List of Minister-Presidents of Saxony

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.

Minister-Presidents of the Kingdom of Saxony

Kingdom of Saxony

Portrait Name
(Life data)
Term of Office
Head of the Ministry
Bernhard August von Lindenau
(June 11, 1779 – May 21, 1854)
December 1, 1831 – September 1843
Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz
(May 30, 1792 – October 28, 1866)
September 1843 – March 13, 1848
Alexander Karl Hermann Braun
(May 10, 1807 – March 23, 1868)
March 16, 1848 – February 24, 1849
Gustav Friedrich Held
(May 29, 1804 – April 24, 1857)
February 24, 1849 – May 2, 1849
Ferdinand von Zschinsky
(February 22, 1797 – October 28, 1858)
May 2, 1849 – October 28, 1858
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
(January 13, 1809 – October 24, 1886)
October 28, 1858 – August 15, 1866
Johann Paul von Falkenstein
(June 15, 1801 – January 14, 1882)
October 1866 – October 1, 1871
Richard Freiherr von Friesen
(August 9, 1808 – February 25, 1884)
October 1, 1871 – November 1, 1876
Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice
(May 23, 1818 – March 25, 1891)
November 1, 1876 – March 25, 1891
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber
(April 11, 1823 – December 23, 1891)
March 25, 1891 – December 23, 1891
Hans von Thümmel
(May 25, 1824 – February 12, 1895)
December 1891 – February 12, 1895
Heinrich Rudolf Schurig
(March 4, 1835 – June 15, 1901)
February 12, 1895 – June 15, 1901
Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach
(July 14, 1836 – September 7, 1927)
June 15, 1901 – April 30, 1906
Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger
(October 26, 1837 – February 20, 1916)
April 30, 1906 – December 1, 1910
Victor Alexander von Otto
(March 20, 1852 – July 26, 1912)
December 1, 1910 – May 21, 1912
Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen
(December 17, 1846 – March 19, 1922)
July 26, 1912 – May 21, 1914
Heinrich Gustav Beck
(April 11, 1854 – January 9, 1933)
May 21, 1914 – October 26, 1918
Rudolf Heinze
(July 22, 1865 – May 16, 1928)
October 26, 1918 – November 13, 1918

Minister-Presidents of the Free State of Saxony

Saxony (1918–1952)

Political Party:   USPD   SPD / ASPD   DVP   NSDAP   SED   CDU

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of Office Political Party
Took Office Left Office Days
Richard Lipinski
(1867–1936)
15 November 191821 January 191967 daysUSPD
Georg Gradnauer
(1866–1946)
21 January 1919 4 May 1920 1 year, 104 days Social Democratic Party of Germany
Wilhelm Buck
(1869–1945)
4 May 1920 21 March 1923 2 years, 321 days Social Democratic Party of Germany
Erich Zeigner
(1886–1949)
21 March 1923 29 October 1923 222 days Social Democratic Party of Germany
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 of Germany
Max Heldt
(1872–1933)
4 January 1924 26 June 1929 5 years, 173 days Social Democratic Party of Germany
(until 1926)
Old Social Democratic Party of Germany
(from 1926)
Wilhelm Bünger
(1870–1937)
26 June 1929 18 February 1930 237 days German People's Party
Walther Schieck
(1874–1946)
6 May 1930 10 March 1933 2 years, 308 days German People's Party
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
(1886–1944)
Reichkomissar 56 days National Socialist German Workers' 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 National Socialist German Workers' Party
5 May 1933 8 May 1945
Ministerpräsident 10 years, 69 days
28 February 1935 8 May 1945
Rudolf Friedrichs
(1892–1947)
1 July 1945 13 June 1947 1 year, 347 days Social Democratic Party of Germany
(until 1946)
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
(from 1946)
Max Seydewitz
(1892–1987)
31 July 1947 23 July 1952 4 years, 358 days Socialist Unity Party of Germany
From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished.

Free State of Saxony (1990–present)

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of Office Political Party
Took Office Left Office Days
Rudolf Krause
(born 1939)
Landesbevollmächtigter 24 days Christian Democratic Union
3 October 1990 27 October 1990
1 Kurt Biedenkopf
(1930–2021)
27 October 1990 18 April 2002 11 years, 173 days Christian Democratic Union
2 Georg Milbradt
(1945)
18 April 2002 28 May 2008 6 years, 40 days Christian Democratic Union
3 Stanislaw Tillich
(1959)
28 May 2008 13 December 2017 9 years, 199 days Christian Democratic Union
4 Michael Kretschmer
(1975)
13 December 2017 Incumbent 4 years, 3 days Christian Democratic Union

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