List of ministers-president of Hesse
Minister-President of Hesse
Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen | |
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Residence | Wiesbaden |
Appointer | Landtag of Hesse |
Term length | Pending resignation or the election of a successor |
Inaugural holder | Ludwig Bergsträsser (Greater Hesse) |
Formation | 16 September 1945 |
Website | https://staatskanzlei.hessen.de/ |
The Minister-President of Hesse (German: Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen), also referred to as the Premier or Minister President (also translated into English as the Prime minister of Hessen[1]), is the head of government of the German state of Hesse. The position in its current form was created in 1946, when the provisional state of Greater Hesse was renamed. Greater Hesse had been formed in 1945 after the Second World War from the Prussian Provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau (formed from the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau in 1944) and the People's State of Hesse. The current Minister-President is Volker Bouffier, heading between the Christian Democrats and the Greens. Bouffier succeeded Roland Koch following his departure from active politics.
The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Hessische Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Wiesbaden, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
The state of Hesse sees itself in the tradition notably of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the People's State of Hesse (colloquially known as "Hesse-Darmstadt"), having adopted many of its symbols.
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Hesse (1819–1945)[]
Ministers-President of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (1819–1918)[]
- 1819–1829: Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman
- 1829–1848:
- 1848Heinrich von Gagern :
- 1848–1850:
- 1852–1871:
- 1871–1872:
- 1872–1876:
- 1876–1884:
- 1884–1898:
- 1898–1906:
- 1906–1918: Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald
Presidents of the People's State of Hesse (1919–1945)[]
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |||
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Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
Carl Ulrich (1853–1933) |
21 January 1919 | 14 February 1928 | 3311 | Social Democratic Party | ||
Bernhard Adelung (1876–1943) |
14 February 1928 | 13 March 1933 | 1854 | Social Democratic Party | ||
(1876–1961) |
13 March 1933 | 20 September 1933 | 191 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
Philipp Wilhelm Jung (1884–1965) |
20 September 1933 | 1 March 1935 | 527 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) |
Reichsstatthalter | c. 4320 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |||
5 May 1933 | March 1945 | |||||
Präsident | c. 3650 | |||||
1 March 1935 | March 1945 |
State of Hesse (1946–present)[]
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |||
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Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
Ministers-President of Greater Hesse | ||||||
1 | Ludwig Bergsträsser (1883–1960) |
19 September 1945 | 16 October 1945 | 27 | Social Democratic Party | |
2 | Karl Geiler (1878–1953) |
16 October 1945 | 20 December 1946 | 430 | Social Democratic Party | |
Ministers-President of Hesse | ||||||
1 | Christian Stock (1884–1967) |
20 December 1946 | 14 December 1950 | 1455 | Social Democratic Party | |
2 | Georg-August Zinn (1901–1976) |
14 December 1950 | 3 October 1969 | 6868 | Social Democratic Party | |
3 | Albert Osswald (1919–1996) |
3 October 1969 | 16 October 1976 | 2570 | Social Democratic Party | |
4 | Holger Börner (1931–2006) |
16 October 1976 | 23 April 1987 | 3841 | Social Democratic Party | |
5 | Walter Wallmann (1932–2013) |
23 April 1987 | 5 April 1991 | 1443 | Christian Democratic Union | |
6 | Hans Eichel (born 1941) |
1 April 1991 | 7 April 1999 | 2928 | Social Democratic Party | |
7 | Roland Koch (born 1958) |
7 April 1999 | 31 August 2010 | 4164 | Christian Democratic Union | |
8 | Volker Bouffier (born 1951) |
31 August 2010 | Incumbent | 4030 | Christian Democratic Union |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Volker Bouffier". english.hessen.de. Hessen Government. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
External links[]
- Ministers-President of Hesse
- Lists of Ministers-President of German states
- Politics of Hesse
- Hesse-related lists