The minister-president of the Saarland (), is the head of government of the German state of the Saarland. The position was created in 1946. The current minister president is Anke Rehlinger, heading a Social Democratic Party government. Rehlinger succeeded Tobias Hans following the 2022 Saarland state election.
After World War II, the Saarland became a French protectorate. With the negative result of the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery (), and is located in the capital of Saarbrücken, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
List Political party:
PortraitName(born and died)Term of officePolitical partyCabinetTook officeLeft officeDays 1Johannes Hoffmann(1890–1967)20 December 194729 October 1955resignedCVPIIIIIIIV 2 Heinrich Welsch(1888–1976)29 October 195510 January 1956IndependentI 3Hubert Ney(1892–1984)10 January 19564 June 1957resignedCDUI 4 Egon Reinert(1908–1959)4 June 195723 April 1959died in officeCDUIII 5Franz-Josef Röder(1909–1979)23 April 195926 June 1979died in officeCDUIIIIIIIVVVI Deputy Minister-President Werner Klumpp (FDP) served as acting Minister-President from 26 June to 5 July 1979. 6Werner Zeyer(1929–2000)5 July 19799 April 1985CDUIIIIII 7Oskar Lafontaine(born 1943)9 April 198527 October 1998resignedSPDIIIIII Deputy Minister-President Christiane Krajewski (SPD) served as acting minister-president from 27 October to 10 November 1998. 8Reinhard Klimmt(born 1942)10 November 199829 September 1999SPDI 9Peter Müller(born 1955)29 September 19999 August 2011resignedCDUIIIIII Deputy Minister-President Christoph Hartmann (FDP) served as acting minister-president from 9 to 10 August 2011. 10Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer(born 1962)10 August 20111 March 2018resignedCDUIIIIII Deputy Minister-President Anke Rehlinger (SPD) served as acting minister-president from 28 February to 1 March 2018. 11Tobias Hans(born 1978)1 March 201825 April 2022CDUI 12Anke Rehlinger(born 1976)25 April 2022IncumbentSPDI
See also Saarland Politics of Saarland Landtag of Saarland
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