List of German Ministers-Presidents by longevity

This is a list of the 50 oldest Ministers-President of Germany since 1945 by longevity. The oldest actually governing Ministers-President is the one from Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

: Peter Harry Carstensen

Peter Harry Carstensen

Peter Harry Carstensen is a German politician, in the Christian Democratic Union party.Since 2005 he has been Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2005/06....

(born 12. March 1947).
Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to .

Rank	Ministerpräsident	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Age	States of Germany States of Germany Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
1	Werner Bruschke Werner Bruschke Werner Bruschke was an East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from August 13, 1949 until the state was abolished on July 23, 1952.From 1933 he worked as tobacco goods dealer and later an insurance agent...	18 August 1898	17 February 1995	96 years, 185 days	Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...
2	Bernhard Quandt Bernhard Quandt Bernhard Quandt was a German politician .He was Minister-President of Mecklenburg Bernhard Quandt (* 14 April 1903 in Rostock; † 6 August 1999 in Schwerin) was a German politician (SPD, KPD, SED).He was Minister-President of Mecklenburg Bernhard Quandt (* 14 April 1903 in Rostock; † 6 August 1999...	14 April 1903	6 August 1999	96 years, 114 days	Mecklenburg Mecklenburg Mecklenburg is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
3	Bruno Diekmann Bruno Diekmann Bruno Diekmann was a German politician from Kiel and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein ....	19 April 1897	11 January 1992	94 years, 267 days	Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
4	Max Seydewitz Max Seydewitz Max Seydewitz was a German politician and Minister-President Saxony in East Germany)....	19 December 1892	8 February 1987	94 years, 51 days	Saxony Saxony The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
5	Hans Filbinger Hans Filbinger Hans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU...	15 September 1913	1 April 2007	93 years, 198 days	Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
6	Franz Meyers Franz Meyers Franz Meyers was a German politician and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was born and died in Mönchengladbach.- External links :...	31 July 1908	27 January 2002	93 years, 180 days	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
7	Hans Ehard Hans Ehard Hans Ehard was a German lawyer and politician, a member of the Christian Social Union party.-Life:...	10 November 1887	18 October 1980	92 years, 342 days	Bavaria Bavaria Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
8	Wilhelm Kaisen Wilhelm Kaisen Carl Wilhelm Kaisen was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany . Between 1945 and 1965 he was mayor of the city Bremen which also made him the head of the state of Bremen....	22 May 1887	19 December 1979	92 years, 211 days	Bremen Bremen (state) The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the smallest of Germany's 16 states. A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen .-Geography:...
9	Wilhelm Hoegner Wilhelm Hoegner Wilhelm Hoegner was the second Bavarian prime minister after World War II and father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Social Democrat to hold this office....	23 September 1887	5 March 1980	92 years, 163 days	Bavaria Bavaria Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
10	Richard von Weizsäcker Richard von Weizsäcker Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker , known as Richard von Weizsäcker, is a German politician . He served as Governing Mayor of West Berlin from 1981 to 1984, and as President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1984 to 1994...	15 April 1920			West Berlin West Berlin West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
11	Hubert Ney Hubert Ney Hubert Ney was a German politician and Minister-President of Saarland . He was born and died in Saarlouis.- External links :*...	12 October 1892	3 February 1984	91 years, 114 days	Saarland Saarland Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
12	Gebhard Müller Gebhard Müller Gebhard Müller was a German lawyer and politician . He was Minister-President of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Baden-Württemberg . He was born in Füramoos and died in Stuttgart....	17 April 1900	7 August 1990	90 years, 112 days	Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern was a historical state of West Germany. It was created in 1945 as part of the French occupation zone. Its capital was Tübingen... ; Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
13	Arthur Werner Arthur Werner Arthur Victor Hugo Werner was the first Mayor of Berlin after World War II.In 1907 Werner had graduated as an engineer at the Technical University of Charlottenburg...	15 April 1877	27 July 1967	90 years, 103 days	Greater Berlin Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:...
14	Alfred Kubel Alfred Kubel Alfred Kubel was a German politician; in his later career, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.In 1928, after attending Middle School, Kubel became an industrial clerk...	25 May 1909	22 May 1999	89 years, 362 days	Brunswick Duchy of Brunswick Brunswick was a historical state in Germany. Originally the territory of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in the Holy Roman Empire, it was established as an independent duchy by the Congress of Vienna in 1815... ; Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
15	Karl Steinhoff Karl Steinhoff Karl Steinhoff was a Minister-President of the German state of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior....	24 November 1892	19 July 1981	88 years, 237 days	Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
16	Heinrich Drake Heinrich Drake Heinrich Drake was a German politician . He was Minister-President of the Free State of Lippe from 1920-1933 and again from 1945-1947, until Lippe was incorporated into the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia...	20 December 1881	12 June 1970	88 years, 174 days	Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bückeburg.- History :...
17	Kurt Sieveking Kurt Sieveking -External links:...	21 December 1897	22 March 1986	88 years, 91 days	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
18	Heinrich Welsch Heinrich Welsch Heinrich Welsch was a politician but not a member of a political party. He was the Minister-President of the Saarland in 1955 and 1956....	13 October 1888	23 November 1976	88 years, 41 days	Saarland Saarland Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
19	Herbert Weichmann Herbert Weichmann Herbert Weichmann was a German lawyer and politician and First Mayor of Hamburg . In his position as mayor of Hamburg, he served as President of the Bundesrat .-Life:Weichmann was born in Landsberg, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Reich, to a Jewish family of physicians...	23 February 1896	9 October 1983	87 years, 228 days	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
20	Alfons Goppel Alfons Goppel Alfons Goppel was a German politician of the CSU party and Prime Minister of Bavaria .-Life:...	1 October 1905	24 December 1991	86 years, 84 days	Bavaria Bavaria Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
21	Hans-Jochen Vogel Hans-Jochen Vogel Hans-Jochen Vogel is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.- Early years and professional career :...	3 February 1926			West Berlin West Berlin West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
22	Max Brauer Max Brauer Max Julius Friedrich Brauer was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party and First Mayor of Hamburg....	3 September 1887	2 February 1973	85 years, 152 days	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
23	Ferdinand Friedensburg Ferdinand Friedensburg Ferdinand Friedensburg was the interim Mayor of Berlin due to the illness of mayor Louise Schroeder during the Berlin Blockade in 1948.-Biography:...	17 November 1886	11 March 1972	85 years, 115 days	Greater Berlin Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:... (interim)
24	Klaus Schütz Klaus Schütz Klaus Schütz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party .-Biography:He was Mayor of West Berlin from 1967 to 1977, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1967/68. After his resignation he worked as German Ambassador to Israel until 1981 and Director General of the Deutsche Welle...	17 September 1926			West Berlin West Berlin West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
25	Rudolf Paul Rudolf Paul Dr. Rudolf Paul was a German politician.He studied law in Berlin and Leipzig and practiced as a lawyer in Gera. He was a member of the German Democratic Party until its dissolution in 1933. Under the Nazi Regime, he was banned from his profession.Paul was appointed as mayor of Gera on May 7, 1945...	30 July 1893	28 February 1978	84 years, 213 days	Thuringia Thuringia The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
26	Kai-Uwe von Hassel Kai-Uwe von Hassel Kai-Uwe von Hassel was a German politician from Schleswig-Holstein associated with the CDU party.Von Hassel was born in Gare, German East Africa ....	21 April 1913	8 May 1997	84 years, 17 days	Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
27	Erich Vagts Erich Vagts Erich Vagts was a German politician, senator and former mayor of the City of Bremen....	9 February 1896	20 February 1980	84 years, 11 days	Bremen Bremen The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
28	Kurt Georg Kiesinger Kurt Georg Kiesinger Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 until 21 October 1969.-Early career and wartime activities:...	6 April 1904	9 March 1988	83 years, 332 days	Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
29	Rudolf Jahn Rudolf Jahn Rudolf Jahn was a German politician and Minister-President of Brandenburg . He was born in Leipzig....	4 November 1906	30 September 1990	83 years, 330 days	Brandenburg Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
30	Rudolf Petersen Rudolf Petersen Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen was a German businessman, politician and First Mayor of Hamburg ....	30 December 1878	10 September 1962	83 years, 282 days	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
31	Klaus von Dohnanyi Klaus von Dohnanyi Klaus von Dohnanyi is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party . Dohnanyi is the son of Hans and Christine Dohnanyi, and thus a nephew of Dietrich Bonhoeffer...	23 June 1928			Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
32	Heinrich Hellwege Heinrich Hellwege Heinrich Peter Hellwege was a German politician . Hellwege was Federal Minister for Affairs of the Federal Council and Prime Minister of Lower Saxony ....	18 August 1908	4 October 1991	83 years, 47 days	Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
33	Werner Klumpp Werner Klumpp Werner Klumpp is a German politician. He was a German politician of the FDP. After the death of Franz-Josef Röder he was the interim Minister-President of the Saarland ....	12 November 1928			Saarland Saarland Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states... (interim)
34	Carlo Schmid Carlo Schmid (German politician) Carlo Schmid was a German academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .Schmid is one of the most important authors of both the German Basic Law and the Godesberg Program of the SPD...	3 December 1896	11 December 1979	83 years, 8 days	Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern was a historical state of West Germany. It was created in 1945 as part of the French occupation zone. Its capital was Tübingen... (interim)
35	Georg Diederichs Georg Diederichs Georg Diederichs was a German politician, a member of the SPD, who served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.He was born at Northeim and died in Hanover....	2 September 1900	19 June 1983	82 years, 290 days	Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
36	Hans Koschnick Hans Koschnick Hans Koschnick is a German politician and elder statesman. He was the President of the Senate and Mayor of the German city-state of Bremen from 1967 to 1985 and afterwards served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 1987 to 1998.Between 1994 and 1996, Koschnick was...	2 April 1929			Bremen Bremen The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
37	Christian Stock Christian Stock Christian Stock was a German Social Democrat politician and the first Prime Minister—Ministerpräsident—of the provisional state of Greater Hesse , which had been constituted in the aftermath of World War II...	28 August 1884	13 April 1967	82 years, 228 days	Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
38	Willy Dehnkamp	22 July 1903	12 November 1985	82 years, 113 days	Bremen Bremen The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
39	Helmut Lemke Helmut Lemke Helmut Lemke was a German politician and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein . He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck.- External links :...	29 September 1907	15 April 1990	82 years, 198 days	Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
40	Carl-Ludwig Wagner Carl-Ludwig Wagner Carl-Ludwig Wagner is a German politician of the . Today he lives in Eitelsbach, a part of Trier.He was Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1988 to 1991, Minster from 1979 to 1988 , a member of the Bundestag and worked for the European Parliament in Luxembourg from 1959 to 1969.After...	9 January 1930			Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
41	Theodor Steltzer Theodor Steltzer Theodor Steltzer was a German politician , former Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein and was a member of the Kreisau Circle during World War II, becoming involved while stationed in Occupied Norway as a transportation officer in the Wehrmacht...	17 December 1885	27 October 1967	81 years, 314 days	Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
42	Reinhold Maier Reinhold Maier Reinhold Maier was a German politician and the leader of the FDP from 1957–1960.Maier was born in Schorndorf. In the Weimar Republic Maier was a member of the German Democratic Party...	16 October 1889	19 August 1971	81 years, 307 days	Württemberg-Baden Württemberg-Baden Württemberg-Baden is a former state of Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the U.S. occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. Its capital was Stuttgart... ; Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
43	Kurt Biedenkopf Kurt Biedenkopf Kurt Hans Biedenkopf is a German politician. He was Ministerpräsident of the Free State of Saxony from 1990 until 2002, as such serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1999/2000.- Biography :...	28 January 1930			Saxony Saxony The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
44	Helmut Kohl Helmut Kohl Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...	3 April 1930			Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
45	Peter Schulz Peter Schulz Peter Schulz is a German politician, member of the Social Democratic Party and First Mayor of Hamburg .Schulz was born in Rostock...	25 April 1930			Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
46	Ernst Albrecht	29 June 1930			Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
47	Rudolf Amelunxen Rudolf Amelunxen Rudolf Amelunxen was a German politician of the Zentrum and the first Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was born in Cologne and died in Düsseldorf.-External links:*...	30 June 1888	21 April 1969	80 years, 295 days	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
48	Otto Ostrowski Otto Ostrowski Otto Ostrowski was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Mayor of Berlin in 1946–1947....	28 January 1883	16 June 1963	80 years, 139 days	Greater Berlin Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:...
49	Heinz Kühn Heinz Kühn Heinz Kühn was a German politician and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was born in Cologne.- External links :*...	18 February 1912	12 March 1992	80 years, 23 days	North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
50	Walter Wallmann Walter Wallmann Walter Wallmann is a German politician who has served as Lord Mayor of Frankfurt .Between 1986 and 1987 he was the first Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety...	24 September 1932			Hesse Hesse Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

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