This article lists foreign ministers of Prussia.
After the creation of the German Empire in 1871, the Imperial Chancellor was normally also Foreign Minister of Prussia. However, during the chancellorship of Prince Hohenlohe (1894–1900), the position was held by the State Secretaries for Foreign Affairs.
Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
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Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg | 1768 | 1791 | |||
August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz | 1808 | 1814 | |||
Karl August von Hardenberg | 1814 | 1818 | |||
Christian Günther von Bernstorff | 1818 | 1832 | |||
Friedrich Ancillon | 1832 | 1837 | |||
Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther | 1837 | 1841 | |||
Mortimer von Maltzahn | 1841 | 1842 | |||
Heinrich von Bülow | 1842 | 1845 | |||
Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz | 1845 | March 1848 | |||
Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg | 19 March 1848 | 21 March 1848 | Government instability brought on by German revolutions of 1848–1849 | ||
Heinrich Alexander von Arnim | 21 March 1848 | 19 June 1848 | |||
Alexander von Schleinitz | 19 June 1848 | 25 June 1848 | First term | ||
Rudolf von Auerswald | 25 June 1848 | 21 September 1848 | |||
August Hermann von Dönhoff | 21 September 1848 | 8 November 1848 | |||
Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg | 8 November 1848 | 4 December 1848 | First term | ||
Hans Adolf Karl von Bülow (1807-1869) | 4 December 1848 | 24 February 1849 | |||
Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow | 24 February 1849 | 30 April 1849 | |||
Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg | 30 April 1849 | 21 July 1849 | Second term | ||
Alexander von Schleinitz | 21 July 1849 | 1850 | Second term | ||
Joseph von Radowitz | 1850 | 1850 | |||
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel | 1850 | 1858 | |||
Alexander von Schleinitz | 1858 | 1861 | Third term | ||
Albrecht von Bernstorff | 1861 | 1862 | |||
Otto von Bismarck | 1862 | 1890 | [1] | ||
1890 | 1890 | [2] | |||
Leo von Caprivi | 1890 | 1894 | |||
Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein | 1894 | 1897 | |||
Bernhard von Bülow | 1897 | 1909 | |||
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg | 1909 | 1917 | |||
Georg Michaelis | 1917 | 1917 | |||
Georg von Hertling | 1917 | 1918 | |||
Max von Baden | 1918 | 1918 | [3] [4] |