Minister President of Prussia
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Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia | |
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| Appointer |
King of Prussia: (1702-1918) Landtag of Prussia: (1918-1933) |
| Formation | 1702 |
| First holder |
Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (as Chief Minister) Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (as Minister President) |
| Final holder | Hermann Göring |
| Abolished | 1945 |
| Succession | No immediate successor |
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The office of Minister President (German: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1702 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947.
When Prussia was an independent kingdom (since 1701), the Minister President functioned as the King's chief minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian legislature established in 1848). After the unification of Germany in 1871 and until the collapse in 1918, the office of the Prussian Minister President was usually held jointly by the Imperial Chancellor, beginning with the tenure of Otto von Bismarck.
Under the Weimar Republic the Minister President was the head of the state government in a more traditional parliamentary role. The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of political patronage title after the Nazi dismantlement of Prussia as a state in 1935, and disappeared along with Prussia itself after World War II.
Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia (1702–1848)
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| Minister President of Prussia |
| German General Staff |
| Prussian Minister of War |
| Foreign Minister of Prussia |
| Interior Minister of Prussia |
- Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg 1702–1711
- Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen 1711–1728
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow 1728–1739
- Heinrich von Podewils 1739–1749
- Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1749–1753
- Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein 1749–1777
- Friedrich Anton von Heinitz 1777–1802
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim 1786–1798
- Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1802–1804 (1st term)
- Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1804–1806 (1st term)
- Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1806 (2nd term)
- Karl Friedrich von Beyme 1806–1807
- Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1807 (2nd term)
- Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein 1807–1808
- Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten 1808–1810
- Prince Karl August von Hardenberg 1810–1822 (3rd term)
- Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß 1822–1823
- Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum 1823–1841
- Ludwig Gustav von Thile 1841–1848
Minister-Presidents of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)
| Name | Picture | Period of office | Notes |
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| Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg |  | 19 March 1848 – 29 March 1848 | |
| Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen |  | 29 March 1848 – 20 June 1848 | |
| Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald |  | 25 June 1848 – 8 September 1848 | |
| Ernst von Pfuel |  | 21 September 1848 – 1 November 1848 | |
| Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg |  | 2 November 1848 – 6 November 1850 | |
| Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel | .jpg) | 9 December 1850 – 6 November 1858 | |
| Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |  | 6 November 1858 – 12 March 1862 | |
| Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | 17 March 1862 – 23 September 1862 | ||
| Prince Otto von Bismarck |  | 23 September 1862 – 22 December 1873 | 1st term From 1871 onwards, also served as Imperial Chancellor |
| Count Albrecht von Roon |  | 1 January 1873 – 9 November 1873 | Did not serve as Imperial Chancellor |
| Prince Otto von Bismarck | | 9 November 1873 – 20 March 1890 | 2nd term |
| Count Leo von Caprivi |  | 20 March 1890 – 22 March 1892 | |
| Count Botho zu Eulenburg |  | 22 March 1892 – 26 October 1894 | Did not serve as Imperial Chancellor |
| Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst |  | 29 October 1894 – 17 October 1900 | |
| Count Bernhard von Bülow |  | 17 October 1900 – 13 July 1909 | |
| Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg |  | 14 July 1909 – 13 July 1917 | |
| Georg Michaelis |  | 14 July 1917 – 31 October 1917 | He was the first non-noble to hold the office. |
| Count Georg von Hertling |  | 1 November 1917 – 30 September 1918 | |
| Prince Maximilian of Baden |  | 3 October 1918 – 9 November 1918 | |
Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia (1918–1947)
| Name | Picture | Period of office | Party |
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| Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic | |||
| Friedrich Ebert |  | 9 November 1918 – 11 November 1918 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Paul Hirsch | 11 November 1918 – 27 March 1920 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
| Otto Braun |  | 27 March 1920 – 21 April 1921 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Adam Stegerwald |  | 21 April 1921 – 5 November 1921 | Centre Party |
| Otto Braun | | 5 November 1921 – 18 February 1925 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Wilhelm Marx |  | 18 February 1925 – 6 April 1925 | Centre Party |
| Otto Braun | | 6 April 1925 – 20 July 1932 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Franz von Papen |  | Reichskommisar 20 July – 3 December 1932 | None |
| Kurt von Schleicher |  | Reichskommisar 3 December 1932 – 28 January 1933 | None |
| Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Third Reich | |||
| Franz von Papen | | 30 January – 10 April 1933 | None |
| Hermann Göring |  | Ministerpräsident 10 April 1933 – 24 April 1945 Reichsstatthalter 30 January 1935 – 24 April 1945 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Adolf Hitler |  | Reichsstatthalter 30 January 1933 – 30 January 1935 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
See also
- Minister President
- List of monarchs of Prussia
- Constitution of Prussia
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