List of Ministers-President of Saxony

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Leaders of the Government (Vorsitzende des Gesamtministeriums) in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and Ministers-President (Ministerpräsidenten) of the Free State of Saxony since 1918 are listed below.

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[edit] Leaders of the Government of the Kingdom of Saxony (1831-1918)

Name Term start Term End
Bernhard August von Lindenau 1 December 1831 September 1843
Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz September 1843 13 March 1848
Alexander Karl Hermann Braun 16 March 1848 24 February 1849
Gustav Friedrich Held 24 February 1849 2 May 1849
Ferdinand Zschinsky 2 May 1849 28 October 1858
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust 28 October 1858 15 August 1866
Johann Paul von Falkenstein October 1866 1 October 1871
Richard Freiherr von Friesen 1 October 1871 1 November 1876
Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice 1 November 1876 25 March 1891
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber 25 March 1891 23 December 1891
Julius Hans von Tümmel December 1891 12 February 1895
Heinrich Rudolf Schurig 12 February 1895 15 June 1901
Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach 15 June 1901 30 April 1906
Konrad Wilhelm Rüger 30 April 1906 1 December 1910
Victor Alexander von Otto 1 December 1910 21 May 1912
Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen 26 July 1912 21 May 1914
Heinrich Gustav Beck 21 May 1914 26 October 1918
Rudolf Heinze 26 October 1918 13 November 1918

[edit] Leaders of the Government of Free State of Saxony during the German Revolution and the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)

Name Term start Term end Party
Leader of the Council of the People's Deputies
Richard Lipinski 15 November 1918 21 January 1919 USPD
Georg Gradnauer 21 January 1919 14 March 1919 SPD
Ministers-President
Georg Gradnauer 14 March 1919 4 May 1920 SPD
Wilhelm Buck 4 May 1920 21 March 1923 SPD
Erich Zeigner 21 March 1923 29 October 1923 SPD
Rudolf Heinze 29 October 1923 31 October 1923 DVP
Alfred Karl Fellisch 31 October 1923 4 January 1924 SPD
Max Heldt 4 January 1924 26 June 1929 SPD/ASPS
Wilhelm Bünger 26 June 1929 18 February 1930 DVP
Walther Schieck 6 May 1930 10 March 1933 DVP

[edit] Minister-Presidents in the Third Reich (1933-1945)

Name Term start Term end Party
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger 10 March 1933 28 February 1935 NSDAP
Martin Mutschmann 1 March 1935 7 May 1945 NSDAP

[edit] Minister-Presidents of Saxony in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic (1945-1952)

Name Term start Term end Party
Rudolf Friedrichs 4 July 1945 13 June 1947 SPD/SED
Max Seydewitz 31 July 1947 23 July 1952 SED

From 1952 to 1990 the Land of Saxony was abolished.

[edit] Minister-Presidents of Free State of Saxony in the Federal Republic of Germany (1990-Present)

Name Term start Term end Party
Kurt Biedenkopf 8 November 1990 18 April 2002 CDU
Georg Milbradt 18 April 2002 28 May 2008 CDU
Stanislaw Tillich 28 May 2008 in office CDU