List of ministers-president of Bavaria

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Below is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in the German state of Bavaria from the 17th century to the present.

Privy Council chancellor[]

Privy Council chancellors (Geheime Ratskanzler) were:

• 1650–1662: Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis (de)
• 1662–1667: Johann Georg Oexle
• 1667–1693: Kaspar von Schmid (de)
• 1695–1704: Johann Rudolf von Wämpl (de)
• 1704–1714: Vacant
• 1726–1749: Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl
• 1749–1758: Franz Xaver Andreas von Praidlohn (de)
• 1758–1790: Wiguläus von Kreittmayr

Ministers[]

Before 1849 Bavaria had no actual head of government, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs was the most senior of the ministers. In 1806, the office was given to the Minister of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs.

• 1745–1777: Franz Joseph von Berchem
• 1777–1799: Matthäus von Vieregg
• 1799–1817: Maximilian von Montgelas
• 1817–1825: Heinrich Aloys von Reigersberg
• 1825–1832: Georg Friedrich von Zentner
• 1832–1837: Friedrich August Koch
• 1837–1847: Karl von Abel
• 184700000: Friedrich August von Zu Rhein
• 1847–1848: Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein
• 184800000: Klemens von Waldkirch (14 March 1848 – 29 April 1848) (de)
• 1848–1849: Otto von Bray-Steinburg (1st term)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers[]

The office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers was established in 1849. With one exception (1880–1890), the Chairman was always the Foreign Minister.

• 1849–1859: Ludwig von der Pfordten (1st term)
• 1859–1864: Karl von Schrenck von Notzing (de)
• 186400000: Max von Neumayr (de)
• 1864–1866: Ludwig von der Pfordten (2nd term)
• 1866–1870: Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• 1870–1871: Otto von Bray-Steinburg (2nd term)
• 1871–1872: Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux (de)
• 1872–1880: Adolph von Pfretzschner
• 1880–1890: Johann von Lutz
• 1890–1903: Friedrich Krafft Graf von Crailsheim
• 1903–1912: Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz
• 1912–1917: Georg von Hertling
• 1917–1918: Otto von Dandl

Ministers-President of the Free State of Bavaria[]

Political party:   USPD   SPD   BVP   NSDAP   None

Bavaria (1918–1933)[]

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
1		Kurt Eisner (1867–1919)	8 November 1918	21 February 1919	105 days	Independent Social Democratic Party
–		Martin Segitz (1853–1927) Acting	1 March 1919	17 March 1919	16 days	Social Democratic Party
2		Johannes Hoffmann (1867–1930)	17 March 1919	16 March 1920	365 days	Social Democratic Party
3		Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934)	16 March 1920	21 September 1921	1 year, 189 days	Non-partisan
4		Hugo Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering (1871–1944)	21 September 1921	8 November 1922	1 year, 48 days	Bavarian People's Party
5		Eugen Ritter von Knilling (1856–1927)	8 November 1922	1 July 1924	1 year, 236 days	Bavarian People's Party
6		Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934)	Generalstaatskommissar		136 days	Non-partisan
			25 September 1923	17 February 1924
7		Heinrich Held (1868–1938)	2 July 1924	30 January 1933	8 years, 212 days	Bavarian People's Party
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
(7)		Heinrich Held (1868–1938)	30 January 1933	9 March 1933	38 days	Bavarian People's Party
8		Franz Ritter von Epp (1868–1947)	Reichkomissar		31 days	National Socialist German Workers' Party
			10 March 1933	10 April 1933
			Reichsstatthalter		12 years, 19 days
			10 April 1933	29 April 1945
9		Ludwig Siebert (1874–1942)	12 April 1933	1 November 1942 †	9 years, 203 days	National Socialist German Workers' Party
10		Paul Giesler (1895–1945)	2 November 1942	29 April 1945	2 years, 178 days	National Socialist German Workers' Party

Free State of Bavaria (1945–present)[]

Minister-President of Bavaria

Political party:   CSU   SPD

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Bavaria (1945–1949)
American occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany
1		Fritz Schäffer (1888–1967)	28 May 1945	28 September 1945	123 days	Christian Social Union
2		Wilhelm Hoegner (1887–1980) First term	28 September 1945	16 December 1946	1 year, 79 days	Social Democratic Party
3		Hans Ehard (1887–1980) First term	21 December 1946	23 May 1949	2 years, 153 days	Christian Social Union
Bavaria (1949–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
(3)		Hans Ehard (1887–1980) First term	23 May 1949	14 December 1954	5 years, 205 days	Christian Social Union
4 (2)		Wilhelm Hoegner (1887–1980) Second term	14 December 1954	8 October 1957 (resigned)	2 years, 298 days	Social Democratic Party
5		Hanns Seidel (1901–1961)	16 October 1957	22 January 1960 (resigned)	2 years, 98 days	Christian Social Union
6 (3)		Hans Ehard (1887–1980) Second term	26 January 1960	11 December 1962	2 years, 319 days	Christian Social Union
7		Alfons Goppel (1905–1991)	11 December 1962	6 November 1978	15 years, 330 days	Christian Social Union
8		Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988)	6 November 1978	3 October 1988 (died in office)	9 years, 332 days	Christian Social Union
9		Max Streibl (1932–1998)	19 October 1988	27 May 1993 (resigned)	4 years, 220 days	Christian Social Union
10		Edmund Stoiber (born 1941)	28 May 1993	30 September 2007 (resigned)	14 years, 126 days	Christian Social Union
11		Günther Beckstein (born 1943)	9 October 2007	27 October 2008	1 year, 18 days	Christian Social Union
12		Horst Seehofer (born 1949)	27 October 2008	13 March 2018 (resigned)	9 years, 140 days	Christian Social Union
13		Markus Söder (born 1967)	16 March 2018	Incumbent	3 years, 330 days	Christian Social Union

Timeline[]

See also[]

• List of rulers of Bavaria

External links[]

• "Die Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten seit 1945 (in German)". Bavarian government. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-05-10.