List of minister-presidents of Hesse
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The minister-president of Hesse (German: Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen), 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.
| Minister-President of Hesse | |
|---|---|
| Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen | |
Coat of arms of Hesse | |
| 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 | Official website |
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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.
Historical background
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 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
Grand Duchy of Hesse (1819–1918)
- Minister-presidents of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- 1819–1829: Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman
- 1829–1848: Karl du Thil
- 1848: Heinrich 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
People's State of Hesse (1919–1945)
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
| Presidents of the People's State of Hesse | ||||||
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Carl Ulrich (1853–1933) |
21 January 1919 | 14 February 1928 | 3311 | Social Democratic Party | |
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Bernhard Adelung (1876–1943) |
14 February 1928 | 13 March 1933 | 1854 | Social Democratic Party | |
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Ferdinand Werner (1876–1961) |
13 March 1933 | 20 September 1933 | 191 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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Philipp Wilhelm Jung (1884–1965) |
20 September 1933 | 1 March 1935 | 527 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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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 (1945–present)
- Minister-President of the State of Hesse
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| 1 | Karl Geiler (1878–1953) |
16 October 1945 | 20 December 1946 | 1 year, 65 days | Independent | I | |
| 2 |  |
Christian Stock (1884–1967) |
20 December 1946 | 14 December 1950 | 3 years, 359 days | SPD | I |
| 3 |  |
Georg-August Zinn (1901–1976) |
14 December 1950 | 3 October 1969 | 18 years, 293 days | SPD | I II III IV V |
| 4 |  |
Albert Osswald (1919–1996) |
3 October 1969 | 16 October 1976 (resigned) |
7 years, 13 days | SPD | I II III |
| 5 |  |
Holger Börner (1931–2006) |
16 October 1976 | 23 April 1987 | 10 years, 189 days | SPD | I II III |
| 6 |  |
Walter Wallmann (1932–2013) |
23 April 1987 | 5 April 1991 | 3 years, 347 days | CDU | I |
| 7 |  |
Hans Eichel (born 1941) |
5 April 1991 | 7 April 1999 | 8 years, 2 days | SPD | I II |
| 8 |  |
Roland Koch (born 1958) |
7 April 1999 | 31 August 2010 (resigned) |
11 years, 146 days | CDU | I II III |
| 9 |  |
Volker Bouffier (born 1951) |
31 August 2010 | 31 May 2022 resigned |
11 years, 273 days | CDU | I II III |
| 10 |  |
Boris Rhein (born 1972) |
31 May 2022 | Incumbent | 4 years, 54 days | CDU | I II |