List of minister-presidents of Brandenburg

This article is about minister-presidents of Brandenburg since 1990. For Brandenburg between 1945 and 1952, see Brandenburg (1945–1952).

The minister-president of Brandenburg is the head of government of the German state of Brandenburg. The office was created in 1990 after the German reunification and the joining of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany. The current and third minister-president is Dietmar Woidke, heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats, the CDU and the Alliance '90/The Greens. Woidke succeeded Matthias Platzeck in August 2013.

Minister-President of Brandenburg
Ministerpräsident des Landes Brandenburg
Coat of arms of Brandenburg
Incumbent Dietmar Woidke since 28 August 2013
Residence	Potsdam
Appointer	Landtag of Brandenburg
Term length	Pending resignation or the election of a successor
Inaugural holder	Manfred Stolpe
Formation	3 October 1990
Salary	regulated by legislation

The minister-president's seat of government is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei) and is located in the state capital, Potsdam, along with the other cabinet department.

List

Prime ministers of Brandenburg, 1945–1952

After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Brandenburg, which had previously been merely a province of Prussia, re-emerged as a German Land.

• Karl Steinhoff (SPD/SED), 1945–1949.
• Rudolf Jahn (SED), 1949–1952.

Minister-presidents of Brandenburg, since 1990

After being abolished in a reorganization of the territories administered by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Land Brandenburg was restored in the prelude to German unification in 1990.

Political party:   SPD

Portrait		Name (Born–Died)	Term of office			Political party	Election
			Took office	Left office	Days
State of Brandenburg (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
–		Jochen Wolf (1941–2022) as State Commissioner	3 October 1990	1 November 1990	29	Social Democratic Party	–
1		Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019)	1 November 1990	26 June 2002 (resigned)	4255	Social Democratic Party	1990 1994 1999
2		Matthias Platzeck (born 1953)	26 June 2002	28 August 2013 (resigned)	4081	Social Democratic Party	2004 2009
3		Dietmar Woidke (born 1961)	28 August 2013	Incumbent	4372	Social Democratic Party	2014 2019 2024

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See also

• Brandenburg
• Politics of Brandenburg
• Landtag of Brandenburg