State Secretaries for the Post, 1880-1918

• Heinrich von Stephan
  Heinrich von Stephan
  Heinrich von Stephan was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany.Stephan was born in Stolp , Pomerania, in the Kingdom of Prussia...
  
   1880-1897
• Viktor von Podbielski 1897-1901
• Reinhold Kraetke 1901-1917
• Otto Rüdlin 1917-1918

Ministers of Post, 1918-1945

• Otto Rüdlin 1918-1919
• Johannes Giesberts 1919-1922
• Karl Stingl 1922-1923
• Anton Höfle 1923-1925
• Karl Stingl 1925-1927
• Georg Schätzel 1927-1932
• Baron Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach
  Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach
  Peter Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach was Minister of Mail and Minister of Transport of Germany between 1932 and 1937....
  
   1932-1937
• Wilhelm Ohnesorge
  Wilhelm Ohnesorge
  Karl Wilhelm Ohnesorge was a German politician in the Third Reich who sat in Hitler's cabinet. From 1937 to 1945, he also acted as the minister and official of the Reichspost, the German postal service, having succeeded Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach as minister...
  
   1937-1945
• Julius Dorpmüller
  Julius Dorpmüller
  Julius Heinrich Dorpmueller was general manager of Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft from 1926-45 and the German Reich Transport Minister from 1937-45.- Life :...
  
   1945

Ministers of Post and Communications of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1997

• Hans Schuberth 1949-1953
• Siegfried Balke
  Siegfried Balke
  Siegfried Balke was a German politician .He served as German Federal Minister for Post and Communications from 1953 to 1956 and as German Federal Minister for Nuclear Energy from 1956 to 1962.-Education and Professional Life:Master's degree in chemistry 1924, doctorate in chemistry 1925...
  
   1953-1956
• Ernst Lemmer 1956-1957
• Richard Stücklen
  Richard Stücklen
  Richard Stücklen was German politician of the CSU. He had previously been a member of the NSDAP . From 1957 to 1966, he served as Federal Minister for Post and Communication. A member of the Bundestag for more than 40 years, he was its President from 1979 to 1983.-Life:Stücklen was born in Heideck...
  
   1957-1966
• Werner Dollinger
  Werner Dollinger
  Dr. Werner Dollinger was a German politician and economist. Born in Neustadt an der Aisch, he helped found the Christian Socialist Union Party in 1946. Dollinger was a member of the Bundestag , minister for the Treasury , minister of postal services and telecommunication and minister of transport...
  
   1966-1969
• Georg Leber
  Georg Leber
  Georg Leber is a German politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany .After serving in the Luftwaffe in World War 2, he joined the SPD in 1947...
  
   1969-1972
• Lauritz Lauritzen
  Lauritz Lauritzen
  Lauritz Lauritzen was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He was born in Kiel and died in Bad Honnef....
  
   1972
• Horst Ehmke
  Horst Ehmke
  Horst Paul August Ehmke is a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party . He served as Federal Minister of Justice , Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Post...
  
   1972-1974
• Kurt Gscheidle
  Kurt Gscheidle
  Kurt Gscheidle was a German politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party ....
  
   1974-1982
• Hans Matthöfer
  Hans Matthöfer
  Hans Hermann Matthöfer was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.Between 1974 and 1978 Matthöfer served as secretary of research and technology. In 1978 he took over as secretary of finance and in 1982 he left that post and served briefly as secretary of telecommunication...
  
   1982
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling
  Christian Schwarz-Schilling
  Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling , is a German politician and entrepreneur. He is the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and is married to the author Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling with whom he has two children...
  
   1982-1992
• Wolfgang Bötsch
  Wolfgang Bötsch
  Wolfgang Bötsch is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Between 1974 and 1976 he represented the Landtag of Bavaria and between 1993 and 1997 he was the Minister of Post and Telecommunications.-References:...
  
   1993-1997