List of Ministers-President of Saxony

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.

Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Saxony

• Bernhard August von Lindenau 1831–1843
• Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz 1843–1848
• Alexander Karl Hermann Braun 1848–1849
• Gustav Friedrich Held 1849
• Ferdinand Zschinsky 1849–1858
• Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust 1858–1866
• Johann Paul von Falkenstein 1866–1871
• Richard Freiherr von Friesen 1871–1876
• Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice 1876–1891
• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber 1891
• Julius Hans von Tümmel 1891–1895
• Heinrich Rudolf Schurig 1895–1901
• Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach 1901–1906
• Konrad Wilhelm Rüger 1906–1910
• Victor Alexander von Otto 1910–1912
• Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen 1912–1914
• Heinrich Gustav Beck 1914–1918
• Rudolf Heinze 1918

Ministers-President of the Free State of Saxony

Political Party:       USPD       SPD / ASPD       DVP       NSDAP       SED       CDU

Portrait		Name (Born–Died)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office	Days
		Richard Lipinski (1867–1936)	15 November 1918	21 January 1919	67	Independent Social Democrats
		Georg Gradnauer (1866–1946)	21 January 1919	4 May 1920	469	Social Democrats
		Wilhelm Buck (1869–1945)	4 May 1920	21 March 1923	1051	Social Democrats
		Erich Zeigner (1886–1949)	21 March 1923	29 October 1923	222	Social Democrats
		Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928)	Reichskommissar		2	German People's Party
			29 October 1923	31 October 1923
		Alfred Karl Fellisch (1884–1973)	31 October 1923	4 January 1924	65	Social Democrats
		Max Heldt (1872–1933)	4 January 1924	26 June 1929	2000	Social Democrats (until 1926)
						Old Social Democrats (from 1926)
		Wilhelm Bünger (1870–1937)	26 June 1929	18 February 1930	237	German People's Party
		Walther Schieck (1874–1946)	6 May 1930	10 March 1933	1039	German People's Party
		Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (1886–1944)	Reichkomissar		56	National Socialist German Workers' Party
			10 March 1933	5 May 1933
			Ministerpräsidenten		664
			5 May 1933	28 February 1935
		Martin Mutschmann (1879–1947)	Reichsstatthalter		4385	National Socialist German Workers' Party
			5 May 1933	7 May 1945
			Ministerpräsidenten		3721
			28 February 1935	7 May 1945
		Rudolf Friedrichs (1892–1947)	4 July 1945	13 June 1947	709	Social Democratic Party of Germany (until 1946)
						Socialist Unity Party of Germany (from 1946)
		Max Seydewitz (1892–1987)	31 July 1947	23 July 1952	1819	Socialist Unity Party of Germany
From 23 July 1952 until 8 November 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished.
		Kurt Biedenkopf (born 1930)	8 November 1990	18 April 2002	4179	Christian Democratic Union of Germany
		Georg Milbradt (born 1945)	18 April 2002	28 May 2008	2232	Christian Democratic Union of Germany
		Stanislaw Tillich (born 1959)	28 May 2008	Incumbent	2787	Christian Democratic Union of Germany

See also

• List of rulers of Saxony

Ministers-President of Saxony Kingdom of Saxony (1806-1918) office established 1831 Bernhard von Lindenau Julius Traugott von Könneritz Karl Braun Gustav Friedrich Held Ferdinand Zschinsky Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust Freiherr von Falkenstein Freiherr von Friesen Graf von Fabrice Karl von Gerber Julius Hans von Tümmel Heinrich Rudolf Schurig Karl von Metzsch-Reichenbach Konrad Wilhelm Rüger Victor Alexander von Otto Freiherr von Hausen Heinrich Gustav Beck Rudolf Heinze Revolutionary period (1918-1919) Richard Lipinski Georg Gradnauer Weimar period (1919-1933) Georg Gradnauer Wilhelm Buck Erich Zeigner Rudolf Heinze Alfred Karl Fellisch Max Heldt Wilhelm Bünger Walther Schieck Nazi period (1933-1945) Freiherr von Killinger Martin Mutschmann Soviet administration / DDR (1945-1990) Rudolf Friedrichs Max Seydewitz state abolished 1952-1990 Federal Republic of Germany (since 1990) Kurt Biedenkopf Georg Milbradt Stanislaw Tillich