List of German finance ministers
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The minister of finance of Germany (Template:Langx) is the head of the Federal Ministry of Finance and a member of the Federal Cabinet.
State secretaries for finance of the German Empire (1880–1918)
- Adolf Heinrich Wilhelm Scholz 1880–1882
- Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard 1882–1886
- Karl Rudolf Jacobi 1886–1888
- Baron Helmuth von Maltzahn 1888–1893
- Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner 1893–1897
- Baron Max Franz Guido von Thielmann 1897–1903
- Baron Hermann von Stengel 1903–1908
- Reinhold Sydow 1908–1909
- Adolf Wermuth 1909–1912
- Hermann Kühn 1912–1915
- Karl Helfferich 1915–1916
- Count Siegfried von Roedern 1916–1918
Ministers of finance (1918–1945)
| No. | Portrait | Name (born and died) |
Term | Political party | Government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office
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Ministers of finance of the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)
| No. | Portrait | Name (born and died) |
Term | Political party | Government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office
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Ministers of finance of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present)
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| Name (born and died) |
Party | Term of office | Chancellor (Cabinet) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |1 | Fritz Schäffer (1888–1967) |
CSU | 20 September 1949 | 29 October 1957 | Adenauer (I • II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;color:white;" |2 | Franz Etzel (1902–1970) |
CDU | 29 October 1957 | 14 November 1961 | Adenauer (III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |3 | Heinz Starke (1911–2001) |
FDP | 14 November 1961 | 19 November 1962 | Adenauer (IV) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |4 | Rolf Dahlgrün (1908–1969) |
FDP | 14 December 1962 | 28 October 1966 | Adenauer (V) Erhard (I • II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;color:white;" |5 | Kurt Schmücker (1919–1996) |
CDU | 8 November 1966 | 30 November 1966 | Erhard (II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |6 | Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988) |
CSU | 1 December 1966 | 21 October 1969 | Kiesinger (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |7 | Alex Möller (1903–1985) |
SPD | 22 October 1969 | 13 May 1971 | Brandt (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |8 | Karl Schiller (1911–1994) |
SPD | 13 May 1971 | 7 July 1972 | |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |9 | Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) |
SPD | 7 July 1972 | 1 May 1974 | Brandt (I • II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |10 | Hans Apel (1932–2011) |
SPD | 16 May 1974 | 15 February 1978 | Schmidt (I • II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |11 | Hans Matthöfer (1925–2009) |
SPD | 16 February 1978 | 28 April 1982 | Schmidt (II • III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |12 | Manfred Lahnstein (b. 1937) |
SPD | 28 April 1982 | 1 October 1982 | Schmidt (III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;color:white;" |13 | Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928–2001) |
CDU | 4 October 1982 | 21 April 1989 | Kohl (I • II • III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |14 | Theodor Waigel (b. 1939) |
CSU | 21 April 1989 | 27 October 1998 | Kohl (III • IV • V) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |15 | Oskar Lafontaine (b. 1943) |
SPD | 27 October 1998 | 18 March 1999 | Schröder (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |16 | Hans Eichel (b. 1941) |
SPD | 12 April 1999 | 22 November 2005 | Schröder (I • II) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |17 | Peer Steinbrück (b. 1947) |
SPD | 22 November 2005 | 28 October 2009 | Merkel (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;color:white;" |18 | Wolfgang Schäuble (1942–2023) |
CDU | 28 October 2009 | 24 October 2017 | Merkel (II • III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;color:white;" |– | Peter Altmaier (acting) (b. 1958) |
CDU | 24 October 2017 | 14 March 2018 | Merkel (III) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |19 | Olaf Scholz (b. 1958) |
SPD | 14 March 2018 | 8 December 2021 | Merkel (IV) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |20 | Christian Lindner (b. 1979) |
FDP | 8 December 2021 | 7 November 2024 | Scholz (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |21 | Jörg Kukies (b. 1968) |
SPD | 7 November 2024 | 6 May 2025 | Scholz (I) |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" |22 | Lars Klingbeil (b. 1978) |
SPD | 6 May 2025 | incumbent | Merz (I) |
See also
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