
- 1823–1841: Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum
- 1841–1848: Ludwig Gustav von Thile
Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)
Portrait | Name (Born–Died) |
Term of Office | Political Party | |||
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Took Office | Left Office | Days | ||||
Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868) |
19 March 1848 | 29 March 1848 | 10 | Non-partisan | ||
Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen (1803–1890) |
29 March 1848 | 20 June 1848 | 83 | Non-partisan | ||
Rudolf von Auerswald (1795–1866) |
25 June 1848 | 8 September 1848 | 75 | Non-partisan | ||
Ernst von Pfuel (1779–1866) |
21 September 1848 | 1 November 1848 | 41 | Non-partisan | ||
Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1792–1850) |
2 November 1848 | 6 November 1850 | 734 | Non-partisan | ||
Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805–1882) |
9 December 1850 | 6 November 1858 | 2889 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (1811–1885) |
6 November 1858 | 12 March 1862 | 1222 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797–1873) |
17 March 1862 | 23 September 1862 | 190 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Otto von Bismarck (1st term) (1815–1898) |
23 September 1862 | 1 January 1873 | 3753 | Non-partisan | ||
Count Albrecht von Roon (1803–1879) |
1 January 1873 | 9 November 1873 | 312 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Otto von Bismarck (2nd term) (1815–1898) |
9 November 1873 | 20 March 1890 | 5975 | Non-partisan | ||
Count Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899) |
20 March 1890 | 22 March 1892 | 733 | Non-partisan | ||
Count Botho zu Eulenburg (1831–1912) |
22 March 1892 | 26 October 1894 | 948 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901) |
29 October 1894 | 17 October 1900 | 2179 | Non-partisan | ||
Prince Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929) |
17 October 1900 | 14 July 1909 | 3192 | Non-partisan | ||
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) |
14 July 1909 | 13 July 1917 | 2921 | Non-partisan | ||
Georg Michaelis (1857–1936) |
14 July 1917 | 1 November 1917 | 110 | Non-partisan | ||
Count Georg von Hertling (1843–1919) |
1 November 1917 | 30 September 1918 | 333 | Centre | ||
Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929) |
3 October 1918 | 9 November 1918 | 37 | Non-partisan |
Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia (1918–1947)
Political Party: SPD Zentrum NSDAP None
Portrait | Name (Born–Died) |
Term of Office | Political Party | |||
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Took Office | Left Office | Days | ||||
Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic | ||||||
Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925) |
9 November 1918 | 11 November 1918 | 2 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Paul Hirsch (1868–1940) |
11 November 1918 | 27 March 1920 | 502 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Otto Braun (1st term) (1872–1955) |
27 March 1920 | 21 April 1921 | 390 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Adam Stegerwald (1874–1945) |
21 April 1921 | 5 November 1921 | 198 | Centre Party | ||
Otto Braun (2nd term) (1872–1955) |
5 November 1921 | 18 February 1925 | 1201 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Wilhelm Marx (1863–1946) |
18 February 1925 | 6 April 1925 | 47 | Centre Party | ||
Otto Braun (3rd term) (1872–1955) |
6 April 1925 | 20 July 1932 | 2662 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Franz von Papen (1879–1969) |
Reichskommisar | 136 | Non-partisan | |||
20 July 1932 | 3 December 1932 | |||||
Kurt von Schleicher (1882–1934) |
Reichskommisar | 56 | Non-partisan | |||
3 December 1932 | 28 January 1933 | |||||
Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia in Nazi Germany | ||||||
Franz von Papen (1879–1969) |
30 January 1933 | 10 April 1933 | 70 | Non-partisan | ||
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) |
Ministerpräsident | 4396 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |||
10 April 1933 | 23 April 1945 | |||||
Reichsstatthalter | 3736 | |||||
30 January 1935 | 23 April 1945 | |||||
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) |
Reichsstatthalter | 730 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |||
30 January 1933 | 30 January 1935 |
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