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

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History of the office

Under the Kingdom of Prussia the Minister President functioned as the chief minister of the King, and presided over the Landtag (the Prussian legislature established in 1848). After the unification of Germany in 1871 and until the collapse in 1918, the office of the Prussian Minister President was usually held by the

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of the

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, beginning with the tenure of

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. Under the Free State of Prussia the Minister President was the head of the state government in a more traditional parliamentary role during the Weimar Republic. The office ceased to have any real meaning except as a kind of political

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title after the takeover by the national government in 1932 ('' Preußenschlag''), and after Nazi Germany dismantled Prussia as a state in 1935 ('' Reichsstatthaltergesetz''). Eventually, the office was abolished along with Prussia itself by the

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after World War II.

Chief Ministers of the Kingdom of Prussia (1702–1848)

*1702–1711: Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg *1711–1728: *1728–1739: Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow *1739–1749: *1749–1753: *1749–1777:

Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein Karl Wilhelm Reichsgraf Finck von Finckenstein (11 February 1714 – 3 January 1800) was a Count of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, a Prussian diplomat, and later Prime Minister of Prussia. Family He was the son of Count Albrec ...

*1777–1802: *1786–1798: *1802–1804: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (1st term) *1804–1806: Count

Karl August von Hardenberg Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg (31 May 1750, in Essenrode-Lehre – 26 November 1822, in Genoa) was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia. While during his late career he acquiesced to reactionary policies, earlier in his career ...

(1st term) *1806: Count Christian Heinrich Kurt von Haugwitz (2nd term) *1806–1807: *1807: Count

(2nd term) *1807–1808: Baron

Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein (25 October 1757 – 29 June 1831), commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms, which paved the way for the unification of Germany. ...

*1808–1810: Count Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten *1810–1822: Prince

(3rd term) *1822–1823: *1823–1841: Count

Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum Carl Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Wylich und Lottum (5 November 1767 – 14 February 1841), also called Graf Lottum ''(Count Lottum)'', was a Prussian infantry general and minister of the State. He was the son of general Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von ...

*1841–1848:

List of Ministers President of Prussia (1848–1945)

Ministers-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1848–1918)

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