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President by right of age of the Bundestag
Alterspräsident des Deutschen Bundestages
Seal of the Bundestag
Incumbent Peter Ramsauer since 26 December 2023
Presidium of the Bundestag
Style	Mr. President (when addressed in the Bundestag)
Type	Presiding officer
Status	acting
Seat	Reichstag building, Berlin
Term length	Contemporaneous to legislative period
Constituting instrument	Standing rules of the German Bundestag
Formation	7 September 1949
First holder	Paul Löbe
Deputy	next longest serving member of the Bundestag
Website	www.bundestag.de

The President by right of age (Alterspräsident) is the longest-serving member of the german Bundestag (until 2017 the oldest by age).

Role

The role of the President by right of age is defined in the standing rules of the Bundestag: Currently (since 2017), the position is held by the longest-serving member of parliament, with discontinuous terms of office being added together. If two members of parliament have been in office for the same length of time, age is decisive. Before a change to the standing rules in 2017, the position was held by the oldest member. He or she shall preside over the Bundestag during the opening session of each legislative term until the President of the Bundestag has been elected; for this purpose, he is authorized to appoint temporary secretaries, who remain in office until the election of regular secretaries in a later session. Apart from the opening session, he or she shall also preside over the Bundestag at any given time, if both the President and all Vice Presidents are incapable of attending. However, the latter case has never occurred, as of 2024.

It is common practice for the President by right of age to give the first speech of the new legislative period, in which he outlines what he considers to be important tasks for Parliament in the coming years.

There have been cases in which the longest-serving or oldest MP has declined to hold the position: Konrad Adenauer, for example, who was the oldest member of the Bundestag for many years, set the precedent of a sitting chancellor renouncing the dignity. In this case, according to standing rules, he is replaced by the MP who has served the second longest time (previously: the next oldest).

List of Presidents by right of age of the Bundestag

#	Portrait	Name	member of parliament (since 2017)	Term of Office	Time in office	Parliamentary Group	Legislative periods	Notes
1		Paul Löbe (1875–1967)		7 September 1949 – 7 September 1953	4 years, 0 days	SPD	1st
2		Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)		6 October 1953 – 19 April 1967	13 years, 195 days	CDU/CSU	2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th	During the 2nd, 3rd and 4th legislative periods, Adenauer refrained from presiding over the opening session due to his position as Chancellor. In each case, the function was assumed by the next longest-serving member of parliament: In the 2nd and 3rd Bundestag this was Marie Elisabeth Lüders (FDP, 1878–1966) and in the 4th Bundestag Robert Pferdmenges (CDU/CSU, 1880–1962)
3		Arthur Enk (1894–1976)		19 April 1967 – 20 October 1969	2 years, 184 days	CDU/CSU	5th	Enk became the oldest member of parliament due to the death of Adenauer in the middle of the current legislative period; he never presided over the Bundestag
4		William Borm (1895–1987)		20 October 1969 – 13 December 1972	3 years, 54 days	FDP	6th
5		Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977)		13 December 1972 – 5 May 1977	4 years, 143 days	CDU/CSU	7th, 8th
6		Johann Baptist Gradl (1904–1988)		5 May 1977 – 4 November 1980	3 years, 183 days	CDU/CSU	8th	Gradl became the oldest member of parliament due to the death of Erhard in the middle of the current legislative period; he never presided over the Bundestag
7		Herbert Wehner (1906–1990)		4 November 1980 – 29 March 1983	2 years, 145 days	SPD	9th
8		Egon Franke (1913–1995)		29 March 1983 – 18 February 1987	3 years, 326 days	SPD	10th	Franke refrained from presiding over the opening session of the 10th Bundestag as he was under investigation for embezzlement at the time (he was later acquitted). The function was assumed by the next oldest member of parliament, Willy Brandt (SPD, 1913–1992)
9		Willy Brandt (1913–1992)		18 February 1987 – 8 October 1992	5 years, 233 days	SPD	11th, 12th
10		Alfred Dregger (1920–2002)		8 October 1992 – 10 November 1994	2 years, 33 days	CDU/CSU	12th	Dregger became the oldest member of parliament due to the death of Brandt in the middle of the current legislative period; he never presided over the Bundestag
11		Stefan Heym (1913–2001)		10 November 1994 – 31 October 1995	355 days	PDS	13th
12		Alfred Dregger (1920–2002)		31 October 1995 – 26 October 1998	2 years, 360 days	CDU/CSU	13th	Dregger became the oldest member of the Bundestag, as Heym had resigned his seat; he never presided over the Bundestag
13		Fred Gebhardt (1928–2000)		26 October 1998 – 16 August 2000	1 year, 295 days	PDS	14th
14		Hans-Eberhard Urbaniak (born 1929)		16 August 2000 – 17 October 2002	2 years, 62 days	SPD	14th	Urbaniak became the oldest member of parliament due to the death of Gebhardt in the middle of the current legislative period; he never presided over the Bundestag
15		Otto Schily (born 1932)		17 October 2002 – 27 October 2009	7 years, 10 days	SPD	15th, 16th
16		Heinz Riesenhuber (born 1935)		27 October 2009 – 24 October 2017	7 years, 362 days	CDU/CSU	17th, 18th
17		Wolfgang Schäuble (1942–2023)	1972–2023	24 October 2017 – 26 December 2023	6 years, 63 days	CDU/CSU	19th, 20th	Schäuble refrained from presiding over the opening session of the 19th Bundestag as he stood for election as president of the Bundestag and did not want to preside over his own election. The function was assumed by the next longest-serving member of parliament, Hermann Otto Solms (FDP, 1980–2013 and 2017–2021)
18		Peter Ramsauer (born 1954)	since 1990	since 26 December 2023	329 days	CDU/CSU	20th	Ramsauer became the longest serving member of parliament due to the death of Schäuble in the middle of the current legislative period; as yet, he has not presided over the Bundestag

Weblinks

Standing rules of the German Bundestag

List of presidents of Germany from 1949 – till date.

#	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term	Party		Election	Deputies (Presidents of the Bundesrat)
President of the Bundesrat Karl Arnold served as acting head of state from 7 September to 12 September 1949.
1		Theodor Heuss (1884–1963)	September 12, 1949 – September 12, 1959		FDP	1949	Karl Arnold (1949–1950) Hans Ehard (1950–1951) Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1951–1952) Reinhold Maier (1952–1953) Georg August Zinn (1953–1954) Peter Altmeier (1954–1955) Kai-Uwe von Hassel (1955–1956) Kurt Sieveking (1956–1957) Willy Brandt (1957–1958) Wilhelm Kaisen (1958–1959)
						1954
2		Heinrich Lübke (1894–1972)	September 13, 1959 – June 30, 1969		CDU	1959	Wilhelm Kaisen (1959) Franz Josef Röder (1959–1960) Franz Meyers (1960–1961) Hans Ehard (1961–1962) Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1962–1963) Georg Diederichs (1963–1964) Georg August Zinn (1964–1965) Peter Altmeier (1965–1966) Helmut Lemke (1966–1967) Klaus Schütz (1967–1968) Herbert Weichmann (1968–1969)
						1964
3		Gustav Heinemann (1899–1976)	July 1, 1969 – June 30, 1974		SPD	1969	Herbert Weichmann (1969) Franz Josef Röder (1969–1970) Hans Koschnick (1970–1971) Heinz Kühn (1971–1972) Alfons Goppel (1972–1973) Hans Filbinger (1973–1974)
4		Walter Scheel (1919–2016)	July 1, 1974 – June 30, 1979		FDP	1974	Hans Filbinger (1974) Alfred Kubel (1974–1975) Albert Osswald (1975–1976) Bernhard Vogel (1976–1977) Gerhard Stoltenberg (1977–1978) Dietrich Stobbe (1978–1979)
5		Karl Carstens (1914–1992)	July 1, 1979 – June 30, 1984		CDU	1979	Dietrich Stobbe (1979) Hans-Ulrich Klose (1979–1980) Werner Zeyer (1980–1981) Hans Koschnick (1981–1982) Johannes Rau (1982–1983) Franz Josef Strauß (1983–1984)
6		Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015)	July 1, 1984 – June 30, 1994		CDU	1982	Franz Josef Strauß (1984) Lothar Späth (1984–1985) Ernst Albrecht (1985–1986) Holger Börner (1986–1987) Walter Wallmann (1987) Bernhard Vogel (1987–1988) Björn Engholm (1988–1989) Walter Momper (1989–1990) Henning Voscherau (1990–1991) Alfred Gomolka (1991–1992) Berndt Seite (1992) Oskar Lafontaine (1992–1993) Klaus Wedemeier (1993–1994)
						1989
7		Roman Herzog (1934–2017)	July 1, 1994 – June 30, 1999		CDU	1994	Klaus Wedemeier (1994) Johannes Rau (1994–1995) Edmund Stoiber (1995–1996) Erwin Teufel (1996–1997) Gerhard Schröder (1997–1998) Hans Eichel (1998–1999) Roland Koch (1999)
8		Johannes Rau (1931–2006)	July 1, 1999 – June 30, 2004		SPD	1999	Roland Koch (1999) Kurt Biedenkopf (1999–2000) Kurt Beck (2000–2001) Klaus Wowereit (2001–2002) Wolfgang Böhmer (2002–2003) Dieter Althaus (2003–2004)
9		Horst Köhler (b. 1943)	July 1, 2004 – May 31, 2010		CDU	2004	Dieter Althaus (2004) Matthias Platzeck (2004–2005) Peter Harry Carstensen (2005–2006) Harald Ringstorff (2006–2007) Ole von Beust (2007–2008) Peter Müller (2008–2009) Jens Böhrnsen (2009–2010)
						2009
President of the Bundesrat Jens Böhrnsen served as acting head of state from 31 May to 30 June 2010.
10		Christian Wulff (b. 1959)	June 30, 2010 – February 17, 2012		CDU	2010	Jens Böhrnsen (2010) Hannelore Kraft (2010–2011) Horst Seehofer (2011–2012)
President of the Bundesrat Horst Seehofer served as acting head of state from 17 February to 18 March 2012.
11		Joachim Gauck (b. 1940)	March 18, 2012 – March 18, 2017		Independent	2012	Horst Seehofer (2012) Winfried Kretschmann (2012–2013) Stephan Weil (2013–2014) Volker Bouffier (2014–2015) Stanislaw Tillich (2015–2016) Malu Dreyer (2016–2017)
12		Frank-Walter Steinmeier (b. 1956)	March 19, 2017 – Incumbent		SPD	2017	Malu Dreyer (2017) Michael Müller (2017–2018) Daniel Günther (2018–2019) Dietmar Woidke (2019–2020) Reiner Haseloff (2020–2021) Bodo Ramelow (incumbent)
Sources:

	Plenar hall	Name	Legislative period	Diagram	Composition			President	Last election	Next election
Baden-Württemberg		Landtag	17th		Government (100)   Alliance 90/The Greens (58)   CDU (42) Opposition (54)   SPD (19)   FDP (18)   AfD (17)			Muhterem Aras Alliance 90/The Greens	2021	2026
Free State of Bavaria		Landtag	18th		Government (111)   CSU (84)   Free Voters (27) Opposition (94)   Alliance 90/The Greens (38)   SPD (22)   AfD (19)   FDP (11)   Non-inscrits (4)			Ilse Aigner CSU	2018	2023
Berlin		Abgeordnetenhaus	18th (outgoing)		Government (92)   SPD (38)   The Left (27)   Alliance 90/The Greens (27) Opposition (68)   CDU (31)   AfD (22)   FDP (12)   Non-inscrits (3)			Ralf Wieland SPD	2016	26 September 2021
			19th (incoming)		SPD (36)   Alliance 90/The Greens (32)   CDU (30)   The Left (24)   AfD (13)   FDP (12)			TBD	2021	2026
Brandenburg		Landtag	7th		Government (50)   SPD (25)   CDU (15)   Alliance 90/The Greens (10) Opposition (38)   AfD (23)   The Left (10)   BVB/Free Voters (5)			Ulrike Liedtke SPD	2019	2024
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen		Bürgerschaft	20th		Government (49)   SPD (23)   Alliance 90/The Greens (16)   The Left (10) Opposition (35)   CDU (24)   FDP (5)   AfD/Magnitz-Runge-Felgenträger (3)   Non-inscrits (3)			Frank Imhoff CDU	2019	2023
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg		Bürgerschaft	22nd		Government (87)   SPD (54)   Alliance 90/The Greens (33) Opposition (36)   CDU (15)   The Left (13)   AfD (6)   Non-inscrits (2)			Carola Veit SPD	2020	2025
Hesse		Landtag	20th		Government (69)   CDU (40)   Alliance 90/The Greens (29) Opposition (68)   SPD (29)   AfD (18)   FDP (11)   The Left (9)   Non-inscrits (1)			Boris Rhein CDU	2018	2023
Lower Saxony		Landtag	18th		Government (104)   SPD (54)   CDU (50) Opposition (33)   Alliance 90/The Greens (12)   FDP (11)   Non-inscrits (10)			Gabriele Andretta SPD	2017	2022
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern		Landtag	8th		SPD (34)   AfD (14)   CDU (12)   The Left (9)   Alliance 90/The Greens (5)   FDP (5) (government formation not yet completed)			Birgit Hesse SPD	2021	2026
North Rhine-Westphalia		Landtag	17th		Government (100)   CDU (72)   FDP (28) Opposition (99)   SPD (69)   Alliance 90/The Greens (14)   AfD (13)   Non-inscrits (3)			André Kuper CDU	2017	2022
Rhineland-Palatinate		Landtag	18th		Government (55)   SPD (39)   Alliance 90/The Greens (10)   FDP (6) Opposition (46)   CDU (31)   AfD (9)   Free Voters (6)			Hendrik Hering SPD	2021	2026
Saarland		Landtag	16th		Government (41)   CDU (24)   SPD (17) Opposition (10)   The Left (6)   AfD (3)   Non-inscrits (1)			Stephan Toscani CDU	2017	2022
Free State of Saxony		Landtag	7th		Government (67)   CDU (45)   Alliance 90/The Greens (12)   SPD (10) Opposition (52)   AfD (36)   The Left (14)   Non-inscrits (2)			Matthias Rößler CDU	2019	2024
Saxony-Anhalt		Landtag	8th		Government (56)   CDU (40)   SPD (9)   FDP (7) Opposition (41)   AfD (23)   The Left (12)   Alliance 90/The Greens (6)			Gunnar Schellenberger CDU	2021	2026
Schleswig-Holstein		Landtag	19th		Government (44)   CDU (25)   Alliance 90/The Greens (10)   FDP (9) Opposition (29)   SPD (21)   AfD (4)   SSW (3)   Non-inscrits (1)			Klaus Schlie CDU	2017	2022
Free State of Thuringia		Landtag	7th		Government (42)   The Left (29)   SPD (8)   Alliance 90/The Greens (5) Opposition (48)   AfD (21)   CDU (21)   FDP (4)   Non-inscrits (2)			Birgit Keller The Left	2019	2024

List Vice Chancellors

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party	Cabinet	Portfolio
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Franz Blücher (1896–1959)	20 September 1949	29 October 1957	8 years, 30 days	FDP	Adenauer I Adenauer II	Marshall Plan/Economic Cooperation
2		Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977)	20 October 1957	17 October 1963	5 years, 362 days	CDU	Adenauer III Adenauer IV Adenauer V	Economic Affairs
3		Erich Mende (1916–1998)	17 October 1963	27 October 1966	3 years, 10 days	FDP	Erhard I Erhard II	Intra-German Relations
4		Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1903–1967)	27 October 1966	1 December 1966	35 days	CDU	Erhard II	Transport
5		Willy Brandt (1913–1992)	1 December 1966	22 October 1969	2 years, 325 days	SPD	Kiesinger	Foreign Affairs
6		Walter Scheel (1919–2016)	22 October 1969	17 May 1974	4 years, 207 days	FDP	Brandt I Brandt II	Foreign Affairs
7		Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016) 1st term	17 May 1974	17 September 1982	8 years, 123 days	FDP	Schmidt I Schmidt II Schmidt III	Foreign Affairs
8		Egon Franke (1913–1995)	17 September 1982	1 October 1982	14 days	SPD	Schmidt III	Intra-German Relations
9		Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016) 2nd term	1 October 1982	17 May 1992	9 years, 229 days	FDP	Kohl I Kohl II Kohl III Kohl IV	Foreign Affairs
10		Jürgen Möllemann (1945–2003)	17 May 1992	21 January 1993	249 days	FDP	Kohl IV	Economic Affairs
11		Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019)	21 January 1993	26 October 1998	5 years, 278 days	FDP	Kohl IV Kohl V	Foreign Affairs
12		Joschka Fischer (b. 1948)	26 October 1998	22 November 2005	7 years, 27 days	Alliance 90/The Greens	Schröder I Schröder II	Foreign Affairs
13		Franz Müntefering (b. 1940)	22 November 2005	21 November 2007	1 year, 364 days	SPD	Merkel I	Labour and Social Affairs
14		Frank-Walter Steinmeier (b. 1956)	21 November 2007	27 October 2009	1 year, 340 days	SPD	Merkel I	Foreign Affairs
15		Guido Westerwelle (1961–2016)	27 October 2009	16 May 2011	1 year, 201 days	FDP	Merkel II	Foreign Affairs
16		Philipp Rösler (b. 1973)	16 May 2011	17 December 2013	2011|5|16|2013|12|17}}	FDP	Merkel II	Economic Affairs
17		Sigmar Gabriel (b. 1959)	17 December 2013	14 March 2018	4 years, 87 days	SPD	Merkel III	Economic Affairs (2013–2017) Foreign Affairs (2017–2018)
18		Olaf Scholz (b. 1958)	14 March 2018	Incumbent	6 years, 250 days	SPD	Merkel IV	Finance

In the federal system of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state parliaments embody the legislative power in the sixteen states. In thirteen of the sixteen German states, the state parliament is known as the Landtag (an old German term that roughly means state parliament). In the states Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the state parliament is called Bürgerschaft (Citizenry), in Berlin it is called Abgeordnetenhaus (House of Representatives).

Election process, constitutional functions and powers

As the German constitution (Basic Law) defines the Federal Republic of Germany as a federation, each German state has its own constitution. The Basic Law gives the states a broad discretion to determine their respective state structure, only stating that each German state has to be a social and democratic republic under the rule of law and that the people in every state must have an elected representation, without giving further details (Article 28.1). In practice, all states are parliamentary republics in which the legislative branch of government is assigned to an elected parliament. Since the abolition of the Bavarian Senate in 1999, all sixteen state parliaments are unicameral.

Among the most important functions of the state parliaments are the election of the Minister President, the control of the state government and the adoption of state laws. They have no influence on federal legislation, but participate in the election of the President of Germany by electing state electors to the Federal Convention.

In terms of these functions, the state parliaments work very similarly. However, there are also some significant differences between the states. This begins with the electoral system: Similar to federal elections, many states use a mixed-member proportional representation system in which each voter casts one vote for a constituency candidate and a second vote determines the proportional share of seats. However, this is not the case in all states, the main exception being Baden-Württemberg, which uses a complex first-past-the-post voting system in which seats are allocated to "lucky-loser" candidates in addition to the elected constituency candidates in order to establish proportionality. In all states there is a 5%-threshold which must be exceeded for a party to be considered in the proportional distribution of seats, although in Bremen it is sufficient to exceed the threshold in only one of the two cities that make up the state (Bremen City and Bremerhaven). The electoral system of some states also includes a basic mandate clause which allows parties to be taken into account in the proportional distribution of seats regardless of the 5%-threshold if they win a certain number of constituencies. As at the federal level, parties representing national minorities are excluded from both the 5%-threshold and the basic mandate clause. This provision is of particular importance in Schleswig-Holstein, where the SSW, a party which represents the minorities of Danes and Frisians, regularly participates in state elections.

In contrast to the Bundestag on federal level, all states have adopted legislative periods of five years, with the sole exception of Bremen, which still uses four-year-terms (a cross-party attempt to introduce five-year-terms was defeated in a referendum in 2017). Another difference to the Bundestag are the conditions for early new elections: While the Bundestag does not have the right of self-dissolution and can only be dissolved by the President of Germany (and even this only under certain conditions which are precisely defined in the Basic Law), the state parliaments have the right of self-dissolution (even if the procedure differs according to the state constitutions). In addition to this, some state constitutions also provide for an automatic dissolution of the parliament in certain situations and in some states, the parliament can also be dissolved by a referendum. Neither an automatic dissolution nor a dissolution by referendum has ever happened in any state, though.

State	Name	Election system	Threshold conditions	Seats	Term	Premature dissolution procedures
Baden-Württemberg	Landtag of Baden-Württemberg	first-past-the-post in 70 constituencies with at least 50 "lucky loser"-seats (Zweitmandate), in order to achieve proportional representation	5% of votes statewide	120+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be tabled by at least one quarter and accepted by at least two thirds of members) -referendum (request must be made by at least one sixth of the state population eligible to vote and must be accepted by a majority of the population eligible to vote)
Free State of Bavaria	Landtag of Bavaria	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes (both votes counting towards proportional representation)	5% of votes statewide	180+	5 years	-self dissolution (simple motion sufficient) -referendum (request must be made by at least one million citizens eligible to vote and must be accepted by a simple majority) -automatic dissolution (if the Landtag fails to elect a Minister President within four weeks after a vacancy occurred)
Berlin	House of Representatives of Berlin	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide or one constituency	130+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by two thirds of members) -referendum (state constitution does not specify details)
Brandenburg	Landtag of Brandenburg	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide or one constituency	88+ (maximum of 110)	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by two thirds of members)
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen	Bürgerschaft of Bremen	Personalized proportional representation with cumulative voting and panachage (five votes) in two seperate voting areas (Bremen City and Bremerhaven)	5% of votes in one of the two voting areas	84 (69 for Bremen City and 15 for Bremerhaven)	4 years	-self dissolution (motion must be tabled by at least one third and must be accepted by at least two thirds of members) -referendum (request must be made by at least one fifth of the state population eligible to vote and must be accepted by a majority of the population eligible to vote)
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg	Bürgerschaft of Hamburg	Personalized proportional representation with cumulative voting and panachage on state level and in multi member constituencies (10 votes: 5 for state lists, 5 for constituency candidates)	5% of state list-votes	121+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be tabled by at least one quarter and must be accepted by a majority of members)
Hesse	Landtag of Hesse	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	110+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by a majority of members)
Lower Saxony	Landtag of Lower Saxony	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	135+	5 years	-self dissolution (the state constitution defines two scenarios for a self dissolution: [A] one third of members may table a motion of self dissolution, which must be accepted by two thirds of members present, who have to equal at least a majority of all members [Art. 10]. [B] Nonwithstanding variant A, the Landtag may dissolve itself with a majority of members, if it has failed to elect a Minister President within 21 days after a vacancy occured – alternatively it may elect a Minister President with a plurality of votes [Art. 30])
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	71+	5 years	-self dissolution (the state constitution defines two scenarios for a self dissolution: [A] one third of members may table a motion of self dissolution, which must be accepted by two thirds of members [Art. 42.2]. [B] Nonwithstanding variant A, the Landtag may dissolve itself with a majority of members, if it has failed to elect a Minister President within 28 days after a vacancy occured – alternatively it may elect a Minister President with a plurality of votes [Art. 30])
North Rhine-Westphalia	Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	181+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must accepted by a majority of members)
Rhineland-Palatinate	Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	101+	5 years	-self dissolution (simple motion) -automatic dissolution (if a motion of no confidence against the Minister President has been successfull and the Landtag fails to elect a new office-holder within four weeks)
Saarland	Landtag of Saarland	proportional representation with one vote, which counts both for a list in a multi member constituency and a state list	5% of votes state wide	51(+?)	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by two thirds of members) -automatic dissolution (if a motion of no confidence against the Minister President has been successfull and the Landtag fails to elect a new office-holder within four weeks)
Free State of Saxony	Landtag of Saxony	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide or two constituencies	120+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by two thirds of members) -automatic dissolution (if the Landtag fails to elect a Minister President within four months after a vacancy occurred)
Saxony-Anhalt	Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide	87+	5 years	-self dissolution (the state constitution defines two scenarios for a self dissolution: [A] one fourth of members may table a self dissolution motion, which has to be accepted by two thirds of members. This is however not possible during the first six months of a legislative period [Art. 60]. [B] Nonwithstanding variant A, the Landtag may dissolve itself with a majority of members, if it has failed to elect a Minister President on the first two ballots – alternatively it may elect a Minister President with a plurality of votes on the third ballot [Art. 65.2])
Schleswig-Holstein	Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of second votes statewide or one constituency	69+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be accepted by at least two thirds of members)
Free State of Thuringia	Landtag of Thuringia	mixed-member proportional representation with two votes	5% of secon votes statewide	88+	5 years	-self dissolution (motion must be tabled by at least one third and must be accepted by at least two thirds of members) -automatic dissolution (if the Minister President has lost a confidence motion and the Landtag fails to elect a new Minister President within 21 days)

	Plenar hall	Name	Legislative period	Diagram	Composition	Presidium	Last election	Next election
Baden-Württemberg		Landtag	16th		Government (90)   Alliance 90/The Greens (47)   CDU (43) Opposition (53)   SPD (19)   AfD (18)   FDP (12)   Non-inscrits (4)	Muhterem Aras (Alliance 90/The Greens) President Sabine Kurtz (CDU) Vice President	2016	2021
Free State of Bavaria		Landtag	18th		Government (112)   CSU (85)   Free Voters (27) Opposition (93)   Alliance 90/The Greens (38)   SPD (22)   AfD (20)   FDP (11)   Non-inscrits (2)	Ilse Aigner (CSU) President Karl Freller (CSU) Thomas Gering (Alliance 90/The Greens) Alexander Hold (Free Voters) Markus Rinderspacher (SPD) Wolfgang Heubisch (FDP) Vice Presidents	2018	2023
Berlin		Abgeordnetenhaus	18th		Government (92)   SPD (38)   The Left (27)   Alliance 90/The Greens (27) Opposition (68)   CDU (31)   AfD (22)   FDP (12)   Non-inscrits (3)	Ralf Wieland (SPD) President Cornelia Seibeld (CDU) Manuela Schmidt (The Left) Vice Presidents	2016	2021
Brandenburg		Landtag	7th		Government (50)   SPD (25)   CDU (15)   Alliance 90/The Greens (10) Opposition (38)   AfD (23)   The Left (10)   BVB/Free Voters (5)	Ulrike Liedtke (SPD) President Andreas Galau (AfD) Barbara Richstein (CDU) Vice Presidents	2019	2024
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen		Bürgerschaft	20th		Government (49)   SPD (23)   Alliance 90/The Greens (16)   The Left (10) Opposition (35)   CDU (24)   FDP (5)   AfD (3)   Non-inscrits (3)	Frank Imhoff (CDU) President Sülmez Dogan (Alliance 90/The Greens) Antje Grotheer (SPD) Vice Presidents	2019	2023
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg		Bürgerschaft	22nd		SPD (54)   Alliance 90/The Greens (33)   CDU (15)   The Left (13)   AfD (7)   Non-inscrits (1) Government-formation process not completed, acting cabinet consists of SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens	Carola Veit (SPD) President André Trepoll (CDU) Deniz Çelik (The Left) Vice Presidents	2020	2025
Hesse		Landtag	20th		Government (69)   CDU (40)   Alliance 90/The Greens (29) Opposition (68)   SPD (29)   AfD (18)   FDP (11)   The Left (9)   Non-inscrits (1)	Boris Rhein (CDU) President Frank Lortz (CDU) Karin Müller (Alliance 90/The Greens) Heike Hofmann (SPD) Jörg-Uwe Hahn (FDP) Ulrich Wilken (The Left) Vice Presidents	2018	2023
Lower Saxony		Landtag	18th		Government (104)   SPD (54)   CDU (50) Opposition (33)   Alliance 90/The Greens (12)   FDP (11)   AfD (9)   Non-inscrits (1)	Gabriela Andretta (SPD) President Petra Emmerich-Kopatsch (SPD) Bernd Busemann (CDU) Frank Oesterhellweg (CDU) Meta Janssen-Kucz (Alliance 90/The Greens) Vice Presidents	2017	2022
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern		Landtag	7th		Government (44)   SPD (26)   CDU (18) Opposition (27)   AfD (14)   The Left (11)   Non-inscrits (2)	Birgit Hesse (SPD) President Beate Schlupp (CDU) Mignon Schwenke (The Left) Vice Presidents	2016	2021
North Rhine-Westphalia		Landtag	17th		Government (100)   CDU (72)   FDP (28) Opposition (99)   SPD (69)   Alliance 90/The Greens (14)   AfD (13)   Non-inscrits (3)	André Kuper (CDU) President Carina Gödecke (SPD) Angela Freimuth (FDP) Oliver Keymis (Alliance 90/The Greens) Vice Presidents	2017	2022
Rhineland-Palatinate		Landtag	17th		Government (51)   SPD (39)   FDP (6)   Alliance 90/The Greens (6) Opposition (50)   CDU (35)   AfD (12)   Non-inscrits (3)	Hendrik Hering (SPD) President Astrid Schmitt (SPD) Hans-Josef Bracht (CDU) Vice Presidents	2016	2021
Saarland		Landtag	16th		Government (41)   CDU (24)   SPD (17) Opposition (10)   The Left (6)   AfD (3)   Non-inscrits (1)	Stephan Toscani (CDU) President Isolde Fries (SPD) Günter Heinrich (CDU) Vice Presidents	2017	2022
Free State of Saxony		Landtag	7th		Government (67)   CDU (45)   Alliance 90/The Greens (12)   SPD (10) Opposition (52)   AfD (38)   The Left (14)	Matthias Rößler (CDU) President Andrea Dombois (CDU) André Wendt (AfD) Luise Neuhaus-Wartenberg (The Left) Vice Presidents	2019	2024
Saxony-Anhalt		Landtag	7th		Government (46)   CDU (30)   SPD (11)   Alliance 90/The Greens (5) Opposition (41)   AfD (21)   The Left (16)   Non-inscrits (4)	Gabriele Brakebusch (CDU) President Willi Mittelstädt (AfD) Wulf Gallert (The Left) Vice Presidents	2016	2021
Schleswig-Holstein		Landtag	19th		Government (44)   CDU (25)   Alliance 90/The Greens (10)   FDP (9) Opposition (29)   SPD (21)   AfD (4)   SSW (3)   Non-inscrits (1)	Klaus Schlie (CDU) President Kirsten Eickhoff-Weber (SPD) Aminata Touré (Alliance 90/The Greens) Annabell Krämer (FDP) Vice Presidents	2017	2022
Free State of Thuringia		Landtag	7th		Government (42)   The Left (29)   SPD (8)   Alliance 90/The Greens (5) Confidence and Supply (21)   CDU (21) Opposition (27)   AfD (22)   FDP (5)	Birgit Keller (The Left) President Michael Kaufmann (AfD) Henry Worm (CDU) Dorothea Marx (SPD) Astrid Rothe-Beinlich (Alliance 90/The Greens) Dirk Bergner (FDP) Vice Presidents	2019	2024

List of current Minister Presidents of Germany.

	Portrait	Name	Title	entered office	Party	Deputie(s)
Baden-Württemberg		Winfried Kretschmann	9th Minister President of Baden-Württemberg	12 May 2011	Alliance 90/The Greens	Thomas Strobl (CDU)
Free State of Bavaria		Markus Söder	13th Minister President of Bavaria	16 March 2018	CSU	Ilse Aigner (CSU)
Berlin		Michael Müller	14th Governing Mayor of Berlin	11 December 2014	SPD	Klaus Lederer (The Left) Ramona Pop (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Brandenburg		Dietmar Woidke	3rd Minister President of Brandenburg	28 August 2013	SPD	Christian Görke (The Left)
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen		Carsten Sieling	8th President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen	15 July 2015	SPD	Karoline Linnert (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg		Peter Tschentscher	15th First Mayor of Hamburg	28 March 2018	SPD	Katharina Fegebank (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Hesse		Volker Bouffier	8th Minister President of Hesse	31 August 2010	CDU	Tarek Al-Wazir (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Lower Saxony		Stephan Weil	12th Minister President of Lower Saxony	19 February 2013	SPD	Bernd Althusmann (CDU)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern		Manuela Schwesig	5th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	4 July 2017	SPD	Lorenz Caffier (CDU)
North Rhine-Westphalia		Armin Laschet	11th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia	27 June 2017	CDU	Joachim Stamp (FDP)
Rhineland-Palatinate		Malu Dreyer	8th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate	16 January 2013	SPD	Volker Wissing (FDP)
Saarland		Tobias Hans	8th Minister President of Saarland	1 March 2018	CDU	Anke Rehlinger (SPD)
Free State of Saxony		Michael Kretschmer	4th Minister President of Saxony	13 December 2017	CDU	Martin Dulig (SPD)
Saxony-Anhalt		Reiner Haseloff	6th Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt	19 April 2011	CDU	Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) Claudia Dalbert (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Schleswig-Holstein		Daniel Günther	14th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein	28 June 2017	CDU	Monika Heinold (Alliance 90/The Greens) Hainer Garg (FDP)
Free State of Thuringia		Bodo Ramelow	5th Minister President of Thuringia	15 December 2014	The Left	Heike Taubert (SPD)

№	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) (Home State)	Previous service	Term of Office		Political Party	Vice Chancellor	Cabinets
				Took Office	Left Office
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundeskanzler)
1		Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) (North Rhine-Westphalia)	President of the Parliamentary Council (1948-1949)	15 September 1949	16 October 1963 (resigned)	CDU	Franz Blücher (1949–1957), Ludwig Erhard (1957–1967)	Adenauer I, Adenauer II, Adenauer III, Adenauer IV, Adenauer V
2		Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977) (Baden-Württemberg)	Vice Chancellor of Germany (1957-1967) Federal Minister for Economic Affairs (1949–1963)	16 October 1963	1 December 1966 (resigned)	CDU	Erich Mende (1963-1966), Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1966)	Erhard I, Erhard II
3		Kurt-Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988) (Baden-Württemberg)	Minister President of Baden-Württemberg (1958–1966)	1 December 1966	22 October 1969	CDU	Willy Brandt (1966-1969)	Kiesinger
4		Willy Brandt (1913–1992) (West Berlin)	Vice Chancellor of Germany (1966–1969) Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966–1969)	22 October 1969	7 May 1974 (resigned)	SPD	Walter Scheel (1969-1974, Acting Chancellor from 7 May 1974 until 16 May 1974)	Brandt I, Brandt II
5		Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) (Hamburg)	Federal Minister of Finance (1972-1974)	16 May 1974	1 October 1982 (replaced by a Constructive vote of no confidence)	SPD	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1974-1982), Egon Franke (1982)	Schmidt I, Schmidt II, Schmidt III
6		Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) (Rhineland-Palatinate)	Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag (1976-1982)	1 October 1982	27 October 1998	CDU	Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1982-1992), Jürgen Möllemann (1992–1993), Klaus Kinkel (1993–1998)	Kohl I, Kohl II, Kohl III, Kohl IV, Kohl V
7		Gerhard Schröder (b. 1944) (Lower Saxony)	Minister President of Lower Saxony (1990–1998)	27 October 1998	22 November 2005	SPD	Joschka Fischer (1998-2005)	Schröder I, Schröder II
8		Angela Merkel (b. 1954) (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)	Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag (2002-2005)	22 November 2005		CDU	Franz Müntefering (2005-2007), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2007–2009), Guido Westerwelle (2009–2011), Philipp Rösler (2011–2013), Sigmar Gabriel (2013–2018), Olaf Scholz (incumbent since 2018)	Merkel I, Merkel II, Merkel III, Merkel IV

ARTICLE:

The Minister President is the head of state and government of a German state. In the three states of Berlin, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg the heads of the state hold different titles: Governing Mayor of Berlin, President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen and First Mayor of Hamburg. Nevertheless, in Germany it is common practice, to call the sixteen heads of the states ministers president, if they are referred to collectively. For example, the regular meetings of the sixteen office-holders are called Conference of Ministers President (Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz).

Constitutional roles and powers

As the german constitution (Basic Law) defines the Federal Republic of Germany as a federation, each german state has it's own constitution. Although the Basic Law gives the states a broad discretion to determine their respective state structure, only stating that each german state has to be a social and democratic republic under the rule of law (Article 28.1), in practice all german states have adopted some form of a mixed parliamentary republican system: Despite some differences between the individual state constitutions, the Ministers President have both typical powers of an executive leader (for example appointing and dismissing cabinet members or defining the political guidelines of the cabinet) and typical powers and functions of a head of state (for example the power to grant pardons on behalf of the state and to perform certain ceremonial duties). As such, their powers and functions resemble those of an executive president, but in contrast to a presidential system, they are not directly elected and depend on the confidence of the respective state parliament. Thus, the constitutional position of a Minister President differs from that of the Chancellor of Germany at the federal level, who only holds the role of a chief executive leader, while the President of Germany performs the more ceremonial powers and functions of the federal head of state.

Even though all sixteen ministers president hold roughly the same position in their states, there are also some important differences between the provisions of the state constitutions with regard to the head of state and government. This begins with the election procedure: All ministers president are elected by the the state parliament, but while in some states a majority of parliament members is needed for a succesful election, in other states a simple majority (majority of votes cast) is sufficient. The same goes for recall procedures: In some states the parliament may simply vote an officeholder out of office, while in other states the parliament has to elect a new officeholder at the same time (Constructive vote of no confidence). In Bavaria the constitution does not allow a recall of the minister president at all. In fifteen states, the state constitution defines the minister president as the leader of the cabinet, giving him or her the right, to dermine the cabinet's political guidelines, but this is not the case in Bremen, were the President of the Senate and Mayor only has a ceremonial precedence over the other cabinet members. There are also differences regarding the ministers president power, to shape his or her cabinet: While in some states the office-holder is free to appoint or dismiss cabinet ministers at his or her discretion, in other states there are limits to this power, while the constitution of Bremen does not give the President of the Senate and Mayor any power, to directly influence the composition of his or her cabinet.

State	Title	election threshold	recall procedure	position in cabinet	power to shape the cabinet	right to grant pardon	minimum age	other provisions
Baden-Württemberg	Minister President	majority of members	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	cabinet appointments subject to parliamentary approval, the state parliament may recall individual cabinet ministers with a two-thirds majority	yes	35
Free State of Bavaria	Minister President	simple majority	none, has to resign, if a cooperation with the state parliament is not possible anymore	guideline competence	cabinet appointments subject to parliamentary approval	yes	40
Berlin	Governing Mayor	simple majority	vote of no confidence, but if the state parliament does not elect a new Governing Mayor within 21 days, the former officeholder is reinvested automatically	guideline competence	full	no (whole cabinet)	18 (de facto)
Brandenburg	Minister President	majority of members (first and second ballot), plurality (third ballot)	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen	President of the Senate and Mayor	simple majority	constructive vote of no confidence	ceremonial precedence	none, all cabinet members are elected and may be recalled by the state parliament	no (whole cabinet)	18	may not be a member of the state parliament
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg	First Mayor	majority of members	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	cabinet appointments subject to parliamentary approval	no (whole cabinet)	18	may not be a member of the state parliament
Hesse	Minister President	majority of members	vote of no confidence	guideline competence	dismissal of a cabinet minister is subject to parliamentary approval	yes	18 (de facto)	members of noble houses, which have reigned in Germany before 1918, are ineligible for office
Lower Saxony	Minister President	majority of members or plurality, if the state parliament does not elect a Minister President in 21 days and does not dissolve itself thereupon	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	cabinet appointments subject to parliamentary approval	yes	18 (de facto)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Minister President	majority of members or plurality, if the state parliament does not elect a Minister President in 28 days and does not dissolve itself thereupon	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)
North Rhine-Westphalia	Minister President	majority of members (first ballot), simple majority (second and third ballot), runoff (fourth ballot)	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18	has to be a member of the state parliament
Rhineland-Palatinate	Minister President	majority of members	vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)
Saarland	Minister President	majority of members	vote of no confidence	guideline competence	cabinet appointments and dismissals subject to parliamentary approval	no (whole cabinet)	18 (de facto)
Free State of Saxony	Minister President	majority of members (first ballot), simple majority (following ballots)	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto
Saxony-Anhalt	Minister President	majority of members or simple majority, if the state parliament does not elect a Minister President in 14 days and does not dissolve itself thereupon	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)
Schleswig-Holstein	Minister President	majority of members (first and second ballot), pluralitiy (third ballot)	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)
Free State of Thuringia	Minister President	majority of members (first and second ballot), pluralitiy (third ballot)	constructive vote of no confidence	guideline competence	full	yes	18 (de facto)

By virtue of their position in the Bundesrat, the ministers president can exert considerable influence on national politics within the federal structure. Along with several of their ministers, they commonly represent their state in the Bundesrat (the German Federal Council). Each state government is represented in the Bundesrat by 3 to 6 delegates, depending on the state's population.

Deputies

In most states the deputy of the Minister President holds the title Deputy Minister President, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein have a higher ranking First Deputy Minister President and a lower ranking Second Deputy Minister President. Berlin has two equally ranking Mayors deputizing for the Governing Mayor, while Bremen has a Mayor deputizing for the President of the Senate and Mayor and Hamburg has a Second Mayor deputizing for the First Mayor.

List of current office-holders

Map of the governing minister-presidents by party:

  CDU

  CSU

  The Greens

  SPD

  The Left

	Portrait	Name	Title	entered office	Party	Deputy Title
Baden-Württemberg		Winfried Kretschmann	9th Minister President of Baden-Württemberg	12 May 2011	Alliance 90/The Greens	Thomas Strobl (CDU) Deputy Minister President
Free State of Bavaria		Markus Söder	13th Minister President of Bavaria	16 March 2018	CSU	Ilse Aigner (CSU) Deputy Minister President
Berlin		Michael Müller	14th Governing Mayor of Berlin	11 December 2014	SPD	Klaus Lederer (The Left) Mayor Ramona Pop (Alliance 90/The Greens) Mayor
Brandenburg		Dietmar Woidke	3rd Minister President of Brandenburg	28 August 2013	SPD	Christian Görke (The Left) Deputy Minister President
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen		Carsten Sieling	8th President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen	15 July 2015	SPD	Karoline Linnert (Alliance 90/The Greens) Mayor
Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg		Peter Tschentscher	15th First Mayor of Hamburg	28 March 2018	SPD	Katharina Fegebank (Alliance 90/The Greens) Second Mayor
Hesse		Volker Bouffier	8th Minister President of Hesse	31 August 2010	CDU	Tarek Al-Wazir (Alliance 90/The Greens) Deputy Minister President
Lower Saxony		Stephan Weil	12th Minister President of Lower Saxony	19 February 2013	SPD	Bernd Althusmann (CDU) Deputy Minister President
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern		Manuela Schwesig	5th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	4 July 2017	SPD	Lorenz Caffier (CDU) Deputy Minister President
North Rhine-Westphalia		Armin Laschet	11th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia	27 June 2017	CDU	Joachim Stamp (FDP) Deputy Minister President
Rhineland-Palatinate		Malu Dreyer	8th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate	16 January 2013	SPD	Volker Wissing (FDP) Deputy Minister President
Saarland		Tobias Hans	8th Minister President of Saarland	1 March 2018	CDU	Anke Rehlinger (SPD) Deputy Minister President
Free State of Saxony		Michael Kretschmer	4th Minister President of Saxony	13 December 2017	CDU	Martin Dulig (SPD) Deputy Minister President
Saxony-Anhalt		Reiner Haseloff	6th Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt	19 April 2011	CDU	Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) First Deputy Minister President Claudia Dalbert (Alliance 90/The Greens) Second Deputy Minister President
Schleswig-Holstein		Daniel Günther	14th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein	28 June 2017	CDU	Monika Heinold (Alliance 90/The Greens) First Deputy Minister President Hainer Garg (FDP) Second Deputy Minister President
Free State of Thuringia		Bodo Ramelow	5th Minister President of Thuringia	15 December 2014	The Left	Heike Taubert (SPD) Deputy Minister President

Trivia

The office of a Minister President is both highly prestigious in its own right and acts as a potential "career springboard" for German politicians. Four out of eight Chancellors of Germany have been head of a state before becoming Chancellor:

• Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Minister President of Baden-Württemberg (1958-1966)
• Willy Brandt, 4th Governing Mayor of Berlin (1957-1966)
• Helmut Kohl, 3rd Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1969-1976)
• Gerhard Schröder, 7th Minister President of Lower Saxony (1990-1998)

Three out of twelve Presidents of Germany have been head of a state before becoming President:

• Richard von Weizsäcker, 9th Governing Mayor of Berlin (1981-1984)
• Johannes Rau, 6th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (1978-1998)
• Christian Wulff, 10th Minister President of Lower Saxony (2003-2010)

Many more Ministers President went on to become members of the federal government, EU institutions or associate judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany for example.

There have been six female heads of a German state:

• Heide Simonis, 11th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein (1993-2005)
• Christine Lieberknecht, 4th Minister President of Thuringia (2009-2014)
• Hannelore Kraft, 10th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (2010-2017)
• Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, 7th Minister President of Saarland (2011-2018)
• Malu Dreyer, 8th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate (incumbent since 2013)
• Manuela Schwesig, 5th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (incumbent since 2017)

One person has managed to become Minister President of two different states:

• Bernhard Vogel, 4th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1976-1988) and 2nd Minister President of Thuringia (1992-2003)

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