| Minister-President of Hesse | |
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| Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen | |
 Coat of arms of Hesse | |
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| Residence | Wiesbaden |
| Appointer | Landtag of Hesse |
| Term length | Pending resignation or theelection of a successor |
| Inaugural holder | Ludwig Bergsträsser (Greater Hesse) |
| Formation | 16 September 1945 |
| Website | https://staatskanzlei.hessen.de/ |
Theminister-president of Hesse (German:Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen), also referred to as thepremier orminister-president (also translated into English as theprime minister of Hessen[1]), is thehead of government of theGermanstate ofHesse.
The office of the minister-president is known as the state chancellery (German:Hessische Staatskanzlei) and is located in the capital ofWiesbaden, along with the rest of the cabinet departments.
The position in its current form was created in 1946, when the provisional state ofGreater Hesse was renamed. Greater Hesse had been formed in 1945 after theSecond World War from thePrussian Provinces ofKurhessen andNassau (formed from the Prussian Province ofHesse-Nassau in 1944) and thePeople's State of Hesse.
The state of Hesse sees itself in the tradition notably of theGrand Duchy of Hesse and thePeople's State of Hesse (colloquially known as "Hesse-Darmstadt"), having adopted many of its symbols.
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
| Presidents of thePeople's State of Hesse | ||||||
 | Carl Ulrich (1853–1933) | 21 January 1919 | 14 February 1928 | 3311 | Social Democratic Party | |
 | Bernhard Adelung (1876–1943) | 14 February 1928 | 13 March 1933 | 1854 | Social Democratic Party | |
 | Ferdinand Werner (1876–1961) | 13 March 1933 | 20 September 1933 | 191 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
.jpg) | Philipp Wilhelm Jung (1884–1965) | 20 September 1933 | 1 March 1935 | 527 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | |
 | Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) | Reichsstatthalter | c. 4320 | National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
| 5 May 1933 | March 1945 | |||||
| Präsident | c. 3650 | |||||
| 1 March 1935 | March 1945 | |||||
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | Election | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| Greater Hesse (1945–1946) State of Hesse (1946–present) | |||||||
| American occupation zone inAllied-occupied Germany (1945–1949) | |||||||
| State of theFederal Republic of Germany (as of 23 May 1949) | |||||||
| 1 | | Karl Geiler (1878–1953) | 16 October 1945 | 20 December 1946 | 430 | Social Democratic Party | – |
| 2 |  | Christian Stock (1884–1967) | 20 December 1946 | 14 December 1950 | 1455 | Social Democratic Party | 1946 |
| 3 |  | Georg-August Zinn (1901–1976) | 14 December 1950 | 3 October 1969 (resigned) | 6868 | Social Democratic Party | 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 |
| 4 |  | Albert Osswald (1919–1996) | 3 October 1969 | 16 October 1976 (resigned) | 2570 | Social Democratic Party | 1966 1970 1974 |
| 5 |  | Holger Börner (1931–2006) | 16 October 1976 | 23 April 1987 | 3841 | Social Democratic Party | 1974 1978 1982 1983 |
| 6 |  | Walter Wallmann (1932–2013) | 23 April 1987 | 5 April 1991 | 1443 | Christian Democratic Union | 1987 |
| 7 |  | Hans Eichel (born 1941) | 1 April 1991 | 7 April 1999 | 2928 | Social Democratic Party | 1991 1995 |
| 8 | .jpg) | Roland Koch (born 1958) | 7 April 1999 | 31 August 2010 (resigned) | 4164 | Christian Democratic Union | 1999 2003 2009 |
| 9 |  | Volker Bouffier (born 1951) | 31 August 2010 | 31 May 2022 (resigned) | 4291 | Christian Democratic Union | 2009 2013 2018 |
| 10 | | Boris Rhein (born 1972) | 31 May 2022 | Incumbent | 1272 | Christian Democratic Union | 2018 2023 |
| People's State of Hesse (est. 1918) | | |
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| Greater Hesse (1945–46) | ||
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