List of longest governing German Ministers-Presidents
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This is a list of the 30 longest governing Ministers-Presidents of Germany since 1945 by time in office. Where the person in question is still governing, the time is calculated up to June 15, 2008.
| Rank | Ministerpräsident | Date of Governing | Duration (Years/Days) | States of Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernhard Vogel | 2. December 1976 - 8. December 1988 5. February 1992 - 5. June 2003 |
23y 135d | Rhineland-Palatinate; Thuringia |
| 2 | Peter Altmeier | 9. July 1947 - 19. May 1969 | 21y 314d | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 3 | Franz-Josef Röder | 30. April 1959 - 26. June 1979 | 20y 57d | Saarland |
| 4 | Wilhelm Kaisen | 1. August 1945 - 20. July 1965 | 19y 353d | Bremen |
| 5 | Georg August Zinn | 14. December 1950 - 3. October 1969 | 19y 293d | Hesse |
| 6 | Hans Koschnick | 28. November 1967 - 18. September 1985 | 17y 294d | Bremen |
| 7 | Alfons Goppel | 11. December 1962 - 7. November 1978 | 15y 331d | Bavaria |
| 8 | Eberhard Diepgen | 9. February 1984 - 16. March 1989 24. January 1991 - 16. June 2001 |
15y 178d | West Berlin; Berlin |
| 9 | Ernst Albrecht | 6. February 1976 - 21. June 1990 | 14y 135d | Lower Saxony |
| 10 | Edmund Stoiber | 28. May 1993 - 09. October 2007 | 14y 134d | Bavaria |
| 11 | Erwin Teufel | 22. January 1991 - 21. April 2005 | 14y 89d | Baden-Württemberg |
| 12 | Kurt Beck | since 26. October 1994 | 13y 233d | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 13 | Oskar Lafontaine | 9. April 1985 - 10. November 1998 | 13y 215d | Saarland |
| 14 | Manfred Stolpe | 1. November 1990 - 26. June 2002 | 12y 237d | Brandenburg |
| 15 | Lothar Späth | 30. August 1978 - 22. January 1991 | 12y 145d | Baden-Württemberg |
| 16 | Heinz Kühn | 8. December 1966 - 20. September 1978 | 11y 286d | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 17 | Hans Filbinger | 16. December 1966 - 30. August 1978 | 11y 257d | Baden-Württemberg |
| 18 | Kurt Biedenkopf | 27. October 1990 - 18. April 2002 | 11y 173d | Saxony |
| 19 | Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf | 23. August 1946 - 26.May 1955 12. May 1959 - 29. December 1961 |
11y 142d | Lower Saxony |
| 20 | Hans Ehard | 21. December 1946- 14. December 1954 26. January 1960 - 11. Dezember 1962 |
10y 312d | Baden-Württemberg |
| 21 | Holger Börner | 12. October 1976 - 23. April 1987 | 10y 193d | Hesse |
| 22 | Max Brauer | 22. November 1946 - 2. December 1953 4. December 1957 - 1. January 1961 |
10y 38d | Hamburg |
| 23 | Franz Josef Strauß | 7. November 1978 - 19. October 1988 | 9y 347d | Bavaria |
| 24 | Klaus Wedemeier | 18. September 1985 - 04. July 1995 | 9y 289d | Bremen |
| 25 | Johannes Rau | 20. September 1978 - 27. May 1998 | 9y 249d | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 26 | Harald Ringstorff | since 03. November 1998 | 9y 225d | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 27 | Klaus Schütz | 19. October 1967 - 2. May 1977 | 9y 195d | West Berlin |
| 28 | Henning Voscherau | 8. June 1988 - 12. November 1997 | 9y 157d | Hamburg |
| 29 | Helmut Lemke | 07. January 1963 - 24. May 1971 | 9y 137d | Schleswig-Holstein |
| 30 | Roland Koch | since 07. April 1999 | 9y 69d | Hesse |
