Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein

The Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (German: Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein), also referred to as Premier or Prime Minister, is the head of government of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The position was created, after the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein was founded in 1946 and emerged from the province of the same name, which existed between 1867 and 1946.

Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
Ministerpräsident des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein
Incumbent
Daniel Günther
since 28 June 2017
ResidenceKiel
AppointerLandtag of Schleswig-Holstein
Term lengthPending resignation or the election of a successor
Inaugural holderTheodor Steltzer
Formation23 August 1946
Salaryregulated by legislation
Websitehttps://www.schleswig-holstein.de

The current Minister President is Daniel Günther, heading a coalition government between the CDU, Alliance '90/The Greens and Free Democratic Party. Günther succeeded Torsten Albig following the 2017 state election.

The office of the Minister President is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Kiel, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.

List

Political party:   CDU   SPD

Portrait Name
(Born–Died)		 Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Days
Schleswig-Holstein (1946–1949)
British occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany
1 Theodor Steltzer
(1885–1967)		 12 September 1946 29 April 1947 229 Christian Democratic Union
2 Hermann Lüdemann
(1880–1959)		 29 April 1947 23 May 1949 755 Social Democratic Party
Schleswig-Holstein (1949–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
(2) Hermann Lüdemann
(1880–1959)		 23 May 1949 29 August 1949 98 Social Democratic Party
3 Bruno Diekmann
(1897–1982)		 29 August 1949 5 September 1950 372 Social Democratic Party
4 Walter Bartram
(1893–1971)		 5 September 1950 25 June 1951 293 Christian Democratic Union
5 Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke
(1887–1954)		 25 June 1951 2 October 1954 1195 Christian Democratic Union
6 Kai-Uwe von Hassel
(1913–1997)		 11 October 1954 14 January 1963 3017 Christian Democratic Union
7 Helmut Lemke
(1907–1990)		 14 January 1963 24 May 1971 3052 Christian Democratic Union
8 Gerhard Stoltenberg
(1928–2001)		 24 May 1971 14 October 1982 4161 Christian Democratic Union
9 Uwe Barschel
(1944–1987)		 14 October 1982 2 October 1987
(resigned)		 1814 Christian Democratic Union
– Henning Schwarz
(1928–1993)
Acting		 2 October 1987 31 May 1988 242 Christian Democratic Union
10 Björn Engholm
(born 1939)		 31 May 1988 19 May 1993 1814 Social Democratic Party
11 Heide Simonis
(born 1943)		 19 May 1993 27 April 2005 4361 Social Democratic Party
12 Peter Harry Carstensen
(born 1947)		 27 April 2005 12 June 2012 2603 Christian Democratic Union
13 Torsten Albig
(born 1963)		 12 June 2012 28 June 2017 1842 Social Democratic Party
14 Daniel Günther
(born 1973)		 28 June 2017 Incumbent 1770 Christian Democratic Union

See also
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