List of German interior ministers

The Federal Minister of the Interior (German: Bundesminister des Innern) is the head of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The current office holder is Horst Seehofer.

Federal Minister of the Interior
Bundesminister des Innern
Incumbent
Horst Seehofer

since 14 March 2018
Federal Ministry of the Interior
StyleHerr Bundesminister
Member ofCabinet
Reports toChancellor of Germany
SeatAlt-Moabit 140, Berlin
AppointerThe President
on advice of the Chancellor
Formation21 December 1879
First holderKarl von Hofmann
Websitebmi.bund.de

List of officeholders

Secretaries of State for the Interior, 1879–1919

Political Party:   Zentrum

Name
(Birth–Death)
Portrait Party Term of Office Chancellor
Karl von Hofmann
(1827–1910)
N/A 21 December 1879 31 August 1880 Bismarck
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher
(1833–1907)
N/A 1 September 1880 1 July 1897 Bismarck
von Caprivi
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner
(1845–1932)
N/A 1 July 1897 24 June 1907 Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
von Bülow
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
(1856–1921)
N/A 24 June 1907 10 July 1909 von Bülow
Clemens von Delbrück
(1856–1921)
N/A 14 July 1909 22 May 1916 von Bethmann-Hollweg
Karl Helfferich
(1872–1924)
N/A 22 May 1916 24 October 1917 von Bethmann-Hollweg
Michaelis
Max Wallraf
(1859–1941)
N/A 25 October 1917 9 November 1918 Michaelis
von Hertling
(I)
von Baden
(I)
Karl Trimborn
(1854–1921)
Zentrum 14 November 1918 13 February 1919 Ebert
(Council of the People's Deputies)

Ministers of the Interior, 1919–1945

Political Party:   DDP   DNVP   DVP   NSDAP   SPD   Zentrum

Name
(Birth–Death)
Portrait Party Term of Office Chancellor
(Cabinet)
Hugo Preuß
(1860–1925)
DDP 13 February 1919 20 June 1919 Scheidemann
(I)
Eduard David
(1863–1930)
SPD 21 June 1919 3 October 1919 Bauer
(I)
Erich Koch-Weser
(1875–1944)
DDP 3 October 1919 4 May 1921 Bauer
(I)
Müller
(I)
Fehrenbach
(I)
Georg Gradnauer
(1866–1946)
SPD 10 May 1921 22 October 1921 Wirth
(I)
Adolf Köster
(1883–1930)
SPD 26 October 1921 14 November 1922 Wirth
(II)
Rudolf Oeser
(1858–1926)
DDP 22 November 1922 12 August 1923 Cuno
(I)
Wilhelm Sollmann
(1881–1951)
SDP 14 August 1923 3 November 1923 Stresemann
(I)
Karl Jarres
(1874–1951)
DVP 11 November 1923 15 December 1924 Stresemann
(II)
Marx
(III)
Martin Schiele
(1870–1939)
DNVP 15 January 1925 23 October 1925 Luther
(I)
Otto Gessler
(1875–1955)
Acting Minister
DDP 23 October 1925 5 December 1925
Wilhelm Külz
(1875–1948)
DDP 20 January 1926 17 December 1926 Luther
(II)
Marx
(III)
Walter von Keudell
(1884–1973)
DNVP January 1927 12 June 1928 Marx
(IV)
Carl Severing
(1875–1952)
SPD 28 June 1928 27 March 1930 Müller
(II)
Joseph Wirth
(1879–1956)
Zentrum 30 March 1930 7 October 1931 Brüning
(I)
Wilhelm Groener
(1867–1939)
Independent 9 October 1931 30 May 1932 Brüning
(II)
Wilhelm von Gayl
(1879–1945)
DNVP 1 June 1932 17 November 1932 von Papen
(I)
Franz Bracht
(1877–1933)
Independent 3 December 1932 28 January 1933 von Schleicher
(I)
Wilhelm Frick
(1877–1946)
NSDAP 30 January 1933 20 August 1943 Hitler
(I)
Heinrich Himmler
(1900–1945)
NSDAP 24 August 1943 29 April 1945
Paul Giesler
(1895–1945)
NSDAP 30 April 1945 2 May 1945 Goebbels
(I)
Wilhelm Stuckart
(1902–1953)
NSDAP 3 May 1945 23 May 1945 Donitz
(Flensburg)

Ministers of the Interior of the GDR, 1949–1990

Political Party:   SED   DSU

Name
(Birth–Death)
Portrait Party Term of Office Chairman
Karl Steinhoff
(1892–1981)
SED 11 October 1949 6 May 1952 Grotewohl
Willi Stoph
(1914–1999)
SED 6 May 1952 1 July 1955
Karl Maron
(1903–1975)
SED 1 July 1955 14 November 1963
Friedrich Dickel
(1913–1993)
SED 14 November 1963 7 November 1989 Grotewohl
Stoph
Sindermann
Stoph
Lothar Ahrendt
(1936–)
SED 7 November 1989 12 April 1990 Modrow
Peter-Michael Diestel
(1952–)
DSU 12 April 1990 2 October 1990 de Maizière

Ministers of the Interior (Bundesminister des Innern), since 1949

Political Party:   CDU   CSU   FDP   SPD

Name
(Birth–Death)
Portrait Party Term of Office Chancellor
(Cabinet)
Gustav Heinemann
(1899–1976)
CDU 20 September 1949 11 October 1950 Adenauer
(I)
Robert Lehr
(1883–1956)
CDU 11 October 1950 20 October 1953
Gerhard Schröder
(1910–1989)
CDU 20 October 1953 13 November 1961 Adenauer
(II • III)
Hermann Höcherl
(1912–1989)
CSU 14 November 1961 25 October 1965 Adenauer
(IV • V)
Erhard
(I)
Paul Lücke
(1914–1976)
CDU 26 October 1965 2 April 1968 Erhard
(II)
Kiesinger
(I)
Ernst Benda
(1925–2009)
CDU 2 April 1968 21 October 1969 Kiesinger
(I)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
(1927–2016)
FDP 22 October 1969 16 May 1974 Brandt
(III)
Werner Maihofer
(1918–2009)
FDP 16 May 1974 8 June 1978 Schmidt
(III)
Gerhart Baum
(1932–)
FDP 8 June 1978 17 September 1982 Schmidt
(II • III)
Jürgen Schmude
(1936–)
SPD 17 September 1982 1 October 1982 Schmidt
(III)
Friedrich Zimmermann
(1925–2012)
CSU 4 October 1982 21 April 1989 Kohl
(IIIIII)
Wolfgang Schäuble
(1942–)
CDU 21 April 1989 26 November 1991 Kohl
(IIIIV)
Rudolf Seiters
(1937–)
CDU 26 November 1991 7 July 1993 Kohl
(IV)
Manfred Kanther
(1939–)
CDU 7 July 1993 27 October 1998 Kohl
(IVV)
Otto Schily
(1932–)
SPD 27 October 1998 22 November 2005 Schröder
(III)
Wolfgang Schäuble
(1942–)
CDU 22 November 2005 28 October 2009 Merkel
(I)
Thomas de Maizière
(1954–)
CDU 28 October 2009 3 March 2011 Merkel
(II)
Hans-Peter Friedrich
(1957–)
CSU 3 March 2011 17 December 2013
Thomas de Maizière
(1954–)
CDU 17 December 2013 14 March 2018 Merkel
(III)
Horst Seehofer
(1949–)
CSU 14 March 2018 Incumbent Merkel
(IV)

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