List of ministers-president of Mecklenburg

This is a list of the men 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:   DDP   DVP   SPD   DNVP   NSDAP

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
President of the State Ministry
Hugo Wendorff
(1864–1945)		 9 November 1918 22 February 1919 105 German Democratic Party
Ministers-President
Hugo Wendorff
(1864–1945)		 22 February 1919 28 July 1920 522 German Democratic Party
Hermann Reincke-Bloch
(1867–1928)		 28 July 1920 14 January 1921 170 German People's Party
Johannes Stelling
(1877–1933)		 14 January 1921 18 March 1924 1159 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Joachim Freiherr von Brandenstein
(1864–1941)		 18 March 1924 8 July 1926 842 German National People's Party
Paul Schröder
(1875–1932)		 8 July 1926 10 July 1929 1098 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Karl Eschenburg
(1877–1943)		 10 July 1929 13 July 1932 1099 German National People's Party
Walter Granzow
(1887–1952)		 13 July 1932 10 August 1933 393 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Hans Egon Engell
(1897–1974)		 10 August 1933 31 December 1933 143 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Friedrich Hildebrandt
(1898–1948)		 Reichsstatthalter 219 National Socialist German Workers' Party
26 May 1933 31 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:   DDP   SPD   DNVP   NSDAP

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
Chairmen of the State Ministry
Peter Franz Stubmann
(1876–1962)		 11 November 1918 7 January 1919 67 German Democratic Party
Hans Krüger
(1884–1933)		 7 January 1919 13 October 1919 279 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Ministers of State
Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
(1877–1937)
1st term		 13 October 1919 2 August 1923 1389 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Karl Schwabe
(1877–1938)		 2 August 1923 13 March 1928 1685 German National People's Party
Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
(1877–1937)
2nd term		 13 March 1928 12 April 1929 395 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Kurt Häntzschel
(1889–1941)		 Reichskommissar 4 German Democratic Party
12 April 1929 16 April 1929
Kurt Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
(1877–1937)
3rd term		 16 April 1929 4 December 1931 962 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Michael
(1888–1942)		 4 December 1931 27 May 1933 540 German National People's Party
Fritz Stichtenoth
(1895–1935)		 27 May 1933 31 December 1933 218 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Friedrich Hildebrandt
(1898–1948)		 Reichsstatthalter 219 National Socialist German Workers' Party
26 May 1933 31 December 1933

Mecklenburg (1933–1952)

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
Reichsstatthalter of the State of Mecklenburg
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
Friedrich Hildebrandt
(1898–1948)
as Reichsstatthalter		 1 January 1934 1 May 1945 4138 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
Hans Egon Engell
(1897–1974)		 1 January 1934 25 October 1934 297 National Socialist German Workers' Party
Friedrich Scharf
(1897–1974)		 25 October 1934 1 May 1945 3841 National Socialist German Workers' Party

Soviet control / GDR (1945–1952)
Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg

Political party:   SED

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
Mecklenburg (1945–1949)
Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany
1 Wilhelm Höcker
(1886–1955)		 9 December 1946 7 October 1949 1035 Socialist Unity Party
Mecklenburg (1949–1952)
State of the German Democratic Republic
(1) Wilhelm Höcker
(1886–1955)		 9 December 1946 20 July 1951 588 Socialist Unity Party
2 Kurt Bürger
(1894–1951)		 20 July 1951 30 July 1951 10 Socialist Unity Party
3 Bernhard Quandt
(1903–1999)		 30 July 1951 23 July 1952 359 Socialist Unity Party
On 23 July 1952, Mecklenburg was abolished.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present)

The Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German: Ministerpräsidentin des Landes 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.[1] Schwesig succeeded Erwin Sellering in July 2017.

The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Schwerin, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.

Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Political party:   CDU   SPD

Portrait Name
(Born–Died)		 Term Party
Took office Left office Days
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
– Martin Brick
(born 1939)
as State Commissioner		 3 October 1990 27 October 1990 24 Christian Democratic Union
1 Alfred Gomolka
(1942–2020)		 27 October 1990 19 March 1992
(resigned)		 509 Christian Democratic Union
2 Berndt Seite
(born 1940)		 19 March 1992 3 November 1998 2420 Christian Democratic Union
3 Harald Ringstorff
(1939–2020)		 3 November 1998 6 October 2008
(resigned)		 3625 Social Democratic Party
4 Erwin Sellering
(born 1949)		 6 October 2008 4 July 2017
(resigned)		 3193 Social Democratic Party
5 Manuela Schwesig
(born 1974)		 4 July 2017 Incumbent 2306 Social Democratic Party

References
  1. SPD und Linke unterzeichnen Koalitionsvertrag. 13 November 2021
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