Ostpreussen
3 Dec 1829 - 1 Apr 1878 united with Westpreussen as Preussen
Jan 1945 Soviet occupation
2 Aug 1945 division between Soviet Union and Poland
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824 Hans Jakob von Auerswald (b. 1757 - d. 1833)
1824 - 1842 Theodor von Schön (b. 1773 - d. 1856)
1842 - 1848 Carl Wilhelm Boetticher (b. 1791 - d. 1868)
Mar 1848 - Jun 1848 Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald
(1st time) (b. 1795 - d. 1866)
Sep 1848 - 1849 Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1849 - 1850 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (acting) (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
1850 - Aug 1868 Franz August Eichmann (b. 1793 - d. 1879)
1869 - 1 Apr 1882 Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg von
Horn (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
1882 - 14 May 1891 Albrecht Heinrich Carl von
Schlieckmann (b. 1835 - d. 1891)
1891 - Mar 1895 Udo Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (b. 1840 - d. 1910)
12 Mar 1895 - 30 May 1901 Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck-
Schönhausen (b. 1852 - d. 1901)
1901 - 1903 Hugo Samuel Freiherr von
Richthofen (b. 1842 - d. 1904)
1903 - 1907 Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke (b. 1852 - d. 1927)
1907 - Aug 1914 Ludwig Hubert von Windheim (b. 1857 - d. 1935)
1 Oct 1914 - 10 Aug 1916 Adolf von Batocki-Friebe
(1st time) (b. 1868 - d. 1944)
10 Aug 1916 - 21 Jan 1918 Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von
Berg-Markienen (b. 1866 - d. 1939)
11 Feb 1918 - 30 Jun 1919 Adolf von Batocki-Friebe
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Jul 1919 - 16 Mar 1920 August Winnig (b. 1878 - d. 1956)
(acting to 1 Sep 1919; also Reichskommissar Jan-Jun 1919)
16 Mar 1920 - Oct 1932 Ernst Siehr (b. 1869 - d. 1945)
Oct 1932 - May 1933 Wilhelm Kutscher (b. 1876 - d. 1962)
May 1933 - 9 Apr 1945 Erich Koch (b. 1896 - d. 1986)
Soviet supreme commanders
Jan 1945 - 18 Feb 1945 Ivan Chernyakhovsky (b. 1906 - d. 1945)
1945 Aleksandr Vasilevsky (b. 1895 - d. 1977)
1945 - 17 Oct 1945 Ivan Bagramyan (b. 1897 - d. 1982)
Polish government plenipotentiaries (in the south)
19 Feb 1945 - 30 Mar 1945 Jerzy Sztachelski
30 Mar 1945 - 29 Dec 1945 Jakub Prawin
Pommern
2 Aug 1945 part of Poland (except the part west of the Oder)
Oberpräsidenten
25 May 1815 - Jan 1816 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von
Ingersleben (b. 1753 - d. 1831)
10 Jan 1816 - 28 Jun 1831 Johann August Sack (b. 1764 - d. 1831)
20 Jul 1831 - Feb 1835 Moritz Haubold Freiherr von
Schönberg (b. 1770 - d. 1860)
12 May 1835 - 28 Jan 1852 Wilhelm Friedrich Fürchtegott von
Bonin (b. 1786 - d. 1852)
12 Sep 1852 - 12 Oct 1866 Ernst Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf
Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach (b. 1795 - d. 1882)
1 Jan 1867 - 21 Jul 1882 Ferdinand Karl Wilhelm August
Freiherr von Münchhausen (b. 1810 - d. 1882)
26 Jan 1883 - 1891 Ulrich Karl August Wilhelm Hermann
Axel von Behr-Negendank (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
3 Jul 1891 - Dec 1899 Robert Victor von Puttkamer (b. 1828 - d. 1900)
1 Jan 1900 - 1911 Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn (b. 1840 - d. 1923)
1 Nov 1911 - 1917 Wilhelm Hans August von Waldow (b. 1856 - d. 1937)
Aug 1917 - 22 Mar 1918 Max Hermann Freiherr von Ziller (b. 1867 - d. 1929)
1 Apr 1918 - 31 Mar 1919 Georg Michaelis (b. 1857 - d. 1936)
1919 - 1930 Julius Lippmann (b. 1864 - d. 1934)
1930 - Oct 1933 Karl von Halfern (b. 1873 - d. 1937)
1934 - 1945 Franz Schwede-Coburg (b. 1888 - d. 1960)
Posen
28 Dec 1918 Polish occupation
Governor
1815 - 1830 Antoni Henryk Fürst Radziwill von
Nieswiecz-Olyka (b. 1775 - d. 1833)
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824 Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti (b. 1760 - d. 1831)
1825 - 4 Oct 1830 Johann Friedrich Theodor (from
1828, von) Baumann (b. 1768 - d. 1830)
1830 - 1840 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
1840 - 1842 Adolf Heinrich Graf von
Arnim-Boitzenburg (b. 1803 - d. 1868)
1843 - 1850 Carl Moritz von Beurmann (b. 1802 - d. 1870)
3 Aug 1850 - 1851 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(1st time) (b. 1797 - d. 1878)
10 Jul 1851 - 1860 Eugen von Puttkamer (b. 1800 - d. 1874)
23 Apr 1860 - 1862 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1862 - 1869 Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg von
Horn (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
1869 - 1873 Otto Graf von Königsmarck (b. 1815 - d. 1889)
1873 - 1886 William Barstow von Guenther (b. 1815 - d. 1892)
1886 - 1890 Robert Graf von Zedlitz-
Trützschler (b. 1837 - d. 1914)
1890 - 1899 Hugo Theodor Wichardt Freiherr
von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (b. 1840 - d. 1905)
1899 - 1903 Karl Julius Rudolf von Bitter (b. 1846 - d. 1914)
1903 - 1911 Wilhelm Hans August von Waldow (b. 1856 - d. 1937)
1911 - 1914 Philipp Schwartzkopf
1914 - 1918 Johann Karl Friedrich Moritz
Ferdinand von Eisenhart-Rothe (b. 1862 - d. 1942)
Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen
2 Sep 1938 divided between Brandenburg, Pommern, and Schlesien
2 Aug 1945 part of Poland
Oberpräsidenten
21 Jul 1922 - 1933 Friedrich von Bülow (b. 1868 - d. 1936)
1933 Hans von Meibom
5 Jul 1933 - 7 Aug 1936 Wilhelm Kube (b. 1887 - d. 1943)
7 Aug 1936 - 2 Sep 1938 Emil Stürtz (b. 1892 - d. 1945)
Rheinland
27 Jun 1822 Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg united
Niederrhein
Oberpräsident
1816 - 27 Jun 1822 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von
Ingersleben (b. 1753 - d. 1831)
Jülich-Kleve-Berg
Oberpräsident
1816 - 24 Feb 1822 Friedrich Ludwig Christian Graf
von Solms-Laubach (b. 1769 - d. 1822)
Rheinland
Oberpräsidenten
27 Jun 1822 - 13 May 1831 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von
Ingersleben (s.a.)
1831 - 1834 Philipp von Pestel (b. 1767 - d. 1835)
1834 - 1842 Ernst Albert Karl Wilhelm Ludwig
Freiherr von Bodelschwingh (b. 1794 - d. 1854)
1842 - 1845 Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper (b. 1792 - d. 1868)
16 Jul 1845 - Sep 1848 Franz August Eichmann (1st time) (b. 1793 - d. 1879)
Sep 1848 - 12 Nov 1848 Eduard von Moeller (acting) (b. 1814 - d. 1880)
12 Nov 1848 - 31 Aug 1850 Franz August Eichmann (2nd time) (s.a.)
1850 - 1851 Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (b. 1795 - d. 1866)
Jul 1851 - 1858 Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow (b. 1814 - d. 1892)
1858 - 7 Dec 1871 Adolph von Pommer-Esche (b. 1804 - d. 1871)
17 Jun 1872 - 1 Oct 1889 Moritz Heinrich Albrecht von
Bardeleben (b. 1814 - d. 1890)
1889 - 1890 Hans Hermann Freiherr von
Berlepsch (b. 1843 - d. 1926)
1890 - 1905 Berthold Johann Marcellus Edmund
Nasse (b. 1831 - d. 1906)
1905 - 1910 Clemens August Freiherr von
Schorlemer-Lieser (b. 1856 - d. 1922)
1910 - 1918 Georg Freiherr von Rheinbaben (b. 1855 - d. 1921)
Apr 1918 - 10 May 1922 Rudolf Felix Joseph von Groote (b. 1858 - d. 1922)
1922 - Mar 1933 Hans Fuchs (b. 1874 - d. 1956)
Mar 1933 - 1935 Hermann Freiherr von Lüninck (b. 1893 - d. 1975)
1935 - 1945 Josef Terboven (b. 1898 - d. 1945)
Sachsen
1 Jul 1944 divided into Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg provinces
Oberpräsidenten
1816 - 1821 Friedrich Wilhelm August Werner
von Bülow (b. 1762 - d. 1827)
1821 Friedrich Christian Adolf von Motz
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1775 - d. 1830)
1821 - 1824 ...
1824 - 1825 Friedrich Christian Adolf von Motz
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1825 - 1837 Wilhelm Anton von Klewitz (b. 1760 - d. 1838)
1837 - 1838 ...
1838 - 1840 Anton Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (b. 1785 - d. 1854)
1840 - 1844 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
1844 - 1845 Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von
Wedell (b. 1801 - d. 1866)
1845 - Sep 1848 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(1st time) (b. 1797 - d. 1878)
Sep 1848 - 1849 ...
1849 - 1850 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1850 - 1872 Hartmann Erasmus von Witzleben (b. 1805 - d. 1878)
1873 - 1881 Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow (b. 1804 - d. 1890)
1881 - 1890 Arthur Paul Ferdinand von Wolff (b. 1828 - d. 1898)
1890 - 1897 Albert Reinhold von Pommer-Esche (b. 1837 - d. 1903)
1898 - 1906 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher (b. 1833 - d. 1907)
1906 - 1908 Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von
Wilmowski (b. 1850 - d. 1941)
1908 - 1917 Eduard Wilhelm von Hegel (b. 1849 - d. 1925)
1917 - 1 Jul 1919 Rudolf Wilhelm Graf von der
Schulenburg (b. 1860 - d. 1930)
1920 - 1927 Otto Hörsing (b. 1874 - d. 1937)
1927 - 1930 Heinrich Waentig (b. 1870 - d. 1943)
Jun 1930 - 21 Jul 1932 Carl Falck (b. 1884 - d. 1947)
1933 Kurt Melcher (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
1933 - 20 Jun 1934 Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Velsen (b. 1871 - d. 19...)
(acting)
1934 - 1 Jul 1944 Kurt Albert Paul von Ulrich (b. 1876 - d. 1946)
Magdeburg
Oberpräsident
1 Jul 1944 - 1945 Rudolf Jordan (b. 1902 - d. 1988)
Halle-Merseburg
Oberpräsident
1 Jul 1944 - 1945 Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (b. 1884 - d. 1945)
Schlesien
14 Oct 1919 divided into Niederschlesien and Oberschlesien provinces
1 Apr 1938 reunited into one province
27 Jan 1941 divided again
Präsidenten der Kriegs- und Domänenkammern
Jan 1742 - 17 Mar 1742 Ludwig Wilhelm Graf von Münchow (b. 1712 - d. 1753)
+ Reinhard
Ministers
17 Mar 1742 - 1753 Ludwig Wilhelm Graf von Münchow (s.a.)
1753 - 1755 Joachim Ewald von Massow (b. 1697 - d. 1769)
1755 - 1769 Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorff (b. 1719 - d. 1769)
1769 - 22 Dec 1806 Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym (b. 1739 - d. 1807)
22 Dec 1806 - 1813 ...
Civil governor
1813 - 1816 Friedrich Theodor Merckel (b. 1775 - d. 1846)
Oberpräsidenten
1816 - 1820 Friedrich Theodor Merckel (s.a.)
1820 - 1824 ...
1824 - 1825 Moritz Haubold Freiherr von
Schönberg (b. 1770 - d. 1860)
Jul 1825 - 25 Aug 1825 Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Hans Graf
von Bülow (b. 1774 - d. 1825)
1825 - 16 May 1845 Friedrich Theodor (from 1828,
von) Merckel (s.a.)
1845 - 1848 Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von
Wedell (b. 1801 - d. 1866)
1848 Hans Ludwig David Julius Theodor
Florian Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (b. 1805 - d. 1865)
(acting)
30 Mar 1848 - 20 Nov 1848 Julius Hermann Pinder (b. 1805 - d. 1867)
21 Nov 1848 - 4 Jun 1869 Johann Eduard Christoph Freiherr
von Schleinitz (b. 1798 - d. 1869)
(acting to 13 Oct 1849)
1869 - 8 Aug 1872 Eberhard Graf zu Stolberg-
Wernigerode (b. 1810 - d. 1872)
1873 - 1874 Ferdinand Otto Freiherr von
Nordenflycht (b. 1816 - d. 1901)
1874 - 1877 Adolf Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (b. 1832 - d. 1887)
1877 - 1879 Robert Victor von Puttkamer (b. 1828 - d. 1900)
1879 - 1894 Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (b. 1818 - d. 1898)
1894 - 1903 Hermann Fürst von Hatzfeldt-
Trachenberg (b. 1848 - d. 1933)
1903 - 1909 Robert Graf von Zedlitz-
Trützschler (b. 1837 - d. 1914)
1910 Johann Nikolaus Michael Louis von
Dallwitz (b. 1855 - d. 1919)
1910 - 31 Mar 1919 Hans Lauchlan von Guenther (b. 1864 - d. 1934)
8 Apr 1919 - 14 Oct 1919 Felix Philipp (b. 1868 - d. 19...)
1 Apr 1938 - 27 Jan 1941 Josef Wagner (b. 1899 - d. 1945)
Niederschlesien
2 Aug 1945 part of Poland (except for the parts west of the Neisse)
Oberpräsidenten
14 Oct 1919 - 25 May 1920 Felix Philipp (s.a.)
1920 - 1928 Hermann Zimmer (b. 1867 - d. 1928)
1928 - 1932 Hermann Lüdemann (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
1932 - Mar 1933 Friedrich Graf von Degenfeld-
Schonburg (b. 1878 - d. 1969)
14 Jun 1933 - 26 Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner (b. 1896 - d. 1951?)
(acting to 2 Aug 1933)
26 Dec 1934 - 1 Apr 1938 Josef Wagner (s.a.)
27 Jan 1941 - 5 May 1945 Karl Hanke (b. 1903 - d. 1945)
Oberschlesien
2 Aug 1945 part of Poland
Oberpräsidenten
1919 - 1922 Joseph Bitta (acting) (b. 1856 - d. 1932)
1923 - 1929 Alfons Proske (b. 1881 - d. 1950)
1929 - 19 May 1933 Hans Lukaschek (b. 1885 - d. 1960)
14 Jun 1933 - 26 Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner (b. 1896 - d. 1951?)
(acting to 2 Aug 1933)
26 Dec 1934 - 1 Apr 1938 Josef Wagner (s.a.)
27 Jan 1941 - 1945 Fritz Bracht (b. 1899 - d. 1945)
Schleswig-Holstein
Oberpräsidenten
24 Jan 1867 - 1879 Carl Theodor August Scheel-Plessen (b. 1811 - d. 1892)
1879 - 1880 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher (b. 1833 - d. 1907)
1880 - 1896 Georg Franz Maximilian (from
1888, von) Steinmann (b. 1830 - d. 1901)
1897 - 1901 Ernst Matthias von Köller (b. 1841 - d. 1928)
1901 - 1906 Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von
Wilmowski (b. 1850 - d. 1941)
1906 - 1907 Kurt Ludwig Karl von Dewitz (b. 1847 - d. 1925)
1907 - 1914 Detlev Wilhelm Theodor von Bülow (b. 1854 - d. 1926)
1914 - 31 Dec 1918 Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke (b. 1852 - d. 1927)
Jul 1919 - Jul 1932 Heinrich Kürbis (b. 1873 - d. 1951)
Oct 1932 - Mar 1933 Heinrich Thon (b. 1872 - d. 19...)
1933 - May 1945 Hinrich Lohse (b. 1896 - d. 1964)
Westfalen
Oberpräsidenten
1 Aug 1816 - 2 Dec 1844 Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp
(from 1837, Freiherr von) Vincke (b. 1774 - d. 1844)
2 Dec 1844 - 27 May 1845 Justus Wilhelm Duvignon (acting) (b. 1793 - d. 1866)
27 May 1845 - 15 Jul 1846 Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper (b. 1792 - d. 1868)
15 Jul 1846 - 21 Jul 1850 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
21 Jul 1850 - 8 May 1871 Franz Gerhard Xaver von Duesberg (b. 1793 - d. 1872)
8 May 1871 - 2 Jun 1871 Franz Otto Gustav Albert von
Manderode (acting) (b. 1805 - d. 1871)
2 Jun 1871 - 2 Dec 1882 Friedrich Christian Hubert von
Kühlwetter (b. 1809 - d. 1882)
2 Dec 1882 - 23 Jul 1883 August Julius Wilhelm von
Liebermann (acting) (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
23 Jul 1883 - 29 May 1889 Robert Eduard von Hagemeister (b. 1827 - d. 1902)
29 May 1889 - 2 Apr 1899 Heinrich Konrad Studt (b. 1838 - d. 1921)
2 Apr 1899 - 16 Sep 1899 Alfred Klemens Karl Maria von
Gescher (acting) (b. 1844 - d. 1932)
16 Sep 1899 - 16 Feb 1911 Gustav Wilhelm Eberhard Freiherr
von der Recke von der Horst (b. 1847 - d. 1911)
16 Feb 1911 - 13 Mar 1911 Ladislaus von Jarotzky (acting) (b. 1858 - d. 19...)
13 Mar 1911 - 3 May 1919 Karl Egon zu Hohenlohe-
Schillingsfürst (b. 1860 - d. 1931)
3 May 1919 - 1919 Felix Friedrich Graf von Merveldt
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1862 - d. 1926)
1919 - 31 Mar 1922 Bernhard Wuermeling (b. 1854 - d. 1937)
31 Mar 1922 - 28 Apr 1922 Felix Friedrich Graf von Merveldt
(2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
28 Apr 1922 - 31 Mar 1933 Johannes Franz Gronowski (b. 1874 - d. 1958)
31 Mar 1933 - 1933 Hermann Pünder (acting) (b. 1888 - d. 1976)
1933 - 1938 Ferdinand Joseph Meinolph Anton
Maria Freiherr von Lüninck (b. 1888 - d. 1944)
1938 - May 1945 Alfred Meyer (b. 1891 - d. 1945)
May 1945 - 2 Jun 1945 Karl Friedrich Kolbow (acting) (b. 1899 - d. 1945)
2 Jun 1945 - 2 Jul 1945 Bernhard Salzmann (acting) (b. 1886 - d. 1959)
Westpreussen
3 Dec 1829 - 1 Apr 1878 united with Ostpreussen as Preussen
10 Jan 1920 part of Poland
1 Sep 1939 German occupation (see Danzig)
2 Apr 1945 part of Poland
Oberpräsidenten
1816 - 3 Dec 1829 Theodor von Schön (b. 1773 - d. 1856)
1 Apr 1878 - 1879 Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach (b. 1829 - d. 1899)
1879 - 1888 Karl Adolf August Ernst von
Ernsthausen (b. 1827 - d. 1894)
1888 - 22 Apr 1891 Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger (b. 1825 - d. 1891)
1891 - 29 Sep 1902 Gustav Heinrich Konrad von Gossler (b. 1838 - d. 1902)
1902 - 1905 Clemens Delbrück (b. 1856 - d. 1921)
1905 - 15 May 1919 Ernst Ludwig von Jagow (b. 1853 - d. 1930)
Jan 1919 - Jun 1919 August Winnig (Reichskommissar) (b. 1878 - d. 1956)