List of minister-presidents of Hesse

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.

Minister-President of Hesse
Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen
Coat of arms of Hesse
Incumbent Boris Rhein since 31 May 2022
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 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.

Historical background

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 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.

List

For the Oberpräsidents of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau (1868–1944), see Hesse-Nassau § Oberpräsidents.

Grand Duchy of Hesse (1819–1918)

Minister-presidents of the Grand Duchy of Hesse

• 1819–1829: Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman
• 1829–1848: Karl du Thil
• 1848: Heinrich von Gagern
• 1848–1850: Heinrich Karl Jaup
• 1852–1871: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk
• 1871–1872: Friedrich von Lindelof
• 1872–1876: Karl von Hofmann
• 1876–1884: Julius Rinck von Starck
• 1884–1898: Jacob Finger
• 1898–1906: Karl Rothe
• 1906–1918: Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald

People's State of Hesse (1919–1945)

Political party:   SPD   NSDAP

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party
			Took office	Left office	Days
Presidents of the People's State of Hesse
		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
		Ferdinand Werner (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

Hesse (1945–present)

Minister-President of the State of Hesse

Political party:   SPD   CDU

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party	Election
			Took office	Left office	Days
Greater Hesse (1945–1946) State of Hesse (1946–present)
American occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1949)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 23 May 1949)
1		Karl Geiler (1878–1953)	16 October 1945	20 December 1946	430	Social Democratic Party	–
2		Christian Stock (1884–1967)	20 December 1946	14 December 1950	1455	Social Democratic Party	1946
3		Georg-August Zinn (1901–1976)	14 December 1950	3 October 1969 (resigned)	6868	Social Democratic Party	1950 1954 1958 1962 1966
4		Albert Osswald (1919–1996)	3 October 1969	16 October 1976 (resigned)	2570	Social Democratic Party	1966 1970 1974
5		Holger Börner (1931–2006)	16 October 1976	23 April 1987	3841	Social Democratic Party	1974 1978 1982 1983
6		Walter Wallmann (1932–2013)	23 April 1987	5 April 1991	1443	Christian Democratic Union	1987
7		Hans Eichel (born 1941)	1 April 1991	7 April 1999	2928	Social Democratic Party	1991 1995
8		Roland Koch (born 1958)	7 April 1999	31 August 2010 (resigned)	4164	Christian Democratic Union	1999 2003 2009
9		Volker Bouffier (born 1951)	31 August 2010	31 May 2022 (resigned)	4291	Christian Democratic Union	2009 2013 2018
10		Boris Rhein (born 1972)	31 May 2022	Incumbent	1167	Christian Democratic Union	2018 2023

See also

• List of rulers of Hesse