List of minister-presidents of Saxony
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This article lists the leaders of the Government (German: Vorsitzende des Gesamtministeriums) in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and minister-presidents (German: Ministerpräsidenten) of the Free State of Saxony since 1918.
List of minister-presidents
editKingdom of Saxony (until 1918)
edit| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| Kingdom of Saxony (until 1871) | ||||||
| Independent member state of the German Confederation and the North German Confederation. | ||||||
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Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779–1854) |
1 December 1831 | September 1843 | 11 years, 9 months | Non-partisan | |
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Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz (1792–1866) |
September 1843 | 13 March 1848 | 4 years, 6 months | Non-partisan | |
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Alexander Karl Hermann Braun (1807–1868) |
16 March 1848 | 24 February 1849 | 345 days | Non-partisan | |
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Gustav Friedrich Held (1804–1857) |
24 February 1849 | 2 May 1849 | 67 days | Non-partisan | |
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Ferdinand von Zschinsky (1797–1858) |
2 May 1849 | 28 October 1858 | 9 years, 179 days | Non-partisan | |
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Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–1886) |
28 October 1858 | 15 August 1866 | 7 years, 291 days | Non-partisan | |
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Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882) |
October 1866 | 18 January 1871 | 4 years, 3 months | Non-partisan | |
| Kingdom of Saxony (1871–1918) | ||||||
| State of the German Reich during the period of the German Empire. | ||||||
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Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882) |
18 January 1871 | 1 October 1871 | 256 days | Non-partisan | |
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Richard Freiherr von Friesen (1808–1884) |
1 October 1871 | 1 November 1876 | 5 years, 31 days | Non-partisan | |
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Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice (1818–1891) |
1 November 1876 | 25 March 1891 | 14 years, 144 days | Non-partisan | |
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber (1823–1891) |
25 March 1891 | 23 December 1891 | 273 days | Non-partisan | |
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Hans von Thümmel (1824–1895) |
December 1891 | 12 February 1895 | 3 years, 2 months | Non-partisan | |
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Heinrich Rudolf Schurig (1835–1901) |
12 February 1895 | 15 June 1901 | 6 years, 123 days | Non-partisan | |
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Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach (1836–1927) |
15 June 1901 | 30 April 1906 | 4 years, 319 days | Non-partisan | |
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Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (1837–1916) |
30 April 1906 | 1 December 1910 | 4 years, 215 days | Non-partisan | |
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Victor Alexander von Otto (1852–1912) |
1 December 1910 | 21 May 1912 | 1 year, 172 days | Non-partisan | |
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Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen (1846–1922) |
26 July 1912 | 21 May 1914 | 1 year, 299 days | Non-partisan | |
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Heinrich Gustav Beck (1854–1933) |
21 May 1914 | 26 October 1918 | 4 years, 158 days | Non-partisan | |
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Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928) |
26 October 1918 | 13 November 1918 | 18 days | German People's Party | |
Free State of Saxony (1918–1952)
editPolitical party: USPD SPD / ASPD DVP NSDAP SED
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Landtag | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| Free State of Saxony (1918–1933) | ||||||||
| State of the German Reich during the period of the Weimar Republic. | ||||||||
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Richard Lipinski (1867–1936) |
15 November 1918 | 21 January 1919 | 67 days | Independent Social Democratic Party | Council of People's Deputies SPD–USPD |
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Georg Gradnauer (1866–1946) |
21 January 1919 | 4 May 1920 | 1 year, 104 days | Social Democratic Party | Council of People's Deputies SPD | ||
| Gradnauer SPD–DDP |
People's Chamber Feb. 1919 | |||||||
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Wilhelm Buck (1869–1945) |
4 May 1920 | 21 March 1923 | 2 years, 321 days | Social Democratic Party | Buck I SPD–DDP | ||
| Buck II SPD–USPD |
1 Nov. 1920 | |||||||
| Buck III SPD |
2 Nov. 1922 | |||||||
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Erich Zeigner (1886–1949) |
21 March 1923 | 29 October 1923 | 222 days | Social Democratic Party | Zeigner SPD From 12 Oct. 1923: SPD–KPD | ||
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Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928) |
Reichskommissar | 2 days | German People's Party | – | |||
| 29 October 1923 | 31 October 1923 | |||||||
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Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973) |
31 October 1923 | 4 January 1924 | 65 days | Social Democratic Party | Fellisch SPD | ||
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Max Heldt (1872–1933) |
4 January 1924 | 26 June 1929 | 5 years, 173 days | Social Democratic Party | Heldt I SPD–DVP–DDP From 25 Mar. 1926: ASPD–DVP–DDP | ||
| After 25 Mar. 1926: Non-partisan | ||||||||
| After 6 Jun. 1926: Old Social Democratic Party | ||||||||
| Heldt II DVP–WP–DDP–ASPD |
3 Oct. 1926 | |||||||
| Heldt III DNVP–DVP–WP–DDP–VRP–ASPD | ||||||||
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Wilhelm Bünger (1870–1937) |
26 June 1929 | 18 February 1930 | 237 days | German People's Party | Bünger DVP–WP–DNVP–ASPD |
4 May 1929 | |
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Walther Schieck (1874–1946) |
6 May 1930 | 30 January 1933 | 2 years, 269 days | German People's Party | Schieck DVP–DDP |
5 Jun. 1930 | |
| Free State of Saxony (1933–1945) | ||||||||
| State of the German Reich during the period of Nazi Germany. | ||||||||
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Walther Schieck (1874–1946) |
30 January 1933 | 10 March 1933 | 39 days | German People's Party | |||
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Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (1886–1944) |
Reichkomissar | 56 days | Nazi Party | – | |||
| 10 March 1933 | 5 May 1933 | |||||||
| Ministerpräsident | 1 year, 299 days | |||||||
| 5 May 1933 | 28 February 1935 | |||||||
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Martin Mutschmann (1879–1947) |
Reichsstatthalter | 12 years, 3 days | Nazi Party | – | |||
| 5 May 1933 | 8 May 1945 | |||||||
| Ministerpräsident | 10 years, 69 days | |||||||
| 28 February 1935 | 8 May 1945 | |||||||
| Saxony (1945–1949) | ||||||||
| Soviet occupation zone of Germany | ||||||||
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Rudolf Friedrichs (1892–1947) |
1 July 1945 | 13 June 1947 | 1 year, 347 days | Social Democratic Party | Friedrichs I SPD–KPD–LDP–CDU From 22 Apr. 1946: SED–LDP–CDU |
Consultative Assembly | |
| After 22 April 1946: Socialist Unity Party | ||||||||
| Friedrichs II SED–LDP–CDU |
1 Oct. 1946 | |||||||
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Max Seydewitz (1892–1987) |
31 July 1947 | 7 October 1949 | 2 years, 68 days | Socialist Unity Party | Seydewitz I SED–LDP–CDU–DBD | ||
| Saxony (1949–1952) | ||||||||
| State of the German Democratic Republic (1949–1952) | ||||||||
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Max Seydewitz (1892–1987) |
7 October 1949 | 23 July 1952 | 2 years, 290 days | Socialist Unity Party | Seydewitz II SED–CDU–LDP–DBD–NDPD–FDGB |
2 Oct. 1950 | |
| From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished. | ||||||||
Free State of Saxony (1990–present)
editPolitical party: CDU
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Landtag | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| Saxony (1990–present) | ||||||||
| State of the Federal Republic of Germany | ||||||||
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Rudolf Krause (born 1939) as State Commissioner |
3 October 1990 | 27 October 1990 | 24 days | Christian Democratic Union | – | – |
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Kurt Biedenkopf (1930–2021) |
27 October 1990 | 18 April 2002 | 11 years, 173 days | Christian Democratic Union | Biedenkopf I CDU |
1 Oct. 1990 |
| Biedenkopf II CDU |
2 Sep. 1994 | |||||||
| Biedenkopf III CDU |
3 Sep. 1999 | |||||||
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Georg Milbradt (born 1945) |
18 April 2002 | 28 May 2008 | 6 years, 40 days | Christian Democratic Union | Milbradt I CDU | |
| Milbradt II CDU–SPD |
4 Sep. 2004 | |||||||
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Stanislaw Tillich (born 1959) |
28 May 2008 | 13 December 2017 | 9 years, 199 days | Christian Democratic Union | Tillich I CDU–SPD | |
| Tillich II CDU–FDP |
5 Aug. 2009 | |||||||
| Tillich III CDU–SPD |
6 Aug. 2014 | |||||||
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Michael Kretschmer (born 1975) |
13 December 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 4 days | Christian Democratic Union | Kretschmer I CDU–SPD | |
| Kretschmer II CDU–Green–SPD |
7 Sep. 2019 | |||||||