Justice Minister of Germany
This page lists German Justice Ministers. See also lists of incumbents
State Secretaries for Justice, 1876-1918
- Heinrich Friedberg 1876-1879
- Hermann von Schelling 1879-1889
- Otto von Ohlschläger 1889-1891
- Robert Bosse 1891-1892
- Eduard von Hanauer 1892-1893
- Rudolf Arnold Nieberding 1893-1909
- Hermann Lisco 1909-1917
- Paul Georg Christof von Krause 1917-1918
Ministers of Justice, 1918-1945
- Wilhelm Dittmann 1918-1919
- Otto Landsberg 1919
- none 1919
- Eugen Schiffer 1919-1920
- Andreas Blunck 1920-1921
- Eugen Schiffer 1921
- Gustav Radbruch 1921-1922
- Rudolf Heinze 1922-1923
- Gustav Radbruch 1923
- Erich Emminger 1923-1924
- Kurt Joël 1924-1925
- Josef Frenken 1925
- Hans Luther (acting) 1925-1926
- Wilhelm Marx 1926
- Johannes Bell 1926-1927
- Oskar Hergt 1927-1928
- Erich Koch-Weser 1928-1929
- Theodor von Guérard 1929-1930
- Johann Viktor Bredt 1930
- Kurt Joël 1930-1932
- Franz Gürtner 1932-1941
- Franz Schlegelberger 1941-1942
- Otto Georg Thierack 1942-1945
Ministers of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present
- Thomas Dehler 1949-1953
- Fritz Neumayer 1953-1956
- Hans-Joachim von Merkatz 1956-1957
- Fritz Schäffer 1957-1961
- Wolfgang Stammberger 1961-1962
- Ewald Bucher 1962-1965
- Karl Weber 1965
- Richard Jaeger 1965-1966
- Gustav Heinemann 1966-1969
- Horst Ehmke 1969
- Gerhard Jahn 1969-1974
- Hans-Jochen Vogel 1974-1981
- Jürgen Schmude 1981-1982
- Hans A. Engelhard 1982-1991
- Klaus Kinkel 1991-1992
- Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger 1992-1995
- Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig 1996-1998
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin 1998-2002
- Brigitte Zypries 2002-
