List of Ministers-President of Bavaria

This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in Bavaria from the 17th century to the present:

Geheime Ratskanzler

Privy Council chancellors (Geheime Ratskanzler) were:

• 1650–1662: Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis (de)
• 1662–1667: Johann Georg Oexle
• 1667–1693: Kaspar von Schmid (de)
• 1695–1704: Johann Rudolf von Wämpl (de)
• 1704–1714: Vacant
• 1726–1749: Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl
• 1749–1758: Franz Xaver Andreas von Praidlohn (de)
• 1758–1790: Wiguläus von Kreittmayr (de)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (since 1806, Ministers of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs)

Before 1849 Bavaria had no actual head of government, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs was the most senior of the ministers.

• 1745–1777: Franz Joseph von Berchem
• 1777–1799: Matthäus von Vieregg
• 1799–1817: Maximilian von Montgelas
• 1817–1825: Heinrich Aloys von Reigersberg
• 1825–1832: Georg Friedrich von Zentner
• 1832–1837: Friedrich August Koch
• 1837–1847: Karl von Abel
• 184700000: Friedrich August von Zu Rhein
• 1847–1848: Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein
• 184800000: Klemens von Waldkirch (14 March 1848 – 29 April 1848) (de)
• 1848–1849: Otto von Bray-Steinburg (1st term)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

The office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers was established in 1849. With one exception (1880–1890), the Chairman was always the Foreign Minister.

• 1849–1859: Ludwig von der Pfordten (1st term)
• 1859–1864: Karl von Schrenck von Notzing (de)
• 186400000: Max von Neumayr (de)
• 1864–1866: Ludwig von der Pfordten (2nd term)
• 1866–1870: Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• 1870–1871: Otto von Bray-Steinburg (2nd term)
• 1871–1872: Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux (de)
• 1872–1880: Adolph von Pfretzschner
• 1880–1890: Johann von Lutz (de)
• 1890–1903: Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim (de)
• 1903–1912: Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz (de)
• 1912–1917: Georg von Hertling
• 1917–1918: Otto von Dandl

Ministers-President of the Free State of Bavaria

Political Party:       USPD       SPD       BVP       NSDAP       CSU       None

Portrait		Name (Born–Died)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office	Days
		Kurt Eisner (1867–1919)	8 November 1918	21 February 1919		Independent Social Democrats
		Martin Segitz (1853–1927) (Acting Minister-President)	1 March 1919	17 March 1919		Social Democrats
		Johannes Hoffmann (1867–1930)	17 March 1919	16 March 1920		Social Democrats
	80px	Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934)	16 March 1920	21 September 1921		Non-partisan
		Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering (1871–1944)	21 September 1921	8 November 1922		Bavarian People's Party
		Eugen Ritter von Knilling (1856–1927)	8 November 1922	1 July 1924		Bavarian People's Party
	80px	Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934)	Generalstaatskommissar			Non-partisan
			25 September 1923	17 February 1924
		Heinrich Held (1868–1938)	2 July 1924	9 March 1933		Bavarian People's Party
		Franz Ritter von Epp (1868–1946)	Reichkomissar			National Socialist German Workers' Party
			10 March 1933	10 April 1933
			Reichsstatthalter
			10 April 1933	29 April 1945
		Ludwig Siebert (1874–1942)	12 April 1933	1 November 1942		National Socialist German Workers' Party
		Paul Giesler (1895–1945)	2 November 1942	29 April 1945		National Socialist German Workers' Party
		Fritz Schäffer (1888–1967)	28 May 1945	28 September 1945		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Wilhelm Hoegner (1st term) (1887–1980)	28 September 1945	16 December 1946		Social Democratic Party of Germany
		Hans Ehard (1st term) (1887–1980)	21 December 1946	14 December 1954		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Wilhelm Hoegner (2nd term) (1887–1980)	14 December 1954	8 October 1957		Social Democratic Party of Germany
		Hanns Seidel (1901–1961)	16 October 1957	22 January 1960		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Hans Ehard (2nd term) (1887–1980)	26 January 1960	11 December 1962		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Alfons Goppel (1905–1991)	11 December 1962	6 November 1978		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988)	6 November 1978	3 October 1988		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Max Streibl (1932–1998)	19 October 1988	27 May 1993		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Edmund Stoiber (born 1941)	28 May 1993	30 September 2007		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Günther Beckstein (born 1943)	9 October 2007	27 October 2008		Christian Social Union in Bavaria
		Horst Seehofer (born 1949)	27 October 2008	Incumbent		Christian Social Union in Bavaria

See also

• List of rulers of Bavaria