List of Ministers-President of Bavaria

This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister President or equivalent office in Bavaria from the 17th century to the present:

Contents

Geheime Ratskanzler

Ministers of Foreign Affairs, since 1806 Ministers of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs

Before 1849 Bavaria had no actual Prime Minister, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs was the most senior of the ministers.

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

The office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers was established in 1849. With one exception (1880-1890), the Chairman was always the Foreign Minister.

Ministers-President of the Free State of Bavaria

Name Picture Period of office Party
Kurt Eisner 8 November 1918 -
21 February 1919		 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
Johannes Hoffmann 17 March 1919 -
16 March 1920		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Gustav Ritter von Kahr 16 March 1920 -
21 September 1921		 None (national conservative)
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf
Köfering und Schönberg		 21 September 1921 -
8 November 1922		 Bavarian People's Party
Eugen Ritter von Knilling 8 November 1922 -
1 July 1924		 Bavarian People's Party
Gustav Ritter von Kahr Generalstaatskommissar
25 September 1923 -
17 February 1924		 None (national conservative)
Heinrich Held 2 July 1924 -
9 March 1933		 Bavarian People's Party
Franz Ritter von Epp Reichkomissar
10 March -
10 April 1933
Reichsstatthalter
10 April 1933 -
April 1945		 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Ludwig Siebert 12 April 1933 -
1 November 1942		 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Paul Giesler 2 November 1942 -
29 April 1945		 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Fritz Schäffer 28 May 1945 -
28 September 1945		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Wilhelm Hoegner 28 September 1945 -
16 December 1946		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Hans Ehard 21 December 1946 -
14 December 1954		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Wilhelm Hoegner 14 December 1954 -
8 October 1957		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Hanns Seidel 16 October 1957 -
22 January 1960		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Hans Ehard 26 January 1960 -
11 December 1962		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Alfons Goppel 11 December 1962 -
6 November 1978		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Franz Josef Strauss 6 November 1978 -
3 October 1988		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Max Streibl 19 October 1988 -
27 May 1993		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Edmund Stoiber 28 May 1993 -
30 September 2007		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Günther Beckstein 9 October 2007 -
27 October 2008		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Horst Seehofer 27 October 2008 -
Present		 Christian Social Union of Bavaria

See also

External links

"Die Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten seit 1945 (in German)". Bavarian government. http://www.bayern.de/Ministerpraesidenten-seit-1945-.260/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-10. 

Ministers-President of the Free State of Bavaria
Revolutionary period (1918-1919)
Weimar period (1919-1933)
Nazi period (1933-1945)
Modern Bavaria (since 1945)