Minister-President of Brandenburg
Ministerpräsident des Landes Brandenburg
Coat of arms of Brandenburg
Incumbent
Dietmar Woidke
since 28 August 2013
ResidencePotsdam
AppointerLandtag of Brandenburg
Term lengthPending resignation or the election of a successor
Inaugural holderManfred Stolpe
Formation3 October 1990
Salaryregulated by legislation

The minister-president of Brandenburg is the head of government of the German state of Brandenburg. The office was created in 1990 after the German reunification and the joining of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany. The current and third minister-president is Dietmar Woidke, heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats, the CDU and the Alliance '90/The Greens. Woidke succeeded Matthias Platzeck in August 2013.

The minister-president's seat of government is known as the State Chancellery (German: Staatskanzlei) and is located in the state capital, Potsdam, along with the other cabinet department.

List

Prime ministers of Brandenburg, 1945–1952

After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Brandenburg, which had previously been merely a province of Prussia, re-emerged as a German Land.

Minister-presidents of Brandenburg, since 1990

After being abolished in a reorganization of the territories administered by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Land Brandenburg was restored in the prelude to German unification in 1990.

Political party:   SPD

Portrait Name
(Born–Died)		 Term of office Political party Election
Took office Left office Days
State of Brandenburg (1990–present)
State of the Federal Republic of Germany
– Jochen Wolf
(1941–2022)
as State Commissioner		 3 October 1990 1 November 1990 29 Social Democratic Party –
1 Manfred Stolpe
(1936–2019)		 1 November 1990 26 June 2002
(resigned)		 4255 Social Democratic Party 1990
1994
1999
2 Matthias Platzeck
(born 1953)		 26 June 2002 28 August 2013
(resigned)		 4081 Social Democratic Party 2004
2009
3 Dietmar Woidke
(born 1961)		 28 August 2013 Incumbent 3789 Social Democratic Party 2014
2019

See also

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