This is a list of the people who have served in the capacity of minister-president or equivalent office in the states within the region of Mecklenburg from the 18th century to 1952. The states in question were Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz and unified state of Mecklenburg.
In 1990, with German reunification, the state was re-established as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchy
Prime ministers 1783–1784: Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz 1784–1800: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cölpin 1800–1808: Bernhard Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz 1808–1815: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein
Grand Duchy Prime ministers 1815–1836: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein 1836–1837: Leopold Engelke von Plessen 1837–1840: Christian Friedrich Krüger 1840–1850: Ludwig von Lützow
Presidents of the State Ministry 1850–1858: Hans Adolf Karl Graf von Bülow 1858–1869: Jasper Joachim Bernhard Wilhelm von Oertzen 1869–1885: Henning Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz 1886–1901: Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow 1901–1914: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow 1914–1918: Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm Langfeld
Free State Political party:
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays President of the State MinistryHugo Wendorff9 November 191822 February 1919German Democratic Party Ministers-PresidentHugo Wendorff22 February 191928 July 1920German Democratic PartyHermann Reincke-Bloch28 July 192014 January 1921German People's PartyJohannes Stelling14 January 192118 March 1924Social Democratic Party of GermanyJoachim Freiherr von Brandenstein18 March 19248 July 1926German National People's PartyPaul Schröder8 July 192610 July 1929Social Democratic Party of GermanyKarl Eschenburg10 July 192913 July 1932German National People's PartyWalter Granzow13 July 193210 August 1933National Socialist German Workers' PartyHans Egon Engell10 August 193331 December 1933National Socialist German Workers' PartyFriedrich HildebrandtNational Socialist German Workers' Party26 May 193331 December 1933
Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duchy (1769–1815) Ministers of state (Staatsminister) 1769–1784: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cöpin 1784–1795: Christoph Otto von Gamm 1795–1800: Otto Ulrich von Dewitz 1800–1815: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz
Grand Duchy (1815–1918) 1815–1827: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz 1827–1836: August Otto Ernst Freiherr von Örtzen auf Klokow 1837–1848: Otto Ludwig Christian von Dewitz auf Sallnow 1848–1850: Vacant 1850–1861: August Ludwig Wilhelm von Bernstorff 1862–1868: Bernhard Ernst von Bülow 1868–1872: Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten 1872–1885: Anton von Piper (acting) 1885–1907: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ulrich Karl Helmut von Dewitz 1907–1918: Heinrich Bossart
Free State (1918-1933) Political party:
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays Chairmen of the State MinistryPeter Franz Stubmann11 November 19187 January 1919German Democratic PartyHans Krüger7 January 191913 October 1919Social Democratic Party of Germany Ministers of StateKurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz13 October 19192 August 1923Social Democratic Party of GermanyKarl Schwabe2 August 192313 March 1928German National People's PartyKurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz13 March 192812 April 1929Social Democratic Party of GermanyKurt HäntzschelGerman Democratic Party12 April 192916 April 1929Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz16 April 19294 December 1931Social Democratic Party of GermanyHeinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Michael4 December 193127 May 1933German National People's PartyFritz Stichtenoth27 May 193331 December 1933National Socialist German Workers' PartyFriedrich HildebrandtNational Socialist German Workers' Party26 May 193331 December 1933
Mecklenburg (1933–1952) Nazi Germany (1933–1945) Reichsstatthalter of the State of Mecklenburg PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays Friedrich Hildebrandt1 January 19341 May 1945National Socialist German Workers' Party
Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays Nazi Germany (1933–1945) Hans Egon Engell1 January 193425 October 1934National Socialist German Workers' Party Friedrich Scharf25 October 19341 May 1945National Socialist German Workers' Party
Soviet control / GDR (1945–1952) Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg Political party:
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDays Mecklenburg (1945–1949) Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany 1Wilhelm Höcker(1886–1955)9 December 19467 October 1949 Socialist Unity Party Mecklenburg (1949–1952) State of the German Democratic Republic (1)Wilhelm Höcker(1886–1955)7 October 194920 July 1951 Socialist Unity Party 2Kurt Bürger(1894–1951)20 July 195130 July 1951Socialist Unity Party 3Bernhard Quandt(1903–1999)30 July 195123 July 1952 Socialist Unity Party On 23 July 1952, Mecklenburg was abolished.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present) The minister-president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (), is the head of government of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The position was created in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and the northern part of Potsdam were merged into the new federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the borders was redrawn.
The current and first female minister-president is Manuela Schwesig, since 2021 heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and The Left.SPD und Linke unterzeichnen Koalitionsvertrag. 13 November 2021 Schwesig succeeded Erwin Sellering in July 2017.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery (), and is located in the capital of Schwerin, along with the rest of the cabinet departments. Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Political party:
PortraitName(Born–Died)Term of officePolitical partyCabinetTook officeLeft officeDays In accordance with the Unification Treaty, the designated state representative Martin Brick (CDU) served as head of government from 3 to 27 October 1990. 1Alfred Gomolka(1942–2020)27 October 199019 March 1992resignedCDU I 2Berndt Seite(born 1940)19 March 19923 November 1998CDU III 3Harald Ringstorff(1939–2020)3 November 19986 October 2008resignedSPDIIIIII 4Erwin Sellering(born 1949)6 October 20084 July 2017resignedSPDIIIIII 5Manuela Schwesig(born 1974)4 July 2017IncumbentSPDIII
References
External links Worldstatesmen.org – Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg