State Secretaries for Finance of the German Empire, 1880-1918

• Adolf Heinrich Wilhelm Scholz 1880-1882
• Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard 1882-1886
• Karl Rudolf Jacobi 1886-1888
• Baron Helmuth von Maltzahn
  Helmuth von Maltzahn
  Helmuth Ludwig Wilhelm Freiherr von Maltzahn was a German finance minister and a representative in the Reichstag....
  
   1888-1893
• Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner
  Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner
  Arthur, Count of Posadowsky-Wehner, Baron of Postelwitz was a German conservative politician and statesman. He served as Secretary for the Treasury , Secretary of the Interior, Vice Chancellor of Germany and Prussian Minister of State ....
  
   1893-1897
• Baron Max Franz Guido von Thielmann 1897-1903
• Baron Hermann von Stengel
  Hermann von Stengel
  Hermann Guido Leopold Freiherr von Stengel was a Bavarian administrator, a German politician and Finance Minister of the empire....
  
   1903-1908
• Reinhold Sydow 1908-1909
• Adolf Wermuth 1909-1912
• Hermann Kühn 1912-1915
• Karl Helfferich
  Karl Helfferich
  Karl Theodor Helfferich was a German politician, economist, and financier from Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the Palatinate.-Biography:...
  
   1915-1916
• Count Siegfried von Roedern
  Siegfried von Roedern
  Siegfried Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Graf von Roedern was a German politician...
  
   1916-1918

Ministers of Finance, 1918-1945

• Eugen Schiffer
  Eugen Schiffer
  Eugen Schiffer , was the German Minister of Finances and Vice-Chancellor from 13 February to 19 April 1919 and 3 October 1919 to 27 March 1920. From 1919 to 1920 and again in 1921 he served as Minister of Justice....
  
   (DDP) 1919
• Bernhard Dernburg
  Bernhard Dernburg
  Bernhard Dernburg was a German liberal politician and banker. He served as Secretary for Colonial Affairs and head of the Imperial Colonial Office from May 1907 to 9 June 1910, and as Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 17 April to 20 June 1919.-Background and banking...
  
   (DDP) 1919
• Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger was a German politician. Prominent in the Centre Party, he spoke out against the First World War from 1917 and eventually signed the Armistice with Germany for the German Empire...
  
   (Z
  Centre Party (Germany)
  The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...
  
  ) 1919-1920
• Joseph Wirth
  Joseph Wirth
  Karl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922.-Biography:...
  
   (Z) 1920-1921
• Andreas Hermes
  Andreas Hermes
  Andreas Hermes was a German Christian Democratic Union politician, agricultural scientist, Finance Minister of the Weimar Republic, and a member of the resistance to Nazism.- Life :...
  
   (Z) 1921-1923
• Rudolf Hilferding
  Rudolf Hilferding
  Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic, almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of his century, and a...
  
   (SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
  ) 1923
• Hans Luther
  Hans Luther
  Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918...
  
   1923-1925
• Otto von Schlieben (DNVP
  German National People's Party
  The German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and...
  
  ) 1925
• Hans Luther
  Hans Luther
  Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918...
  
   (acting) 1925-1926
• Peter Reinhold (DDP) 1926-1927
• Heinrich Köhler
  Heinrich Köhler
  Franz Heinrich Köhler was a German politician who served as the fifth and eighth State President of Baden and the eleventh Minister of Finance in the Weimar Republic. He was a member of the Centre Party, and later the CDU...
  
   (Z) 1927-1928
• Rudolf Hilferding
  Rudolf Hilferding
  Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic, almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of his century, and a...
  
   (SPD) 1928-1929
• Paul Moldenhauer (DVP
  German People's Party
  The German People's Party was a national liberal party in Weimar Germany and a successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire.-Ideology:...
  
  ) 1929-1930
• Heinrich Brüning
  Heinrich Brüning
  Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
  
   (Z, acting) 1930
• Hermann R. Dietrich (DStP
  German State Party
  The German State Party was a short-lived German political party of the Weimar Republic, formed by the merger of the German Democratic Party with the People's National Reich Association in July 1930...
  
  ) 1930-1932
• Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk 1932-1945

Minister of Finance of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990

• Hans Loch 1949-1955
• Willy Rumpf
  Willy Rumpf
  Willy Rumpf was Finance Minister in the German Democratic Republic.Born in Berlin, Rumpf was from 1917 to 1920 educated as an insurance assessor, and worked until 1932 as an accountant, cashier and a foreign trade correspondent. In 1920 he joined the German Communist Youth Association, and in 1925...
  
   1955-1966
• Siegfried Böhm 1966-1980
• Werner Schmieder 1980-1981
• Ernst Höfner
  Ernst Höfner
  Ernst Höfner was Finance Minister in the German Democratic Republic. Born in Berlin, Höfner graduated with a degree in business. In the 1960s he was a secretary in the finance ministry...
  
   1981-1989
• Uta Nickel 1989-1990
• Walter Romberg 1990
• Werner Skowron 1990

Ministers of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present

• Fritz Schäffer
  Fritz Schäffer
  Fritz Schäffer was a German politician for the Bavarian People's Party and the Christian Social Union . In 1945 he became the first Bavarian Minister-President after World War II...
  
   1949-1957
• Franz Etzel
  Franz Etzel
  Franz Etzel was a German politician for the CDU. From 1949 to 4 January 1953 and from 1957 to 1967 Etzel was member of the German Bundestag. From 1957 to 1961 he was Minister of Finance.-See also:*List of German finance ministers...
  
   1957-1961
• Heinz Starke
  Heinz Starke
  Heinz Starke was a German politician. He was born in Silesia. He was Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961–62.-References:*...
  
   1961-1962
• Rolf Dahlgrün
  Rolf Dahlgrün
  Rolf Dahlgrün was a German politician for the FDP. From 1962 to 1966 he was Minister of Finance.-Life:Dahlgrün studied law. He worked since 1936 for the Phönix Gummiwerke AG in Hamburg-Harburg...
  
   1962-1966
• Kurt Schmücker
  Kurt Schmücker
  Kurt Schmücker was a German politician, member of Christian Democratic Union.Kurt Schmücker was born on November 10, 1919 in Löningen, Lower Saxony....
  
   1966
• Franz Josef Strauß
  Franz Josef Strauß
  Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the leader of the Christian Social Union, member of the federal cabinet in different positions and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria....
  
   1966-1969
• Alex Möller
  Alex Möller
  Alexander Johann Heinrich Friedrich Möller, known as Alex Möller was a German politician .Möller was born in Dortmund. He was a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1946 to October 5, 1961, when he was elected to the Bundestag. His successor was Walther Wäldele...
  
   1969-1971
• Karl Schiller
  Karl Schiller
  Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German scientist and politician of the Social Democratic Party . From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance...
  
   1971-1972
• Helmut Schmidt
  Helmut Schmidt
  Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...
  
   1972-1974
• Hans Apel
  Hans Apel
  Hans Eberhard Apel was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . From 1972-74 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister...
  
   1974-1978
• Hans Matthöfer
  Hans Matthöfer
  Hans Hermann Matthöfer was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.Between 1974 and 1978 Matthöfer served as secretary of research and technology. In 1978 he took over as secretary of finance and in 1982 he left that post and served briefly as secretary of telecommunication...
  
   1978-1982
• Manfred Lahnstein
  Manfred Lahnstein
  Manfred Lahnstein is a German politician . In 1982 he was German Federal Minister of Finance as well as Federal Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomerate Bertelsmann.- Family :...
  
   1982
• Gerhard Stoltenberg
  Gerhard Stoltenberg
  Gerhard Stoltenberg was a German politician and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as minister-president of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982 and as such as President of the Bundesrat in 1977/78.-Life:Stoltenberg was...
  
   1982-1989
• Theodor Waigel
  Theodor Waigel
  Theodor "Theo" Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria.Waigel is a lawyer, and earned a doctorate in 1967. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2002...
  
   1989-1998
• Oskar Lafontaine
  Oskar Lafontaine
  Oskar Lafontaine is a German politician, former German finance minister, former chairman of the Social Democratic Party and former Minister-President of the state of Saarland. Since 2007 he was co-chairman of The Left...
  
   1998-1999
• Hans Eichel
  Hans Eichel
  Hans Eichel , German politician , was Minister of Finance from 1999-2005.-Background:He was brought up in Kassel where he did his Abitur in 1961. He then completed a degree in German, philosophy, political science, history and education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin, graduating in 1970...
  
   1999-2005
• Peer Steinbrück
  Peer Steinbrück
  Peer Steinbrück is a German social democratic politician. From 2005 to 2009 he served as German Federal Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel.- Early political career, Minister President :...
  
   2005-2009
• Wolfgang Schäuble
  Wolfgang Schäuble
  Wolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel....
  
  2009-