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 or
functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the
in 1871 until the collapse in 1918 the office of the Prussian Prime Minister was usually held jointly by the
. Under the
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
dismantlement of Prussia as a state in 1935, and disappeared along with Prussia itself after
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Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar RepublicThe Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
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Friedrich EbertFriedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .When Ebert was elected as the leader of the SPD after the death of August Bebel, the party members of the SPD were deeply divided because of the party's support for World War I. Ebert supported the Burgfrieden and...
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9 November 1918 -
11 November 1918 |
Social Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
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11 November 1918 -
27 March 1920 |
Social Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
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Otto BraunThis article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the German Communist and once the Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Communist revolution see Otto Braun ....
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27 March 1920 -
21 April 1921 |
Social Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
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| Adam Stegerwald Adam Stegerwald was a German Catholic politician and a leader of the left wing of the Centre Party. He served as Prime Minister of Prussia in 1921, and later as a minister in the national governments of Hermann Müller and Heinrich Brüning...
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21 April 1921 -
5 November 1921 |
Centre Party The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...
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Otto BraunThis article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the German Communist and once the Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Communist revolution see Otto Braun ....
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5 November 1921 -
18 February 1925 |
Social Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
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Wilhelm MarxWilhelm Marx was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic.-Life:Born in Cologne to...
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18 February 1925 -
6 April 1925 |
Centre Party The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...
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Otto BraunThis article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the German Communist and once the Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Communist revolution see Otto Braun ....
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6 April 1925 -
20 July 1932 |
Social Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
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Franz von PapenLieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...
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Reichskommisar
20 July -
3 December 1932 |
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Kurt von SchleicherKurt von Schleicher was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Seventeen months after his resignation, he was assassinated by order of his successor, Adolf Hitler, in the Night of the Long Knives....
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Reichskommisar
3 December 1932 -
28 January 1933 |
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Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Third ReichNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
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Franz von PapenLieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...
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30 January -
10 April 1933 |
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Hermann GöringHermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...
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Ministerpräsident
10 April 1933 -
24 April 1945
Reichsstatthalter
1935 -
24 April 1945 |
National Socialist German Workers' Party |
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
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Reichsstatthalter
25 April 1933 -
1935 |
National Socialist German Workers' Party |