This page lists all chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire.
For a description of past elections see Chancellor Elections.
List of Chancellors[]
Fifteenth Century[]
Portrait | Chancellor | Took Office | Left office | Nation |
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Jakob von Sierk (1398 - 1469) |
1458 | 1463 | Trier | |
Ulrich V (1413 - 1481) |
1463 | 1468 | Württemberg | |
Heinrich von Lauenburg (1440 - Present) |
1468 | 1473 | Hamburg | |
Frederick I, the Victorious (1425 - 1475) |
1473 | 1475 | Electoral Palatinate | |
Rudolph of Koln (1428 - 1508) |
1475 | 1480 | Electorate of Cologne | |
Wilhelm I | 1480 | 1485 | Hesse | |
Wilhelm von Hanover | 1485 | 1490 | Hamburg | |
Magnus von Habsburg (1464 - 1539) |
1490 | 1495 | Brandenburg | |
Christian IV |
1495 | 1500 | Oldenburg |
Sixteenth Century[]
Portrait | Chancellor | Took Office | Left office | Nation |
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Heinrich von Brunswick |
1500 | 1505 | Hamburg | |
Franz-Albert I von Wittelsbach (1463 - 1523) |
1505 | 1510 | Bavaria | |
Bernard II of Kuenburg (1444 - 1519) |
1510 | 1515 | Salzburg | |
Eberhard I (1460 - 1527) |
1515 | 1520 | Swabia | |
Karl von Henneberg-Römhild |
1520 | 1525 | Mainz | |
Balthasar von Habsburg (1469 - 1542) |
1525 | 1530 | ||
Heinrich XVII von Wittelsbach (1492 - 1545) |
1530 | 1535 | Bavaria | |
Otto von Greiffenklau (1499 - Present) |
1535 | 1540 | Trier | |
Christoph von Württemberg (1470 – 1546) |
1540 | 1545 | Swabia | |
Hermann of Schauenburg (1500 – 1554) |
1545 | 1550 | Electorate of Cologne | |
Albert von Wittelsbach (1500 – Present) |
1550 | 1555 | Saxony | |
Salentin IX of Cologne (1521 – Present) |
1555 | 1560 | Electorate of Cologne | |
Albert III of Liechtenstein (1523 – Present) |
1560 | 1565 | Mainz | |
Frederick II (1506 – 1573) |
1565 | 1570 | Electoral Palatinate | |
Leopold von Wellenburg (1523 – 1602) |
1570 | 1575 | Salzburg | |
Lothar II von Habsburg (1539 – Present) |
1575 | 1580 | Brandenburg | |
Leopold von Wellenburg (1523 – 1602) |
1580 | 1585 | Salzburg | |
Ulrich von Habsburg-Wittlesbach (1545 – Present) |
1585 | 1590 | ||
Albert III von Wittelsbach (1546 – 1592) |
1590 | 1592 | Bavaria | |
Moritz I of Westphalia (1572 – Present) |
1592 | 1597 | Westphalia | |
Anselm Franz von Metternich-Winneburg (1576 – Present) |
1597 | 1602 | Mainz |
Seventeenth Century[]
Portrait | Chancellor | Took Office | Left office | Nation |
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Adelheid von Oldenburg (1572 – Present) |
1602 | 1607 | Oldenburg | |
Otmar Müller (1542 – 1610) |
1607 | 1610 | St. Gall | |
Wolf Dietrich von Hohenems (1570 – Present) |
1610 | 1615 | Salzburg | |
John von Hohenzollern (1582 – Present) |
1615 | 1620 | Prussia | |
Magnus II (1564 – Present) |
1620 | 1625 | Brandenburg | |
Karl von Hohenzollern (1580 – Present) |
1625 | 1630 | Prussia | |
Leopold von Habsburg (1572 – Present) |
1630 | 1635 | Austria | |
Johannes VIII Schöning (1590 – Present) |
1635 | 1640 | ||
Leopold I von Wittelsbach | 1645 | 1650 | Bavaria | |
Ernest von Habsburg | 1650 | 1655 | ||
Otto II von Hamburg | 1655 | 1660 | Hamburg | |
Frederick I von Hohenzollern | 1660 | 1665 | Prussia | |
Otto von Habsburg | 1665 | 1670 | ||
William von Habsburg-Brandenburg | 1675 | 1680 | ||
Johann Ludwig von Erthal | 1680 | 1685 | Mainz | |
Maximilian I | 1685 | 1690 | Electoral Palatinate | |
Adolf von Wolff-Metternich | 1690 | 1695 | Electorate of Cologne | |
Ulrich von Brunswick-Göttingen | 1695 | 1700 | Brunswick-Göttingen |
Eighteenth Century[]
Portrait | Chancellor | Took Office | Left office | Nation |
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Karl II von Hamburg |
1700 | 1705 | Hamburg | |
Friedrich von Lippe |
1705 | 1710 | Lippe | |
Ernest von Wartenberg |
1710 | 1715 | Osnabruck | |
Charles II |
1715 | 1720 | Electoral Palatinate | |
Karl II von Hamburg |
1720 | 1725 | Hamburg | |
Eugene of Savoy |
1725 | 1730 | ||
Joseph Augustus I |
1730 | 1735 | Electorate of Cologne | |
Johann Karl von Eltz-Kempenich |
1735 | 1740 | Mainz | |
Friedrich IV |
1735 | 1740 | Hamburg | |
Wilhelm von Lippe |
1745 | 1750 | Lippe | |
Eugene of Savoy |
1750 | 1755 | ||
Albert von Habsburg-Paderborn (1730 - 1809) |
1755 | 1760 | ||
Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein (1707 - 1779) |
1760 | 1765 | ||
Josef von Dalberg (1730 - 1809) |
1765 | 1770 | Mainz | |
Wilhelm von Knyphausen (1734 - 1808) |
1770 | 1775 | ||
Albert II von Hohenzollern | 1775 | 1780 | ||
Conrad V, Count of Oldenburg |
1780 | 1785 | ||
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1737 - 1812) |
1785 | 1790 | ||
William von Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1733 - 1807) |
1790 | 1795 | ||
Ludwig VI, Landgrave of Hesse (1754 - Present) |
1795 | 1800 |
Nineteenth Century[]
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