List of ministers-president of Mecklenburg
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This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in the states within the region of Mecklenburg from the 18th century to 1952. The states in question were Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz and unified state of Mecklenburg.
In 1990, with German reunification, the state was re-established as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchy
- Prime Ministers
- 1783–1784: Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
- 1784–1800: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cölpin
- 1800–1808: Bernhard Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
- 1808–1815: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein
Grand Duchy
- Prime Ministers
- 1815–1836: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein
- 1836–1837: Leopold Engelke von Plessen
- 1837–1840: Christian Friedrich Krüger
- 1840–1850: Ludwig von Lützow
- Presidents of the State Ministry
- 1850–1858: Hans Adolf Karl Graf von Bülow
- 1858–1869: Jasper Joachim Bernhard Wilhelm von Oertzen
- 1869–1885: Henning Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
- 1886–1901: Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow
- 1901–1914: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow
- 1914–1918: Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm Langfeld
Free State
Political party: DDP DVP SPD DNVP NSDAP
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Hugo Wendorff (1864–1945) |
9 November 1918 | 22 February 1919 | 105 | German Democratic Party | |
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Hugo Wendorff (1864–1945) |
22 February 1919 | 28 July 1920 | 522 | German Democratic Party | |
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Hermann Reincke-Bloch (1867–1928) |
28 July 1920 | 14 January 1921 | 170 | German People's Party | |
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Johannes Stelling (1877–1933) |
14 January 1921 | 18 March 1924 | 1159 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Joachim Freiherr von Brandenstein (1864–1941) |
18 March 1924 | 8 July 1926 | 842 | German National People's Party | |
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Paul Schröder (1875–1932) |
8 July 1926 | 10 July 1929 | 1098 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Karl Eschenburg (1877–1943) |
10 July 1929 | 13 July 1932 | 1099 | German National People's Party | |
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Walter Granzow (1887–1952) |
13 July 1932 | 10 August 1933 | 393 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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Hans Egon Engell (1897–1974) |
10 August 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 143 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) |
Reichsstatthalter | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
| 26 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | |||||
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Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duchy (1769–1815)
- Ministers of State (Staatsminister)
- 1769–1784: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cöpin
- 1784–1795: Christoph Otto von Gamm
- 1795–1800: Otto Ulrich von Dewitz
- 1800–1815: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz
Grand Duchy (1815–1918)
- 1815–1827: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz
- 1827–1836: August Otto Ernst Freiherr von Örtzen auf Klokow
- 1837–1848: Otto Ludwig Christian von Dewitz auf Sallnow
- 1848–1850: Vacant
- 1850–1861: August Ludwig Wilhelm von Bernstorff
- 1862–1868: Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
- 1868–1872: Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten
- 1872–1885: Anton von Piper (acting)
- 1885–1907: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ulrich Karl Helmut von Dewitz
- 1907–1918: Heinrich Bossart
Free State (1918-1933)
Political party: DDP SPD DNVP NSDAP
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Term of office | Political party | |||
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Peter Franz Stubmann (1876–1962) |
11 November 1918 | 7 January 1919 | 67 | German Democratic Party | |
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Hans Krüger (1884–1933) |
7 January 1919 | 13 October 1919 | 279 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 1st term |
13 October 1919 | 2 August 1923 | 1389 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Karl Schwabe (1877–1938) |
2 August 1923 | 13 March 1928 | 1685 | German National People's Party | |
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Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 2nd term |
13 March 1928 | 12 April 1929 | 395 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Kurt Häntzschel (1889–1941) |
Reichskommissar | 4 | German Democratic Party | ||
| 12 April 1929 | 16 April 1929 | |||||
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Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (1877–1937) 3rd term |
16 April 1929 | 4 December 1931 | 962 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
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Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Michael (1888–1942) |
4 December 1931 | 27 May 1933 | 540 | German National People's Party | |
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Fritz Stichtenoth (1895–1935) |
27 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | 218 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) |
Reichsstatthalter | 219 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
| 26 May 1933 | 31 December 1933 | |||||
Mecklenburg (1933–1952)
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
- Reichsstatthalter of the State of Mecklenburg
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |||
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Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948) as Reichsstatthalter |
1 January 1934 | 1 May 1945 | 4138 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
- Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg
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Hans Egon Engell (1897–1974) |
1 January 1934 | 25 October 1934 | 297 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
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Friedrich Scharf (1897–1974) |
25 October 1934 | 1 May 1945 | 3841 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
Soviet control / GDR (1945–1952)
- Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg
Political party: SED
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | ||||
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Wilhelm Höcker (1886–1955) |
9 December 1946 | 7 October 1949 | 1035 | Socialist Unity Party | |
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Wilhelm Höcker (1886–1955) |
9 December 1946 | 20 July 1951 | 588 | Socialist Unity Party | |
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Kurt Bürger (1894–1951) |
20 July 1951 | 30 July 1951 | 10 | Socialist Unity Party | |
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Bernhard Quandt (1903–1999) |
30 July 1951 | 23 July 1952 | 359 | Socialist Unity Party | |
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present)
The Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German: Ministerpräsidentin des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), is the head of government of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The position was created in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and the northern part of Potsdam were merged into the new federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the borders was redrawn.
The current and first female Minister-President is Manuela Schwesig, since 2021 heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and The Left.[1] Schwesig succeeded Erwin Sellering in July 2017.
The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Schwerin, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
- Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Martin Brick (born 1939) as State Commissioner |
3 October 1990 | 27 October 1990 | 24 | Christian Democratic Union | |
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Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020) |
27 October 1990 | 19 March 1992 (resigned) |
509 | Christian Democratic Union | |
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Berndt Seite (born 1940) |
19 March 1992 | 3 November 1998 | 2420 | Christian Democratic Union | |
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Harald Ringstorff (1939–2020) |
3 November 1998 | 6 October 2008 (resigned) |
3625 | Social Democratic Party | |
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Erwin Sellering (born 1949) |
6 October 2008 | 4 July 2017 (resigned) |
3193 | Social Democratic Party | |
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Manuela Schwesig (born 1974) |
4 July 2017 | Incumbent | 2480 | Social Democratic Party | |
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References
- ^ SPD und Linke unterzeichnen Koalitionsvertrag. 13 November 2021
External links
- Worldstatesmen.org – Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg
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