List of foreign ministers of Prussia

This article lists foreign ministers of Prussia.

History

After the creation of the German Empire in 1871, the imperial chancellor was normally also foreign minister of the Kingdom of Prussia. However, during the chancellorship of Prince Hohenlohe (1894–1900), the position was held by the state secretaries for foreign affairs. The main building of the office was at Wilhelmstrasse.

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Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg	1768	1791
August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz	1808	1814
Karl August von Hardenberg	1814	1818
Christian Günther von Bernstorff	1818	1832
Friedrich Ancillon	1832	1837
Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther	1837	1841
Mortimer von Maltzan	1841	1842
Heinrich von Bülow	1842	1845
Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz	1845	March 1848
Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg	19 March 1848	21 March 1848	Government instability brought on by German revolutions of 1848–1849
Heinrich Alexander von Arnim	21 March 1848	19 June 1848
Alexander von Schleinitz	19 June 1848	25 June 1848	First term
Rudolf von Auerswald	25 June 1848	21 September 1848
August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff	21 September 1848	8 November 1848
Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg	8 November 1848	4 December 1848	First term
Hans Adolf Karl von Bülow [de]	4 December 1848	24 February 1849
Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow	24 February 1849	30 April 1849
Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg	30 April 1849	21 July 1849	Second term
Alexander von Schleinitz	21 July 1849	1850	Second term
Joseph von Radowitz	1850	1850
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel	1850	1858
Alexander von Schleinitz	1858	1861	Third term
Albrecht von Bernstorff	1861	1862
Otto von Bismarck	1862	1890	^[1]
Herbert von Bismarck	1890	1890	^[2]
Leo von Caprivi	1890	1894
Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein	1894	1897
Bernhard von Bülow	1897	1909
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg	1909	1917
Georg Michaelis	1917	1917
Georg von Hertling	1917	1918
Max von Baden	1918	1918	^[3]^[4]

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