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 Eltz von 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.