List of minister-presidents of Hesse
Minister-President of Hesse | |
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Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen | |
Residence | Wiesbaden |
Appointer | Landtag of Hesse |
Term length | Pending resignation or the election of a successor |
Inaugural holder | Ludwig Bergsträsser (Greater Hesse) |
Formation | 16 September 1945 |
Website | https://staatskanzlei.hessen.de/ |
The Minister-President of Hesse (German: Ministerpräsident des Landes Hesse), also referred to as the Premier or Minister President (also translated into English as the Prime minister of Hessen[1]), is the head of government of the German state of Hesse. The position in its current form was created in 1946, when the provisional state of Greater Hesse was renamed. Greater Hesse had been formed in 1945 after the Second World War from the Prussian Provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau (formed from the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau in 1944) and the People's State of Hesse. The current Minister-President is Volker Bouffier, heading a coalition government between the Christian Democrats and the Greens. Bouffier succeeded Roland Koch following his departure from active politics.
The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Hessische Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Wiesbaden, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
The state of Hesse sees itself in the tradition notably of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the People's State of Hesse (colloquially known as "Hesse-Darmstadt"), having adopted many of its symbols.
List
Ministers-President of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- 1819–1829: Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman
- 1829–1848: Karl du Thil
- 1848Heinrich von Gagern :
- 1848–1850: Heinrich Karl Jaup
- 1852–1871: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk
- 1871–1872: Friedrich von Lindelof
- 1872–1876: Karl von Hofmann
- 1876–1884: Julius Rinck von Starck
- 1884–1898: Jacob Finger
- 1898–1906: Karl Rothe
- 1906–1918: Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald
Presidents of the People's State of Hesse
Portrait | Name (Born–Died) |
Term of Office | Political Party | |||
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Took Office | Left Office | Days | ||||
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" | | Carl Ulrich (1853–1933) |
21 January 1919 | 14 February 1928 | 3311 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Germany/meta/color;" | | Bernhard Adelung (1876–1943) |
14 February 1928 | 13 March 1933 | 1854 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
style="background:Template:Nazi Party/meta/color;" | | Ferdinand Werner (1876–1961) |
13 March 1933 | 20 September 1933 | 191 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
style="background:Template:Nazi Party/meta/color;" | | Philipp Wilhelm Jung (1884–1965) |
20 September 1933 | 1 March 1935 | 527 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Nazi Party/meta/color;" | | Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) |
Reichsstatthalter | c. 4320 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
5 May 1933 | March 1945 | |||||
Präsident | c. 3650 | |||||
1 March 1935 | March 1945 |
Hesse since 1945
See also
References
- ^ "Volker Bouffier". english.hessen.de. Hessen Government. Retrieved 2 November 2015.