List of Ministers-President of Bavaria

This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister President or equivalent office in Bavaria from the 17th century to the present:

Geheime Ratskanzler [edit]

Privy Council chancellors (Geheime Ratskanzler) were:

Johann Rudolf von Wämpl 1695-1704
Vacant 1704-1714
Baron Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl 1726-1749
Baron von Praidlohn 1749–1758
Baron Wiguläus Xaverius Aloysius von Kreittmayr 1758-1790

Ministers of Foreign Affairs, since 1806 Ministers of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs [edit]

Before 1849 Bavaria had no actual head of government, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs was the most senior of the ministers.

Count Franz Joseph von Berchem 1745-1777
Count Matthäus von Vieregg 1777-1799
Count Maximilian von Montgelas 1799-1817
Count Heinrich Aloys von Reigersberg 1817-1825
Baron Georg Friedrich von Zentner 1825-1832
Friedrich August Koch 1832-1837
Karl von Abel 1837-1847
Baron Friedrich August von Zu Rhein 1847
Prince Ludwig of Öttingen-Wallerstein 1847-1848
Count Klemens von Waldkirch March 14, 1848-April 29, 1848
Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg 1848-1849 (1st term)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers [edit]

The office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers was established in 1849. With one exception (1880-1890), the Chairman was always the Foreign Minister.

Baron Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten 1849-1859 (1st term)
Baron Karl von Schrenck 1859-1864
Max Ritter von Neumayr 1864
Baron Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten 1864-1866 (2nd term)
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1866-1870
Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg 1870-1871 (2nd term)
Baron Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux 1871-1872
Adolph von Pfretzschner 1872-1880
Baron Johann von Lutz 1880-1890
Baron Krafft von Crailsheim 1890-1903
Count Clemens von Podewils-Dürnitz 1903-1912
Count Georg von Hertling 1912-1917
Otto Ritter von Dandl 1917-1918

Ministers-President of the Free State of Bavaria [edit]

Name	Period of office	Party
Kurt Eisner	8 November 1918 - 21 February 1919	Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
Johannes Hoffmann	17 March 1919 - 16 March 1920	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Gustav Ritter von Kahr	16 March 1920 - 21 September 1921	None (national conservative)
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg	21 September 1921 - 8 November 1922	Bavarian People's Party
Eugen Ritter von Knilling	8 November 1922 - 1 July 1924	Bavarian People's Party
Gustav Ritter von Kahr	Generalstaatskommissar 25 September 1923 - 17 February 1924	None (national conservative)
Heinrich Held	2 July 1924 - 9 March 1933	Bavarian People's Party
Franz Ritter von Epp	Reichkomissar 10 March - 10 April 1933 Reichsstatthalter 10 April 1933 - April 1945	National Socialist German Workers' Party
Ludwig Siebert	12 April 1933 - 1 November 1942	National Socialist German Workers' Party
Paul Giesler	2 November 1942 - 29 April 1945	National Socialist German Workers' Party
Fritz Schäffer	28 May 1945 - 28 September 1945	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Wilhelm Hoegner	28 September 1945 - 16 December 1946	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Hans Ehard	21 December 1946 - 14 December 1954	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Wilhelm Hoegner	14 December 1954 - 8 October 1957	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Hanns Seidel	16 October 1957 - 22 January 1960	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Hans Ehard	26 January 1960 - 11 December 1962	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Alfons Goppel	11 December 1962 - 6 November 1978	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Franz Josef Strauss	6 November 1978 - 3 October 1988	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Max Streibl	19 October 1988 - 27 May 1993	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Edmund Stoiber	28 May 1993 - 30 September 2007	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Günther Beckstein	9 October 2007 - 27 October 2008	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Horst Seehofer	27 October 2008 - Present	Christian Social Union of Bavaria