Interior Minister of Germany - Definition and Overview

This page lists German State Secretaries and Ministers of the Interior.

See also:

• Minister of the Interior (Germany)
• lists of office-holders
• Interior Minister of Prussia.

Presidents of the Reichschancellery, 1871-1879

• Rudolf Delbrück 1871-1876
• Karl Hofmann 1876-1879

State Secretaries for the Interior, 1879-1918

• Karl Hofmann 1879-1880
• Karl Heinrich von Bötticher 1880-1897
• Count Arthur Adolf von Posadowsky-Wehner 1897-1907
• Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg 1907-1909
• Klemens Delbrück 1909-1916
• Karl Helfferich 1916-1917
• Max Wallraf 1917-1918
• Karl Trimborn 1918

Ministers of the Interior, 1918-1945

• Friedrich Ebert (SPD) 1918-1919
• Hugo Preuß (DDP) 1919
• Eduard David (SPD) 1919
• Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) 1919-1921
• Georg Gradnauer (SPD) 1921
• Adolf Köster (SPD) 1921-1922
• Rudolf Oeser (DDP) 1922-1923
• Wilhelm Sollmann (SPD) 1923
• Karl Jarres(DVP) 1923-1925
• Martin Schiele (DNVP) 1925
• Otto Geßler (DDP) 1925-1926
• Wilhelm Külz (DDP) 1926-1927
• Walter von Keudell (DNVP) 1927-1928
• Carl Severing (SPD) 1928-1930
• Joseph Wirth (Z) 1930-1931
• Wilhelm Groener 1931-1932
• Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl (DNVP) 1932
• Franz Bracht 1932-1933
• Wilhelm Frick (NSDAP) 1933-1943
• Heinrich Himmler (NSDAP) 1943-1945
• Wilhelm Stuckart (NSDAP) 1945

Ministers of the Interior of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990

• Karl Steinhoff (SED) 1949-1952
• Willi Stoph (SED) 1952-1955
• Karl Maron (SED) 1955-1963
• Friedrich Dickel (SED) 1963-1989
• Lothar Ahrendt (SED) 1989-1990
• Peter-Michael Diestel (CDU) 1990

Ministers of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present

• Gustav Heinemann (CDU) 1949-1950
• Robert Lehr (CDU) 1950-1953
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU) 1953-1961
• Hermann Höcherl (CSU) 1961-1965
• Paul Lücke (CDU) 1965-1968
• Ernst Benda (CDU) 1968-1969
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) 1969-1974
• Werner Maihofer (FDP) 1974-1978
• Gerhart Baum (FDP) 1978-1982
• Jürgen Schmude (SPD) 1982
• Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) 1982-1989
• Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) 1989-1991
• Rudolf Seiters (CDU) 1991-1993
• Manfred Kanther (CDU) 1993-1998
• Otto Schily (SPD) 1998-