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List of minister-presidents of Hesse

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Minister-President of Hesse
Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen
Coat of arms of Hesse
Incumbent
Boris Rhein
since 31 May 2022
ResidenceWiesbaden
AppointerLandtag of Hesse
Term lengthPending resignation or the election of a successor
Inaugural holderLudwig Bergsträsser (Greater Hesse)
Formation16 September 1945
Websitehttps://staatskanzlei.hessen.de/

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[1]), 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

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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

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For the Oberpräsidents of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau (1868–1944), see Hesse-Nassau § Oberpräsidents.

Grand Duchy of Hesse (1819–1918)

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Minister-presidents of the Grand Duchy of Hesse

People's State of Hesse (1919–1945)

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Political party:   SPD   NSDAP

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
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 c. 4320 National Socialist German Workers' Party
5 May 1933 March 1945
Präsident c. 3650
1 March 1935 March 1945

Hesse (1945–present)

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Minister-President of the State of Hesse

Political party:   SPD   CDU

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party Election
Took office Left office Days
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 943 Christian Democratic Union 2018
2023

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Volker Bouffier". english.hessen.de. Hessen Government. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
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