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The office of Minister President or Prime Minister of Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
 existed in one form or another from 1792 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947. When Prussia was an independent kingdom (since 1701) the Minister President or Prime Minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
 functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the unification of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 in 1871 until the collapse in 1918 the office of the Prussian Prime Minister was usually held jointly by the Imperial Chancellor
Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)

The head of government of the German Reich was called Reich Chancellor or short Chancellor from 1871 until 1945. This designation stems from the German chancellor tradition from the Middle Ages and the early modern era....
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The office of Minister President or Prime Minister of Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
 existed in one form or another from 1792 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947. When Prussia was an independent kingdom (since 1701) the Minister President or Prime Minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
 functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the unification of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 in 1871 until the collapse in 1918 the office of the Prussian Prime Minister was usually held jointly by the Imperial Chancellor
Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)

The head of government of the German Reich was called Reich Chancellor or short Chancellor from 1871 until 1945. This designation stems from the German chancellor tradition from the Middle Ages and the early modern era....
. Under the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
 the Prime Minister was head of the state government (a more traditional parliamentary role). The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of nobility title after the Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 dismantlement of Prussia as a state in 1935, and disappeared along with Prussia itself after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
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Chief Minister of Prussia, 1702-1802
  • 1702 - 1711 Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
    Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg

    Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg was the first ever Minister-President of Prussia of the kingdom of Prussia, and the head of the "Cabinet of Three Counts"....
      (b. 1643 - d. 1712)
  • 1711 - 6 XII 1728Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen (b. 1654 - d. 1728)
  • 6 XII 1728 - 18 III 1739 Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow

    Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow was a Kingdom of Prussia Generalfeldmarschall and statesman.The cultured Grumbkow was born in Berlin as the son of Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow, General War Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia....
      (b. 1678 - d. 1739)
  • 18 III 1739 - VI 1749 Heinrich von Podewils (b. 1695 - d. 1760)
  • VI 1749 - 20 X 1753 Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg (b. 1679 - d. 1753)
  • 3 VI 1749 - 1777 Karl Wilhelm von Finck und Finckenstein (b. 1714 - d. 1800)
  • 9 IX 1777 - 15 V 1802 Friedrich Anton von Heinitz (b. 1725 - d. 1802)
  • 8 XI 1786 - 1798 hrabia Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim (b. 1739 - d. 1801)