List of Presidents of the German Bundesrat

List of Presidents of the German Bundesrat

In Germany, the President of the Bundesrat (German: "Bundesratspräsident") is the body's chairperson or speaker. The office was established with the adoption of the Basic Law in 1949. It rotates among the minister-presidents of each of the federal "Länder" (states) on an annual basis.

List

* 1949-1950 Karl Arnold, North Rhine-Westphalia, CDU
* 1950-1951 Hans Ehard, Bavaria, CSU
* 1951-1952 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, Lower Saxony, Social Democratic Party SPD
* 1952-1953 Reinhold Maier, Baden-Württemberg, FDP
* 1953-1954 Georg August Zinn, Hesse, SPD
* 1954-1955 Peter Altmeier, Rhineland-Palatinate, CDU
* 1955-1956 Kai-Uwe von Hassel, Schleswig-Holstein, CDU
* 1956-1957 Kurt Sieveking, Hamburg, CDU
* 1957-1958 Willy Brandt [Otto Suhr of the SPD in Berlin was elected President of the Bundesrat in July 1957 but died in August, before his term of office began.] , Berlin, SPD
* 1958-1959 Wilhelm Kaisen, Bremen, SPD
* 1959-1960 Franz Josef Röder, Saarland, CDU
* 1960-1961 Franz Meyers, North Rhine-Westphalia, CDU
* 1961-1962 Hans Ehard, Bavaria, CSU
* 1962-1963 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Baden-Württemberg, CDU
* 1963-1964 Georg Diederichs, Lower Saxony, SPD
* 1964-1965 Georg August Zinn, Hesse, SPD
* 1965-1966 Peter Altmeier, Rhineland-Palatinate, CDU
* 1966-1967 Helmut Lemke, Schleswig-Holstein, CDU
* 1967-1968 Klaus Schütz, Berlin, SPD
* 1968-1969 Herbert Weichmann, Hamburg, SPD
* 1969-1970 Franz Josef Röder, Saarland, CDU
* 1970-1971 Hans Koschnick, Bremen, SPD
* 1971-1972 Heinz Kühn, North Rhine-Westphalia, SPD
* 1972-1973 Alfons Goppel, Bavaria, CSU
* 1973-1974 Hans Filbinger, Baden-Württemberg, CDU
* 1974-1975 Alfred Kubel, Lower Saxony, SPD
* 1975-1976 Albert Osswald, Hesse, SPD
* 1976-1977 Bernhard Vogel, Rhineland-Palatinate, CDU
* 1977-1978 Gerhard Stoltenberg, Schleswig-Holstein, CDU
* 1978-1979 Dietrich Stobbe, Berlin, SPD
* 1979-1980 Hans-Ulrich Klose, Hamburg, SPD
* 1980-1981 Werner Zeyer, Saarland, CDU
* 1981-1982 Hans Koschnick, Bremen, SPD
* 1982-1983 Johannes Rau, North Rhine-Westphalia, SPD
* 1983-1984 Franz Josef Strauß, Bavaria, CSU
* 1984-1985 Lothar Späth, Baden-Württemberg, CDU
* 1985-1986 Ernst Albrecht, Lower Saxony, CDU
* 1986-1987 Holger Börner, Hesse, SPD
* 1987-1987 Walter Wallmann, Hesse, CDU
* 1987-1988 Bernhard Vogel, Rhineland-Palatinate, CDU
* 1988-1989 Björn Engholm, Schleswig-Holstein, SPD
* 1989-1990 Walter Momper, Berlin, SPD
* 1990-1991 Henning Voscherau, Hamburg, SPD
* 1991-1992 Alfred Gomolka, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, CDU
* 1992-1992 Berndt Seite, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, CDU
* 1992-1993 Oskar Lafontaine, Saarland, SPD
* 1993-1994 Klaus Wedemeier, Bremen, SPD
* 1994-1995 Johannes Rau, North Rhine-Westphalia, SPD
* 1995-1996 Edmund Stoiber, Bavaria, CSU
* 1996-1997 Erwin Teufel, Baden-Württemberg, CDU
* 1997-1998 Gerhard Schröder, Lower Saxony, SPD
* 1998-1999 Hans Eichel, Hesse, SPD
* 1999-1999 Roland Koch, Hesse, CDU
* 1999-2000 Kurt Biedenkopf, Saxony, CDU
* 2000-2001 Kurt Beck, Rhineland-Palatinate, SPD
* 2001-2002 Klaus Wowereit, Berlin, SPD
* 2002-2003 Wolfgang Böhmer, Saxony-Anhalt, CDU
* 2003-2004 Dieter Althaus, Thuringia, CDU
* 2004-2005 Matthias Platzeck, Brandenburg, SPD
* 2005-2006 Peter Harry Carstensen, Schleswig-Holstein, CDU
* 2006-2007 Harald Ringstorff, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, SPD
* 2007-"present" Ole von Beust, Hamburg, CDU

References

ee also

*Politics of Germany
*History of Germany

External links

* [http://www.bundesrat.de/cln_051/nn_9020/DE/organe-mitglieder/praesident/bisherige/bisherige-node.html?__nnn=true "Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949"] (in German)
* [http://www.bundesrat.de/EN/Home/homepage__node.html?__nnn=true Official Bundesrat website] (English).


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