This article lists German Postal Ministers. See also
lists of incumbents.
State Secretaries for the Post, 1880–1918
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Heinrich von Stephan
Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Stephan (born Heinrich Stephan, January 7, 1831 – April 8, 1897) was a general post director-general, director for the German Empire who reorganized the German Postal administration, postal service. He was integral i ...
1880–1897
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Viktor von Podbielski 1897–1901
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Reinhold Kraetke 1901–1917
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Otto Rüdlin 1917–1918
Ministers of Post, 1918–1945
West and East Germany, 1949–1997
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Ministers of Post and Communications of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1997
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Hans Schuberth
Hans Schuberth (April 5, 1897 in Schwabach – September 2, 1976 in Munich) was a German politician who from 1949 to 1953 was the first Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications in Konrad Adenauer's first cabinet.
Biography
After grad ...
1949–1953
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Siegfried Balke 1953–1956
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Ernst Lemmer
Ernst Lemmer (April 28, 1898 – August 16, 1970) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the ...
1956–1957
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Richard Stücklen
Richard Stücklen (20 August 1916 – 2 May 2002) was German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He had previously been a member of the NSDAP (1939–1945). From 1957 to 1966, he served as Federal Minister for Post and Communication. ...
1957–1966
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Werner Dollinger
Werner Dollinger (10 October 1918 – 3 January 2008) was a German politician and economist, a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He served as Federal Minister for the Treasury from 1962 to 1966, Federal Minister for Econom ...
1966–1969
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Georg Leber
Georg Leber (7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012) was a German Trades Union leader and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Biography
Leber was born in Obertiefenbach (Beselich). After serving in the Luftwaffe (the Germ ...
1969–1972
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Lauritz Lauritzen
Lauritz Lauritzen (20 January 1910 – 5 June 1980) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was born in Kiel and died in Bad Honnef.
Life and career
Lauritzen studied Law at the universities of Freiburg and K ...
1972
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Horst Ehmke
Horst Paul August Ehmke (4 February 1927 – 12 March 2017) was a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969), Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Fe ...
1972–1974
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Kurt Gscheidle
Kurt Gscheidle (16 December 1924 – 22 February 2003) was a German politician affiliated to the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Gscheidle trained as a mechanic with the Deutsche Reichspost until 1942, when he was called up by the Wehrmacht. I ...
1974–1982
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Hans Matthöfer
Hans Hermann Matthöfer (25 September 1925 – 14 November 2009) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Between 1974 and 1978 Matthöfer served as secretary of research and technology. In 1978 he took over as secretary of ...
1982
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Christian Schwarz-Schilling 1982–1992
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Wolfgang Bötsch
Wolfgang Bötsch (8 September 1938 in Bad Kreuznach – 14 October 2017 in Würzburg) was a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Between 1974 and 1976 he represented the Landtag of Bavaria. From 1976 ...
1993–1997
The ministry was abolished at the end of 1997.
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Minister of Post and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1991
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Friedrich Burmeister: 7 October 1949-13 November 1963 (CDU)
*Rudolph Schulze: 14 November 1963-7 November 1989 (CDU)
*Klaus Wolf: 18 November 1989-12 April 1990 (CDU)
*Emil Schnell: 12 April 1990-20 August 1990 (SPD)
*Hans-Jürgen Niehof: 20 August 1990-2 October 1990 (FDP)
Flags
Postflagge 1892-1918.svg, Postal flag (1892-1918)
Reichspostflagge 1921-1933.svg, Postal flag (1921-1933)
Reichspostflagge 1933-1935.svg, Postal flag (1933-1935)
Flag of German post (1950-1994).svg, Postal flag Germany
Flag of German post (East Germany).svg, Postal flag East Germany
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