Prussian Minister of War

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The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaty of Paris. The War Ministry was to help bring the army under constitutional control, and, along with the General Staff systematize the conduct of warfare. Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the most prominent and influential of the reformers, served as acting war minister from roughly 1808 until 1810 (he was also Chief of the General Staff).

Prussian Ministers of War, 1808 - 1918
Minister	Years
Gerhard von Scharnhorst	1 March 1808–17 June 1810
Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake	17 June 1810–August 1813
Hermann von Boyen	3 June 1814–November 1819
Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake	November 1819–October 1833
Job von Witzleben	October 1833–1837
Gustav von Rauch	1837–1 March 1841
Hermann von Boyen	1 March 1841–6 October 1847
Ferdinand von Rohr	6 October 1847–2 April 1848
Karl von Reyher	2 April 1848–26 April 1848
August Wilhelm Graf von Kanitz	26 April 1848–16 June 1848
Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Shreckenstein	16 June 1848–7 September 1848
Ernst von Pfuel	7 September 1848–2 November 1848
Karl von Strotha	2 November 1848–27 February 1850
August von Stockhausen	27 February 1850–31 December 1851
Eduard von Bonin	31 December 1851–1854
Friedrich Graf von Waldersee	1854–6 November 1858
Eduard von Bonin	6 November 1858–28 November 1859
Albrecht Graf von Roon	5 December 1859–9 November 1873
Georg von Kameke	9 November 1873–3 March 1883
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf	3 March 1883–8 April 1889
Julius von Verdy du Vernois	8 April 1889–4 October 1890
Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachau	4 October 1890–19 October 1893
Walther Bronsart von Schellendorf	19 October 1893–14 August 1896
Heinrich von Gossler	14 August 1896–15 August 1903
Karl von Einem	15 August 1903–11 August 1909
Josias von Heeringen	11 August 1909–7 June 1913
Erich von Falkenhayn	7 June 1913–21 January 1915
Adolf Wild von Hohenborn	21 January 1915–29 October 1916
Hermann von Stein	29 October 1916–9 October 1918
Heinrich Scheuch	9 October 1918–9 November 1918
Walther Reinhardt†	2 January 1919–13 February 1919

for further succession, see Defence Minister of Germany

†Between 9 November 1918 and 2 January 1919 there was no Prussian Minister of War.