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

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Kingdom of Saxony (until 1918)

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Political party:   DVP   None

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Time in office
Kingdom of Saxony (until 1871)
Independent member state of the German Confederation and the North German Confederation.
Bernhard August von Lindenau
(1779–1854) 		1 December 1831 September 1843 11 years, 9 months Non-partisan
Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz
(1792–1866) 		September 1843 13 March 1848 4 years, 6 months Non-partisan
Alexander Karl Hermann Braun
(1807–1868) 		16 March 1848 24 February 1849 345 days Non-partisan
Gustav Friedrich Held
(1804–1857) 		24 February 1849 2 May 1849 67 days Non-partisan
Ferdinand von Zschinsky
(1797–1858) 		2 May 1849 28 October 1858 9 years, 179 days Non-partisan
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
(1809–1886) 		28 October 1858 15 August 1866 7 years, 291 days Non-partisan
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.
Johann Paul von Falkenstein
(1801–1882) 		18 January 1871 1 October 1871 256 days Non-partisan
Richard Freiherr von Friesen
(1808–1884) 		1 October 1871 1 November 1876 5 years, 31 days Non-partisan
Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice
(1818–1891) 		1 November 1876 25 March 1891 14 years, 144 days Non-partisan
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber
(1823–1891) 		25 March 1891 23 December 1891 273 days Non-partisan
Hans von Thümmel
(1824–1895) 		December 1891 12 February 1895 3 years, 2 months Non-partisan
Heinrich Rudolf Schurig
(1835–1901) 		12 February 1895 15 June 1901 6 years, 123 days Non-partisan
Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach
(1836–1927) 		15 June 1901 30 April 1906 4 years, 319 days Non-partisan
Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger
(1837–1916) 		30 April 1906 1 December 1910 4 years, 215 days Non-partisan
Victor Alexander von Otto
(1852–1912) 		1 December 1910 21 May 1912 1 year, 172 days Non-partisan
Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen
(1846–1922) 		26 July 1912 21 May 1914 1 year, 299 days Non-partisan
Heinrich Gustav Beck
(1854–1933) 		21 May 1914 26 October 1918 4 years, 158 days Non-partisan
Rudolf Heinze
(1865–1928) 		26 October 1918 13 November 1918 18 days German People's Party

Free State of Saxony (1918–1952)

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Political party:   USPD   SPD / ASPD   DVP   NSDAP   SED

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party Cabinet Landtag
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.
Richard Lipinski
(1867–1936) 		15 November 1918 21 January 1919 67 days Independent Social Democratic Party Council of People's Deputies
SPD–USPD 		–
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
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
Erich Zeigner
(1886–1949) 		21 March 1923 29 October 1923 222 days Social Democratic Party Zeigner
SPD
From 12 Oct. 1923:
SPD–KPD
Rudolf Heinze
(1865–1928) 		Reichskommissar 2 days German People's Party –
29 October 1923 31 October 1923
Alfred Fellisch
(1884–1973) 		31 October 1923 4 January 1924 65 days Social Democratic Party Fellisch
SPD
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
Wilhelm Bünger
(1870–1937) 		26 June 1929 18 February 1930 237 days German People's Party Bünger
DVP–WP–DNVP–ASPD 		4
May 1929
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.
Walther Schieck
(1874–1946) 		30 January 1933 10 March 1933 39 days German People's Party
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
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
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
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)
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)

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Political party:   CDU

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Political party Cabinet Landtag
Took office Left office Time in office
Saxony (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
– Rudolf Krause
(born 1939)
as State Commissioner 		3 October 1990 27 October 1990 24 days Christian Democratic Union – –
1 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
2 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
3 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
4 Michael Kretschmer
(born 1975) 		13 December 2017 Incumbent 6 years, 329 days Christian Democratic Union Kretschmer I
CDU–SPD
Kretschmer II
CDU–Green–SPD 		7
Sep. 2019

See also

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