List of presidents of the German Bundesrat

The President of the German Bundesrat () is the German Bundesrat's chairperson or speaker.

The office rotates among the ministers president of each of the federal Länder annually. The new Bundesratspräsident is elected during October and takes office on 1 November. In 1950 the Ministers President of the Länder agreed to elect the Bundesratspräsident on a rota, so that every state had a chance to preside over the Bundesrat and to show that the Bundesrat represents all of Germany, rather than the most successful political party.

The rota is based on the state's population.

List
FromToNameLandParty19491950Karl ArnoldNorth Rhine-WestphaliaChristian Democratic Union (CDU)19501951Hans EhardBavariaChristian Social Union (CSU)19511952Hinrich Wilhelm KopfLower SaxonySocial Democratic Party (SPD)19521953Reinhold MaierBaden-WürttembergFree Democratic Party (FDP)19531954Georg August ZinnHesseSPD19541955Peter AltmeierRhineland-PalatinateCDU19551956Kai-Uwe von HasselSchleswig-HolsteinCDU19561957Kurt SievekingHamburgCDU19571958Willy BrandtOtto Suhr of the SPD in Berlin was elected President of the Bundesrat in July 1957, but died in August before his term of office began.BerlinSPD19581959Wilhelm KaisenBremenSPD19591960Franz Josef RöderSaarlandCDU19601961Franz MeyersNorth Rhine-WestphaliaCDU19611962Hans EhardBavariaCSU19621963Kurt Georg KiesingerBaden-WürttembergCDU19631964Georg DiederichsLower SaxonySPD19641965 Georg August ZinnHesseSPD19651966 Peter AltmeierRhineland-PalatinateCDU19661967Helmut LemkeSchleswig-HolsteinCDU19671968Klaus SchützBerlinSPD19681969Herbert WeichmannHamburgSPD19691970 Franz Josef RöderSaarlandCDU19701971Hans KoschnickBremenSPD19711972Heinz KühnNorth Rhine-WestphaliaSPD19721973Alfons GoppelBavariaCSU19731974Hans FilbingerBaden-WürttembergCDU19741975Alfred KubelLower SaxonySPD19751976Albert OsswaldHesseSPD19761977Bernhard VogelRhineland-PalatinateCDU19771978Gerhard StoltenbergSchleswig-HolsteinCDU19781979Dietrich StobbeBerlinSPD19791980Hans-Ulrich KloseHamburgSPD19801981Werner ZeyerSaarlandCDU19811982 Hans KoschnickBremenSPD19821983Johannes RauNorth Rhine-WestphaliaSPD19831984Franz Josef StraußBavariaCSU19841985Lothar SpäthBaden-WürttembergCDU19851986Ernst AlbrechtLower SaxonyCDU19861987Holger BörnerHesseSPD19871987Walter WallmannHesseCDU19871988 Bernhard VogelRhineland-PalatinateCDU19881989Björn EngholmSchleswig-HolsteinSPD19891990Walter MomperBerlinSPD19901991Henning VoscherauHamburgSPD19911992Alfred GomolkaMecklenburg-Western PomeraniaCDU19921992Berndt SeiteMecklenburg-Western PomeraniaCDU19921993Oskar LafontaineSaarlandSPD19931994Klaus WedemeierBremenSPD19941995 Johannes RauNorth Rhine-WestphaliaSPD19951996Edmund StoiberBavariaCSU19961997Erwin TeufelBaden-WürttembergCDU19971998Gerhard SchröderLower SaxonySPD19981999Hans EichelHesseSPD19991999Roland KochHesseCDU19992000Kurt BiedenkopfSaxonyCDU20002001Kurt BeckRhineland-PalatinateSPD20012002Klaus WowereitBerlinSPD20022003Wolfgang BöhmerSaxony-AnhaltCDU20032004Dieter AlthausThuringiaCDU20042005Matthias PlatzeckBrandenburgSPD20052006Peter Harry CarstensenSchleswig-HolsteinCDU20062007Harald RingstorffMecklenburg-Western PomeraniaSPD20072008Ole von BeustElected at the 837th meeting on 12 October 2007 for the period 1 November 2007 to 31 October 2008HamburgCDU20082009Peter MüllerSaarlandCDU20092010 Jens BöhrnsenBremenSPD20102011Hannelore KraftNorth Rhine-WestphaliaSPD20112012Horst SeehoferBavariaCSU20122013Winfried KretschmannBaden-WürttembergAlliance '90/The Greens20132014Stephan WeilLower SaxonySPD20142015Volker BouffierHesseCDU20152016Stanislaw TillichSaxonyCDU20162017Malu DreyerRhineland-PalatinateSPD20172018Michael MüllerBerlinSPD20182019Daniel GüntherSchleswig-HolsteinCDU20192020Dietmar WoidkeBrandenburgSPD20202021Reiner HaseloffSaxony-AnhaltCDU20212022Bodo RamelowThuringiaSPD2022Peter TschentscherHamburgSPD

Related pages
 President of the German Bundesrat

References

Other websites
 "Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949"  (in German)
 Official Bundesrat website  (English).

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