List of minister-presidents of the Saarland
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The minister-president of the Saarland (German: Ministerpräsident des Saarlandes), is the head of government of the German state of the Saarland. The position was created in 1946. The current minister president is Anke Rehlinger, heading a Social Democratic Party government. Rehlinger succeeded Tobias Hans following the 2022 Saarland state election.
| Minister-President of the Saarland | |
|---|---|
| Ministerpräsident des Saarlandes | |
 Coat of arms of the Saarland | |
| Residence | Saarbrücken |
| Appointer | Landtag of Saarland |
| Term length | Pending resignation or the election of a successor |
| Inaugural holder | Johannes Hoffmann |
| Formation | 15 December 1947 |
| Salary | regulated by legislation |
| Website | www |
After World War II, the Saarland became a French protectorate. With the negative result of the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Saarbrücken, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
List
editPolitical party: CVP / CDU SPD None
| Portrait | Name (born and died) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||||
| 1 |  |
Johannes Hoffmann (1890–1967) |
20 December 1947 | 29 October 1955 resigned |
7 years, 313 days | CVP | I II III IV | ||
| 2 | Heinrich Welsch (1888–1976) |
29 October 1955 | 10 January 1956 | 73 days | Independent | I | |||
| 3 |  |
Hubert Ney[a] (1892–1984) |
10 January 1956 | 4 June 1957 resigned |
1 year, 145 days | CDU | I | ||
| 4 | Egon Reinert (1908–1959) |
4 June 1957 | 23 April 1959 died in office |
1 year, 323 days | CDU | I II | |||
| 5 | .jpg) |
Franz-Josef Röder (1909–1979) |
23 April 1959 | 26 June 1979 died in office |
20 years, 64 days | CDU | I II III IV V VI | ||
| Deputy Minister-President Werner Klumpp (FDP) served as acting Minister-President from 26 June to 5 July 1979. | |||||||||
| 6 | .jpg) |
Werner Zeyer (1929–2000) |
5 July 1979 | 9 April 1985 | 5 years, 278 days | CDU | I II III | ||
| 7 | .jpg) |
Oskar Lafontaine (born 1943) |
9 April 1985 | 27 October 1998 resigned |
13 years, 201 days | SPD | I II III | ||
| Deputy Minister-President Christiane Krajewski (SPD) served as acting minister-president from 27 October to 10 November 1998. | |||||||||
| 8 |  |
Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942) |
10 November 1998 | 29 September 1999 | 323 days | SPD | I | ||
| 9 | .jpg) |
Peter Müller (born 1955) |
29 September 1999 | 9 August 2011 resigned |
11 years, 314 days | CDU | I II III | ||
| Deputy Minister-President Christoph Hartmann (FDP) served as acting minister-president from 9 to 10 August 2011. | |||||||||
| 10 |  |
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 1962) |
10 August 2011 | 1 March 2018 resigned |
6 years, 202 days | CDU | I II III | ||
| Deputy Minister-President Anke Rehlinger (SPD) served as acting minister-president from 28 February to 1 March 2018. | |||||||||
| 11 |  |
Tobias Hans (born 1978) |
1 March 2018 | 25 April 2022 | 4 years, 55 days | CDU | I | ||
| 12 | .jpg) |
Anke Rehlinger (born 1976) |
25 April 2022 | Incumbent | 4 years, 74 days | SPD | I | ||
- ↑ On 1 January 1957, Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany as its 10th state. Therefore, Ney was both the last minister-president of the partly sovereign Saar Protectorate and the first of Saarland as a German state.