List of German Chancellors 1949-2020

1966: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1970: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1974: Helmut Kohl (CDU-FDP)
1978: Rainer Barzel (CDU-SPD)
1982: Helmut Kohl (CDU majority) [1]
1986: Rudolf Scharping (SPD-GREENS)
1987: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU) [2]
1991: Johannes Rau (SPD) [3]
1995: Catherine Rommel (CDU majority)
1999: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans) [4]

2003: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans-FDP-DVU)[5]
2007: Mathias Platzek (SPD-Grüne-PDS)


[1] Barzel is shot on the campaign trail, and is permanently incapitated. Former Chancellor Kohl, who retired in 1978 only due to cancer, becomes chancellor again, and leads the CDU-CSU alliance to its first majority government since 1957
[2] Scharpings with marginal majority ruling goverment collapse after 6 month. New elections brings again a absolut majority for the CDU/CSU.
[3] The reunification, brings mostly social democratic minded citizens into the country, securing the absolute majority for the SPD.
[4]A Resurgent RAF, strikes several times, to protest against the "imperialist occupation of the GDR", killing the minister of Economy and wounding some others. As a result politics polarize and sweep the ultra -conservative republicans into power.
[5] The 5 percent clause is removed, so smaller parties once again enter the parliament.
 
1966: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1970: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1974: Helmut Kohl (CDU-FDP)
1978: Rainer Barzel (CDU-SPD)
1982: Helmut Kohl (CDU majority) [1]
1986: Rudolf Scharping (SPD-GREENS)
1987: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU) [2]
1991: Johannes Rau (SPD) [3]
1995: Catherine Rommel (CDU majority)
1999: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans) [4]

2003: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans-FDP-DVU)[5]
2007: Mathias Platzeck (SPD-Grüne-PDS)
2009: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD)

[1] Barzel is shot on the campaign trail, and is permanently incapitated. Former Chancellor Kohl, who retired in 1978 only due to cancer, becomes chancellor again, and leads the CDU-CSU alliance to its first majority government since 1957
[2] Scharpings with marginal majority ruling goverment collapse after 6 month. New elections brings again a absolut majority for the CDU/CSU.
[3] The reunification, brings mostly social democratic minded citizens into the country, securing the absolute majority for the SPD.
[4]A Resurgent RAF, strikes several times, to protest against the "imperialist occupation of the GDR", killing the minister of Economy and wounding some others. As a result politics polarize and sweep the ultra -conservative republicans into power.
[5] The 5 percent clause is removed, so smaller parties once again enter the parliament.
[6] After the red-red-green coalition falls apart during the economical crisis, the technocrat Köhler becomes head of a grand coalition.
 
1966: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1970: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1974: Helmut Kohl (CDU-FDP)
1978: Rainer Barzel (CDU-SPD)
1982: Helmut Kohl (CDU majority) [1]
1986: Rudolf Scharping (SPD-GREENS)
1987: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU) [2]
1991: Johannes Rau (SPD) [3]
1995: Catherine Rommel (CDU majority)
1999: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans) [4]

2003: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans-FDP-DVU)[5]
2007: Mathias Platzeck (SPD-Grüne-PDS)
2009: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [6]
2011: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [7]


[1] Barzel is shot on the campaign trail, and is permanently incapitated. Former Chancellor Kohl, who retired in 1978 only due to cancer, becomes chancellor again, and leads the CDU-CSU alliance to its first majority government since 1957
[2] Scharpings with marginal majority ruling goverment collapse after 6 month. New elections brings again a absolut majority for the CDU/CSU.
[3] The reunification, brings mostly social democratic minded citizens into the country, securing the absolute majority for the SPD.
[4]A Resurgent RAF, strikes several times, to protest against the "imperialist occupation of the GDR", killing the minister of Economy and wounding some others. As a result politics polarize and sweep the ultra -conservative republicans into power.
[5] The 5 percent clause is removed, so smaller parties once again enter the parliament.
[6] After the red-red-green coalition falls apart during the economical crisis, the technocrat Köhler becomes head of a grand coalition.
[6] The grand coalition stays after the elections in power.
 
1966: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1970: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1974: Helmut Kohl (CDU-FDP)
1978: Rainer Barzel (CDU-SPD)
1982: Helmut Kohl (CDU majority) [1]
1986: Rudolf Scharping (SPD-GREENS)
1987: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU) [2]
1991: Johannes Rau (SPD) [3]
1995: Catherine Rommel (CDU majority)
1999: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans) [4]

2003: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans-FDP-DVU)[5]
2007: Mathias Platzeck (SPD-Grüne-PDS)
2009: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [6]
2011: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [7]
2015: Stefan Mappus (CDU-Republikaner-FDP) [8]

[1] Barzel is shot on the campaign trail, and is permanently incapitated. Former Chancellor Kohl, who retired in 1978 only due to cancer, becomes chancellor again, and leads the CDU-CSU alliance to its first majority government since 1957
[2] Scharpings with marginal majority ruling goverment collapse after 6 month. New elections brings again a absolut majority for the CDU/CSU.
[3] The reunification, brings mostly social democratic minded citizens into the country, securing the absolute majority for the SPD.
[4]A Resurgent RAF, strikes several times, to protest against the "imperialist occupation of the GDR", killing the minister of Economy and wounding some others. As a result politics polarize and sweep the ultra -conservative republicans into power.
[5] The 5 percent clause is removed, so smaller parties once again enter the parliament.
[6] After the red-red-green coalition falls apart during the economical crisis, the technocrat Köhler becomes head of a grand coalition.
[7] The grand coalition stays after the elections in power.
[8] Köhler doesn´t run again 2015. Mappus forms a rightwing-goverment after the election.
 
1966: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1970: Willy Brandt (SPD-FDP)
1974: Helmut Kohl (CDU-FDP)
1978: Rainer Barzel (CDU-SPD)
1982: Helmut Kohl (CDU majority) [1]
1986: Rudolf Scharping (SPD-GREENS)
1987: Helmut Kohl (CDU/CSU) [2]
1991: Johannes Rau (SPD) [3]
1995: Catherine Rommel (CDU majority)
1999: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans) [4]

2003: Heinz Guenther Guderian (The Republicans-FDP-DVU)[5]
2007: Mathias Platzeck (SPD-Grüne-PDS)
2009: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [6]
2011: Horst Köhler (CDU-SPD) [7]
2015: Stefan Mappus (CDU-Republikaner-FDP) [8]
2015: Stefan Mappus (CDU-FDP)
[1] Barzel is shot on the campaign trail, and is permanently incapitated. Former Chancellor Kohl, who retired in 1978 only due to cancer, becomes chancellor again, and leads the CDU-CSU alliance to its first majority government since 1957
[2] Scharpings with marginal majority ruling goverment collapse after 6 month. New elections brings again a absolut majority for the CDU/CSU.
[3] The reunification, brings mostly social democratic minded citizens into the country, securing the absolute majority for the SPD.
[4]A Resurgent RAF, strikes several times, to protest against the "imperialist occupation of the GDR", killing the minister of Economy and wounding some others. As a result politics polarize and sweep the ultra -conservative republicans into power.
[5] The 5 percent clause is removed, so smaller parties once again enter the parliament.
[6] After the red-red-green coalition falls apart during the economical crisis, the technocrat Köhler becomes head of a grand coalition.
[7] The grand coalition stays after the elections in power.
[8] Köhler doesn´t run again 2015. Mappus forms a rightwing-goverment after the election.

Gustav Stresemann did not die in 1929
1930: Gustav Stresemann (DVP)
 
Gustav Stresemann did not die in 1929
1930: Gustav Stresemann (DVP)
1933: Karl Jarres (DVP)(1.)






1. Stresemann does not die, but retires because of bad health.
 
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