List of longest-serving German minister-presidents
This is a list of the 30 longest governing ministers-president of Germany since 1945 by time in office.
Rank
|
Ministerpräsident
|
Period in office
|
Duration (Years/Days)
|
States of Germany
|
1 |
Bernhard Vogel |
2 December 1976 – 8 December 1988 |
23 years, 125 days |
Rhineland-Palatinate
|
5 February 1992 – 5 June 2003 |
Thuringia
|
2 |
Peter Altmeier |
9 July 1947 – 19 May 1969 |
21 years, 314 days |
Rhineland-Palatinate
|
3 |
Franz-Josef Röder |
30 April 1959 – 26 June 1979 |
20 years, 57 days |
Saarland
|
4 |
Wilhelm Kaisen |
1 August 1945 – 20 July 1965 |
19 years, 353 days |
Bremen
|
5 |
Johannes Rau |
20 September 1978 – 27 May 1998 |
19 years, 249 days |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
6 |
Georg August Zinn |
14 December 1950 – 3 October 1969 |
18 years, 293 days |
Hesse
|
7 |
Kurt Beck |
26 October 1994 – 16 January 2013 |
18 years, 82 days |
Rhineland-Palatinate
|
8 |
Hans Koschnick |
28 November 1967 – 18 September 1985 |
17 years, 294 days |
Bremen
|
9 |
Alfons Goppel |
11 December 1962 – 7 November 1978 |
15 years, 331 days |
Bavaria
|
10 |
Eberhard Diepgen |
9 February 1984 – 16 March 1989 24 January 1991 – 16 June 2001 |
15 years, 178 days |
West Berlin; Berlin
|
11 |
Ernst Albrecht |
6 February 1976 – 21 June 1990 |
14 years, 135 days |
Lower Saxony
|
12 |
Edmund Stoiber |
28 May 1993 – 9 October 2007 |
14 years, 134 days |
Bavaria
|
13 |
Erwin Teufel |
22 January 1991 – 21 April 2005 |
14 years, 89 days |
Baden-Württemberg
|
14 |
Oskar Lafontaine |
9 April 1985 – 10 November 1998 |
13 years, 215 days |
Saarland
|
15 |
Klaus Wowereit |
16 June 2001 – 11 December 2014 |
13 years, 178 days |
Berlin
|
16 |
Reiner Haseloff |
since 19 April 2011 |
13 years, 82 days |
Saxony-Anhalt
|
17 |
Winfried Kretschmann |
since 12 May 2011 |
13 years, 59 days |
Baden-Württemberg
|
18 |
Lothar Späth |
30 August 1978 – 22 January 1991 |
12 years, 145 days |
Baden-Württemberg
|
19 |
Heide Simonis |
19 May 1993 – 27 April 2005 |
11 years, 343 days |
Schleswig-Holstein
|
20 |
Peter Müller |
29 September 1999 – 10 August 2011 |
11 years, 315 days |
Saarland
|
21 |
Heinz Kühn |
8 December 1966 – 20 September 1978 |
11 years, 286 days |
North Rhine-Westphalia
|
22 |
Volker Bouffier |
31 August 2010 – 31 May 2022 |
11 years, 273 days |
Hesse
|
23 |
Hans Filbinger |
16 December 1966 – 30 August 1978 |
11 years, 257 days |
Baden-Württemberg
|
24 |
Manfred Stolpe |
1 November 1990 – 26 June 2002 |
11 years, 237 days |
Brandenburg
|
25 |
Malu Dreyer |
16 January 2013 – 10 July 2024 |
11 years, 176 days |
Rhineland-Palatinate
|
26 |
Kurt Biedenkopf |
27 October 1990 – 18 April 2002 |
11 years, 173 days |
Saxony
|
27 |
Roland Koch |
7 April 1999 – 31 August 2010 |
11 years, 146 days |
Hesse
|
28 |
Stephan Weil |
since 19 February 2013 |
11 years, 142 days |
Lower Saxony
|
29 |
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf |
23 August 1946 – 26 May 1955 12 May 1959 – 29 December 1961 |
11 years, 142 days |
Lower Saxony
|
30 |
Gerhard Stoltenberg |
24 May 1971 – 4 October 1982 |
11 years, 133 days |
Schleswig-Holstein
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