# List of minister-presidents of Mecklenburg

This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in the states within the region of Mecklenburg from the 18th century to 1952. The states in question were Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz and unified state of Mecklenburg.
In 1990, with German reunification, the state was re-established as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

## Mecklenburg-Schwerin
### Duchy
#### Prime Ministers

* 1783–1784: Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
* 1784–1800: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cölpin
* 1800–1808: Bernhard Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
* 1808–1815: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein

### Grand Duchy
#### Prime Ministers

* 1815–1836: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein
* 1836–1837: Leopold Engelke von Plessen
* 1837–1840: Christian Friedrich Krüger
* 1840–1850: Ludwig von Lützow

#### Presidents of the State Ministry

* 1850–1858: Hans Adolf Karl Graf von Bülow
* 1858–1869: Jasper Joachim Bernhard Wilhelm von Oertzen
* 1869–1885: Henning Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
* 1886–1901: Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow
* 1901–1914: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow
* 1914–1918: Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm Langfeld

### Free State

Political party:  DDP  DVP  SPD  DNVP  NSDAP
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party |
| President of the State Ministry |||||||
| | | Hugo Wendorff (1864–1945) | 9 November 1918 | 22 February 1919 | 105 | German Democratic Party |
| Ministers-President |||||||
| | | Hugo Wendorff (1864–1945) | 22 February 1919 | 28 July 1920 | 522 | German Democratic Party |
| | | Hermann Reincke-Bloch (1867–1928) | 28 July 1920 | 14 January 1921 | 170 | German People's Party |
| | | Johannes Stelling (1877–1933) | 14 January 1921 | 18 March 1924 | 1159 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| | | Joachim Freiherr von Brandenstein (1864–1941) | 18 March 1924 | 8 July 1926 | 842 | German National People's Party |
| | | Paul Schröder (1875–1932) | 8 July 1926 | 10 July 1929 | 1098 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| | | Karl Eschenburg (1877–1943) | 10 July 1929 | 13 July 1932 | 1099 | German National People's Party |
| | | Walter Granzow (1887–1952) | 13 July 1932 | 10 August 1933 | 393 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Hans Egon Engell (1897–1974) | 10 August 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 143 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) | Reichsstatthalter | Reichsstatthalter | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) | 26 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |

## Mecklenburg-Strelitz
### Duchy (1769–1815)
#### Ministers of State (Staatsminister)

* 1769–1784: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cöpin
* 1784–1795: Christoph Otto von Gamm
* 1795–1800: Otto Ulrich von Dewitz
* 1800–1815: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz

### Grand Duchy (1815–1918)

* 1815–1827: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz
* 1827–1836: August Otto Ernst Freiherr von Örtzen auf Klokow
* 1837–1848: Otto Ludwig Christian von Dewitz auf Sallnow
* 1848–1850: Vacant
* 1850–1861: August Ludwig Wilhelm von Bernstorff
* 1862–1868: Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
* 1868–1872: Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten
* 1872–1885: Anton von Piper (acting)
* 1885–1907: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ulrich Karl Helmut von Dewitz
* 1907–1918: Heinrich Bossart

### Free State (1918-1933)

Political party:  DDP  SPD  DNVP  NSDAP
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party |
| Chairmen of the State Ministry |||||||
| | | Peter Franz Stubmann (1876–1962) | 11 November 1918 | 7 January 1919 | 67 | German Democratic Party |
| | | Hans Krüger (1884–1933) | 7 January 1919 | 13 October 1919 | 279 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Ministers of State |||||||
| | | Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 1st term | 13 October 1919 | 2 August 1923 | 1389 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| | | Karl Schwabe (1877–1938) | 2 August 1923 | 13 March 1928 | 1685 | German National People's Party |
| | | Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 2nd term | 13 March 1928 | 12 April 1929 | 395 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| | | Kurt Häntzschel (1889–1941) | Reichskommissar | Reichskommissar | 4 | German Democratic Party |
| | | Kurt Häntzschel (1889–1941) | 12 April 1929 | 16 April 1929 | 4 | German Democratic Party |
| | | Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 3rd term | 16 April 1929 | 4 December 1931 | 962 | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| | | Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Michael (1888–1942) | 4 December 1931 | 27 May 1933 | 540 | German National People's Party |
| | | Fritz Stichtenoth (1895–1935) | 27 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 218 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) | Reichsstatthalter | Reichsstatthalter | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) | 26 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |

## Mecklenburg (1933–1952)
### Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
#### Reichsstatthalter of the State of Mecklenburg

| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party |
| | | Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) as Reichsstatthalter | 1 January 1934 | 1 May 1945 | 4138 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |

#### Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg

| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party |
| Nazi Germany (1933–1945) |||||||
| | | Hans Egon Engell (1897–1974) | 1 January 1934 | 25 October 1934 | 297 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Friedrich Scharf (1897–1974) | 25 October 1934 | 1 May 1945 | 3841 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |

### Soviet control / GDR (1945–1952)
#### Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg

Political party:  SED
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party |
| Mecklenburg (1945–1949) |||||||
| Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany |||||||
| 1 | | Wilhelm Höcker (1886–1955) | 9 December 1946 | 7 October 1949 | 1035 | Socialist Unity Party |
| Mecklenburg (1949–1952) |||||||
| State of the German Democratic Republic |||||||
| (1) | | Wilhelm Höcker (1886–1955) | 9 December 1946 | 20 July 1951 | 588 | Socialist Unity Party |
| 2 | | Kurt Bürger (1894–1951) | 20 July 1951 | 30 July 1951 | 10 | Socialist Unity Party |
| 3 | | Bernhard Quandt (1903–1999) | 30 July 1951 | 23 July 1952 | 359 | Socialist Unity Party |
| On 23 July 1952, Mecklenburg was abolished. |||||||

## Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present)

The Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German: Ministerpräsidentin des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), is the head of government of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The position was created in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and the northern part of Potsdam were merged into the new federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the borders was redrawn.
The current and first female Minister-President is Manuela Schwesig, since 2021 heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and The Left. Schwesig succeeded Erwin Sellering in July 2017.
The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Schwerin, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.

### Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Political party:  CDU  SPD
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Born–Died) | Term | Term | Term | Party |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Born–Died) | Took office | Left office | Days | Party |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present) |||||||
| State of the Federal Republic of Germany |||||||
| – | | Martin Brick (born 1939) as State Commissioner | 3 October 1990 | 27 October 1990 | 24 | Christian Democratic Union |
| 1 | | Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020) | 27 October 1990 | 19 March 1992 (resigned) | 509 | Christian Democratic Union |
| 2 | | Berndt Seite (born 1940) | 19 March 1992 | 3 November 1998 | 2420 | Christian Democratic Union |
| 3 | | Harald Ringstorff (1939–2020) | 3 November 1998 | 6 October 2008 (resigned) | 3625 | Social Democratic Party |
| 4 | | Erwin Sellering (born 1949) | 6 October 2008 | 4 July 2017 (resigned) | 3193 | Social Democratic Party |
| 5 | | Manuela Schwesig (born 1974) | 4 July 2017 | Incumbent | 2671 | Social Democratic Party |