List of state leaders in the 19th-century Holy Roman Empire

This is a list of state leaders in the 19th century from the Holy Roman Empire up to the time of German mediatisation (1801–1806) AD.

State leaders in the 18th century – 19th century – 20th century

See also

18th-century Holy Roman Empire leaders

Main

• Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Germany (complete list, complete list) –

• Francis II, Emperor Elect, King (1792–1806)

• Electorate of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (complete list, complete list) –

• Frederick William III, Elector (1797–1806), King (1797–1840)

Austrian-Hungary

• Archduchy/ Austrian Empire (complete list) –

• Archduke/Emperors (complete list) –

• Francis II, Archduke (1792–1804), Emperor (1804–1835)

• Kingdom of Hungary (complete list) –

• Francis II, King (1792–1835)

• Prince-Bishopric of Brixen (complete list) –

• Karl Franz Lodron, Prince-bishop (1791–1803)

• Prince-Bishopric of Chur (complete list) –

• Karl Rudolf Graf von Buol-Schauenstein, Prince-bishop (1794–1803)

• Liechtenstein (complete list) –

• Aloys I, Prince (1781–1805)
• Johann I Josef, Prince (1805–1836)

• Duchy of Teschen (Cieszyn) (complete list) –

• Albert Casimir, Duke (1766–1822)

• Prince-Bishopric of Trent (complete list) –

• Emmanuel Maria Graf von Thun und Hohenstein, Prince-bishop (1800–1802), Prince (1802–1803)

Bavarian

• Electorate/ Kingdom of Bavaria (complete list) –

• Maximillian IV, Elector (1799–1805), King (1805–1825)

• Berchtesgaden Prince-Provostry (complete list) –

• Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös, Prince-provost (1780–1803)

• Prince-Bishopric of Freising (complete list) –

• Joseph Conrad Freiherr, Prince-bishop (1790–1802)

• Imperial County of Ortenburg (complete list) –

• Joseph Charles Leopold, Count (1787–1805)

• Pappenheim (complete list) –

• Charles Theodore Frederick Eugene Francis, Count (1792–1806)

• Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg (complete list) –

• Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg, Prince-bishop (1790–1803)

• Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg (complete list) –

• Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-archbishop (1772–1803)

Bohemian

• Kingdom of Bohemia (complete list) –

• Francis II, King (1792–1835)

Franconian

• Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (complete list) –

• Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-bishop (1795–1802)

• Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt (complete list, de) –

• Joseph Graf von Stubenberg, Prince-bishop (1790–1802)

• Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (complete list) –

• Ludwig Aloys (Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein), Prince (1798–1806)
• Karl August, Prince (1806)

• Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (complete list) –

• Frederick Louis, Prince (1796–1806)[1]
• August, Prince (1806)[1]

• Hohenlohe-Jagstberg (complete list) –

• Karl Joseph (Hohenlohe-Bartenstein-Jagstberg), Prince (1798–1806)

• Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (complete list) –

• Christian Friedrich Karl zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, Prince (1767–1806)

• Hohenlohe-Langenburg (complete list) –

• Karl Ludwig, Prince (1789–1806)

• Hohenlohe-Oehringen –

• Ludwig Friedrich Karl (Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen), Prince (1765–1805)

inherited by Frederick Louis of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen

• Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (complete list) –

• Charles Albert III, Prince (1796–1806)

• Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg (complete list) –

• Georg Karl Ignaz von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach, Prince-bishop (1795–1803)

Electoral Rhenish

• Electorate of Cologne –

• Maximilian Franz of Austria, Archbishop-Elector (1784–1801)

• Elector-Bishopric of Mainz (complete list) –

• Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop-elector (1774–1802)
• Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Archbishop-elector (1802–1803)[2]

• Electoral Palatinate (complete list) –

• Maximilian I Joseph, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1795–1799), Elector of Palatinate and of Bavaria (1799–1803)

• Elector-Bishopric of Trier (complete list) –

• Clemens Wenzel of Saxony, Archbishop-elector (1768–1801)[3]

Lower Rhenish–Westphalian

• Bentheim-Bentheim (complete list) –

• Frederick Charles, Count (1731–1803)
• Louis of Bentheim-Steinfurt, Count (1803–1806)

• Bentheim-Steinfurt (complete list) –

• Louis, Count (1780–1803)

• Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda (complete list) –

• Moritz Kasimir II, Count (1768–1805)
• Emil Friedrich I, Count (1805–1808)

• Essen Abbey (complete list) –

• Maria Kunigunde of Saxony, Princess-Abbess (1776–1802)

• Herford Abbey (complete list) –

• Frederica Charlotte, Abbess (1764–1802)

• Prince-Bishopric of Münster (complete list) –

• Maximilian Franz, Prince-bishop (1784–1801)
• Anton Victor, Prince-bishop (1801–1802)

• Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück (complete list) –

• Frederick of York and Albany, Prince-bishop (1764–1802)

• Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn (complete list) –

• Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, Prince-bishop (1789–1825)

• Wied-Neuwied (complete list) –

• Frederick Charles, Prince (1791–1802)
• John Augustus, Prince (1802–1806)

• Wied-Runkel (complete list) –

• Karl Ludwig Friedrich Alexander, Prince (1791–1806)

Upper Rhenish

• Prince-Bishopric of Basel (complete list) –

• Franz Xaver von Neveu, Prince-bishop (1794–1803)

• Free City of Frankfurt (complete list) –

• Anton Ulrich von Holzhausen, Mayor (1800–1801)
• Adolph Carl von Humbracht, Mayor (1801–1802)
• Johann Nicolaus Olenschlager von Olenstein, Mayor (1802–1803)
• Johann Friedrich von Riese, Mayor (1803–1804)
• Johann Nicolaus Olenschlager von Olenstein, Mayor (1804–1805)
• Friedrich August von Wiesenhütten, Mayor (1805–1806)
• Anton Ulrich Carl von Holzhausen, Mayor (1806)

• Princely Abbey of Fulda (complete list) –

• Adalbert von Harstall, Prince-bishop (1789–1802)

• Hesse-Darmstadt (complete list) –

• Louis X, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1790–1806), Grand Duke of Hesse (1806–1830)

• Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (complete list) –

• Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1790–1806), Grand Duke of Hesse (1806–1830)

• Hesse-Homburg (complete list) –

• Frederick V, Landgrave (1751–1820)

• Hesse-Kassel (complete list) –

• William XIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1785–1803), Elector of Hesse (1803–1807, 1813–1821)

• Electorate of Hesse (complete list) –

• William I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1785–1803), Elector of Hesse (1803–1807, 1813–1821)

• Hesse-Philippsthal (complete list) –

• William, Landgrave (1770–1806)

• Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (complete list) –

• Adolph, Landgrave (1777–1803)
• Charles, Landgrave (1803–1854)

• Hesse-Rotenburg (complete list) –

• Charles Emmanuel, Landgrave (1778–1812)

• Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen (de:complete list) –

• Christian Karl, Count (1770–1806)

• Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (de:complete list) –

• Ferdinand Karl III, Count (1798–1806)

• Principality of Leiningen (de:complete list) –

• Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count (1756–1779), Prince (1779–1807)[4]

• Solms-Braunfels (complete list) –

• Wilhelm Christian Karl, Prince (1783–1806)

• Prince-Bishopric of Speyer (complete list) –

• Philipp Franz Wilderich of Walderdorf, Prince-bishop (1801–1802)

• Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (complete list) –

• Friedrich Karl August, Prince (1763–1812)

• Prince-Bishopric of Worms (complete list) –

• Friedrich Karl Josef von Erthal, Prince-bishop (1774–1802)

Lower Saxon

• Electorate/ Kingdom of Saxony (complete list) –

• Frederick Augustus the Just, Elector (1763–1806), King (1806–1827)

• Bremen-Verden (complete list) –

• George III, Duke (1760–1807, 1813–1820)

• Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel/ Principality of Wolfenbüttel (complete list) –

• Charles William Ferdinand, Prince (1780–1806)
• Frederick William, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1806–1807), Duke of Brunswick (1813–1815)

conquered by the French Kingdom of Westphalia, 1807–1813; in 1814 reformed as the: Duchy of Brunswick

• Duchy of Brunswick (complete list) –

• Frederick William, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1806–1807), Duke of Brunswick (1813–1815)

• Electorate/ Kingdom of Hanover (complete list) –

• George III, Elector (1760–1806), King (1814–1820)

• Free City of Hamburg (complete list) –

• Franz Anton Wagener, Mayor (1790–1801)[5]
• Peter Hinrich Widow, Mayor (1800–1802)
• Friedrich von Graffen, Mayor (1801–1810)[5]
• Wilhelm Amsinck, Mayor (1802)
• Johann Arnold Heise, Mayor (1807)

• Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (complete list) –

• Franz Egon von Fürstenberg (Fürstbischof), Prince-bishop (1789–1803)

• Duchy of Holstein (complete list) –

Kings of Denmark

• Christian VII, Duke of Holstein-Glückstadt (1766–1773), Duke of Holstein (1773–1808)

• Prince-bishopric of Lübeck (complete list) –

• Peter Frederick Louis, Prince-bishop (1785–1803)

• Free City of Lübeck (complete list) –

• Johann Philipp Plessing, Mayor (1804)
• Johann Caspar Lindenberg, Mayor (1805)
• Mattheus Rodde (Politiker, 1754), Mayor (1806)
• Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf, Mayor (1806)

• Duchy/ Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (complete list) –

• Frederick Francis I, Duke (1785–1815), Grand Duke (1815–1837)

• Duchy/ Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (complete list) –

• Charles II, Duke (1794–1815), Grand Duke (1815–1816)

• Duchy/ Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (complete list) –

• Wilhelm, Duke (1784/85–1810, 1813–1815), Grand Duke (1815–1823)

Upper Saxon

• Anhalt-Bernburg (complete list) –

• Alexius Frederick Christian, Prince (1796–1807), Duke (1807–1834)

• Anhalt-Köthen (complete list) –

• Augustus Christian Frederick, Prince (1789–1806), Duke (1806–1812)

• Anhalt-Dessau (complete list) –

• Leopold III, Prince (1751–1758), Duke (1758–1817), Regent of Anhalt-Köthen (1812–1817)

• Reuss-Lobenstein (complete list) –

• Heinrich XXXV, Count (1782–1790), Prince (1790–1805)
• Heinrich LIV, Prince (1805–1824)

• Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (complete list) –

• Francis, Duke (1800–1806)
• Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1806–1826), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826–1844)

• Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (complete list) –

• Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1806–1826), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1826–1844)

• Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (complete list) –

• Ernest II, Duke (1772–1804)
• Augustus, Duke (1804–1822)

• Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Hildburghausen (complete list) –

• Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826), of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834)

• Saxe-Meiningen (complete list) –

• Georg I, Duke (1782–1803)
• Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Regent (1803–1821)

• Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (complete list) –

• Karl August, Duke (1758–1815), Grand Duke (1815–1828)

Swabian

• Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (complete list) –

• Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, Prince-bishop (1768–1803)

• Margraviate/ Electorate/ Grand Duchy of Baden ([[List of rulers of Baden#Elector of Baden, 1803–1806|complete list], complete list) –

• Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1746–1771), of Baden (1771–1803), Elector (1803–1806), Grand Duke (1806–1811)

• Breisgau () –
• Prince-Bishopric of Constance (complete list) –

• Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Prince-bishop (1799–1803)

• Prince-Provostry of Ellwangen (complete list) –

• Clemens Wenceslaus, Prince-provost (1787–1803)

• Gutenzell Abbey (de:complete list) –

• Maria Justina von Erolzheim, Princess-abbess (1776–1803)

• Princely Abbey of Kempten (complete list) –

• de:Castolus Reichlin von Meldegg, Prince-abbot (1793–1803)

• Königsegg-Aulendorf (complete list) –

• Ernest, Count (1786–1803)
• Francis, Count (1803–1806)

• Königsegg-Rothenfels (complete list) –

• Francis Fidelis Anthony, Count (1771–1804)

• Stadion-Thannhausen (complete list) –

• John George Joseph Nepomuk, Count (1785–1806)

• Stadion-Warthausen (complete list) –

• Johann Philipp, Count (1787–1806)

• Duchy/ Electorate/ *Kingdom of Württemberg (complete list) –

• Frederick I, Duke (1797–1803), Elector (1803–1805), King (1805–1816)

References

1. Phillips & Atkinson 1911, p. 752.
2. Karl Theodor von Dalberg died in 1817 and was Archbishop of Regensburg 1803–1810, Prince of Frankfurt 1806–1810 and Grand Duke of Frankfurt 1810–1813.
3. From 1794, after the French conquest, Archbishop-elector (of the Imperial territories on the left-bank of the Rhine, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, Archbishop-elector (was Archbishop with effect on the right bank only.
4. Marek, Miroslav. "leiningen/leiningen4.html". genealogy.euweb.cz.
5. "Erste Bürgermeister Hamburgs 1507–2008" (PDF). — (in German). Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Senatskanzlei. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2009.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

Bibliography

• Phillips, Walter Alison; Atkinson, Charles Francis (1911). "Hohenlohe" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 572–575.