This article lists German Postal Ministers. See also lists of incumbents.
State Secretaries for the Post, 1880–1918 Heinrich von Stephan 1880–1897 Viktor von Podbielski 1897–1901 Reinhold Kraetke 1901–1917 Otto Rüdlin 1917–1918
Ministers of Post, 1918–1945 Portrait Name Term of office Political party Government Took office Left office Time in office
West and East Germany, 1949–1997 Federal Ministers of Post and Teleommunications of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1997 Hans Schuberth 1949–1953 Siegfried Balke 1953–1956 Ernst Lemmer 1956–1957 Richard Stücklen 1957–1966 Werner Dollinger 1966–1969 Georg Leber 1969–1972 Lauritz Lauritzen 1972 Horst Ehmke 1972–1974 Kurt Gscheidle 1974–1982 Hans Matthöfer 1982 Christian Schwarz-Schilling 1982–1992 Wolfgang Bötsch 1993–1997
The ministry was abolished at the end of 1997. Minister of Post and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic, 1949–1991 Friedrich Burmeister: 7 October 194913 November 1963 (CDU) Rudolph Schulze: 14 November 19637 November 1989 (CDU) Klaus Wolf: 18 November 198912 April 1990 (CDU) Emil Schnell: 12 April 199020 August 1990 (SPD) Hans-Jürgen Niehof: 20 August 19902 October 1990 (FDP)
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