List of ministers-president of Saxony

This article lists the Leaders of the Government (German: Vorsitzende des Gesamtministeriums) in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and Minister-presidents (German: Ministerpräsidenten) of the Free State of Saxony since 1918.

List of Minister-Presidents

Kingdom of Saxony (until 1918)

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office
Kingdom of Saxony (until 1871)
80px	Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779–1854)	December 1, 1831 – September 1843
80px	Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz (1792–1866)	September 1843 – March 13, 1848
80px	Alexander Karl Hermann Braun (1807–1868)	March 16, 1848 – February 24, 1849
	Gustav Friedrich Held (1804–1857)	February 24, 1849 – May 2, 1849
80px	Ferdinand von Zschinsky (1797–1858)	May 2, 1849 – October 28, 1858
80px	Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–1886)	October 28, 1858 – August 15, 1866
80px	Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882)	October 1866 – 18 January 1871
Kingdom of Saxony (1871–1918)
Part of the German Empire
80px	Johann Paul von Falkenstein (1801–1882)	18 January 1871 – 1 October 1871
80px	Richard Freiherr von Friesen (1808–1884)	October 1, 1871 – November 1, 1876
80px	Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice (1818–1891)	November 1, 1876 – March 25, 1891
80px	Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber (1823–1891)	March 25, 1891 – December 23, 1891
80px	Hans von Thümmel (1824–1895)	December 1891 – February 12, 1895
80px	Heinrich Rudolf Schurig (1835–1901)	February 12, 1895 – June 15, 1901
80px	Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach (1836–1927)	June 15, 1901 – April 30, 1906
80px	Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger (1837–1916)	April 30, 1906 – December 1, 1910
80px	Victor Alexander von Otto (1852–1912)	December 1, 1910 – May 21, 1912
80px	Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen (1846–1922)	July 26, 1912 – May 21, 1914
80px	Heinrich Gustav Beck (1854–1933)	May 21, 1914 – October 26, 1918
80px	Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928)	October 26, 1918 – November 13, 1918

Free State of Saxony (1918–1952)

Political Party:       USPD       SPD / ASPD       DVP       NSDAP       SED

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office	Days
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
	Richard Lipinski (1867–1936)	15 November 1918	21 January 1919		USPD
		Georg Gradnauer (1866–1946)	21 January 1919	4 May 1920		Social Democratic Party
	80px	Wilhelm Buck (1869–1945)	4 May 1920	21 March 1923		Social Democratic Party
	80px	Erich Zeigner (1886–1949)	21 March 1923	29 October 1923		Social Democratic Party
	80px	Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928)	Reichskommissar			German People's Party
			29 October 1923	31 October 1923
		Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973)	31 October 1923	4 January 1924		Social Democratic Party
	80px	Max Heldt (1872–1933)	4 January 1924	26 June 1929		Social Democratic Party (until 1926)
						Old Social Democratic Party (from 1926)
		Wilhelm Bünger (1870–1937)	26 June 1929	18 February 1930		German People's Party
	80px	Walther Schieck (1874–1946)	6 May 1930	30 January 1933		German People's Party
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
	80px	Walther Schieck (1874–1946)	30 January 1933	10 March 1933		German People's Party
	80px	Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (1886–1944)	Reichkomissar			National Socialist German Workers' Party
			10 March 1933	5 May 1933
			Ministerpräsident
			5 May 1933	28 February 1935
	80px	Martin Mutschmann (1879–1947)	Reichsstatthalter			National Socialist German Workers' Party
			5 May 1933	8 May 1945
			Ministerpräsident
			28 February 1935	8 May 1945
Saxony (1945–1949)
Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany
	80px	Rudolf Friedrichs (1892–1947)	1 July 1945	13 June 1947		Social Democratic Party (until 1946)
						Socialist Unity Party (from 1946)
	80px	Max Seydewitz (1892–1987)	31 July 1947	7 October 1949		Socialist Unity Party
Saxony (1949–1952)
State of the German Democratic Republic
	80px	Max Seydewitz (1892–1987)	7 October 1949	23 July 1952		Socialist Unity Party
From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished.

Free State of Saxony (1990–present)

Political Party:       CDU

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office	Days
Saxony (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
–		Rudolf Krause (born 1939) as State Commissioner	3 October 1990	27 October 1990		Christian Democratic Union
1	80px	Kurt Biedenkopf (1930–2021)	27 October 1990	18 April 2002		Christian Democratic Union
2	80px	Georg Milbradt (born 1945)	18 April 2002	28 May 2008		Christian Democratic Union
3		Stanislaw Tillich (born 1959)	28 May 2008	13 December 2017		Christian Democratic Union
4	80px	Michael Kretschmer (born 1975)	13 December 2017	Incumbent		Christian Democratic Union

See also

• List of rulers of Saxony