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Minister President of Prussia

Chief minister of the King in Prussia

Summary

Chief minister of the King in Prussia

Field	Value
post	Minister-President
body	Prussia
native_name	Ministerpräsident
insignia	Coat of arms of Prussia.svg
insigniacaption	Coat of arms of Prussia
image	Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0057, Otto von Bismarck.jpg
imagecaption	**Longest serving
Otto von Bismarck**
23 September 1862–1 January 1873
9 November 1873–20 March 1890
seat	Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin
appointer	King of Prussia (1848–1918)
Landtag of Prussia (1918–1933)
Reichsstatthalter (1933–1945)
precursor	Chief minister of Prussia
formation	19 March 1848
first	Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
last	Hermann Göring
abolished	23 April 1945

Otto von Bismarck** 23 September 1862–1 January 1873 9 November 1873–20 March 1890 Landtag of Prussia (1918–1933) Reichsstatthalter (1933–1945)

The minister-president (), or prime minister, of Prussia was the head of government of the Prussian state. The office existed from 1848, when it was formed by King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the Allied Control Council.

History of the office

Under the Kingdom of Prussia, the minister-president functioned as the chief minister of the king, and presided over the Landtag, the Prussian legislature established in 1848. After the unification of Germany in 1871 and until the 1918–1919 revolution, the office of the Prussian minister-president was usually held by the chancellor of the German Empire, beginning with the tenure of Otto von Bismarck.

Under the Free State of Prussia the minister-president was the head of the state government in a more traditional parliamentary role during the Weimar Republic. The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of political patronage title after the takeover by the national government in 1932 (Preußenschlag), and after Nazi Germany dismantled Prussia as a state in 1935 (Reichsstatthaltergesetz). Eventually, the office was abolished along with Prussia itself by the Allies in the aftermath of World War II.

Chief ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia (1702–1848)

1702–1711: Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
1711–1728:
1728–1739: Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
1739–1749:
1749–1753: Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg
1749–1777: Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
1777–1802: Friedrich Anton von Heynitz
1786–1798: Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg
1802–1804: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (1st term)
1804–1806: Count Karl August von Hardenberg (1st term)
1806: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (2nd term)
1806–1807:
1807: Count Karl August von Hardenberg (2nd term)
1807–1808: Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein
1808–1810: Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten
1810–1822: Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (3rd term)
1822–1823:
1823–1841: Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum
1841–1848:

List of minister-presidents of Prussia (1848–1945)

Minister-presidents of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)

Political party:

Portrait	Name
(Birth–Death)	Term of office	Political party	Took office	Left office	Days	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Independent politician}};"	Centre Party (Germany)}};"	Independent politician}};"
[[File:AHArnimB.jpg	80px]]	Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
(1803–1868)	19 March 1848	29 March 1848		Non-partisan
[[File:Camphausen.jpeg	80px]]	Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen
(1803–1890)	29 March 1848	20 June 1848		Non-partisan
[[File:Rudolf v Auerswald 1862 (IZ 39-6 n Foto v L Haase).JPG	80px]]	Rudolf von Auerswald
(1795–1866)	25 June 1848	8 September 1848		Non-partisan
[[File:Pfuel.jpg	80px]]	Ernst von Pfuel
(1779–1866)	21 September 1848	1 November 1848		Non-partisan
[[File:FWvBrandenburg.jpg	80px]]	Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg
(1792–1850)	2 November 1848	6 November 1850		Non-partisan
[[File:Manteuffel, Otto Theodor von (1805-1882).jpg	80px]]	Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
(1805–1882)	9 December 1850	6 November 1858		Non-partisan
[[File:Fürst Karl Anton von Hohenzollern.JPG	80px]]	Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern
(1811–1885)	6 November 1858	12 March 1862		Non-partisan
[[File:Adolph Friedrich Ludwig Karl, Fürst von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, c. 1860.jpg	80px]]	Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
(1797–1873)	17 March 1862	23 September 1862		Non-partisan
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0057, Otto von Bismarck.jpg	80px]]	Prince Otto von Bismarck
(1815–1898)
First term	23 September 1862	1 January 1873		Non-partisan
[[File:Albrecht Graf von Roon by Gustav Gräf.jpg	80px]]	Count Albrecht von Roon
(1803–1879)	1 January 1873	9 November 1873		Non-partisan
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0057, Otto von Bismarck.jpg	80px]]	Prince Otto von Bismarck
(1815–1898)
Second term	9 November 1873	20 March 1890		Non-partisan
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R09316, Leo Graf von Caprivi.jpg	80px]]	Count Leo von Caprivi
(1831–1899)	20 March 1890	22 March 1892		Non-partisan
[[File:Botho Wendt zu Eulenburg.jpg	80px]]	Count Botho zu Eulenburg
(1831–1912)	22 March 1892	26 October 1894		Non-partisan
[[File:Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst - Die Gartenlaube (1894) 773.jpg	80px]]	Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
(1819–1901)	29 October 1894	17 October 1900		Non-partisan
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0098, Bernhard Fürst von Bülow (cropped).jpg	80px]]	Prince Bernhard von Bülow
(1849–1929)	17 October 1900	14 July 1909		Non-partisan
[[File:Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg(cropped).jpg	80px]]	Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
(1856–1921)	14 July 1909	13 July 1917		Non-partisan
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2004-0720-500, Georg Michaelis.jpg	80px]]	Georg Michaelis
(1857–1936)	14 July 1917	1 November 1917		Non-partisan
[[File:Georg von Hertling.jpg	80px]]	Count Georg von Hertling
(1843–1919)	1 November 1917	30 September 1918		Centre
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R04103, Prinz Max von Baden.jpg	80px]]	Prince Maximilian von Baden
(1867–1929)	3 October 1918	9 November 1918		Non-partisan

Minister-presidents of the Free State of Prussia (1918–1945)

Political party:

Portrait	Name
(Birth–Death)	Term of office	Political party	Took office	Left office	Days	Minister-presidents of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic	Social Democratic Party of Germany}};"	Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany}};"	Social Democratic Party of Germany}};"	Centre Party (Germany)}};"	Social Democratic Party of Germany}};"	Centre Party (Germany)}};"	Social Democratic Party of Germany}};"	Independent politician}};"	Reichskommissar	Independent politician}};"	Reichskommissar	Independent politician}};"	Reichskommissar	Nazi Party}};"	Reichsstatthalter	Minister-president of the Free State of Prussia in Nazi Germany	Nazi Party}};"	Ministerpräsident	Reichsstatthalter
[[File:Paul Hirsch um 1920.jpg	80px]]	Paul Hirsch
(1868–1940)	12 November 1918	27 March 1920		Social Democratic Party of Germany
[[File:Heinrich Ströbel 1930.jpg	80px]]	Heinrich Ströbel
(1869–1944)
Co-prime minister	12 November 1918	9 January 1919		Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
[[File:Otto Braun 1932 (Landtag) Edit.jpg	80px]]	Otto Braun
(1872–1955)
First term	27 March 1920	21 April 1921		Social Democratic Party of Germany
[[File:Adam Stegerwald JS2.jpg	80px]]	Adam Stegerwald
(1874–1945)	21 April 1921	5 November 1921		Centre Party
[[File:Otto Braun 1932 (Landtag) Edit.jpg	80px]]	Otto Braun
(1872–1955)
Second term	5 November 1921	18 February 1925		Social Democratic Party of Germany
[[File:Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx (cropped1).jpg	80px]]	Wilhelm Marx
(1863–1946)	18 February 1925	6 April 1925		Centre Party
[[File:Otto Braun 1932 (Landtag) Edit.jpg	80px]]	Otto Braun
(1872–1955)
Third term	6 April 1925	20 July 1932		Social Democratic Party of Germany
[[File:FranzVonPapenEn1933.jpeg	80px]]	Franz von Papen
(1879–1969)		Non-partisan
20 July 1932	3 December 1932
[[File:KurtVonScheleicherEn1932.jpeg	80px]]	Kurt von Schleicher
(1882–1934)		Non-partisan
3 December 1932	28 January 1933
[[File:FranzVonPapenEn1933.jpeg	80px]]	Franz von Papen
(1879–1969)		Non-partisan
30 January 1933	10 April 1933
[[File:Hitler portrait crop.jpg	80px]]	Adolf Hitler
(1889–1945)		Nazi Party
30 January 1933	30 January 1935
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-15607, Potsdam, Göring.jpg	80px]]	Hermann Göring
(1893–1946)		Nazi Party
10 April 1933	23 April 1945
30 January 1935	23 April 1945

Timeline

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References

(2008). "A dictionary of contemporary world history". Oxford University Press.

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