List of minister-presidents of Bavaria

Template:Short description Template:Infobox official post Template:Politics of Bavaria Below is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of minister-president or equivalent office in the German state of Bavaria from the 17th century to the present.

Privy Council chancellor

Privy Council chancellors (Geheime Ratskanzler) were:

Portrait		Name Template:Small	Term of office			Note
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis - bayerischer Kanzler.jpg	Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis Template:Small	1650	11 May 1662	12 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:No image.svg	Johann Georg Oexle Template:Small	11 May 1662	1667	c. 5 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:No image.svg	Kaspar von Schmid Template:Small	1667	3 September 1693	c. 26 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:No image.svg	Johann Rudolf von Wämpl Template:Small	1695	9 December 1704	c. 9 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:Spätt after Vivien - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl.png	Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl Template:Small	3 March 1726	6 March 1749	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:No image.svg	Franz Xaver Andreas von Praidlohn Template:Small	7 March 1749	20 September 1758	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:Wiguläus-Kreittmayr-2.jpg	Wiguläus von Kreittmayr Template:Small	20 September 1758	21 October 1790	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" |	File:No image.svg	Johann Friedrich von Hertling Template:Small	21 October 1790	13 February 1806	Template:Ayd

Ministers of foreign affairs

Before 1849, Bavaria had no actual head of government, but the minister of foreign affairs was the most senior of the ministers. In 1806, the office was given to the minister of the Royal House and of foreign affairs.

Portrait		Name Template:Small	Term of office			Note
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Electorate of Bavaria (until 1805)
Part of the Holy Roman Empire
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 1	File:No image.svg	Maximilian Franz Joseph von Berchem Template:Small	1745	18 November 1777	c. 32 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 2	File:No image.svg	Matthäus von Vieregg Template:Small	18 November 1777	21 February 1799	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 3	File:Maximilian von Montgelas (1806).jpg	Maximilian Graf von Montgelas Template:Small	21 February 1799	26 December 1805	Template:Ayd
Kingdom of Bavaria (1805–1918)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 3	File:Maximilian von Montgelas (1806).jpg	Maximilian Graf von Montgelas Template:Small	26 December 1805	2 February 1817	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 4	File:Litho - Portrait des Heinrich von Reigersberg.jpg	Heinrich Alois von Reigersberg Template:Small	2 February 1817	1823	c. 5 years
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 5	File:No image.svg	Aloys Graf von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen Template:Small	2 Februar 1817	13 Oktober 1825	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 6	File:No image.svg	Friedrich Karl von Thürheim Template:Small	1 Januar 1827	28 April 1827	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 7	File:Georg Friedrich von Zentner.jpg	Georg Friedrich von Zentner Template:Small	28 April 1827	1 September 1828	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 8	File:Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg.jpg	Josef Ludwig von Armansperg Template:Small	1 September 1828	31 December 1831	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 9	File:Gise.JPG	Friedrich August von Gise Template:Small	2 January 1832	26 May 1846	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 10	File:Bray-Steinburg.jpg	Template:Small Otto von Bray-Steinburg Template:Small	26 May 1846	13 February 1847	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 11	File:Georg Ludwig von Maurer (1836).jpg	Georg Ludwig von Maurer Template:Small	1 March 1847	29 November 1847	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 12	File:LodewijkOettingen.jpg	Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein Template:Small	1 December 1847	12 March 1848	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 13	File:No image.svg	Klemens August Graf von Waldkirch Template:Small	14 March 1848	29 April 1848	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 14	File:Bray-Steinburg.jpg	Template:Small Otto von Bray-Steinburg Template:Small	29 April 1848	18 April 1849	Template:Ayd

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

The office of Chairman of the Council of Ministers was established in 1849. With one exception (1880–1890), the chairman was always the foreign minister.

Portrait		Name Template:Small	Term of office			Political party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 15/1	File:Ludwig Freiherr von der Pfordten.jpg	Template:Small Ludwig von der Pfordten Template:Small	22 December 1849	1 May 1859	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 16/2	File:Karl von Schrenck von Notzing - bayerischer Politiker.jpg	Karl von Schrenck von Notzing Template:Small	1 May 1859	4 October 1864	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 17/3	File:Max von Neumayr 1861.jpg	Max von Neumayr Template:Small	4 October 1864	4 December 1864	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 18/4	File:Ludwig Freiherr von der Pfordten.jpg	Template:Small Ludwig von der Pfordten Template:Small	4 December 1864	29 December 1866	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 19/5	File:Hohenlohe-schillingsfürst1867.jpg	Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Template:Small	31 December 1866	7 March 1870	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 20/6	File:Bray-Steinburg.jpg	Template:Small Otto von Bray-Steinburg Template:Small	8 March 1870	18 January 1871	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
Kingdom of Bavaria (1871–1918)
State of the German Reich during the period of the German Empire.
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | (20/6)	File:Bray-Steinburg.jpg	Template:Small Otto von Bray-Steinburg Template:Small	18 January 1871	25 June 1871	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 21/7	File:Von Hegnenberg-Dux, Friedrich (1810-1872); Beierse staatsminister, Felixarchief, 12 12853.jpg	Friedrich von Hegnenberg-Dux Template:Small	21 August 1871	2 June 1872	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 22/8	File:Ministerpräsident Pfretzschner JS.jpg	Adolph von Pfretzschner Template:Small	1 October 1872	4 March 1880	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 9	File:Johann v Lutz (IZ 57-1871 S 281 HScherenberg).jpg	Johann von Lutz Template:Small	4 March 1880	1 June 1890	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 23/10	File:Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim1.jpg	Friedrich Krafft Graf von Crailsheim Template:Small	1 June 1890	1 March 1903	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 24/11	File:Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz1.jpg	Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz Template:Small	1 March 1903	9 February 1912	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 25/12	File:Georg von Hertling, 1908.jpg	Georg von Hertling Template:Small	9 February 1912	10 November 1917	Template:Ayd	Centre Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;" | 26/13	File:Otto von Dandl.jpg	Otto Ritter von Dandl Template:Small	11 November 1917	7 November 1918	Template:Ayd	Non-partisan

Minister-presidents

Free State of Bavaria (1918–1945)

Minister-President of the Free State of Bavaria

Political party: Template:Legend2 Template:Legend2 Template:Legend2 Template:Legend2 Template:Legend2

Portrait		Name Template:Small	Term of office			Political party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Free State of Bavaria (1918–1945)
State of the German Reich during the period of the Weimar Republic.
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 1	File:KurtEisner.jpg	Kurt Eisner Template:Small	8 November 1918	21 February 1919 †	Template:Ayd	Independent Social Democratic Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | –	File:Martin Segitz.jpg	Martin Segitz Template:Small	1 March 1919	17 March 1919	Template:Ayd	Social Democratic Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 2	File:Hoffmann Johannes 1919.jpg	Johannes Hoffmann Template:Small	17 March 1919	16 March 1920	Template:Ayd	Social Democratic Party
style="background:Template:Party color;" | 3	File:Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1920).jpg	Gustav Ritter von Kahr Template:Small	16 March 1920	21 September 1921	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
style="background:Template:Party color;" | 4	File:Count Lerchenfeld-Kofering LCCN2014717179.jpg	Hugo Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering Template:Small	21 September 1921	8 November 1922	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
style="background:Template:Party color;" | 5	File:Eugen von Knilling.jpg	Eugen Ritter von Knilling Template:Small	8 November 1922	1 July 1924	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
style="background:Template:Party color;" | –	File:Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1920).jpg	Gustav Ritter von Kahr Template:Small	25 September 1923	17 February 1924	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
style="background:Template:Party color;" | 6	File:Heinrich held 102 01176crop (cropped).png	Heinrich Held Template:Small	2 July 1924	30 January 1933	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
State of the German Reich during the period of Nazi Germany.
style="background:Template:Party color;" | (6)	File:Heinrich held 102 01176crop (cropped).png	Heinrich Held Template:Small	30 January 1933	9 March 1933	Template:Ayd	Bavarian People's Party
rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 7	File:Franz Ritter von Epp 1937 (cropped).jpg	Franz Ritter von Epp Template:Small	Template:Small		Template:Ayd	Nazi Party
10 March 1933			10 April 1933
Template:Small			Template:Ayd
10 April 1933	29 April 1945
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 8	File:Ludwig Siebert at desk.jpg	Ludwig Siebert Template:Small	12 April 1933	1 November 1942 †	Template:Ayd	Nazi Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 9	File:Paul Giesler.jpg	Paul Giesler Template:Small	2 November 1942	29 April 1945	Template:Ayd	Nazi Party

Free State of Bavaria (1945–present)

Minister-President of Free State of Bavaria

Political party: Template:Legend2 Template:Legend2

Portrait		Name Template:Small	Term of office			Political party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Free State of Bavaria (1945–present)
American-occupied zone of Germany (1945–1949)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 23 May 1949)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 1	File:KAS-Schäffer, Fritz-Bild-395-1 (cropped).jpg	Fritz Schäffer Template:Small	28 May 1945	28 September 1945	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;" | 2	File:Wilhelm Hoegner.jpg	Wilhelm Hoegner Template:Small	28 September 1945	16 December 1946	Template:Ayd	Social Democratic Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 3	File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F011950-0010, Hans Ehard cropped.jpg	Hans Ehard Template:Small	21 December 1946	14 December 1954	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 4 Template:Small	File:Wilhelm Hoegner.jpg	Wilhelm Hoegner Template:Small	14 December 1954	8 October 1957 Template:Small	Template:Ayd	Social Democratic Party
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 5	File:Hanns Seidel.jpg	Hanns Seidel Template:Small	16 October 1957	22 January 1960 Template:Small	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 6 Template:Small	File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F011950-0010, Hans Ehard cropped.jpg	Hans Ehard Template:Small	26 January 1960	11 December 1962	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 7	File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F014898-0006, Alfons Goppel.jpg	Alfons Goppel Template:Small	11 December 1962	6 November 1978	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 8	File:Franz Josef Strauß 1982.jpg	Franz Josef Strauss Template:Small	6 November 1978	3 October 1988 †	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 9	File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F083104-0015, München, CSU-Parteitag, Streibl (cropped).jpg	Max Streibl Template:Small	19 October 1988	27 May 1993 Template:Small	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 10	File:DrEdmundStoiber.jpg	Edmund Stoiber Template:Small	28 May 1993	30 September 2007 Template:Small	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 11	File:8035ri-Guenther Beckstein.jpg	Günther Beckstein Template:Small	9 October 2007	27 October 2008	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 12	File:12-07-17-landtagsprojekt-bayern-RalfR-001.jpg	Horst Seehofer Template:Small	27 October 2008	13 March 2018 Template:Small	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" | 13	File:Markus Soeder (cropped).jpg	Markus Söder Template:Small	16 March 2018	Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Christian Social Union

Timeline since 1918

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  from: 01/03/1919 till: 17/03/1919 color: SPD   text:"Martin Segitz (acting)"
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  from: 17/03/1919 till: 16/03/1920 color: SPD   text:"Johannes Hoffmann"
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  from: 16/03/1920 till: 21/09/1921 color: None 
  from: 25/09/1923 till: 17/02/1924 color: None  text:"Gustav Ritter von Kahr"
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  from: 21/09/1921 till: 08/11/1922 color: BVP   text:"Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering"
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  from: 08/11/1922 till: 01/07/1924 color: BVP   text:"Eugen Ritter von Knilling"
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  from: 02/07/1924 till: 09/03/1933 color: BVP   text:"Heinrich Held"
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  from: 10/03/1933 till: 10/04/1933 color: NSDAP
  from: 10/04/1933 till: 29/04/1945 color: NSDAP text:"Franz Ritter von Epp"
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  from: 12/04/1933 till: 01/11/1942 color: NSDAP text:"Ludwig Siebert"
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  from: 02/11/1942 till: 29/04/1945 color: NSDAP text:"Paul Giesler"
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  from: 29/04/1945 till: 28/09/1945 color: CSU   text:"Fritz Schäffer"
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  from: 28/09/1945 till: 16/12/1946 color: SPD 
  from: 14/12/1954 till: 08/10/1957 color: SPD   text:"Wilhelm Hoegner"
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  from: 21/12/1946 till: 14/12/1954 color: CSU 
  from: 26/01/1960 till: 11/12/1962 color: CSU   text:"Hans Ehard"
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  from: 16/10/1957 till: 22/01/1960 color: CSU   text:"Hanns Seidel"
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  from: 11/12/1962 till: 06/11/1978 color: CSU   text:"Alfons Goppel"
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  from: 06/11/1978 till: 03/10/1988 color: CSU   text:"Franz Josef Strauss"
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  from: 19/10/1988 till: 27/05/1993 color: CSU   text:"Max Streibl"
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  from: 28/05/1993 till: 30/09/2007 color: CSU   text:"Edmund Stoiber"
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  from: 09/10/2007 till: 27/10/2008 color: CSU   text:"Günther Beckstein"
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  from: 27/10/2008 till: 13/03/2018 color: CSU   text:"Horst Seehofer"
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  from: 16/03/2018 till: end        color: CSU   text:"Markus Söder"

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See also

• List of Bavarian monarchs

External links

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