The minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate (), is the head of government of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The position was created in 1946, through the unification of the southern part of the Prussian Rhine Province, the Bavarian administrative district Circle of the Rhine and western parts of Hesse like Rheinhessen to form the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The current minister-president is Alexander Schweitzer, heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats, Greens and the FDP. Schweitzer succeeded Malu Dreyer in 2024.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery () and is located in the capital of Mainz, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
List Political party:
PortraitName(Born–Died)Term of officePolitical partyCabinetTook officeLeft officeDays 1 Wilhelm Boden(1890–1961)1 December 19469 July 1947CDUIII 2Peter Altmeier(1899–1977)9 July 1947 19 May 1969CDUIIIIIIIVVVI 3Helmut Kohl(1930–2017)19 May 19692 December 1976resignedCDUIIIIII 4Bernhard Vogel(1932–2025)2 December 19768 December 1988resignedCDUIIIIIIIV 5Carl-Ludwig Wagner(1930–2012)8 December 198821 May 1991CDUI 6Rudolf Scharping(born 1947)21 May 199126 October 1994resignedelected to the BundestagSPDI 7Kurt Beck(born 1949)26 October 199416 January 2013resignedSPDIIIIIIIVV 8Malu Dreyer(born 1961)16 January 201310 July 2024SPDIIIIII 9 Alexander Schweitzer(born 1973) 10 July 2024 18 May 2026 SPDI 10 Gordon Schnieder(born 1975) 18 May 2026 Incumbent CDUI
See also Rhineland-Palatinate Politics of Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate