The federal minister of the interior () is the head of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and a member of the Cabinet of Germany.
The current federal minister of the interior is Alexander Dobrindt, since 6 May 2025.
List of officeholders
Secretaries of state for the interior, 1879–1919
Political party:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=2|Name<br />
! Portrait
! Party
! colspan=2| Term of office
! Chancellor
|-
|
| <br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 21 December 1879
| 31 August 1880
| Bismarck
|-
|
| Karl Heinrich von Boetticher<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 1 September 1880
| 1 July 1897
| Bismarck <br> Caprivi <br> Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
|-
|
| Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 1 July 1897
| 24 June 1907
| Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst <br> Bülow
|-
|
| Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 24 June 1907
| 10 July 1909
| Bülow
|-
|
| Clemens von Delbrück<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 14 July 1909
| 22 May 1916
| Bethmann Hollweg
|-
|
| Karl Helfferich<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 22 May 1916
| 24 October 1917
| Bethmann Hollweg <br> Michaelis
|-
|
| Max Wallraf<br />
| 100px
| N/A
| 25 October 1917
| 9 November 1918
| Michaelis <br> Hertling<br /> <br> Baden<br />
|-
! style="background:;"|
| <br />
| 100px
| Zentrum
| 14 November 1918
| 13 February 1919
| Ebert<br />
|}
Ministers of the interior, 1919–1945
Political party:
Ministers of the interior of the GDR, 1949–1990
Political party:
Ministers of the interior (Bundesminister des Innern), since 1949
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References
External links
- bmi.bund.de