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 16 February 2012.
Rank | Ministerpräsident | Period in office | Duration (Years/Days) | States of Germany |
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1 | Bernhard Vogel | 2 December 1976 - 8 December 1988 5 February 1992 - 5 June 2003 |
23 years, 135 days | Rhineland-Palatinate; Thuringia |
2 | Peter Altmeier | 9 July 1947 - 19 May 1969 | 21 years, 314 days | Rhineland-Palatinate |
3 | Franz-Josef Röder | 30 April 1959 - 26 June 1979 | 20 years, 57 days | Saarland |
4 | Wilhelm Kaisen | 1 August 1945 - 20 July 1965 | 19 years, 353 days | Bremen |
5 | Johannes Rau | 20 September 1978 - 27 May 1998 | 19 years, 249 days | North Rhine-Westphalia |
6 | Georg August Zinn | 14 December 1950 - 3 October 1969 | 18 years, 293 days | Hesse |
7 | Hans Koschnick | 28 November 1967 - 18 September 1985 | 17 years, 294 days | Bremen |
8 | Kurt Beck | since 26 October 1994 | 17 years, 134 days | Rhineland-Palatinate |
9 | Alfons Goppel | 11 December 1962 - 7 November 1978 | 15 years, 331 days | Bavaria |
10 | Eberhard Diepgen | 9 February 1984 - 16 March 1989 24 January 1991 - 16 June 2001 |
15 years, 178 days | West Berlin; Berlin |
11 | Ernst Albrecht | 6 February 1976 - 21 June 1990 | 14 years, 135 days | Lower Saxony |
12 | Edmund Stoiber | 28 May 1993 - 9 October 2007 | 14 years, 134 days | Bavaria |
13 | Erwin Teufel | 22 January 1991 - 21 April 2005 | 14 years, 89 days | Baden-Württemberg |
14 | Oskar Lafontaine | 9 April 1985 - 10 November 1998 | 13 years, 215 days | Saarland |
15 | Lothar Späth | 30 August 1978 - 22 January 1991 | 12 years, 145 days | Baden-Württemberg |
16 | Heide Simonis | 19 May 1993 - 27 April 2005 | 11 years, 343 days | Schleswig-Holstein |
17 | Peter Müller | 29 September 1999 - 10 August 2011 | 11 years, 315 days | Saarland |
18 | Heinz Kühn | 8 December 1966 - 20 September 1978 | 11 years, 286 days | North Rhine-Westphalia |
19 | Hans Filbinger | 16 December 1966 - 30 August 1978 | 11 years, 257 days | Baden-Württemberg |
20 | Manfred Stolpe | 1 November 1990 - 26 June 2002 | 11 years, 237 days | Brandenburg |
21 | Kurt Biedenkopf | 27 October 1990 - 18 April 2002 | 11 years, 173 days | Saxony |
22 | Roland Koch | 7 April 1999 - 31 August 2010 | 11 years, 146 days | Hesse |
23 | Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf | 23 August 1946 - 26 May 1955 12 May 1959 - 29 December 1961 |
11 years, 142 days | Lower Saxony |
24 | Gerhard Stoltenberg | 24 May 1971 - 4 October 1982 | 11 years, 133 days | Schleswig-Holstein |
25 | Hans Ehard | 21 December 1946 - 14 December 1954 26 January 1960 - 11 December 1962 |
10 years, 312 days | Bavaria |
26 | Holger Börner | 12 October 1976 - 23 April 1987 | 10 years, 193 days | Hesse |
27 | Klaus Wowereit | since 16 June 2001 | 10 years, 266 days | Berlin |
28 | Henning Scherf | 4 July 1995 - 7 November 2005 | 10 years, 126 days | Bremen |
29 | Max Brauer | 22 November 1946 - 2 December 1953 4 December 1957 - 1 January 1961 |
10 years, 38 days | Hamburg |
30 | Franz Josef Strauß | 7 November 1978 - 19 October 1988 | 9 years, 347 days | Bavaria |