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Chancellor of Germany

offices held over time by the head of government of Germany

34 dated entries naming Chancellor of Germany, drawn from 28 separate years between 1831 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Chancellor of Germany (1949–), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor of the German Empire, German Chancellor, German chancellor in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1831February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (died 1899)source
  • 1849May 3 – Bernhard von Bülow, 8th Chancellor of Germany (died 1929)source
  • 1856November 29 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (died 1921)source
  • 1865July 26 – Philipp Scheidemann, 11th Chancellor of Germany (died 1939)source
  • 1871March 21 – Otto von Bismarck becomes the first Chancellor of the German Empire.source
  • 1876January 5 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (died 1967)source
  • 1890March 20 – Kaiser Wilhelm II forces Otto von Bismarck to resign as Chancellor of Germany.source

20th century

  • 1913December 18 – Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1992)source
  • 1918October 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany appoints Max von Baden Chancellor of Germany.source
  • 1918December 23 – Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (died 2015)source
  • 1921January 1 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1856)source
  • 1923August 13 – Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany, and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.source
  • 1929October 28 – Bernhard von Bülow, German count and statesman, 8th Chancellor of Germany (born 1849)source
  • 1930March 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany.source
  • 1930April 3 – Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)source
  • 1932August 22 – Potempa murder: The five SA men involved in the torture and murder of Konrad Pietrzuch are quickly convicted and sentenced to death under the new law introduced by the Papen government. The Potempa case becomes a cause célèbre in Germany, where some maintain the death sentences are appropriate given the brutality of the torture and murder, whilst Nazis demonstrate for amnesty for the "Potempa five" on the grounds they are patriotic heroes, justified in killing the Communist Pietrzuch, and should not be executed. Hitler sends a telegram congratulating the five and they are released from jail in 1933 after he becomes Chancellor of Germany.source
  • 1933January 30 – Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.source
  • 1934Kurt von Schleicher, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)source
  • 1934August 19 – 1934 German referendum: In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers, as Führer and Reichskanzler.source
  • 1939January 1 – With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).source
  • 1939November 29 – Philipp Scheidemann, German politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (born 1865)source
  • 1945April 30 – Death of Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the Führerbunker in Berlin. Großadmiral Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as Reichspräsident (President of Germany) and Joseph Goebbels succeeds as Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany), in accordance with Hitler's political testament the day earlier.source
  • 1945May 23 – The Flensburg Government is dissolved by the Allies, and German president Karl Dönitz and German chancellor Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British RAF Regiment personnel at Flensburg. They are respectively the last German head of state and head of government until 1949.source
  • 194523 May – President of Germany Karl Dönitz and Chancellor of Germany Count Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk are arrested by British forces at Flensburg. They are respectively the last German Head of state and Head of government until 1949.source
  • 1954July 17 – Angela Merkel, 8th Chancellor of Germanysource
  • 1958June 14 – Olaf Scholz, 9th Chancellor of Germanysource
  • 1967April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (born 1876)source
  • 1982October 1 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.source
  • 1992October 8 – Willy Brandt, 78, German politician, Chancellor (1969–1974), and Nobel Prize recipient (1971), colon cancer.source

21st century

  • 2005November 22 – Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.source
  • 2015November 10 – Helmut Schmidt, 96, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982), complications from surgery.source
  • 2017June 16 – Helmut Kohl, 87, German politician, Chancellor (1982–1998), Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1969–1976).source
  • 2024November 5 – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismisses FDP leader Christian Lindner from his position as finance minister, leading to two other FDP ministers resigning and the collapse of the governing coalition.source
  • 2025May 6 – 2025 German federal election: Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany in the second round of parliamentary voting, hours after being defeated in the first round, a first in post-WWII German history.source

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