List of High-Bailiffs and Governors
Bearing the title: High-Bailiff (German: Landdrost, plural: Landdroste)
- 1823–41 Engelbert Johann von Marschalck (1766–1845), Bremen-Verden's Estates elected him the last president of the provisional government (1813–1823) after the French retreat. In 1823 he became the first High-Bailiff of the Stade Region, the merely administrative entity succeeding Bremen-Verden's dissolution in 1823.
- 1841–55 Freiherr Ernst von Bülow (1801–1861), father of the later Prussian general Ernst von Bülow
- 1856–58 Freiherr Otto Alexander von Marschalck (1798–1858), also Royal Hanoverian High-Bailiff in Osnabrück
- 1858–62 Friedrich Wilhelm Heise (died 23 November 1862), Geheimer Rat (privy councillor)
- 1863–72 August Theodor Braun (1802–1887), 1848–1850 minister for education, cultural and religious affairs of the Kingdom of Hanover
- 1872–85 Heinrich Küster
Bearing the title: Governor (German: Regierungspräsident, plural: Regierungspräsidenten)
- 1885–88 Ludwig Eberhardt Franzius
- 1888–95 Dr. Gustav Bernhard von Heyer
- 1895–99 Dr. Edgar Himly
- 1899–1909 Freiherr Rudolf von Reiswitz und Kaderzin
- 1909–11 Graf Kurd von Berg-Schönfeldt
- 1911–22 Hans Grashoff
- 1922–33 Dr. Hermann Rose (1879–1943), member of the Prussian House of Commons (1921–1932) for the DVP, forced to resign as governor by Gauleiter Otto Telschow
- 1933–36 Albert Leister (1890–1968), member of the Reichstag (1930–1933) for the NSDAP
- 1936–44 Arthur Schmidt-Kügler
- 1944–45 Hermann Fiebing
- 1945 Dr. Oskar Brenken provisional
- November 1945–49 Johann Thies (1898–1969), member of the Bundestag (1956–57) for the CDU
- 1949–50 Dr. Werner Pollack (1886–1979), only per pro as Regierungsvizepräsident
- 1950 Dr. Friedrich Knost (1899–1982), provisional
- 1950–54 Dr. Walter Harm (1897–1964), member of the Bundestag (1957–1964) for the SPD
- 1954–58 Dr. Otto Wendt, member or the Lower Saxon Parliament (1959) for the GB/BHE
- 1958–59 Dr. Curt Miehe (1903–1965), provisional, Lower Saxon Minister for Federal Affairs, Expellees and Refugees (1964–1965) in the second and third cabinet of Minister-President Georg Diederichs (SPD)
- 1959–73 Helmut-Ernst Miericke (1914–1973)
- 1973–77 Joachim Passow (1925–1983), only per pro as Regierungsvizepräsident
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