List
| Portrait | Name (Born–Died) | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| Schleswig-Holstein (1946–present) | |||||||
| British occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany (1946–1949) | |||||||
| State of the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 23 May 1949) | |||||||
| 1 |  | Theodor Steltzer (1885–1967) | 12 September 1946 | 29 April 1947 | 229 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 2 |  | Hermann Lüdemann (1880–1959) | 29 April 1947 | 29 August 1949 | 853 | Social Democratic Party | |
| 3 |  | Bruno Diekmann (1897–1982) | 29 August 1949 | 5 September 1950 | 372 | Social Democratic Party | |
| 4 |  | Walter Bartram (1893–1971) | 5 September 1950 | 25 June 1951 | 293 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 5 | | Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke (1887–1954) | 25 June 1951 | 2 October 1954 | 1195 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 6 |  | Kai-Uwe von Hassel (1913–1997) | 11 October 1954 | 14 January 1963 | 3017 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 7 |  | Helmut Lemke (1907–1990) | 14 January 1963 | 24 May 1971 | 3052 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 8 |  | Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928–2001) | 24 May 1971 | 14 October 1982 | 4161 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 9 |  | Uwe Barschel (1944–1987) | 14 October 1982 | 2 October 1987 (resigned) | 1814 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| – |  | Henning Schwarz (1928–1993) Acting | 2 October 1987 | 31 May 1988 | 242 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 10 |  | Björn Engholm (born 1939) | 31 May 1988 | 19 May 1993 | 1814 | Social Democratic Party | |
| 11 |  | Heide Simonis (1943–2023) | 19 May 1993 | 27 April 2005 | 4361 | Social Democratic Party | |
| 12 |  | Peter Harry Carstensen (born 1947) | 27 April 2005 | 12 June 2012 | 2603 | Christian Democratic Union | |
| 13 |  | Torsten Albig (born 1963) | 12 June 2012 | 28 June 2017 | 1842 | Social Democratic Party | |
| 14 |  | Daniel Günther (born 1973) | 28 June 2017 | Incumbent | 2806 | Christian Democratic Union | |
