List Of German Chancellors

This is the list of leaders and chancellors of Germany from 1871 (German Empire) until the present-day Federal Republic of Germany.

German Reich (1871–1945)[edit]

German Empire (1871–1918)[edit]

Name	From	To
Otto von Bismarck	21 March 1871	20 March 1890
Leo von Caprivi	20 March 1890	26 October 1894
Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst	29 October 1894	17 October 1900
Bernhard von Bülow	17 October 1900	14 July 1909
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg	14 July 1909	13 July 1917
Georg Michaelis	14 July 1917	1 November 1917
Georg von Hertling	1 November 1917	30 September 1918
Max von Baden	3 October 1918	9 November 1918

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)[edit]

Name	From	To
Philipp Scheidemann	13 February 1919	20 June 1919
Gustav Bauer	21 June 1919	26 March 1920
Hermann Müller	27 March 1920	21 June 1920
Constantin Fehrenbach	25 June 1920	4 May 1921
Joseph Wirth	10 May 1921	14 November 1922
Wilhelm Cuno	22 November 1922	12 August 1923
Gustav Stresemann	13 August 1923	30 November 1923
Wilhelm Marx	30 November 1923	15 January 1925
Hans Luther	15 January 1925	12 May 1926
Wilhelm Marx	17 May 1926	12 June 1928
Hermann Müller	28 June 1928	27 March 1930
Heinrich Brüning	30 March 1930	30 May 1932
Franz von Papen	1 June 1932	17 November 1932
Kurt von Schleicher	3 December 1932	28 January 1933

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)[edit]

Name	From	To
Adolf Hitler	30 January 1933	30 April 1945
Joseph Goebbels	30 April 1945	1 May 1945
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk	1 May 1945	23 May 1945

Divided Germany (1949–1990)[edit]

Germany was occupied by the Allies from 1945 to 1949. In 1949 Germany was divided in two German states.

West Germany (1949–1990)[edit]

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

Name	From	To
Konrad Adenauer	15 September 1949	11 October 1963
Ludwig Erhard	17 October 1963	30 November 1966
Kurt Georg Kiesinger	1 December 1966	21 October 1969
Willy Brandt	22 October 1969	7 May 1974
Helmut Schmidt	16 May 1974	1 October 1982
Helmut Kohl	1 October 1982	27 October 1998 (continued after reunification between West and East)

East Germany (1949–1990)[edit]

German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Name	From	To
Otto Grotewohl	12 October 1949	21 September 1964
Willi Stoph	21 September 1964	3 October 1973
Horst Sindermann	3 October 1973	29 October 1976
Willi Stoph	29 October 1976	13 November 1989
Hans Modrow	13 November 1989	12 April 1990
Lothar de Maizière	12 April 1990	2 October 1990

Germany (1990–present)[edit]

Federal Republic of Germany (GER)

Name	From	To
Helmut Kohl	1 October 1982	27 October 1998
Gerhard Schröder	27 October 1998	22 November 2005
Angela Merkel	22 Novemer 2005	8 December 2021
Olaf Scholz	8 December 2021	Present'

External links[edit]

• List of chancellors of Germany. Encyclopædia Britannica.

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