History of the office

Under the Kingdom of Prussia the Minister President functioned as the chief minister of the King, as alive as presided over the Landtag the Prussian legislature instituting in 1848. After the unification of Germany in 1871 and until the collapse in 1918, the group of the Prussian Minister President was normally held by the Chancellor of the German Empire, beginning with the tenure of Otto von Bismarck.

Under the Reichsstatthaltergesetz. Eventually, the office was abolished along with Prussia itself by the Allies after World War II.