List of Presidents of the Reichstag (Germany)

President of the Reichstag
Hermann Göring, longest serving and last President of the Reichstag
Seat Reichstag building
Formation March 1871
First holder Eduard von Simson
Final holder Hermann Göring
Abolished 23 April 1945

President of the Reichstag was the presiding officer of the German national assembly from 1871 to 1918, under the German Empire and again from 1920 to 1945, under the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

Presidents of the Reichstag

Colour key
(for political parties)
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of Office Political Party
Took Office Left Office
Presidents of the Reichstag
1 Eduard von Simson
(1810–1899)
March 1871 February 1874 Independent
2 Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck
(1821–1892)
February 1874 May 1879 Independent
3 Otto Theodor von Seydewitz
(1818–1898)
May 1879 August 1879 Independent
4 Adolf Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg
(1832–1887)
February 1880 February 1881 Independent
5 Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Gossler
(1838–1902)
February 1881 November 1881 Independent
6 Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow
(1827–1903)
November 1881 November 1884 Independent
7 Wilhelm von Wedell-Piesdorf
(1837–1915)
November 1884 November 1888 Independent
(6) Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow
(1827–1903)
November 1888 March 1895 Independent
8 Rudolf Freiherr von Buol-Berenberg
(1842–1902)
March 1895 December 1898 Independent
9 Franz von Ballestrem
(1834–1910)
December 1898 20 February 1907 Independent
10 Udo Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
(1840–1910)
20 February 1907 19 February 1910 Independent
11 Hans Graf von Schwerin-Löwitz
(1847–1918)
1 March 1910 February 1912 Independent
12 Johannes Kaempf
(1842–1918)
February 1912 25 May 1918 Independent
13 Constantin Fehrenbach
(1852–1926)
June 1918 November 1918 Centre Party
Presidents of the Weimar National Assembly
1 Eduard David
(1863–1930)
7 February 1919 13 February 1919 Social Democratic Party of Germany
Conrad Haussmann
(1857–1922)
Acting President
13 February 1919 14 February 1919 German Democratic Party
2 Constantin Fehrenbach
(1852–1926)
14 February 1919 21 June 1920 Centre Party
Presidents of the Reichstag
14 Paul Löbe
(1875–1967)
25 June 1920 27 May 1924 Social Democratic Party of Germany
15 Max Wallraf
(1859–1941)
28 May 1924 7 January 1925 German National People's Party
(14) Paul Löbe
(1875–1967)
7 January 1925 30 August 1932 Social Democratic Party of Germany
16 Hermann Göring
(1893–1946)
30 August 1932 23 April 1945 National Socialist German Workers' Party

Presidium of the Reichstag

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