List of presidents of the Reichstag
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The President of the Reichstag was the presiding officer of the German legislature from 1871 to 1918, under the German Empire and again from 1920 to 1945, under the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
President of the Reichstag
Präsident des Reichstags | |
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Presidium of the Reichstag | |
Style | Mr. President |
Type | Presiding officer |
Seat | Reichstag building, Königsplatz, Berlin |
Nominator | Political parties |
Appointer | Reichstag traditionally appointing nominee of the largest party |
Term length | Contemporaneous to legislative period |
Constituting instrument | German Basic Law |
Formation | March 1871 |
First holder | Eduard von Simson |
Final holder | Hermann Göring |
Abolished | 23 April 1945 |
Succession |
Presidents of the Reichstag
No. | Portrait | President of the Reichstag | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | |
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Presidents of the Reichstag | |||||||
1 | Eduard von Simson (1810–1899) | March 1871 | February 1874 | 2 years, 11 months | Independent | ||
2 | Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck (1821–1892) | February 1874 | May 1879 | 5 years, 3 months | Independent | ||
3 | Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (1818–1898) | May 1879 | August 1879 | 3 months | Independent | ||
4 | Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1832–1887) | February 1880 | February 1881 | 1 year | Independent | ||
5 | Gustav von Goßler (1838–1902) | February 1881 | November 1881 | 9 months | Independent | ||
6 | Albert von Levetzow (1827–1903) | November 1881 | November 1884 | 3 years | Independent | ||
7 | Wilhelm von Wedell-Piesdorf (1837–1915) | November 1884 | November 1888 | 4 years | Independent | ||
(6) | Albert von Levetzow (1827–1903) | November 1888 | March 1895 | 6 years, 4 months | Independent | ||
8 | Rudolf von Buol-Berenberg (1842–1902) | March 1895 | December 1898 | 3 years, 9 months | Independent | ||
9 | Franz von Ballestrem (1834–1910) | December 1898 | 20 February 1907 | 8 years, 2 months | Independent | ||
10 | Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1840–1910) | 20 February 1907 | 19 February 1910 † | 2 years, 11 months | Independent | ||
11 | Hans Graf von Schwerin-Löwitz (1847–1918) | 1 March 1910 | February 1912 | 1 year, 11 months | Independent | ||
12 | Johannes Kaempf (1842–1918) | February 1912 | 25 May 1918 † | 6 years, 3 months | Independent | ||
13 | Constantin Fehrenbach (1852–1926) | June 1918 | November 1918 | 5 months | Centre | ||
Presidents of the Weimar National Assembly | |||||||
1 | Eduard David (1863–1930) | 7 February 1919 | 13 February 1919 | 6 days | SPD | ||
Conrad Haussmann (1857–1922) Acting | 13 February 1919 | 14 February 1919 | 1 day | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/G' not found. | |||
2 | Constantin Fehrenbach (1852–1926) | 14 February 1919 | 21 June 1920 | 1 year, 128 days | Centre | ||
Presidents of the Reichstag | |||||||
14 | Paul Löbe (1875–1967) | 25 June 1920 | 27 May 1924 | 3 years, 337 days | SPD | ||
Max Wallraf (1859–1941) | 28 May 1924 | 7 January 1925 | 225 days | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/G' not found. | |||
(14) | Paul Löbe (1875–1967) | 7 January 1925 | 30 August 1932 | 7 years, 236 days | SPD | ||
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) | 30 August 1932 | 23 April 1945 | 12 years, 236 days | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/N' not found. |