Prime Minister of Prussia
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The office of Minister President or Prime Minister of Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

 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 Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...

 functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the unification of Germany
Unification of Germany
The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France. Princes of the German states gathered there to proclaim Wilhelm of Prussia as Emperor Wilhelm of the German...

 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
The Chancellor of Germany is, under the German 1949 constitution, the head of government of Germany...

. Under the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

 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, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

 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 conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

.

Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

  • Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
    Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
    Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg was the first ever Minister-President of the kingdom of Prussia, and the head of the "Cabinet of Three Counts".-Life:...

     1702-1711
  • Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen 1711-1728
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and statesman.The cultured Grumbkow was born in Berlin as the son of Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow, General War Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia. Educated in France, he married a Mademoiselle de la Chevalerie...

     1728-1739
  • Heinrich von Podewils 1739-1749
  • Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1749-1753
  • Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
    Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
    Karl Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein was a Prussian diplomat and later Prime Minister of Prussia.He was the son of Count Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein, who was a Field Marshal and Governor of the Crown Prince, the future King Frederick II. Karl Wilhelm studied in Geneva and traveled in...

     1749-1777
  • Friedrich Anton von Heinitz 1777-1802
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim 1786-1798
  • Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz
    Christian Graf von Haugwitz
    Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz was a German statesman, best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.- Life :...

     1802-1804 (1st term)
  • Count Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia. While during his late career he acquiesced to reactionary policies, earlier in his career he implemented a variety of Liberal reforms...

     1804-1806 (1st term)
  • Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz
    Christian Graf von Haugwitz
    Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz was a German statesman, best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.- Life :...

     1806 (2nd term)
  • Karl Friedrich von Beyme 1806-1807
  • Count Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia. While during his late career he acquiesced to reactionary policies, earlier in his career he implemented a variety of Liberal reforms...

     1807 (2nd term)
  • Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein 1807-1808
  • Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander von Dohna-Schlobitten 1808-1810
  • Prince Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August von Hardenberg
    Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia. While during his late career he acquiesced to reactionary policies, earlier in his career he implemented a variety of Liberal reforms...

     1810-1822 (3rd term)
  • Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß 1822-1823
  • Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum
    Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum
    Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum , also called Graf Lottum , was a Prussian infantry general and minister of the State...

     1823-1841
  • Ludwig Gustav von Thile 1841-1848

Minister-Presidents of the Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

  • Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
    Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
    Adolf Heinrich Graf Arnim-Boitzenburg was a German statesman, and the first Prime Minister of Prussia.After finishing his studies, he joined the Prussian civil service and soon became Landrat in the Uckermark. In 1833 he became Regierungspräsident in the Regierungsbezirk Stralsund...

     1848
  • Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen
    Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen
    Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen In 1848, Ludolf Camphausen stepped suddenly from his banker's deskat Cologne to the presidential chair of the Ministry of State at Berlin,...

     1848
  • Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald
    Rudolf von Auerswald
    Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald was a German official who served as Prime Minister of Prussia during the Revolution of 1848....

     1848
  • Baron Ernst von Pfuel
    Ernst von Pfuel
    Ernst Heinrich Adolf von Pfuel was a Prussian general.Pfuel was born in Jahnsfelde , Brandenburg. He served as commander of the Prussian sector of Paris from 1814-1815 during the Napoleonic Wars...

     1848
  • Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 1848-1850
  • Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel 1850-1858
  • Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1858-1862
  • Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen 1862
  • Prince Otto von Bismarck
    Otto von Bismarck
    Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg , simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian-German statesman whose actions unified Germany, made it a major player in world affairs, and created a balance of power that kept Europe at peace after 1871.As Minister President of...

     1862-1873 (1st term)
  • Count Albrecht von Roon 1873
  • Prince Otto von Bismarck
    Otto von Bismarck
    Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg , simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian-German statesman whose actions unified Germany, made it a major player in world affairs, and created a balance of power that kept Europe at peace after 1871.As Minister President of...

     1873-1890 (2nd term)
  • Count Leo von Caprivi
    Leo von Caprivi
    Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli was a German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany...

     1890-1892
  • Count Botho zu Eulenburg
    Botho zu Eulenburg
    Botho Graf zu Eulenburg was a Prussian statesman.- Biography :Eulenburg was born in Wicken near Bartenstein to Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg and Therese née von Dönhoff...

     1892-1894
  • Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1894-1900
  • Count Bernhard von Bülow
    Bernhard von Bülow
    Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow , named in 1905 Prince von Bülow, was a German statesman who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909.Bülow was described as possessing every quality except greatness...

     1900-1909
  • Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
    Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
    Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917.-Origins:...

     1909-1917
  • Georg Michaelis
    Georg Michaelis
    Georg Michaelis became the first Chancellor of Germany with a non-noble background.-Biography :Michaelis, born in Haynau in the Prussian Province of Silesia, grew up in Frankfurt...

     1917
  • Count Georg von Hertling 1917-1918
  • Prince Maximilian of Baden 1918

Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia

Name Picture Period of office Party
Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich 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...

 
9 November 1918 -
11 November 1918
Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

Paul Hirsch  11 November 1918 -
27 March 1920
Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

Otto Braun
Otto Braun
This 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 ....

 
27 March 1920 -
21 April 1921
Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

Adam Stegerwald
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...

 
21 April 1921 -
5 November 1921
Centre Party
Centre Party (Germany)
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...

Otto Braun
Otto Braun
This 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 ....

 
5 November 1921 -
18 February 1925
Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

Wilhelm Marx
Wilhelm Marx
Wilhelm 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...

 
18 February 1925 -
6 April 1925
Centre Party
Centre Party (Germany)
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...

Otto Braun
Otto Braun
This 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 ....

 
6 April 1925 -
20 July 1932
Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
Lieutenant-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...

Reichskommisar
20 July -
3 December 1932
None
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt 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....

Reichskommisar
3 December 1932 -
28 January 1933
None
Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Third Reich
Nazi Germany
Nazi 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...

Franz von Papen
Franz von Papen
Lieutenant-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...

 
30 January -
10 April 1933
None
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
Hermann 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"...

 
Ministerpräsident
10 April 1933 -
24 April 1945
Reichsstatthalter
1935 -
24 April 1945
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf 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...

Reichsstatthalter
25 April 1933 -
1935
National Socialist German Workers' Party
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