List of German interior ministers

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-