Politics of Hesse - Governments

Governments

The governments and ministers-President (Ministerpräsidenten) of the People's State of Hesse during the time of the Weimar Republic were:

  1. 1919 - 1928: Center-right government, an SPD-DDP-Zentrum coalition led by Carl Ulrich (SPD) as minister-president
  2. 1928 - 1933: Center-right government, an SPD-DDP-Zentrum coalition led by Bernhard Adelung (SPD) as minister-president

The governments of the National Socialist era:

  1. 1933: National Socialist government with Ferdinand Werner (NSDAP) and minister-president
  2. 1933 - 1935: National Socialist government with Philipp Wilhelm Jung (NSDAP) as minister-president
  3. 1935-1945: National Socialist government with Jakob Sprenger (NSDAP) as minister-president

The governments and ministers-President of Hesse since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany:

  1. 1945: Military occupation provisional government led by Ludwig Bergsträsser(SPD), appointed by the U.S. Military
  2. 1945 - 1946: Military occupation provisional government led by Karl Geiler (no party), appointed by the U.S. Military
  3. 1946 - 1950: Theoretically a CDU-SPD grand coalition with Christian Stock (SPD) as minister-president, though U.S. Military Occupation remained through 1949.
  4. 1950 - 1969: First truly non-military government of the Federal Republic, led by Georg-August Zinn (SPD), whose SPD ruled in coalition with the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights, a party of expelled eastern Germans whose political goal was to retrieve their homelands (heimatlaender); and also with the League of Expellees' successors party the Gesamtdeutsche Partei.
  5. 1969 - 1976: Center-left government of the SPD-FDP, with Albert Osswald (SPD) as minister-president
  6. 1976 - 1982: Center-left government of the SPD-FDP continued with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  7. 1982 - 1984: Center-left government of the SPD (single party rule) with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  8. 1984 - 1987: Center-left government of the SPD-Greens with Holger Börner (SPD) as minister-president.
  9. 1987 - 1991: Center-right government of the CDU-FDP with Walter Wallmann (CDU) as minister-president.
  10. 1991 - 1999: Center-left government of the SPD-Greens with Hans Eichel (SPD) as minister-president.
  11. 1999 - 2003: Center-right government of the CDU-FDP with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  12. 2003 - 2009: Center-right government of the CDU (single party rule) with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  13. 2009–2010: Center-right government of the CDU-FDP with Roland Koch (CDU) as minister-president.
  14. 2010–present: Center-right government of the CDU-FDP with Volker Bouffier as minister-president.

Since 1950, the SPD has been in the Hesse government 45 years, the CDU for 14 years; the FDP acted as coalition partners with either CDU of SPD for 21 years (13 with SPD, 8 with CDU).

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