# Hohenzollern cabinet

The Hohenzollern Cabinet formed the Prussian State Ministry appointed by Prince Regent Wilhelm I from November 6, 1858, to March 11, 1862.

## History

The transfer of government duties to William I by the ill King Frederick William IV resulted in a change of political course. The newly installed government consisted of liberal-conservative representatives of the Wochenblatt Party. The term in office is referred to as the "New Era", in which, in a certain departure from the reactionary era, public life was liberalized and the government cooperated more closely with the liberal chamber majority. However, the de facto head of the cabinet was not the Prime Minister, but the liberal former Prime Minister of 1848, Rudolf von Auerswald. As a minister without a portfolio, he was de facto deputy to the Prime Minister. In the spring of 1862, the Army reform escalated the Prussian constitutional conflict with the liberal chamber majority over the state parliament's co-determination in military affairs and fundamentally over the (German: Parlamentarisierung, lit. 'parliamentarization') of Prussia, which led to the government's resignation and the end of the New Era.

## Cabinet members

| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Minister President | Karl Anton von Hohenzollern | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of State | Rudolf von Auerswald | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Alexander von Schleinitz | November 6, 1858 | October 10, 1861 | N/A |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Albrecht von Bernstorff | October 10, 1861 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Finance | Robert von Patow | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs | Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Justice | Ludwig Simons | November 6, 1858 | December 14, 1860 | N/A |
| Minister of Justice | August von Bernuth | December 17, 1860 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Trade, Commerce and Public Works | August von der Heydt | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Interior Affairs | Eduard Flottwell | November 6, 1858 | July 3, 1859 | N/A |
| Minister of Interior Affairs | Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar | July 3, 1859 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of War | Eduard von Bonin | November 6, 1858 | November 27, 1859 | N/A |
| Minister of War | Karl Anton von Hohenzollern | November 27, 1859 | December 5, 1859 | N/A |
| Minister of War | Albrecht von Roon | December 5, 1859 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Minister of Agriculture, Domains and Forestry | Erdmann von Pückler | November 6, 1858 | March 11, 1862 | N/A |
| Chief of the Admiralty/Chief of Naval Administration /Naval Minister (from April 16, 1861) | Karl Anton von Hohenzollern | November 15, 1858 | April 6, 1859 | N/A |
| Chief of the Admiralty/Chief of Naval Administration /Naval Minister (from April 16, 1861) | Jan Schröder | April 6, 1859 | December 6, 1860 | N/A |
| Chief of the Admiralty/Chief of Naval Administration /Naval Minister (from April 16, 1861) | Albrecht von Roon | December 6, 1860 | March 5, 1862 | N/A |