This article lists the leaders of the Government (German: Vorsitzende des Gesamtministeriums) in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1831 to 1918 and minister-presidents (German: Ministerpräsidenten) of the Free State of Saxony since 1918.
Political party:
| width=80px rowspan=2 colspan=2 | Portrait | width=30% rowspan=2 | Name | width=35% colspan=3 | Term of office | width=28% rowspan=2 | Political party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| Kingdom of Saxony (until 1871) | |||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=7 | Independent member state of the German Confederation and the North German Confederation. | ||||||
| Bernhard August von Lindenau | 1 December 1831 | September 1843 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Julius Traugott Jakob von Könneritz | September 1843 | 13 March 1848 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Alexander Karl Hermann Braun | 16 March 1848 | 24 February 1849 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Gustav Friedrich Held | 24 February 1849 | 2 May 1849 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Ferdinand von Zschinsky | 2 May 1849 | 28 October 1858 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust | 28 October 1858 | 15 August 1866 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Johann Paul von Falkenstein | October 1866 | 18 January 1871 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Kingdom of Saxony (1871–1918) | |||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=7 | State of the German Reich during the period of the German Empire. | ||||||
| Johann Paul von Falkenstein | 18 January 1871 | 1 October 1871 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Richard Freiherr von Friesen | 1 October 1871 | 1 November 1876 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice | 1 November 1876 | 25 March 1891 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerber | 25 March 1891 | 23 December 1891 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Hans von Thümmel | December 1891 | 12 February 1895 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Heinrich Rudolf Schurig | 12 February 1895 | 15 June 1901 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Karl Georg Levin von Metzsch-Reichenbach | 15 June 1901 | 30 April 1906 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Konrad Wilhelm von Rüger | 30 April 1906 | 1 December 1910 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Victor Alexander von Otto | 1 December 1910 | 21 May 1912 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen | 26 July 1912 | 21 May 1914 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Heinrich Gustav Beck | 21 May 1914 | 26 October 1918 | Non-partisan | ||||
| Rudolf Heinze | 26 October 1918 | 13 November 1918 | German People's Party | ||||
Political party:
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Landtag | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| Free State of Saxony (1918–1933) | |||||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=9 | State of the German Reich during the period of the Weimar Republic. | ||||||||
| Richard Lipinski | 15 November 1918 | 21 January 1919 | Independent Social Democratic Party | – | |||||
| Georg Gradnauer | 21 January 1919 | 4 May 1920 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
| Wilhelm Buck | 4 May 1920 | 21 March 1923 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
| Erich Zeigner | 21 March 1923 | 29 October 1923 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
| Rudolf Heinze | German People's Party | – | |||||||
| 29 October 1923 | 31 October 1923 | ||||||||
| Alfred Fellisch | 31 October 1923 | 4 January 1924 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
| Max Heldt | 4 January 1924 | 26 June 1929 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
Non-partisan | |||||||||
Old Social Democratic Party | |||||||||
| Wilhelm Bünger | 26 June 1929 | 18 February 1930 | German People's Party | ||||||
| Walther Schieck | 6 May 1930 | 30 January 1933 | German People's Party | ||||||
| Free State of Saxony (1933–1945) | |||||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=7 | State of the German Reich during the period of Nazi Germany. | ||||||||
| Walther Schieck | 30 January 1933 | 10 March 1933 | German People's Party | ||||||
| Manfred Freiherr von Killinger | Nazi Party | – | |||||||
| 10 March 1933 | 5 May 1933 | ||||||||
| 5 May 1933 | 28 February 1935 | ||||||||
| Martin Mutschmann | Nazi Party | – | |||||||
| 5 May 1933 | 8 May 1945 | ||||||||
| 28 February 1935 | 8 May 1945 | ||||||||
| Saxony (1945–1949) | |||||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=9 | Soviet occupation zone of Germany | ||||||||
| Rudolf Friedrichs | 1 July 1945 | 13 June 1947 | Social Democratic Party | ||||||
Socialist Unity Party | |||||||||
| Max Seydewitz | 31 July 1947 | 7 October 1949 | Socialist Unity Party | ||||||
| Saxony (1949–1952) | |||||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=9 | State of the German Democratic Republic (1949–1952) | ||||||||
| Max Seydewitz | 7 October 1949 | 23 July 1952 | Socialist Unity Party | ||||||
| From 23 July 1952 until 3 October 1990, Free State of Saxony was abolished. | |||||||||
Political party:
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Landtag | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| Saxony (1990–present) | ||||||||
| bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=9 | State of the Federal Republic of Germany | |||||||
| – | Rudolf Krause as State Commissioner | 3 October 1990 | 27 October 1990 | – | – | |||
| 1 | Kurt Biedenkopf | 27 October 1990 | 18 April 2002 | |||||
| 2 | Georg Milbradt | 18 April 2002 | 28 May 2008 | |||||
| 3 | Stanislaw Tillich | 28 May 2008 | 13 December 2017 | |||||
| 4 | Michael Kretschmer | 13 December 2017 | Incumbent | |||||