List of minister-presidents of Saxony

This article lists the leaders of the Government (German: Vorsitzende des Gesamtministeriums) in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and minister-presidents (German: Ministerpräsidenten) of the Free State of Saxony since 1918.

List of minister-presidents

Kingdom of Saxony (until 1918)

Political party:   DVP   None

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Kingdom of Saxony (until 1871)
Independent member state of the German Confederation and the North German Confederation.
		Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779–1854)	1 December 1831	September 1843	11 years, 9 months	Non-partisan
		Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz (1792–1866)	September 1843	13 March 1848	4 years, 6 months	Non-partisan
		Alexander Karl Hermann Braun (1807–1868)	16 March 1848	24 February 1849	345 days	Non-partisan
		Gustav Friedrich Held (1804–1857)	24 February 1849	2 May 1849	67 days	Non-partisan
		Ferdinand von Zschinsky (1797–1858)	2 May 1849	28 October 1858	9 years, 179 days	Non-partisan
		Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–1886)	28 October 1858	15 August 1866	7 years, 291 days	Non-partisan
		Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882)	October 1866	18 January 1871	4 years, 3 months	Non-partisan
Kingdom of Saxony (1871–1918)
State of the German Reich during the period of the German Empire.
		Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882)	18 January 1871	1 October 1871	256 days	Non-partisan
		Richard Freiherr von Friesen (1808–1884)	1 October 1871	1 November 1876	5 years, 31 days	Non-partisan
		Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice (1818–1891)	1 November 1876	25 March 1891	14 years, 144 days	Non-partisan
		Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber (1823–1891)	25 March 1891	23 December 1891	273 days	Non-partisan
		Hans von Thümmel (1824–1895)	December 1891	12 February 1895	3 years, 2 months	Non-partisan
		Heinrich Rudolf Schurig (1835–1901)	12 February 1895	15 June 1901	6 years, 123 days	Non-partisan
		Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach (1836–1927)	15 June 1901	30 April 1906	4 years, 319 days	Non-partisan
		Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (1837–1916)	30 April 1906	1 December 1910	4 years, 215 days	Non-partisan
		Victor Alexander von Otto (1852–1912)	1 December 1910	21 May 1912	1 year, 172 days	Non-partisan
		Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen (1846–1922)	26 July 1912	21 May 1914	1 year, 299 days	Non-partisan
		Heinrich Gustav Beck (1854–1933)	21 May 1914	26 October 1918	4 years, 158 days	Non-partisan
		Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928)	26 October 1918	13 November 1918	18 days	German People's Party

Free State of Saxony (1918–1952)

Political party:   USPD   SPD / ASPD   DVP   NSDAP   SED

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party	Cabinet	Landtag
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Free State of Saxony (1918–1933)
State of the German Reich during the period of the Weimar Republic.
		Richard Lipinski (1867–1936)	15 November 1918	21 January 1919	67 days	Independent Social Democratic Party	Council of People's Deputies SPD–USPD	–
		Georg Gradnauer (1866–1946)	21 January 1919	4 May 1920	1 year, 104 days	Social Democratic Party	Council of People's Deputies SPD
							Gradnauer SPD–DDP	People's Chamber Feb. 1919
		Wilhelm Buck (1869–1945)	4 May 1920	21 March 1923	2 years, 321 days	Social Democratic Party	Buck I SPD–DDP
							Buck II SPD–USPD	1 Nov. 1920
							Buck III SPD	2 Nov. 1922
		Erich Zeigner (1886–1949)	21 March 1923	29 October 1923	222 days	Social Democratic Party	Zeigner SPD From 12 Oct. 1923: SPD–KPD
		Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928)	Reichskommissar		2 days	German People's Party	–
			29 October 1923	31 October 1923
		Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973)	31 October 1923	4 January 1924	65 days	Social Democratic Party	Fellisch SPD
		Max Heldt (1872–1933)	4 January 1924	26 June 1929	5 years, 173 days	Social Democratic Party	Heldt I SPD–DVP–DDP From 25 Mar. 1926: ASPD–DVP–DDP
						After 25 Mar. 1926: Non-partisan
						After 6 Jun. 1926: Old Social Democratic Party
							Heldt II DVP–WP–DDP–ASPD	3 Oct. 1926
							Heldt III DNVP–DVP–WP–DDP–VRP–ASPD
		Wilhelm Bünger (1870–1937)	26 June 1929	18 February 1930	237 days	German People's Party	Bünger DVP–WP–DNVP–ASPD	4 May 1929
		Walther Schieck (1874–1946)	6 May 1930	30 January 1933	2 years, 269 days	German People's Party	Schieck DVP–DDP	5 Jun. 1930
Free State of Saxony (1933–1945)
State of the German Reich during the period of Nazi Germany.
		Walther Schieck (1874–1946)	30 January 1933	10 March 1933	39 days	German People's Party
		Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (1886–1944)	Reichkomissar		56 days	Nazi Party	–
			10 March 1933	5 May 1933
			Ministerpräsident		1 year, 299 days
			5 May 1933	28 February 1935
		Martin Mutschmann (1879–1947)	Reichsstatthalter		12 years, 3 days	Nazi Party	–
			5 May 1933	8 May 1945
			Ministerpräsident		10 years, 69 days
			28 February 1935	8 May 1945
Saxony (1945–1949)
Soviet occupation zone of Germany
		Rudolf Friedrichs (1892–1947)	1 July 1945	13 June 1947	1 year, 347 days	Social Democratic Party	Friedrichs I SPD–KPD–LDP–CDU From 22 Apr. 1946: SED–LDP–CDU	Consultative Assembly
						After 22 April 1946: Socialist Unity Party
							Friedrichs II SED–LDP–CDU	1 Oct. 1946
		Max Seydewitz (1892–1987)	31 July 1947	7 October 1949	2 years, 68 days	Socialist Unity Party	Seydewitz I SED–LDP–CDU–DBD
Saxony (1949–1952)
State of the German Democratic Republic (1949–1952)
		Max Seydewitz (1892–1987)	7 October 1949	23 July 1952	2 years, 290 days	Socialist Unity Party	Seydewitz II SED–CDU–LDP–DBD–NDPD–FDGB	2 Oct. 1950
From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished.

Free State of Saxony (1990–present)

Political party:   CDU

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party	Cabinet	Landtag
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Saxony (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
–		Rudolf Krause (born 1939) as State Commissioner	3 October 1990	27 October 1990	24 days	Christian Democratic Union	–	–
1		Kurt Biedenkopf (1930–2021)	27 October 1990	18 April 2002	11 years, 173 days	Christian Democratic Union	Biedenkopf I CDU	1 Oct. 1990
							Biedenkopf II CDU	2 Sep. 1994
							Biedenkopf III CDU	3 Sep. 1999
2		Georg Milbradt (born 1945)	18 April 2002	28 May 2008	6 years, 40 days	Christian Democratic Union	Milbradt I CDU
							Milbradt II CDU–SPD	4 Sep. 2004
3		Stanislaw Tillich (born 1959)	28 May 2008	13 December 2017	9 years, 199 days	Christian Democratic Union	Tillich I CDU–SPD
							Tillich II CDU–FDP	5 Aug. 2009
							Tillich III CDU–SPD	6 Aug. 2014
4		Michael Kretschmer (born 1975)	13 December 2017	Incumbent	7 years, 245 days	Christian Democratic Union	Kretschmer I CDU–SPD
							Kretschmer II CDU–Green–SPD	7 Sep. 2019
							Kretschmer III CDU–SPD	8 Sep. 2024

See also

• List of rulers of Saxony