The Minister-President of Thuringia, officially the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia (german: Ministerpräsident des Freistaats Thüringen), is the

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of the

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Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

. The position was re-established in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

Suhl Suhl () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located SW of Erfurt, NE of Würzburg and N of Nuremberg. With its 37,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest of the six urban districts within Thuringia. Together with its northern neighbour-town Zella- ...

Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...

and some adjacent areas of the Halle were incorporated into the new and re-established federal state of ''Thuringia''. The current Minister-President is

Bodo Ramelow Bodo Ramelow (; born 16 February 1956) is a German politician who has served since 4 March 2020 as Minister-President of Thuringia, an office he previously held from 2014 to 5 February 2020. He is the first head of a German state government to ...

, heading a

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between The Left,

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and the

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. Ramelow succeeded

Thomas Kemmerich Thomas Karl Leonard Kemmerich (born 20 February 1965) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as the Minister President of Thuringia from 5 February to 4 March 2020. With a tenure of only 28 days, he was both the sho ...

in March 2020. Ramelow previously served as Minister-President from 5 December 2014 to 5 February 2020. The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (german: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of

, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.

Title

The German title ''Ministerpräsident'' may be translated literally as

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, although the state government sometimes uses the title ''Prime Minister'' in English.Premier of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
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List

; Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia Political Party:

References

{{PMs of the German states

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Thuringia Minister-President