Minister President of Prussia

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Politics of Prussia

Minister President of Prussia

The office of Minister President (German: Ministerpräsident) or Prime Minister of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1702 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947. When Prussia was an independent kingdom (since 1701) the Minister President or Prime Minister functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the unification of Germany in 1871 until the collapse in 1918 the office of the Prussian Prime Minister was usually held jointly by the Imperial Chancellor. Under the Weimar Republic the Prime Minister was head of the state government (a more traditional parliamentary role). The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of nobility title after the Nazi dismantlement of Prussia as a state in 1935, and disappeared along with Prussia itself after World War II.

[edit] Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia

Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg 1702-1711
Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen 1711-1728
Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow 1728-1739
Heinrich von Podewils 1739-1749
Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1749-1753
Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein 1749-1777
Friedrich Anton von Heinitz 1777-1802
Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim 1786-1798
Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1802-1804 (1st term)
Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1804-1806 (1st term)
Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1806 (2nd term)
Karl Friedrich von Beyme 1806-1807
Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1807 (2nd term)
Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein 1807-1808
Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten 1808-1810
Prince Karl August von Hardenberg 1810-1822 (3rd term)
Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß 1822-1823
Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum 1823-1841
Ludwig Gustav von Thile 1841-1848

[edit] Minister-Presidents of the Kingdom of Prussia

Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1848
Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen 1848
Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald 1848
Ernst von Pfuel 1848
Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 1848-1850
Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel 1850-1858
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1858-1862
Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen 1862
Prince Otto von Bismarck 1862-1873 (1st term)
Count Albrecht von Roon 1873
Prince Otto von Bismarck 1873-1890 (2nd term)
Count Leo von Caprivi 1890-1892
Count Botho zu Eulenburg 1892-1894
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1894-1900
Count Bernhard von Bülow 1900-1909
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg 1909-1917
Georg Michaelis 1917
Count Georg von Hertling 1917-1918
Prince Maximilian of Baden 1918

[edit] Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia

Name	Period of office	Party
Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic
Friedrich Ebert	9 November 1918 - 11 November 1918	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Paul Hirsch	11 November 1918 - 27 March 1920	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Otto Braun	27 March 1920 - 21 April 1921	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Adam Stegerwald	21 April 1921 - 5 November 1921	Centre Party
Otto Braun	5 November 1921 - 18 February 1925	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Wilhelm Marx	18 February 1925 - 6 April 1925	Centre Party
Otto Braun	6 April 1925 - 20 July 1932	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Franz von Papen	Reichskommisar 20 July - 3 December 1932	None
Kurt von Schleicher	Reichskommisar 3 December 1932 - 28 January 1933	None
Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Third Reich
Franz von Papen	30 January - 10 April 1933	None
Hermann Göring	Ministerpräsident 10 April 1933 - 24 April 1945 Reichsstatthalter 30 January 1935 - 24 April 1945	National Socialist German Workers' Party
Adolf Hitler	Reichsstatthalter 30 January 1933 - 30 January 1935	National Socialist German Workers' Party