Germany
- Regent - Adelaide of Italy and Theophanu (co-regents) - 983
Weimar Republic:
- Weimar National Assembly - Louise Schroeder - 1919
- Members of the Parliament - 37 women, among them being Marie Baum, Marie Juchacz - 1919
Allied-occupied Germany:
- Mayor of Berlin - Louise Schroeder - 1947
East Germany:
- Member of the Presidium of the Volkskammer - Friedel Malter - 1948
- Minister of Justice - Hilde Benjamin - 1953
- President of the Volkskammer and Acting Head of state - Sabine Bergmann-Pohl - 1990
West Germany:
- State secretary of Youth and Family Affairs - Gabriele Wülker - 1957
- Minister of Health - Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt - 1961
- President of the Bundestag - Annemarie Renger - 1972
Germany (united):
- Minister of Justice - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger - 1992
- Minister-President of any German state - Heide Simonis (of Schleswig-Holstein) - 1993
- President of the Federal Constitutional Court - Jutta Limbach - 1994
- Mayor of Frankfurt - Petra Roth - 1995
- Chancellor - Angela Merkel - 2005
- Chief Federal Proescutor for the Federal Court of Justice - Monika Harms - 2006
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