List of longest-serving German minister-presidents

This is a list of the 30 longest governing minister-presidents of Germany since 1945 by time in office.

Rank Ministerpräsident Period in office Duration (Years/Days) States of Germany
1 Bernhard Vogel 2 December 1976 – 8 December 1988 23 years, 125 days Rhineland-Palatinate
5 February 1992 – 5 June 2003 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 Reiner Haseloff since 19 April 2011 13 years, 208 days Saxony-Anhalt
16 Klaus Wowereit 16 June 2001 – 11 December 2014 13 years, 178 days Berlin
17 Winfried Kretschmann since 12 May 2011 13 years, 185 days Baden-Württemberg
18 Lothar Späth 30 August 1978 – 22 January 1991 12 years, 145 days Baden-Württemberg
19 Heide Simonis 19 May 1993 – 27 April 2005 11 years, 343 days Schleswig-Holstein
20 Peter Müller 29 September 1999 – 10 August 2011 11 years, 315 days Saarland
21 Heinz Kühn 8 December 1966 – 20 September 1978 11 years, 286 days North Rhine-Westphalia
22 Volker Bouffier 31 August 2010 – 31 May 2022 11 years, 273 days Hesse
23 Stephan Weil since 19 February 2013 11 years, 268 days Lower Saxony
24 Hans Filbinger 16 December 1966 – 30 August 1978 11 years, 257 days Baden-Württemberg
25 Manfred Stolpe 1 November 1990 – 26 June 2002 11 years, 237 days Brandenburg
26 Malu Dreyer 16 January 2013 – 10 July 2024 11 years, 176 days Rhineland-Palatinate
27 Kurt Biedenkopf 27 October 1990 – 18 April 2002 11 years, 173 days Saxony
28 Roland Koch 7 April 1999 – 31 August 2010 11 years, 146 days Hesse
29 Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf 23 August 1946 – 26 May 1955
12 May 1959 – 29 December 1961		 11 years, 142 days Lower Saxony
30 Gerhard Stoltenberg 24 May 1971 – 4 October 1982 11 years, 133 days Schleswig-Holstein