List of interior ministers of Prussia

This page lists Prussian Ministers of the Interior.

History

Upon the founding of the Prussian Interior Ministry in 1808 until the dissolution of the State of Prussia in 1945. The Prussian Interior Ministers were members of the Prussian State Ministry. The main building was at the street Unter den Linden.

Interior ministers (1808–1934)

Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten	1808	1810
Karl August von Hardenberg	1810	1814	Also served as Prime Minister from 1804 to 1806, 1807, 1810–1822
Friedrich von Schuckmann	1814	1834
Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein	1817	1819	Police Minister
Wilhelm von Humboldt	1819	1819
Friedrich von Schuckman	1819	1834
Gustav von Brenn	1834	1838
Gustav Adolf Rochus von Rochow	1838	1842	Minister of the Interior and Police
Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg	1842	1845
Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede	1845	1848	^[1]
Alfred von Auerswald	1848	1848
Friedrich von Kühlwetter	1848	1848
Franz August Eichmann	1848	1848
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel	1848	1850
Ferdinand von Westphalen	1850	1858
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell	1858	1859
Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar	1859	1862
Gustav von Jagow	1862	1862
Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg	1862	1878
Botho August Wendt zu Eulenburg-Wicken	1878	1881
Robert Viktor von Puttkamer	1881	1888
Ernst Ludwig Herrfurth	1888	1892
Botho August Wendt zu Eulenburg-Wicken	1892	1894
Ernst Matthias von Köller	1894	1895
Gustav Wilhelm Eberhard von der Recke von der Horst	1895	1899
Georg Kreuzwendedich von Rheinbaben	1899	1901
Hans Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Loxten	1901	1905
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg	1905	1907
Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke	1907	1910
Johann (Hans) Nikolaus Michael Louis von Dallwitz	1910	1914
Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell	1914	1917
Wilhelm (Bill) Arnold Drews	1917	1918
Rudolf Breitscheid Paul Hirsch	1918	1919
Wolfgang Heine	1919	1920
Carl Wilhelm Severing	1920	1921	^[2]
Adolph Alexander Eberhard Dominicus	1921	1921
Carl Wilhelm Severing	1921	1926	^[2]
Albert Grzesinski	1926	1930
Heinrich Waentig	1930	1930
Carl Wilhelm Severing	1930	1932	^[2]
Franz Bracht	1932	1933	Reich Commissioner (also Reich Minister of the Interior from December 3, 1932)
Hermann Göring	1933	1933	Reich Commissioner
Hermann Göring	1933	1934	Also Prime Minister from April 11, 1933
Wilhelm Frick	1934	1934	Reich Minister of the Interior since January 30, 1933