List of presidents of the German Bundesrat

The President of the German Bundesrat (German: Bundesratspräsident) is the German Bundesrat's chairperson or speaker.

The office rotates among the ministers president of each of the federal Länder annually. The new Bundesratspräsident is elected during October and takes office on 1 November. In 1950 the Ministers President of the Länder agreed to elect the Bundesratspräsident on a rota, so that every state had a chance to preside over the Bundesrat and to show that the Bundesrat represents all of Germany, rather than the most successful political party.

The rota is based on the state's population.

List[change | change source]

From	To	Name	Land	Party
1949	1950	Karl Arnold	North Rhine-Westphalia	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
1950	1951	Hans Ehard	Bavaria	Christian Social Union (CSU)
1951	1952	Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf	Lower Saxony	Social Democratic Party (SPD)
1952	1953	Reinhold Maier	Baden-Württemberg	Free Democratic Party (FDP)
1953	1954	Georg August Zinn	Hesse	SPD
1954	1955	Peter Altmeier	Rhineland-Palatinate	CDU
1955	1956	Kai-Uwe von Hassel	Schleswig-Holstein	CDU
1956	1957	Kurt Sieveking	Hamburg	CDU
1957	1958	Willy Brandt^[1]	Berlin	SPD
1958	1959	Wilhelm Kaisen	Bremen	SPD
1959	1960	Franz Josef Röder	Saarland	CDU
1960	1961	Franz Meyers	North Rhine-Westphalia	CDU
1961	1962	Hans Ehard	Bavaria	CSU
1962	1963	Kurt Georg Kiesinger	Baden-Württemberg	CDU
1963	1964	Georg Diederichs	Lower Saxony	SPD
1964	1965	Georg August Zinn	Hesse	SPD
1965	1966	Peter Altmeier	Rhineland-Palatinate	CDU
1966	1967	Helmut Lemke	Schleswig-Holstein	CDU
1967	1968	Klaus Schütz	Berlin	SPD
1968	1969	Herbert Weichmann	Hamburg	SPD
1969	1970	Franz Josef Röder	Saarland	CDU
1970	1971	Hans Koschnick	Bremen	SPD
1971	1972	Heinz Kühn	North Rhine-Westphalia	SPD
1972	1973	Alfons Goppel	Bavaria	CSU
1973	1974	Hans Filbinger	Baden-Württemberg	CDU
1974	1975	Alfred Kubel	Lower Saxony	SPD
1975	1976	Albert Osswald	Hesse	SPD
1976	1977	Bernhard Vogel	Rhineland-Palatinate	CDU
1977	1978	Gerhard Stoltenberg	Schleswig-Holstein	CDU
1978	1979	Dietrich Stobbe	Berlin	SPD
1979	1980	Hans-Ulrich Klose	Hamburg	SPD
1980	1981	Werner Zeyer	Saarland	CDU
1981	1982	Hans Koschnick	Bremen	SPD
1982	1983	Johannes Rau	North Rhine-Westphalia	SPD
1983	1984	Franz Josef Strauß	Bavaria	CSU
1984	1985	Lothar Späth	Baden-Württemberg	CDU
1985	1986	Ernst Albrecht	Lower Saxony	CDU
1986	1987	Holger Börner	Hesse	SPD
1987	1987	Walter Wallmann	Hesse	CDU
1987	1988	Bernhard Vogel	Rhineland-Palatinate	CDU
1988	1989	Björn Engholm	Schleswig-Holstein	SPD
1989	1990	Walter Momper	Berlin	SPD
1990	1991	Henning Voscherau	Hamburg	SPD
1991	1992	Alfred Gomolka	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	CDU
1992	1992	Berndt Seite	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	CDU
1992	1993	Oskar Lafontaine	Saarland	SPD
1993	1994	Klaus Wedemeier	Bremen	SPD
1994	1995	Johannes Rau	North Rhine-Westphalia	SPD
1995	1996	Edmund Stoiber	Bavaria	CSU
1996	1997	Erwin Teufel	Baden-Württemberg	CDU
1997	1998	Gerhard Schröder	Lower Saxony	SPD
1998	1999	Hans Eichel	Hesse	SPD
1999	1999	Roland Koch	Hesse	CDU
1999	2000	Kurt Biedenkopf	Saxony	CDU
2000	2001	Kurt Beck	Rhineland-Palatinate	SPD
2001	2002	Klaus Wowereit	Berlin	SPD
2002	2003	Wolfgang Böhmer	Saxony-Anhalt	CDU
2003	2004	Dieter Althaus	Thuringia	CDU
2004	2005	Matthias Platzeck	Brandenburg	SPD
2005	2006	Peter Harry Carstensen	Schleswig-Holstein	CDU
2006	2007	Harald Ringstorff	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	SPD
2007	2008	Ole von Beust^[2]	Hamburg	CDU
2008	2009	Peter Müller	Saarland	CDU
2009	2010	Jens Böhrnsen	Bremen	SPD
2010	2011	Hannelore Kraft	North Rhine-Westphalia	SPD
2011	2012	Horst Seehofer	Bavaria	CSU
2012	2013	Winfried Kretschmann	Baden-Württemberg	Alliance '90/The Greens
2013	2014	Stephan Weil	Lower Saxony	SPD
2014	2015	Volker Bouffier	Hesse	CDU
2015	2016	Stanislaw Tillich	Saxony	CDU
2016	2017	Malu Dreyer	Rhineland-Palatinate	SPD
2017	2018	Michael Müller	Berlin	SPD
2018	2019	Daniel Günther	Schleswig-Holstein	CDU
2019	2020	Dietmar Woidke	Brandenburg	SPD
2020	2021	Reiner Haseloff	Saxony-Anhalt	CDU
2021	2022	Bodo Ramelow	Thuringia	SPD
2022		Peter Tschentscher	Hamburg	SPD

Related pages[change | change source]

President of the German Bundesrat

References[change | change source]

↑ Otto Suhr of the SPD in Berlin was elected President of the Bundesrat in July 1957, but died in August before his term of office began.
↑ Elected at the 837^th meeting on 12 October 2007 for the period 1 November 2007 to 31 October 2008

Other websites[change | change source]

"Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
Official Bundesrat website Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine (English).

[1] Otto Suhr of the SPD in Berlin was elected President of the Bundesrat in July 1957, but died in August before his term of office began.

[2] Elected at the 837^th meeting on 12 October 2007 for the period 1 November 2007 to 31 October 2008

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