Template:Timeline of prime ministers in Eflad

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DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1949 till:2023 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:4 start:1949 ScaleMinor = increment:1 start:1949

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id:sd. value:red legend:SPD_(Social_Democratic_Party)  # was: coral
id:cd. value:black legend:CDU_(Christian_Democratic_Union)  # was: darkblue

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bar:Federal_chancellors color:white width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:10 shift:($dx,-5)

from:1949 till:1963 color:cd. text:Konrad Adenauer
from:1953 till:1957 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1957 till:1961 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1961 till:1962 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1962 till:1963 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1963 till:1966 color:cd. text:Ludwig Erhard
from:1965 till:1966 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1966 till:1969 color:cd. text:Kurt Georg Kiesinger
from:1969 till:1974 color:sd. text:Willy Brandt
from:1972 till:1974 color:sd. mark:(line,pink)
from:1974 till:1982 color:sd. text:Helmut Schmidt
from:1976 till:1980 color:sd. mark:(line,pink)
from:1980 till:1982 color:sd. mark:(line,pink)
from:1982 till:1998 color:cd. text:Helmut Kohl
from:1983 till:1987 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1987 till:1990 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1990 till:1994 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1994 till:1998 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:1998 till:2005 color:sd. text:Gerhard Schröder
from:2002 till:2005 color:sd. mark:(line,pink)
from:2005 till:2021 color:cd. text:Angela Merkel
from:2009 till:2013 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:2013 till:2018 color:cd. mark:(line,blue)
from:2021 till:end color:sd. text:Olaf Scholz

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