List of minister-presidents of Brandenburg explained

Post:Minister-President
Body:Brandenburg
Native Name:Ministerpräsident des Landes Brandenburg
Insignia:Brandenburg Wappen.svg
Insigniacaption:Coat of arms of Brandenburg
Incumbent:Dietmar Woidke
Incumbentsince:28 August 2013
Residence:Potsdam
Appointer:Landtag of Brandenburg
Termlength:Pending resignation or the election of a successor
Formation:3 October 1990
Salary:regulated by legislation
Inaugural:Manfred Stolpe

The minister-president of Brandenburg is the head of government of the German state of Brandenburg. The office was created in 1990 after the German reunification and the joining of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany. The current and third minister-president is Dietmar Woidke, heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats, the CDU and the Alliance '90/The Greens. Woidke succeeded Matthias Platzeck in August 2013.

The minister-president's seat of government is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei) and is located in the state capital, Potsdam, along with the other cabinet department.

List

Prime ministers of Brandenburg, 1945–1952

After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Brandenburg, which had previously been merely a province of Prussia, re-emerged as a German Land.

Minister-presidents of Brandenburg, since 1990

After being abolished in a reorganization of the territories administered by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Land Brandenburg was restored in the prelude to German unification in 1990.

Political party:

width=80px rowspan=2 colspan=2Portraitwidth=30% rowspan=2Name
(Born–Died)
width=35% colspan=3Term of officewidth=28% rowspan=2Political partywidth=28% rowspan=2Election
Took officeLeft officeDays
State of Brandenburg (1990–present)
bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=8 State of the Federal Republic of Germany
Jochen Wolf
(1941–2022)
as State Commissioner
3 October 1990 1 November 1990Social Democratic Party
1Manfred Stolpe
(1936–2019)
1 November 199026 June 2002
Social Democratic Party1990
1994
1999
2Matthias Platzeck
(born 1953)
26 June 200228 August 2013
Social Democratic Party2004
2009
3Dietmar Woidke
(born 1961)
28 August 2013IncumbentSocial Democratic Party2014
2019

See also