Chancellor of Germany
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Vice-Chancellor | Elected | President | ||
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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.