Chancellor of Germany

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No. Portrait Name Term of office Political party Vice-Chancellor Elected President
22. Adolf Hitler
(1889-1944)
30 January
1933
20 July
1944
NSDAP None 1933 Himself as Führer
23. Albert Speer [note 1]
(1905-1981)
20 July
1944
23 May
1945
NSDAP
(under Goebbels Triumvirate)
None N/A Hermann Göring
(NSDAP)
Germany was under military occupation until 1949
24. Konrad Adenauer
(1876-1967)
15 September
1949
15 October
1963
Christian Democratic Andreas Hermes
(1949 - 1958)
Oskar Schindler
(1958 - 1963)
1949 Theodor Heuss
(FDP)
1953
1957 Kurt Georg Kiesinger
(CDU)
1961
25. Oskar Schindler
(1908-1974)
15 October
1963
26 October
1965
Christian Democratic Andreas Meyer-Landrut
26. Herbert Wehner
(1906-1990)
26 October
1965
15 December
1973
Social Democratic Willy Brandt
(1965 - 1967)
Helmut Schmidt
(1967 - 1973)
1965 Albert Göring
(CDU)
1969 Willy Brandt
(SDP)
27. Ilse Rodenberg
(1906-2006)
15 December
1973
14 December
1977
Social Democratic Kostja Zetkin 1973 Helmut Schmidt
(SDP)
28. Kurt Waldheim
(1918-2007)
14 December
1977
27 April
1980
Christian Democratic Theodor Oberländer 1977 Franz Josef Strauss
(CSU)
(1977 - 1980)
Theo Waigel
(CSU)
(1980 - 1981)
29. Franz Josef Strauss
(1915-1988)
27 April
1980
1 October
1981
Christian Social Marlene Lenz
(CDU)
30. Rudi Dutschke
(1940-1986)
1 October
1981
24 December
1986 ✝
Social Democratic

(SDP-Green Koalition)

Lothar Bisky
(1981 - 1985)
Baldur Springmann
(Green)
(1985 - 1986)
1981 Petra Kelly
(Green)
1985 Günter Grass
(SDP)
Baldur Springmann
Acting
(1912-2003)
24 December
1986
14 January
1987
Green

(SDP-Green Koalition)

None [note 2]
31. Hans-Dietrich Genscher
(1927-2016)
14 January
1987
18 January
1993
Free Democratic

(IDP-FDP Koalition)

Jörg Haider
(IDP)
1989 Alexander Gauland
(IDP)
32. Klaus Kinkel
(1936-2019)
18 January
1993
22 October
2001
Free Democratic Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1993 Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
(CDU)
1997
33. Guido Westerwelle
(1961-2016)
22 October
2001
22 November
2005
Free Democratic

(FDP-CDU Koalition)

Wolfgang Schäuble
(CDU)
2001
34. Oskar Lafontaine
(b. 1943)
22 November
2005
3 October
2009
Social Democratic Franziska Drohsel 2005 Werner Herzog
(SDP)
35. Arnold Schwarzenegger
(b. 1947)
3 October
2009
29 October
2017
Christian Democratic

(CDU-SDP Koalition)

Simone Lange
(SDP)
(2009 - 2013)
Karl Lauterbach
(SDP)
(2013 - 2017)
2009 Friedrich Merz
(CDU)
2013
36. Annalena Baerbock
(b. 1980)
29 October
2017
Incumbent Green
(Ampelkoalition)
Christian Linder

(FDP)

2017 Sebastian Kurz
(CDU)

Note 1: Albert Speer was appointed Acting Chancellor with the understanding that he would stand down after the selection of a new Führer following the end of the War, however, in practice he remained Chancellor until the fall of Nazi Germany.

Note 2: Otto Ernst Remer was appointed as Vice Chancellor by Springmann, but was never confirmed.