• Adolf Heinrich Wilhelm Scholz 1880-1882
• Franz Emil Emanuel von Burchard 1882-1886
• Karl Rudolf Jacobi 1886-1888
• Baron Helmuth von Maltzahn 1888-1893
• Count Arthur Adolf von Posadowsky-Wehner 1893-1897
• Baron Max Franz Guido von Thielmann 1897-1903
• Baron Hermann von Stengel 1903-1908
• Reinhold Sydow 1908-1909
• Adolf Wermuth 1909-1912
• Hermann Kühn 1912-1915
• Karl Helfferich 1915-1916
• Count Siegfried von Roedern 1916-1918

Ministers of Finance, 1918-1945

Minister of Finance of the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990

• Hans Loch 1949-1955
• Willy Rumpf 1955-1966
• Siegfried Böhm 1966-1980
• Werner Schmieder 1980-1981
• Ernst Höfner 1981-1989
• Uta Nickel 1989-1990
• Walter Romberg 1990
• Werner Skowron 1990

Ministers of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-present