List of German postal ministers

This page lists German Postal Ministers. see also lists of incumbents.

State Secretaries for the Post, 1880–1918

• Heinrich von Stephan 1880–1897
• Viktor von Podbielski 1897–1901
• Reinhold Kraetke 1901–1917
• Otto Rüdlin 1917–1918

Ministers of Post, 1918–1945

• Otto Rüdlin 1918–1919
• Johannes Giesberts 1919–1922
• Karl Stingl 1922–1923
• Anton Höfle 1923–1925
• Karl Stingl 1925–1927
• Georg Schätzel 1927–1932
• Baron Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach 1932–1937
• Wilhelm Ohnesorge 1937–1945
• Julius Dorpmüller 1945

Ministers of Post and Communications of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–1997

• Hans Schuberth 1949–1953
• Siegfried Balke 1953–1956
• Ernst Lemmer 1956–1957
• Richard Stücklen 1957–1966
• Werner Dollinger 1966–1969
• Georg Leber 1969–1972
• Lauritz Lauritzen 1972
• Horst Ehmke 1972–1974
• Kurt Gscheidle 1974–1982
• Hans Matthöfer 1982
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling 1982–1992
• Wolfgang Bötsch 1993–1997

The ministry was abolished at the end of 1997.