Minister President of Prussia

Minister President of Prussia
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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

Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Prussia

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 1918		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Paul Hirsch 11 November 1918 -
27 March 1920		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Otto Braun 27 March 1920 -
21 April 1921		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Adam Stegerwald 21 April 1921 -
5 November 1921		 Centre Party
Otto Braun 5 November 1921 -
18 February 1925		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Wilhelm Marx 18 February 1925 -
6 April 1925		 Centre Party
Otto Braun 6 April 1925 -
20 July 1932		 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Position suspended.
Administered by the Reichskommissar		 20 July 1932 -
30 January 1933
Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia in the Third Reich
Franz von Papen 30 January -
10 April 1933		 None
Hermann Göring 10 April 1933 -
24 April 1945		 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Adolf Hitler Reichsstatthalter
25 April 1933 -
30 April 1945		 National Socialist German Workers' Party

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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 · Baden
 Coat of arms of Prussia
Free State of Prussia
in the Weimar Republic
(1918–1933)
Ebert · Hirsch · Braun · Stegerwald · Braun · Marx · Braun · Reichskommisars (Papen · Schleicher)
Free State of Prussia
in the Third Reich
(1933–1935)

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