List of longest-governing German Ministers-President

This is a list of the 30 longest governing Ministers-Presidents of Germany since 1945 by time in office. Where the person in question is still governing, the time is calculated up to 24 June 2016.

Rank Ministerpräsident Period in office Duration (Years/Days) States of Germany
1 Bernhard Vogel 2 December 1976 – 8 December 1988
5 February 1992 – 5 June 2003 		23 years, 135 days Rhineland-Palatinate; Thuringia
2 Peter Altmeier 9 July 1947 – 19 May 1969 21 years, 314 days Rhineland-Palatinate
3 Franz-Josef Röder 30 April 1959 – 26 June 1979 20 years, 57 days Saarland
4 Wilhelm Kaisen 1 August 1945 – 20 July 1965 19 years, 353 days Bremen
5 Johannes Rau 20 September 1978 – 27 May 1998 19 years, 249 days North Rhine-Westphalia
6 Georg August Zinn 14 December 1950 – 3 October 1969 18 years, 293 days Hesse
7 Kurt Beck 26 October 1994 – 16 January 2013 18 years, 82 days Rhineland-Palatinate
8 Hans Koschnick 28 November 1967 – 18 September 1985 17 years, 294 days Bremen
9 Alfons Goppel 11 December 1962 – 7 November 1978 15 years, 331 days Bavaria
10 Eberhard Diepgen 9 February 1984 – 16 March 1989
24 January 1991 – 16 June 2001 		15 years, 178 days West Berlin; Berlin
11 Ernst Albrecht 6 February 1976 – 21 June 1990 14 years, 135 days Lower Saxony
12 Edmund Stoiber 28 May 1993 – 9 October 2007 14 years, 134 days Bavaria
13 Erwin Teufel 22 January 1991 – 21 April 2005 14 years, 89 days Baden-Württemberg
14 Oskar Lafontaine 9 April 1985 – 10 November 1998 13 years, 215 days Saarland
15 Klaus Wowereit 16 June 2001 – 11 December 2014 13 years, 178 days Berlin
16 Lothar Späth 30 August 1978 – 22 January 1991 12 years, 145 days Baden-Württemberg
17 Heide Simonis 19 May 1993 – 27 April 2005 11 years, 343 days Schleswig-Holstein
18 Peter Müller 29 September 1999 – 10 August 2011 11 years, 315 days Saarland
19 Heinz Kühn 8 December 1966 – 20 September 1978 11 years, 286 days North Rhine-Westphalia
20 Hans Filbinger 16 December 1966 – 30 August 1978 11 years, 257 days Baden-Württemberg
21 Manfred Stolpe 1 November 1990 – 26 June 2002 11 years, 237 days Brandenburg
22 Kurt Biedenkopf 27 October 1990 – 18 April 2002 11 years, 173 days Saxony
23 Roland Koch 7 April 1999 – 31 August 2010 11 years, 146 days Hesse
24 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf 23 August 1946 – 26 May 1955
12 May 1959 – 29 December 1961 		11 years, 142 days Lower Saxony
25 Gerhard Stoltenberg 24 May 1971 – 4 October 1982 11 years, 133 days Schleswig-Holstein
26 Matthias Platzeck 26 June 2002 – 28 August 2013 11 years, 63 days Brandenburg
27 Hans Ehard 21 December 1946 – 14 December 1954
26 January 1960 – 11 December 1962 		10 years, 312 days Bavaria
28 Holger Börner 12 October 1976 – 23 April 1987 10 years, 193 days Hesse
29 Henning Scherf 4 July 1995 – 7 November 2005 10 years, 126 days Bremen
30 Max Brauer 22 November 1946 – 2 December 1953
4 December 1957 – 1 January 1961 		10 years, 38 days Hamburg

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