# 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), is the head of government of the German state of Hesse.
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
### 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Reichsstatthalter | c. 4320 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) | 5 May 1933 | March 1945 | c. 4320 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) | Präsident | Präsident | c. 3650 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| | | Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) | 1 March 1935 | March 1945 | c. 3650 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |

## Hesse (1945–present)
### Minister-President of the State of Hesse

Political party:  SPD  CDU
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Election |
| Portrait | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Days | Political party | Election |
| 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 | 880 | Christian Democratic Union | 2018 2023 |