List of longest-serving German minister-presidents explained

This is a list of the 30 longest governing minister-presidents of Germany since 1945 by time in office.

Rank	Ministerpräsident	Period in office	Duration (Years/Days)	States of Germany
1		2 December 1976 – 8 December 1988	23 years, 125 days	Rhineland-Palatinate
		5 February 1992 – 5 June 2003		Thuringia
2		9 July 1947 – 19 May 1969	21 years, 314 days	Rhineland-Palatinate
3		30 April 1959 – 26 June 1979	20 years, 57 days	Saarland
4		1 August 1945 – 20 July 1965	19 years, 353 days	Bremen
5		20 September 1978 – 27 May 1998	19 years, 249 days	North Rhine-Westphalia
6		14 December 1950 – 3 October 1969	18 years, 293 days	Hesse
7		26 October 1994 – 16 January 2013	18 years, 82 days	Rhineland-Palatinate
8		28 November 1967 – 18 September 1985	17 years, 294 days	Bremen
9		11 December 1962 – 7 November 1978	15 years, 331 days	Bavaria
10		9 February 1984 – 16 March 1989 24 January 1991 – 16 June 2001	15 years, 178 days	West Berlin Berlin
11		6 February 1976 – 21 June 1990	14 years, 135 days	Lower Saxony
12		28 May 1993 – 9 October 2007	14 years, 134 days	Bavaria
13		22 January 1991 – 21 April 2005	14 years, 89 days	Baden-Württemberg
14	Reiner Haseloff	since 19 April 2011		Saxony-Anhalt
15		9 April 1985 – 10 November 1998	13 years, 215 days	Saarland
16	Winfried Kretschmann	since 12 May 2011		Baden-Württemberg
17		16 June 2001 – 11 December 2014	13 years, 178 days	Berlin
18		30 August 1978 – 22 January 1991	12 years, 145 days	Baden-Württemberg
19		19 May 1993 – 27 April 2005	11 years, 343 days	Schleswig-Holstein
20		29 September 1999 – 10 August 2011	11 years, 315 days	Saarland
21		8 December 1966 – 20 September 1978	11 years, 286 days	North Rhine-Westphalia
22	Stephan Weil	since 19 February 2013		Lower Saxony
23		31 August 2010 – 31 May 2022	11 years, 273 days	Hesse
24		16 December 1966 – 30 August 1978	11 years, 257 days	Baden-Württemberg
25		1 November 1990 – 26 June 2002	11 years, 237 days	Brandenburg
26		16 January 2013 – 10 July 2024	11 years, 176 days	Rhineland-Palatinate
27		27 October 1990 – 18 April 2002	11 years, 173 days	Saxony
28		7 April 1999 – 31 August 2010	11 years, 146 days	Hesse
29		23 August 1946 – 26 May 1955 12 May 1959 – 29 December 1961	11 years, 142 days	Lower Saxony
30		24 May 1971 – 4 October 1982	11 years, 133 days	Schleswig-Holstein