Counts, dukes and grand dukes of Oldenburg

This is a list of the counts, dukes, grand dukes, and prime ministers of Oldenburg.

Counts of Oldenburg

• 1088^[1]/1101–1108 Elimar I
• 1108–1143 Elimar II
• 1143–1168 Christian I the Quarrelsome
• 1168–1211 Maurice I
• 1209–1251 Otto I, joint rule with Christian II and later with John I
• 1211–1233 Christian II
• 1233–1272 John I
• 1272–1278 Christian III
• 1272–1301 Otto II, Count of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
• 1278–1305 John II
• 1302–1323 Christian IV
• 1305–1345 John III
• 1331–1356 John IV
• 1345–1368 Conrad I
• 1368–1386 Conrad II
• 1386–1420 Maurice II
• 1368–1398 Christian V
• 1398–1423 Christian VI
• 1423–1440 Dietrich the Lucky
• 1440–1448 Christian VII
• 1448–1483 Gerhard VI "the Quarrelsome"
• 1483–1500 Adolph, Count of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
• 1500–1526 John V
• 1526–1529 John VI, joint rule with his brothers George, Christopher and Anthony I, forced to resign in 1529
• 1526–1529 George, joint rule with his brothers John VI, Christopher and Anthony I, forced to resign in 1529
• 1526–1566 Christopher, joint rule with his brothers John VI, George and Anthony I
• 1526–1573 Anthony I, joint rule with his brothers John VI, George and Christopher
• 1573–1603 John VII
• 1573–1619 Anthony II, Count of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst
• 1603–1667 Anthony Günther
• 1667–1670 Frederick I, in personal union as Frederick III King of Denmark-Norway
• 1670–1699 Christian VIII, in personal union as Christian V King of Denmark-Norway
• 1699–1730 Frederick II, in personal union as Frederick IV King of Denmark-Norway
• 1730–1746 Christian IX, in personal union as Christian VI King of Denmark-Norway
• 1746–1766 Frederick III, in personal union as Frederick V King of Denmark-Norway
• 1766–1773 Christian X, in personal union as Christian VII King of Denmark-Norway, ceded the county to the Holstein-Gottorp line
• 1773 Paul I, ceded the county to his cousin of the Holstein-Gottorp line
• 1773–1774 Frederick Augustus I (elevated to Duke in 1774), in personal union Prince-Bishop of Lübeck

Dukes of Oldenburg

Template:Monarchs - table header | Frederick Augustus I

1774–6 July 1785 | | 20 September 1711

Gottorp, Schleswig

son of Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp and Albertina Frederica | Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel

Kassel

21 November 1752

three children | 6 July 1785

Oldenburg

aged 73 |- | William, Duke of Oldenburg

1785–1810 | [[ | 3 January 1754

Eutin

son of Frederick August I and Ulrike | Never married | 2 July 1823

Schloss Plön

aged 69 |}

To France in 1810–1813

Template:Monarchs - table header | William, Duke of Oldenburg

1813–2 July 1823 | | 3 January 1754

Eutin

son of Frederick Augustus I and Ulrike | Never married | 2 July 1823

Schloss Plön

aged 69 |-Template:Monarchs - table header

Grand Dukes of Oldenburg

|Peter I
1823–21 May 1829 | | 17 January 1755
Rastede
nephew of Frederick Augustus I and cousin of William | Frederica of Württemberg
6 June 1781
two children | 21 May 1829
Oldenburg
aged 74 |- | Augustus I
1829–27 February 1853 | | 13 July 1783
Rastede
son of Peter I and Friederike | Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
24 July 1817
two children

Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
24 June 1825
one child

Cecilia of Sweden
5 May 1831
three children | 27 February 1853
Oldenburg
aged 69 |- | Peter II
1853–13 June 1900 | | 8 July 1827
Oldenburg
son of Augustus I and Ida | Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
10 February 1852
two children | 13 June 1900
Rastede
aged 72 |- | Frederick Augustus II ^[2]
1900–11 November 1918 | | 16 November 1852
Oldenburg
son of Peter II and Elisabeth | Elisabeth Anna of Prussia
18 February 1878
two children

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
24 October 1896
5 children | 24 February 1931
Rastede
aged 78 |}

Prime ministers of the Republic of Oldenburg

• 1918–1919 Bernhard Kuhnt (USPD)
• 1919–1923 Theodor Tantzen (DDP)
• 1923–1930 Eugen von Finckh (no party)
• 1930–1932 Friedrich Cassebohm
• 1932–1933 Carl Röver (NSDAP)
• 1933–1945 Georg Joel (NSDAP)
• 1945–1946 Theodor Tantzen (FDP)

To Lower Saxony in 1946

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