Berlin
30 Nov 1948 separate administrations for East and West Berlin
3 Oct 1990 East and West Berlin united as a state of the
Federal Republic
(West) Berlin
18 Jan 1951 name changed from Gross-Berlin to Berlin
Lord mayors
17 May 1945 - 8 Jan 1947 Arthur Werner n/p (b. 1877 - d. 1967)
8 Jan 1947 - 17 Apr 1947 Otto Ostrowski SPD (b. 1883 - d. 1963)
17 Apr 1947 - 8 May 1947 Ferdinand Friedensburg CDU (b. 1886 - d. 1972)
(acting)
8 May 1947 - 7 Dec 1948 Louise Schroeder (f) (acting) SPD (b. 1887 - d. 1957)
7 Dec 1948 - 18 Jan 1951 Ernst Reuter SPD (b. 1889 - d. 1953)
Governing mayors
18 Jan 1951 - 29 Sep 1953 Ernst Reuter SPD (s.a.)
30 Sep 1953 - 11 Jan 1955 Walther Schreiber CDU (b. 1884 - d. 1958)
(acting to 22 Oct 1953)
11 Jan 1955 - 30 Aug 1957 Otto Suhr SPD (b. 1894 - d. 1957)
30 Aug 1957 - 3 Oct 1957 Franz Amrehn (acting) CDU (b. 1912 - d. 1981)
3 Oct 1957 - 1 Dec 1966 Willy Brandt SPD (b. 1913 - d. 1992)
1 Dec 1966 - 19 Oct 1967 Heinrich Albertz SPD (b. 1915 - d. 1993)
(acting to 14 Dec 1966)
19 Oct 1967 - 2 May 1977 Klaus Schütz SPD (b. 1926 - d. 2012)
2 May 1977 - 23 Jan 1981 Dietrich Stobbe SPD (b. 1938 - d. 2011)
23 Jan 1981 - 11 Jun 1981 Hans-Jochen Vogel SPD (b. 1926 - d. 2020)
11 Jun 1981 - 9 Feb 1984 Richard von Weizsäcker CDU (b. 1920 - d. 2015)
9 Feb 1984 - 16 Mar 1989 Eberhard Diepgen (1st time) CDU (b. 1941)
16 Mar 1989 - 24 Jan 1991 Walter Momper SPD (b. 1945)
24 Jan 1991 - 16 Jun 2001 Eberhard Diepgen (2nd time) CDU (s.a.)
16 Jun 2001 - 11 Dec 2014 Klaus Wowereit SPD (b. 1953)
11 Dec 2014 - 21 Dec 2021 Michael Müller SPD (b. 1964)
21 Dec 2021 - Franziska Giffey (f) SPD (b. 1978)
East Berlin
7 Oct 1949 becomes de facto capital and state of the German Democratic
Republic, though not formally incorporated into it
1952 becomes a district with special status
7 Sep 1961 officially declared a district; the Western Allies and
the Federal Republic do not recognize East Berlin as part
of the German Democratic Republic
1977 name changed from Gross-Berlin to Berlin
First secretaries of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 1948 Hermann Matern (b. 1893 - d. 1971)
1948 - 1953 Hans Jendretzky (b. 1897 - d. 1992)
1953 - 1957 Alfred Neumann (b. 1909 - d. 2001)
1957 - 1959 Hans Kiefert (b. 1905 - d. 1966)
1959 - May 1971 Paul Verner (b. 1911 - d. 1986)
May 1971 - Nov 1985 Konrad Naumann (b. 1928 - d. 1992)
Nov 1985 - Nov 1989 Günter Schabowski (b. 1929 - d. 2015)
Nov 1989 - 1989 Heinz Albrecht (b. 1935)
Lord mayors
30 Nov 1948 - 5 Jul 1967 Friedrich Ebert SED (b. 1894 - d. 1979)
(provisional to 17 Oct 1954)
5 Jul 1967 - 11 Feb 1974 Herbert Fechner SED (b. 1913 - d. 1998)
11 Feb 1974 - 15 Feb 1990 Erhard Krack SED;
15 Dec 1989: SED-PDS; 4 Feb 1990: PDS (b. 1931 - d. 2000)
Jan 1979 - 1980 Hannelore Mensch (f) SED (b. 1937)
(acting for Krack)
15 Feb 1990 - 23 Feb 1990 Ingrid Pankraz (f) (acting) PDS (b. 1948)
23 Feb 1990 - 30 May 1990 Christian Hartenhauer PDS (b. 1948)
30 May 1990 - 11 Jan 1991 Tino Schwierzina SPD (b. 1927 - d. 2003)
11 Jan 1991 - 24 Jan 1991 Thomas Krüger (acting) SPD (b. 1959)
Allied occupation
City commandants
- British sector -
5 Jul 1945 - 30 Aug 1945 Lewis O. Lyne (b. 1899 - d. 1970)
30 Aug 1945 - 13 Jun 1947 Eric P. Nares (b. 1892 - d. 1947)
13 Jun 1947 - 23 Jan 1949 Edwin Otway Herbert (b. 1901 - d. 1984)
23 Jan 1949 - 24 Oct 1951 Geoffrey K. Bourne (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
24 Oct 1951 - 13 Mar 1954 Charles Coleman (b. 1903 - d. 1974)
13 Mar 1954 - 30 Apr 1955 William Pasfield Oliver (b. 1901 - d. 1981)
1 May 1955 - 6 Feb 1956 Robert Charles Cottrell-Hill (b. 1903 - d. 1965)
26 Mar 1956 - 20 Mar 1959 Francis David Rome (b. 1905 - d. 1985)
23 Mar 1959 - 3 May 1962 Rohan Delacombe (from 1961,
Sir Rohan Delacombe) (b. 1906 - d. 1991)
May 1962 - Dec 1962 Claude Ian Hurley Dunbar (b. 1909 - d. 1971)
Dec 1962 - Jan 1966 David Peel-Yates (b. 1911 - d. 1978)
Feb 1966 - Feb 1968 Sir John Nelson (b. 1912 - d. 1993)
Mar 1968 - Nov 1970 James Bowes-Lyon (b. 1917 - d. 1977)
Nov 1970 - Jul 1973 Alan Cathcart, Earl Cathcart (b. 1919 - d. 1999)
Aug 1973 - Nov 1975 David Scott-Barrett (b. 1922 - d. 2004)
Nov 1975 - Jan 1978 Roy M.F. Redgrave (b. 1925 - d. 2011)
Jan 1978 - Sep 1980 Robert F. Richardson (b. 1929 - d. 2014)
Sep 1980 - Oct 1983 David Frederick Mostyn (b. 1928 - d. 2007)
Oct 1983 - Dec 1985 B.C. Gordon Lennox (b. 1932 - d. 2017)
Dec 1985 - Jan 1989 Patrick G. Brooking (b. 1937 - d. 2014)
1989 - 2 Oct 1990 Robert J.S. Corbett (b. 1940)
- French sector -
11 Jul 1945 - 12 Mar 1946 Geoffroi du Bois de Beauchesne (b. 1883 - d. 1957)
12 Mar 1946 - 4 Oct 1946 Charles Lançon (b. 1890 - d. 1956)
4 Oct 1946 - 1 Oct 1950 Jean Ganeval (b. 1894 - d. 1981)
1 Oct 1950 - 31 Dec 1952 Pierre Carolet (b. 1898 - d. 1981)
1 Jan 1953 - 31 Dec 1954 Pierre Manceaux-Demiau (b. 1898 - d. 1979)
1 Jan 1955 - 30 Sep 1958 Amédée J.B. Gèze (b. 1898 - d. 1988)
1 Oct 1958 - 25 Feb 1962 Jean Lacomme
26 Feb 1962 - 30 Sep 1964 Édouard K. Toulouse
1 Oct 1964 - 11 Oct 1967 François Binoche (b. 1911 - d. 1997)
11 Oct 1967 - 1970 Bertrand Huchet de Quénetain (b. 1911 - d. 1983)
1970 - 1973 Maurice Routier
1973 - 1975 Camille Metzler (b. 1915 - d. 2006)
1975 - 1977 Jacques Mangin
1977 - 1980 Bernard d'Astorg (b. 1921 - d. 2014)
1980 - 1984 Jean-Pierre Liron (b. 1924 - d. 2007)
1984 - 1985 Olivier Le Taillandier de Gabory (b. 1926 - d. 1995)
1985 - 1987 Paul Cavarrot (b. 1927 - d. 2012)
1987 - 2 Oct 1990 François Cann (b. 1932)
- U.S. sector -
4 Jul 1945 - 2 Sep 1945 Floyd L. Parks (b. 1896 - d. 1959)
3 Sep 1945 - 10 Oct 1945 James M. Gavin (b. 1907 - d. 1990)
11 Oct 1945 - 1 May 1946 Ray W. Barker (b. 1889 - d. 1974)
1 May 1946 - 13 May 1947 Frank A. Keating (b. 1895 - d. 1973)
14 May 1947 - 23 Sep 1947 Cornelius E. Ryan (b. 1896 - d. 1972)
24 Sep 1947 - 30 Nov 1947 William Hesketh (b. 1895 - d. 1986)
1 Dec 1947 - 31 Aug 1949 Frank Leo Howley (b. 1903 - d. 1993)
31 Aug 1949 - 31 Jan 1951 Maxwell D. Taylor (b. 1901 - d. 1987)
1 Feb 1951 - 2 Jan 1953 Lemuel Mathewson (b. 1899 - d. 1970)
3 Jan 1953 - 4 Aug 1954 Thomas S. Timberman (b. 1900 - d. 1989)
5 Aug 1954 - 9 Sep 1955 George B. Honnen (b. 1897 - d. 1974)
10 Sep 1955 - 3 Jun 1957 Charles L. Dasher (b. 1900 - d. 1968)
4 Jun 1957 - 15 Dec 1959 Barksdale Hamlett (b. 1908 - d. 1979)
20 Dec 1959 - 3 May 1961 Ralph M. Osborne
4 May 1961 - 2 Jan 1963 Albert Watson II (b. 1909 - d. 1993)
2 Jan 1963 - 31 Aug 1964 James H. Polk (b. 1911 - d. 1972)
1 Sep 1964 - 3 Jun 1967 John F. Franklin, Jr.
3 Jun 1967 - 28 Feb 1970 Robert G. Fergusson (b. 1911 - d. 2001)
28 Feb 1970 - 12 May 1971 George M. Seignious II (b. 1921 - d. 2005)
12 May 1971 - 10 Jun 1974 William W. Cobb
10 Jun 1974 - 11 Aug 1975 Sam S. Walker (b. 1925 - d. 2015)
11 Aug 1975 - 7 Jun 1978 Joseph C. McDonough (b. 1924 - d. 2005)
7 Jun 1978 - 5 Jul 1981 Calvert P. Benedict (b. 1924 - d. 2011)
5 Jul 1981 - 27 Jun 1984 James G. Boatner (b. 1930 - d. 2017)
27 Jun 1984 - 1 Jun 1988 John H. Mitchell (b. 1933 - d. 2013)
1 Jun 1988 - 2 Oct 1990 Raymond E. Haddock (b. 1936)
- Soviet sector -
2 May 1945 - 16 Jun 1945 Nikolay Berzarin (b. 1904 - d. 1945)
17 Jun 1945 - 19 Nov 1945 Aleksandr Gorbetov (b. 1891 - d. 1973)
19 Nov 1945 - 1 Apr 1946 Dmitry Smirnov (b. 1901 - d. 1975)
1 Apr 1946 - 7 Jun 1950 Aleksandr Kotikov (b. 1902 - d. 1981)
7 Jun 1950 - 28 May 1953 Sergey Dengin (b. 1900 - d. 1989)
(Berlin representative of the Soviet Control Commission)
28 May 1953 - 23 Jun 1956 Pyotr Dibrova (b. 1901 - d. 1971)
28 Jun 1956 - 26 Feb 1958 Andrey Chamov
26 Feb 1958 - 9 May 1961 Matvey Zakharov (b. 1898 - d. 1972)
9 May 1961 - 22 Aug 1962 Andrey Soloviev
22 Aug 1962 - 31 May 1971 Helmut Poppe (b. 1926 - d. 1979)
1 Jun 1971 - 31 Aug 1978 Artur Kunath (b. 1914 - d. 1995)
1 Sep 1978 - 31 Dec 1989 Karl-Heinz Drews (b. 1929)
1 Jan 1990 - 30 Sep 1990 Wolfgang Dombrowski (b. 1933)
30 Sep 1990 - 2 Oct 1990 Detlef Wendorf
Brandenburg
21 Jul 1947 former Prussian province of Brandenburg becomes state
7 Oct 1949 part of the German Democratic Republic
25 Jul 1952 state dissolved into districts (Cottbus, Frankfurt, Potsdam)
3 Oct 1990 reconstituted as state of the Federal Republic of Germany
First secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 25 Jul 1952 Willy Sägebrecht (b. 1904 - d. 1981)
Minister-presidents
4 Jul 1945 - 5 Dec 1949 Karl Steinhoff
SPD; 22 Apr 1946: SED (b. 1892 - d. 1981)
(president of the provincial administration to 20 Dec 1946)
5 Dec 1949 - 25 Jul 1952 Rudi Jahn SED (b. 1906 - d. 1990)
3 Oct 1990 - 1 Nov 1990 Jochen Wolf SPD (b. 1941)
(Landesbevollmächtigter)
1 Nov 1990 - 26 Jun 2002 Manfred Stolpe SPD (b. 1936 - d. 2019)
26 Jun 2002 - 28 Aug 2013 Matthias Platzeck SPD (b. 1953)
28 Aug 2013 - Dietmar Woidke SPD (b. 1961)
Hamburg
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
First mayors
15 May 1945 - 22 Nov 1946 Rudolf Petersen Jun 1946: CDU (b. 1878 - d. 1962)
22 Nov 1946 - 2 Dec 1953 Max Brauer (1st time) SPD (b. 1887 - d. 1973)
2 Dec 1953 - 4 Dec 1957 Kurt Sieveking CDU (b. 1897 - d. 1986)
4 Dec 1957 - 1 Jan 1961 Max Brauer (2nd time) SPD (s.a.)
1 Jan 1961 - 9 Jun 1965 Paul Nevermann SPD (b. 1902 - d. 1979)
9 Jun 1965 - 16 Jun 1971 Herbert Weichmann SPD (b. 1896 - d. 1983)
16 Jun 1971 - 12 Nov 1974 Peter Schulz SPD (b. 1930 - d. 2013)
12 Nov 1974 - 24 Jun 1981 Hans-Ulrich Klose SPD (b. 1937)
24 Jun 1981 - 8 Jun 1988 Klaus von Dohnanyi SPD (b. 1928)
8 Jun 1988 - 12 Nov 1997 Henning Voscherau SPD (b. 1941 - d. 2016)
12 Nov 1997 - 31 Oct 2001 Ortwin Runde SPD (b. 1944)
31 Oct 2001 - 25 Aug 2010 Ole von Beust CDU (b. 1955)
25 Aug 2010 - 7 Mar 2011 Christoph Ahlhaus CDU (b. 1969)
7 Mar 2011 - 13 Mar 2018 Olaf Scholz SPD (b. 1958)
14 Mar 2018 - 28 Mar 2018 Katharina Fegebank (f) Grn (b. 1977)
(acting)
28 Mar 2018 - Peter Tschentscher SPD (b. 1966)
Hessen
19 Sep 1945 Prussian provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau merged with
part of Hessen to form state of Gross-Hessen
18 Dec 1946 renamed Hessen
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
President of the government
8 Aug 1945 - 16 Oct 1945 Ludwig Bergsträsser SPD (b. 1883 - d. 1960)
Minister-presidents
16 Oct 1945 - 5 Jan 1947 Karl Geiler n/p (b. 1878 - d. 1953)
5 Jan 1947 - 10 Jan 1951 Christian Stock SPD (b. 1884 - d. 1967)
10 Jan 1951 - 3 Oct 1969 Georg August Zinn SPD (b. 1901 - d. 1976)
3 Oct 1969 - 20 Oct 1976 Albert Osswald SPD (b. 1919 - d. 1996)
20 Oct 1976 - 23 Apr 1987 Holger Börner SPD (b. 1931 - d. 2006)
23 Apr 1987 - 5 Apr 1991 Walter Wallmann CDU (b. 1932 - d. 2013)
5 Apr 1991 - 7 Apr 1999 Hans Eichel SPD (b. 1941)
7 Apr 1999 - 31 Aug 2010 Roland Koch CDU (b. 1958)
31 Aug 2010 - 31 May 2022 Volker Bouffier CDU (b. 1951)
31 May 2022 - Boris Rhein CDU (b. 1972)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
31 Jul 1945 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
1 Mar 1947 Mecklenburg
7 Oct 1949 part of the German Democratic Republic
25 Jul 1952 state dissolved into districts (Neubrandenburg, Rostock, Schwerin)
3 Oct 1990 reconstituted as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
state of the Federal Republic of Germany
First secretaries of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 28 Jul 1951 Kurt Bürger (b. 1894 - d. 1951)
1951 - 1952 Karl Mewis (b. 1907 - d. 1987)
Leaders of the state administration
May 1945 Hanns Jess (1st time) CDU (b. 1887 - d. 1975)
May 1945 - 18 Jun 1945 Eduard Friedrich Stratmann LDP (b. 1875 - d. 1952)
18 Jun 1945 - Jun 1945 Hanns Jess (2nd time) CDU (s.a.)
Jun 1945 - 9 Jul 1945 Reinhold Lobedanz CDU (b. 1880 - d. 1955)
President of the state administration
9 Jul 1945 - 31 Jul 1945 Wilhelm Höcker SPD (b. 1886 - d. 1955)
President
31 Jul 1945 - 9 Dec 1946 Wilhelm Höcker
SPD; 22 Apr 1946: SED (s.a.)
Minister-presidents
9 Dec 1946 - 20 Jul 1951 Wilhelm Höcker SED (s.a.)
20 Jul 1951 - 28 Jul 1951 Kurt Bürger SED (s.a.)
30 Jul 1951 - 25 Jul 1952 Bernhard Quandt SED (b. 1903 - d. 1999)
3 Oct 1990 - 27 Oct 1990 Martin Brick CDU (b. 1939)
(Landesbevollmächtigter)
27 Oct 1990 - 19 Mar 1992 Alfred Gomolka CDU (b. 1942 - d. 2020)
19 Mar 1992 - 3 Nov 1998 Berndt Seite CDU (b. 1940)
3 Nov 1998 - 6 Oct 2008 Harald Ringstorff SPD (b. 1939)
6 Oct 2008 - 4 Jul 2017 Erwin Sellering SPD (b. 1949)
4 Jul 2017 - Manuela Schwesig (f) SPD (b. 1974)
Niedersachsen
9 Dec 1946 constituted by the merger of Braunschweig, Oldenburg, and
Hannover
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-presidents
9 Dec 1946 - 26 May 1955 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
(1st time) SPD (b. 1893 - d. 1961)
26 May 1955 - 12 May 1959 Heinrich Hellwege DP (b. 1908 - d. 1991)
12 May 1959 - 21 Dec 1961 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
(2nd time) SPD (s.a.)
29 Dec 1961 - 8 Jul 1970 Georg Diederichs SPD (b. 1900 - d. 1983)
8 Jul 1970 - 6 Feb 1976 Alfred Kubel SPD (b. 1909 - d. 1999)
6 Feb 1976 - 21 Jun 1990 Ernst Albrecht CDU (b. 1930 - d. 2014)
21 Jun 1990 - 28 Oct 1998 Gerhard Schröder SPD (b. 1944)
28 Oct 1998 - 15 Dec 1999 Gerhard Glogowski SPD (b. 1943)
15 Dec 1999 - 4 Mar 2003 Sigmar Gabriel SPD (b. 1959)
4 Mar 2003 - 30 Jun 2010 Christian Wulff CDU (b. 1959)
30 Jun 2010 - 1 Jul 2010 Jörg Bode (acting) FDP (b. 1970)
1 Jul 2010 - 19 Feb 2013 David McAllister CDU (b. 1971)
19 Feb 2013 - Stephan Weil SPD (b. 1958)
Braunschweig
Minister-presidents
May 1945 - Jan 1946 Hubert Schlebusch SPD (b. 1893 - d. 1955)
Jan 1946 - 9 Dec 1946 Alfred Kubel SPD (s.a.)
Hannover
c.Jun 1946 incorporation of Schaumburg-Lippe
23 Aug 1946 state
Oberpräsident
12 Jul 1945 - 21 Aug 1946 Eberhard Hagemann (b. 1880 - d. 1958)
Minister-president
23 Aug 1946 - 9 Dec 1946 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf SPD (s.a.)
Schaumburg-Lippe
Minister
1945 - 30 Apr 1946 Heinrich Drake (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
Oldenburg
Minister-president
1945 - 9 Dec 1946 Theodor Tantzen FDP (b. 1877 - d. 1947)
Nordrhein-Westfalen
23 Aug 1946 provinces of Nordrhein and Westfalen merged to form
state of Nordrhein-Westfalen
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-presidents
23 Aug 1946 - 16 Jun 1947 Rudolf Amelunxen 1947: Z (b. 1888 - d. 1969)
17 Jun 1947 - 20 Feb 1956 Karl Arnold CDU (b. 1901 - d. 1958)
20 Feb 1956 - 21 Jul 1958 Fritz Steinhoff SPD (b. 1897 - d. 1969)
21 Jul 1958 - 8 Dec 1966 Franz Meyers CDU (b. 1908 - d. 2002)
8 Dec 1966 - 20 Sep 1978 Heinz Kühn SPD (b. 1912 - d. 1992)
20 Sep 1978 - 27 May 1998 Johannes Rau SPD (b. 1931 - d. 2006)
27 May 1998 - 22 Oct 2002 Wolfgang Clement SPD (b. 1940 - d. 2020)
22 Oct 2002 - 6 Nov 2002 Michael Vesper (acting) Grn (b. 1952)
6 Nov 2002 - 22 Jun 2005 Peer Steinbrück SPD (b. 1947)
22 Jun 2005 - 14 Jul 2010 Jürgen Rüttgers CDU (b. 1951)
14 Jul 2010 - 27 Jun 2017 Hannelore Kraft (f) SPD (b. 1961)
27 Jun 2017 - 26 Oct 2021 Armin Laschet CDU (b. 1961)
26 Oct 2021 - 27 Oct 2021 Joachim Stamp (acting) FDP (b. 1970)
27 Oct 2021 - Hendrik Wüst CDU (b. 1975)
Nordrhein
20 Jun 1945 Nordrhein province formed from northern part of Prussian
province of Rheinland
Oberpräsidenten
4 Jul 1945 - 2 Oct 1945 Hans Fuchs n/p (b. 1874 - d. 1956)
2 Oct 1945 - 24 Jul 1946 Robert Lehr CDU (b. 1883 - d. 1956)
Westfalen
Oberpräsident
2 Jul 1945 - 23 Aug 1946 Rudolf Amelunxen n/p (s.a.)
Lippe-Detmold
21 Jan 1947 part of Nordrhein-Westfalen
State president
9 May 1946 - 21 Jan 1947 Heinrich Drake n/p (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
Rheinland-Pfalz
15 Jun 1945 Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau province formed by merger of the
southern part of the Prussian province of Rheinland and
western parts of the Prussian province of Nassau
13 Jul 1945 the Pfalz district of Bayern and the Rheinhessen district
of Hessen are merged to form Hessen-Pfalz province
15 Oct 1946 Hessen-Pfalz dissolved; Rheinhessen district becomes part
of Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau
1 Dec 1946 Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau and Pfalz merged to form state of
Rheinland-Pfalz
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-presidents
2 Jan 1946 - 9 Jul 1947 Wilhelm Boden CDU (b. 1890 - d. 1961)
(Oberpräsident of Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau to 1 Dec 1946)
9 Jul 1947 - 19 May 1969 Peter Altmeier CDU (b. 1899 - d. 1977)
19 May 1969 - 2 Dec 1976 Helmut Kohl CDU (b. 1930 - d. 2017)
2 Dec 1976 - 8 Dec 1988 Bernhard Vogel CDU (b. 1932)
8 Dec 1988 - 21 May 1991 Carl-Ludwig Wagner CDU (b. 1930 - d. 2012)
21 May 1991 - 26 Oct 1994 Rudolf Scharping SPD (b. 1947)
26 Oct 1994 - 16 Jan 2013 Kurt Beck SPD (b. 1949)
16 Jan 2013 - Malu Dreyer (f) SPD (b. 1961)
Saarland
1945 French occupation
3 Dec 1946 Saargebiet renamed Saarland
1 Jan 1957 state of the Federal Republic of Germany
Military governor (from 1 Jan 1948, high commissioner)
30 Aug 1945 - Jan 1952 Gilbert Grandval (b. 1904 - d. 1981)
Ambassadors
Jan 1952 - Jun 1955 Gilbert Grandval (s.a.)
Jul 1955 - Nov 1956 Eric de Carbonnel (b. 1910 - d. 1965)
Nov 1956 - 31 Dec 1956 Tanguy de Courson de la Villeneuve (b. 1911 - d. 2001)
(acting)
President of the Government
31 Jul 1945 - 8 Oct 1946 Hans Neureuter n/p (b. 1901 - d. 1953)
Chairman of the (until 15 Dec 1947, Provisional) Administration Commission
8 Oct 1946 - 20 Dec 1947 Erwin Müller CVP (b. 1906 - d. 1968)
Minister-presidents
20 Dec 1947 - 29 Oct 1955 Johannes Hoffmann CVP (b. 1890 - d. 1967)
29 Oct 1955 - 10 Jan 1956 Heinrich Welsch n/p (b. 1888 - d. 1976)
10 Jan 1956 - 4 Jun 1957 Hubert Ney CDU (b. 1892 - d. 1984)
4 Jun 1957 - 23 Apr 1959 Egon Reinert CDU (b. 1908 - d. 1959)
30 Apr 1959 - 26 Jun 1979 Franz Josef Röder CDU (b. 1909 - d. 1979)
26 Jun 1979 - 5 Jul 1979 Werner Klumpp (acting) FDP (b. 1928 - d. 2021)
5 Jul 1979 - 9 Apr 1985 Werner Zeyer CDU (b. 1929 - d. 2000)
9 Apr 1985 - 27 Oct 1998 Oskar Lafontaine SPD (b. 1943)
27 Oct 1998 - 10 Nov 1998 Christiane Krajewski (f) SPD (b. 1949)
(acting)
10 Nov 1998 - 29 Sep 1999 Reinhard Klimmt SPD (b. 1942)
29 Sep 1999 - 10 Aug 2011 Peter Müller CDU (b. 1955)
10 Aug 2011 - 1 Mar 2018 Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
(f) CDU (b. 1962)
1 Mar 2018 - 25 Apr 2022 Tobias Hans CDU (b. 1978)
25 Apr 2022 - Anke Rehlinger (f) SPD (b. 1976)
Sachsen
7 Oct 1949 part of the German Democratic Republic
25 Jul 1952 state dissolved into districts (Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Leipzig)
3 Oct 1990 reconstituted as state of the Federal Republic of Germany
27 Oct 1990 named Free State of Sachsen
First secretaries of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 1949 Wilhelm Koenen (b. 1886 - d. 1963)
1949 - 1952 Ernst Lohagen (b. 1897 - d. 1971)
1952 - Jul 1952 Karl Schirdewan (b. 1907 - d. 1998)
Minister-presidents
4 Jul 1945 - 13 Jun 1947 Rudolf Friedrichs
SPD; 22 Apr 1946: SED (b. 1892 - d. 1947)
(Landespräsident to 11 Dec 1946)
31 Jul 1947 - 25 Jul 1952 Max Seydewitz SED (b. 1892 - d. 1987)
3 Oct 1990 - 27 Oct 1990 Rudolf Krause CDU (b. 1939)
(Landesbevollmächtigter)
27 Oct 1990 - 18 Apr 2002 Kurt Biedenkopf CDU (b. 1930 - d. 2021)
18 Apr 2002 - 28 May 2008 Georg Milbradt CDU (b. 1945)
28 May 2008 - 13 Dec 2017 Stanislaw Tillich CDU (b. 1959)
13 Dec 2017 - Michael Kretschmer CDU (b. 1975)
Sachsen-Anhalt
23 Jul 1945 province of Sachsen-Anhalt formed by merger of the Prussian
provinces of Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg and the state of
Anhalt
21 Jul 1947 state
7 Oct 1949 part of the German Democratic Republic
25 Jul 1952 state dissolved into districts (Halle, Magdeburg)
3 Oct 1990 reconstituted as state of the Federal Republic of Germany
First secretary of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 1952 Bernhard Koenen (b. 1889 - d. 1964)
Minister-presidents
20 Jul 1945 - 13 Aug 1949 Erhard Hübener LDP (b. 1881 - d. 1958)
13 Aug 1949 - 25 Jul 1952 Werner Bruschke SED (b. 1898 - d. 1995)
3 Oct 1990 - 28 Oct 1990 Karl-Hermann Steinberg CDU (b. 1941 - d. 2021)
(Landesbevollmächtigter)
28 Oct 1990 - 4 Jul 1991 Gerd Gies CDU (b. 1943)
4 Jul 1991 - 2 Dec 1993 Werner Münch CDU (b. 1940)
2 Dec 1993 - 21 Jul 1994 Christoph Bergner CDU (b. 1948)
21 Jul 1994 - 16 May 2002 Reinhard Höppner SPD (b. 1948 - d. 2014)
16 May 2002 - 19 Apr 2011 Wolfgang Böhmer CDU (b. 1936)
19 Apr 2011 - Reiner Haseloff CDU (b. 1954)
Schleswig-Holstein
23 Aug 1946 Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein becomes state
7 Sep 1949 part of the Federal Republic of Germany
Oberpräsidenten
14 May 1945 - 15 Nov 1945 Otto Hoevermann n/p (b. 1888 - d. 1953)
15 Nov 1945 - 12 Sep 1946 Theodor Steltzer CDU (b. 1885 - d. 1967)
Minister-presidents
12 Sep 1946 - 29 Apr 1947 Theodor Steltzer CDU (s.a.)
29 Apr 1947 - 29 Aug 1949 Hermann Lüdemann SPD (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
29 Aug 1949 - 5 Sep 1950 Bruno Diekmann SPD (b. 1897 - d. 1982)
5 Sep 1950 - 25 Jun 1951 Walter Bartram CDU (b. 1893 - d. 1971)
25 Jun 1951 - 2 Oct 1954 Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke CDU (b. 1887 - d. 1954)
11 Oct 1954 - 14 Jan 1963 Kai-Uwe von Hassel CDU (b. 1913 - d. 1997)
14 Jan 1963 - 24 May 1971 Helmut Lemke CDU (b. 1907 - d. 1990)
24 May 1971 - 14 Oct 1982 Gerhard Stoltenberg CDU (b. 1928 - d. 2001)
14 Oct 1982 - 2 Oct 1987 Uwe Barschel CDU (b. 1944 - d. 1987)
2 Oct 1987 - 31 May 1988 Henning Schwarz (acting) CDU (b. 1928 - d. 1993)
31 May 1988 - 19 May 1993 Björn Engholm SPD (b. 1939)
19 May 1993 - 27 Apr 2005 Heide Simonis (f) SPD (b. 1943)
27 Apr 2005 - 12 Jun 2012 Peter Harry Carstensen CDU (b. 1947)
12 Jun 2012 - 28 Jun 2017 Torsten Albig SPD (b. 1963)
28 Jun 2017 - Daniel Günther CDU (b. 1973)
Thüringen
7 Oct 1949 part of the German Democratic Republic
25 Jul 1952 state dissolved into districts (Erfurt, Gera, Suhl)
3 Oct 1990 reconstituted as state of the Federal Republic of Germany
25 Oct 1993 named Free State of Thüringen
First secretaries of the Socialist Unity Party
21 Apr 1946 - 1947 Werner Eggerath (b. 1900 - d. 1977)
1947 - 1949 Erich Ernst Kops (b. 1905 - d. 1961)
Dec 1949 - 25 Jul 1952 Erich Mückenberger (b. 1910 - d. 1998)
Minister-presidents
9 Jun 1945 - 16 Jul 1945 Hermann Brill SPD (b. 1895 - d. 1959)
(president of the government)
16 Jul 1945 - 1 Sep 1947 Rudolf Paul Apr 1946: SED (b. 1893 - d. 1978)
(leader of the state administration to 4 Dec 1946)
2 Sep 1947 - 25 Jul 1952 Werner Eggerath SED (s.a.)
(acting to 8 Oct 1947)
3 Oct 1990 - 5 Feb 1992 Josef Duchac CDU (b. 1938)
(Landesbevollmächtigter to 8 Nov 1990)
5 Feb 1992 - 5 Jun 2003 Bernhard Vogel CDU (b. 1932)
5 Jun 2003 - 30 Oct 2009 Dieter Althaus CDU (b. 1958)
1 Jan 2009 - 20 Apr 2009 Birgit Diezel (f) CDU (b. 1958)
(acting for Althaus)
30 Oct 2009 - 5 Dec 2014 Christine Lieberknecht (f) CDU (b. 1958)
5 Dec 2014 - 5 Feb 2020 Bodo Ramelow (1st time) Lft (b. 1956)
5 Feb 2020 - 4 Mar 2020 Thomas Kemmerich FDP (b. 1965)
4 Mar 2020 - Bodo Ramelow (2nd time) Lft (s.a.)