Minister President of Prussia

The office of **Minister President** (), or **Prime Minister**, of Prussia existed from 1848, when it was formed by the King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the Allied Control Council.

## Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia (1702–1848)

- 1702–1711: Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg
- 1711–1728:
- 1728–1739: Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
- 1739–1749:
- 1749–1753:
- 1749–1777: Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
- 1777–1802:
- 1786–1798:
- 1802–1804: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (1st term)
- 1804–1806: Count Karl August von Hardenberg (1st term)
- 1806: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (2nd term)
- 1806–1807:
- 1807: Count Karl August von Hardenberg (2nd term)
- 1807–1808: Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein
- 1808–1810: Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten
- 1810–1822: Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (3rd term)
- 1822–1823:
- 1823–1841: Count Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum
- 1841–1848:

### Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)

**Political Party:**

|width=80px rowspan=2 colspan=2|Portrait|width=30% rowspan=2|Name|width=35% colspan=3|Term of Office|width=28% rowspan=2|Political Party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:;"|||Count **Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg**|19 March 1848|29 March 1848||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||**Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen**|29 March 1848|20 June 1848||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||**Rudolf von Auerswald**|25 June 1848|8 September 1848||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||**Ernst von Pfuel**|21 September 1848|1 November 1848||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Count **Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg**|2 November 1848|6 November 1850||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Baron **Otto Theodor von Manteuffel**|9 December 1850|6 November 1858||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Karl Anton von Hohenzollern**|6 November 1858|12 March 1862||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen**|17 March 1862|23 September 1862||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Otto von Bismarck**|23 September 1862|1 January 1873||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Count **Albrecht von Roon**|1 January 1873|9 November 1873||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Otto von Bismarck**|9 November 1873|20 March 1890||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Count **Leo von Caprivi**|20 March 1890|22 March 1892||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Count **Botho zu Eulenburg**|22 March 1892|26 October 1894||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst**|29 October 1894|17 October 1900||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Bernhard von Bülow**|17 October 1900|14 July 1909||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||**Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg**|14 July 1909|13 July 1917||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||**Georg Michaelis**|14 July 1917|1 November 1917||Non-partisan|
|style="background:;"|||Count **Georg von Hertling**|1 November 1917|30 September 1918||Centre|
|style="background:;"|||Prince **Maximilian of Baden**|3 October 1918|9 November 1918||Non-partisan|

### Ministers-President of the Free State of Prussia (1918–1947)

**Political Party:**

|width=80px rowspan=2 colspan=2|Portrait|width=30% rowspan=2|Name|width=35% colspan=3|Term of Office|width=28% rowspan=2|Political Party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:;"|||**Friedrich Ebert**|9 November 1918|11 November 1918||Social Democratic Party of Germany|
|style="background:;"|||**Paul Hirsch**|11 November 1918|27 March 1920||Social Democratic Party of Germany|
|style="background:;"|||**Otto Braun**|27 March 1920|21 April 1921||Social Democratic Party of Germany|
|style="background:;"|||**Adam Stegerwald**|21 April 1921|5 November 1921||Centre Party|
|style="background:;"|||**Otto Braun**|5 November 1921|18 February 1925||Social Democratic Party of Germany|
|style="background:;"|||**Wilhelm Marx**|18 February 1925|6 April 1925||Centre Party|
|style="background:;"|||**Otto Braun**|6 April 1925|20 July 1932||Social Democratic Party of Germany|
|rowspan="2" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Franz von Papen**|||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Non-partisan|||||
|20 July 1932|3 December 1932|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Kurt von Schleicher**|||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Non-partisan|||||
|3 December 1932|28 January 1933|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Franz von Papen**|||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Non-partisan|||||
|30 January 1933|10 April 1933|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background:;"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Adolf Hitler**|||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|National Socialist German Workers' Party|||||
|30 January 1933|30 January 1935|||||||
|rowspan="4" style="background:;"||rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Hermann Göring**|||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="4"|National Socialist German Workers' Party|||||
|10 April 1933|23 April 1945|||||||
|rowspan="2"||||||||
|30 January 1935|23 April 1945|||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Minister President
- **body**: Prussia
- **insigniasize**: 150px
- **image**: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0057, Otto von Bismarck.jpg
- **imagesize**: 150px
- **imagecaption**: Otto von Bismarck, the most famous and longest-serving officeholder
- **residence**: Berlin, Prussia
- **appointer**: List of monarchs of Prussia, King of Prussia
Landtag of Prussia
- **formation**: 19 March 1848
- **first**: Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
- **last**: Hermann Göring
- **abolished**: 23 April 1945