List of ministers-president of Mecklenburg

This is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in the states within the region of Mecklenburg from the 18th century to 1952. The states in question were Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchy and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz and unified state of Mecklenburg.

In 1990, with German reunification, the state was re-established as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Duchy

 * Prime Ministers
 * 1783–1784: Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
 * 1784–1800: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cölpin
 * 1800–1808: Bernhard Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
 * 1808–1815: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein

Grand Duchy

 * Prime Ministers
 * 1815–1836: August Georg Freiherr von Brandenstein
 * 1836–1837: Leopold Engelke von Plessen
 * 1837–1840: Christian Friedrich Krüger
 * 1840–1850: Ludwig von Lützow


 * Presidents of the State Ministry
 * 1850–1858: Hans Adolf Karl Graf von Bülow
 * 1858–1869: Jasper Joachim Bernhard Wilhelm von Oertzen
 * 1869–1885: Henning Carl Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
 * 1886–1901: Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow
 * 1901–1914: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow
 * 1914–1918: Adolf Ferdinand Helmut August Wilhelm Langfeld

Free State
Political party:

Duchy (1769–1815)

 * Ministers of State (Staatsminister)
 * 1769–1784: Stephan Werner von Dewitz auf Cöpin
 * 1784–1795: Christoph Otto von Gamm
 * 1795–1800: Otto Ulrich von Dewitz
 * 1800–1815: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz

Grand Duchy (1815–1918)

 * 1815–1827: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich David von Pentz
 * 1827–1836: August Otto Ernst Freiherr von Örtzen auf Klokow
 * 1837–1848: Otto Ludwig Christian von Dewitz auf Sallnow
 * 1848–1850: Vacant
 * 1850–1861: August Ludwig Wilhelm von Bernstorff
 * 1862–1868: Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
 * 1868–1872: Wilhelm Karl Konrad Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten
 * 1872–1885: Anton von Piper (acting)
 * 1885–1907: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Ulrich Karl Helmut von Dewitz
 * 1907–1918: Heinrich Bossart

Free State (1918-1933)
Political party:

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

 * Reichsstatthalter of the State of Mecklenburg


 * Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg

Soviet control / GDR (1945–1952)
Political party:
 * Minister-President of the State of Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1990–present)
The Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ministerpräsidentin des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), is the head of government of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The position was created in 1990 after German reunification. The former districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and the northern part of Potsdam were merged into the new federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the borders was redrawn.

The current and first female Minister-President is Manuela Schwesig, since 2021 heading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and The Left. Schwesig succeeded Erwin Sellering in July 2017.

The office of the Minister-President is known as the State Chancellery (Staatskanzlei), and is located in the capital of Schwerin, along with the rest of the cabinet departments. Political party:
 * Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern