The minister-president of Hesse (), also referred to as the premier or minister-president (also translated into English as the prime minister of Hessen), is the head of government of the German state of Hesse.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery () and is located in the capital of Wiesbaden, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
Historical background The position in its current form was created in 1946, when the provisional state of Greater Hesse was renamed. Greater Hesse had been formed in 1945 after the Second World War from the Prussian Provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau (formed from the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau in 1944) and the People's State of Hesse.
The state of Hesse sees itself in the tradition notably of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the People's State of Hesse (colloquially known as "Hesse-Darmstadt"), having adopted many of its symbols.
List
Grand Duchy of Hesse (1819–1918) Minister-presidents of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1819–1829: Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman 1829–1848: Karl du Thil 1848: Heinrich von Gagern 1848–1850: Heinrich Karl Jaup 1852–1871: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk 1871–1872: Friedrich von Lindelof 1872–1876: Karl von Hofmann 1876–1884: Julius Rinck von Starck 1884–1898: Jacob Finger 1898–1906: Karl Rothe 1906–1918: Christian Wilhelm Karl Ewald
People's State of Hesse (1919–1945) Political party:
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays Presidents of the People's State of HesseCarl Ulrich21 January 191914 February 1928Social Democratic PartyBernhard Adelung14 February 192813 March 1933Social Democratic PartyFerdinand Werner13 March 193320 September 1933National Socialist German Workers' PartyPhilipp Wilhelm Jung20 September 19331 March 1935National Socialist German Workers' PartyJakob Sprenger 4320National Socialist German Workers' Party5 May 1933March 1945 36501 March 1935March 1945
Hesse (1945–present) Minister-President of the State of Hesse Political party:
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyCabinetTook officeLeft officeDays 1Karl Geiler16 October 194520 December 1946IndependentI 2Christian Stock20 December 194614 December 1950SPDI 3Georg-August Zinn14 December 19503 October 1969SPDIIIIIIIVV 4Albert Osswald3 October 196916 October 1976SPDIIIIII 5Holger Börner16 October 197623 April 1987SPDIIIIII 6Walter Wallmann23 April 19875 April 1991CDUI 7Hans Eichel5 April 19917 April 1999SPDIII 8Roland Koch7 April 199931 August 2010CDUIIIIII 9Volker Bouffier31 August 201031 May 2022CDUIIIIII 10Boris Rhein31 May 2022IncumbentCDUIII
See also List of Hessian monarchs
References
External links State Chancellery