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Minister President of Prussia

The office of Minister-President (German: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia 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.

Minister-President of Prussia

King of Prussia (1848–1918)
Landtag of Prussia (1918–1933)

Chief minister of Prussia

19 March 1848

23 April 1945

History of the office[edit]

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 German Revolution of 1918–1919, 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 after World War II.

1702–1711:

Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg

1711–1728:

Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen

1728–1739:

Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow

1739–1749:

Heinrich von Podewils

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 (1st term)

Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz

1804–1806: Count (1st term)

Karl August von Hardenberg

180600000: Count (2nd term)

Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz

1806–1807:

Carl Friedrich von Beyme

180700000: Count (2nd term)

Karl August von Hardenberg

1807–1808: Baron

Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

1808–1810: Count Karl

Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten

1810–1822: Prince (3rd term)

Karl August von Hardenberg

1822–1823:

Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß

1823–1841: Count

Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum

1841–1848:

Ludwig Gustav von Thile

List of ministers president of Prussia (1848–1945)[edit]

Ministers-president of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)[edit]

Political party:   Zentrum   None

Deputy Prime Minister of Prussia

Minister-president

List of monarchs of Prussia

Constitution of Prussia (1848)

List of chancellors of Germany