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Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
. After the creation of the German Empire in 1871, the Imperial Chancellor was normally also Foreign Minister of Prussia. However, during the chancellorship of Prince Hohenlohe (1894–1900), the position was held by the State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs.


Prussian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, 1768–1918

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Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg Ewald Friedrich Graf von Hertzberg (2 September 172522 May 1795) was a Prussian statesman. Early life Hertzberg, who came of a noble family which had been settled in Pomerania since the 13th century, was born at Lottin (present-day Lotyń, a p ...
1768–1791 * Count August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz 1808–1814 * Prince Karl August von Hardenberg 1814–1818 * Count Christian Günther Bernstorff 1818–1832 *
Friedrich Ancillon Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon (30 April 1767 – 19 April 1837) was a Prussian historian and statesman. He provided Frederick William III of Prussia with strong ideological support against political reforms that might restrain monarchical p ...
1832–1837 * Baron Heinrich Wilhelm Werther 1837–1841 * Count Mortimer Maltzan 1841–1842 * Baron Heinrich von Bülow 1842–1845 *
Baron Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz Count Adolf Heinrich Arnim-Boitzenburg Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (10 April 1803 – 8 January 1868) was a German statesman. He served as the first Minister-President of Prussia for ten days during the Revolution of 1848. Biography Arnim was born in the Prussian cap ...
19 – 21 March 1848 *
Baron Heinrich Alexander von Arnim Heinrich Alexander (from 1841 ''Freiherr'') von Arnim(-Suckow) (born 13 February 1798 in Berlin; died 5 January 1861 in Düsseldorf) was a Prussian statesman. Arnim received his education in the ''Pädagogium'' in Halle, then in 1814 joined the ...
21 March – 20 June 1848 *
Baron Alexander von Schleinitz Alexander Gustav Adolf Graf von Schleinitz (born 29 December 1807 in Blankenburg am Harz; died 19 February 1885 in Berlin) was the Foreign Minister of Prussia from 1858 to 1861 and minister for the royal household from late 1861 to his death. Li ...
20 – 27 June 1848 *
Rudolf von Auerswald Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (1 September 1795 – 15 January 1866) was a German official who served as Prime Minister of Prussia during the Revolution of 1848. Later, during the ministry of Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern, he le ...
27 June – 7 September 1848 *
August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff (10 October 1797 in Potsdam - 1 April 1874 at Schloss Friedrichstein ( East Prussia)) was a Prussian diplomat. Dönhoff participated as a volunteer in the campaign of 1815, studied in Königsberg, Göttingen ...
7 September – 2 November 1848 * Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 20 November – December 1848 * December 1848 – 23 February 1849 *
Count Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow (born 23 September 1791 in Werbelow/Uckermark; died 18 April 1859 in Berlin) was a Prussian statesman. Arnim participated in the War of the Sixth Coalition and then embarked on a diplomatic caree ...
24 February – 3 May 1849 * Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 3 May – July 1849 *
Baron Alexander von Schleinitz Alexander Gustav Adolf Graf von Schleinitz (born 29 December 1807 in Blankenburg am Harz; died 19 February 1885 in Berlin) was the Foreign Minister of Prussia from 1858 to 1861 and minister for the royal household from late 1861 to his death. Li ...
3 July 1849 – 26 September 1850 *
Joseph von Radowitz Joseph Maria Ernst Christian Wilhelm von Radowitz (6 February 1797 – 25 December 1853) was a conservative Prussian statesman and general famous for his proposal to unify Germany under Prussian leadership by means of a negotiated agreemen ...
26 September – 2 November 1850 * Baron Otto Theodor von Manteuffel 2 November 1850 – 5 September 1858 *
Baron Alexander von Schleinitz Alexander Gustav Adolf Graf von Schleinitz (born 29 December 1807 in Blankenburg am Harz; died 19 February 1885 in Berlin) was the Foreign Minister of Prussia from 1858 to 1861 and minister for the royal household from late 1861 to his death. Li ...
5 September 1858 – 12 July 1861 *
Count Albrecht von Bernstorff Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (22 March 1809 – 26 March 1873) was a Prussian statesman. Early life Bernstorff was born at the estate Dreilützow (now in the municipality of Wittendörp), in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was a so ...
10 October 1861 – 8 October 1862 * Prince Otto von Bismarck 23 November 1862 – 20 March 1890 * Count Leo von Caprivi 20 March 1890 – 29 October 1894 *
Baron Adolf Hermann Marschall von Bieberstein Adolf Hermann Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein (12 October 1842 in Karlsruhe – 24 September 1912 in Badenweiler) was a German politician and State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the German Empire. Biography Marschall von Bieberstein's ...
29 October 1894 – 19 October 1897 * Prince Bernhard von Bülow 19 October 1897 – 10 July 1909 *
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (29 November 1856 – 1 January 1921) was a German politician who was the chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry into World War I. According to biog ...
14 July 1909 – 13 July 1917 *
Georg Michaelis Georg Michaelis (8 September 1857 – 24 July 1936) was the chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917. He was the first (and the only one of the German Empire) chancellor not of noble birth to hold the office. With an economic ba ...
16 July – 2 December 1917 * Count Georg von Hertling 2 December 1917 – 3 October 1918 *
Prince Maximilian of Baden Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (''Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm''; 10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929),Almanach de Gotha. ''Haus Baden (Maison de Bade)''. Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1944, p. 18, (French). also known as Max von Baden, was a Ge ...
3 October – 9 November 1918


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Minister President of Prussia The office of Minister-President (german: Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed from 1848, when it was formed by King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the All ...
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Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
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