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Politics of PrussiaMinister President of Prussia German General Staff Prussian Minister of War Foreign Minister of Prussia Interior Minister of Prussia The office of Minister President (German: Ministerpräsident) or Prime Minister of Prussia existed in one form or another from 1702 until the dissolution of Prussia in 1947. When Prussia was an independent kingdom (since 1701) the Minister President or Prime Minister functioned as the King's Chief Minister and presided over the Prussian Landtag (the Prussian parliament established in 1848). After the unification of Germany in 1871 until the collapse in 1918 the office of the Prussian Prime Minister was usually held jointly by the Imperial Chancellor. Under the Weimar Republic the Prime Minister was head of the state government (a more traditional parliamentary role). The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of nobility title after the Nazi dismantlement of Prussia as a state in 1935, and disappeared along with Prussia itself after World War II.
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Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia
- Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg 1702-1711
- Heinrich Rüdiger von Ilgen 1711-1728
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow 1728-1739
- Heinrich von Podewils 1739-1749
- Georg Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1749-1753
- Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein 1749-1777
- Friedrich Anton von Heinitz 1777-1802
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim 1786-1798
- Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1802-1804 (1st term)
- Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1804-1806 (1st term)
- Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz 1806 (2nd term)
- Karl Friedrich von Beyme 1806-1807
- Count Karl August von Hardenberg 1807 (2nd term)
- Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein 1807-1808
- Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander von Dohna-Schlobitten 1808-1810
- Prince Karl August von Hardenberg 1810-1822 (3rd term)
- Otto Carl Friedrich von Voß 1822-1823
- Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum 1823-1841
- Ludwig Gustav von Thile 1841-1848
Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Prussia
- Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1848
- Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen 1848
- Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald 1848
- Baron Ernst von Pfuel 1848
- Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 1848-1850
- Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel 1850-1858
- Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1858-1862
- Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen 1862
- Prince Otto von Bismarck 1862-1873 (1st term)
- Count Albrecht von Roon 1873
- Prince Otto von Bismarck 1873-1890 (2nd term)
- Count Leo von Caprivi 1890-1892
- Count Botho zu Eulenburg 1892-1894
- Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1894-1900
- Count Bernhard von Bülow 1900-1909
- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg 1909-1917
- Georg Michaelis 1917
- Count Georg von Hertling 1917-1918
- Prince Maximilian of Baden 1918
Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia
Name Period of office Party Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic Friedrich Ebert 9 November 1918 -
11 November 1918Social Democratic Party of Germany Paul Hirsch 11 November 1918 -
27 March 1920Social Democratic Party of Germany Otto Braun 27 March 1920 -
21 April 1921Social Democratic Party of Germany Adam Stegerwald 21 April 1921 -
5 November 1921Centre Party Otto Braun 5 November 1921 -
18 February 1925Social Democratic Party of Germany Wilhelm Marx 18 February 1925 -
6 April 1925Centre Party Otto Braun 6 April 1925 -
20 July 1932Social Democratic Party of Germany Position suspended.
Administered by the Reichskommissar20 July 1932 -
30 January 1933Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia in the Third Reich Franz von Papen 30 January -
10 April 1933None Hermann Göring 10 April 1933 -
24 April 1945National Socialist German Workers' Party Adolf Hitler Reichsstatthalter
25 April 1933 -
30 April 1945National Socialist German Workers' Party See also
Ministers President of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
(1701–1918)Office established 1848 · Arnim-Boitzenburg · Camphausen · Auerswald · Pfuel · Brandenburg · Ladenberg · Manteuffel · Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen · Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen · Bismarck · Roon · Bismarck · Caprivi · Eulenburg · Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst · Bülow · Bethmann Hollweg · Michaelis · Hertling · BadenFree State of Prussia
in the Weimar Republic
(1918–1933)Free State of Prussia
in the Third Reich
(1933–1935)Categories:- Prime Ministers of Prussia
- History of Prussia
- Lists of office-holders
- Germany-related lists
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