This covers all General Secretaries of the Germanic League. They are elected to a six-year term and can only serve one term, this was only changed one time after General Secretary Konrad Adenauer resigned on the request of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee after Germany’s defeat in the Polish-German War to weaken the Germans internationally and this lead to an emergency meeting which chose Jozef-Ernest van Roey as interim General Secretary and was unanimously allowed to serve a second term in 1946.
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Name | Picture | Term began | Term ended | Previous position | Nationality |
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Konrad Adenauer | File:Konrad Adenauer Portrait.jpg | 20 August 1940 | 13 May 1942 R | German Secretary of State | German |
Jozef-Ernest van Roey | ![]() |
13 May 1942 | 20 August 1952 | Cardinal of Belgium (1926-1961) | Belgian |
Vilhelm Buhl | ![]() |
20 August 1952 | 20 August 1958 | Prime Minister of Denmark (1942-1945) | Danish |
Thor Thors | ![]() |
20 August 1958 | 20 August 1964 | Icelandic
Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Icelandic |
Heinz Kissinger | ![]() |
20 August 1964 | 20 August 1970 | German MP | German |
Grand Duchess Charlotte | ![]() |
20 August 1970 | 20 August 1976 | Duchess of Luxembourg | Luxembourgish |
Sándor Kocsis | ![]() |
20 August 1976 | 20 August 1982 | Speaker of the Austrian-Hungarian Parliament | Hungarian |
Poul Schülter | ![]() |
20 August 1982 | 20 August 1988 | Prime Minister of Denmark | Danish |
Dries van Agt | ![]() |
20 August 1988 | 20 August 1994 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands | Dutch |
Bodil Nyboe Andersen | ![]() |
20 August 1994 | 20 August 2000 | Assistant General Secretary | Norwegian |
Alf Svenson | ![]() |
20 August 2000 | 20 August 2006 | Assistant General Secretary | Swedish |
Ueli Maurer | ![]() |
20 August 2006 | 20 August 2012 | Swiss Delegate to the Germanic League | Swiss |
Robin Van Persie | ![]() |
20 August 2012 | 20 August 2018 | Member of the Staten-Generaal. | Dutch |
Katrín Jakobsdóttir | ![]() |
20 August 2018 | 28 July 2022 | Chairman of International Women's Support | Icelandic |
Olaf Scholz | ![]() |
28 July 2022 | Incumbent | Minister of Foreign Affairs | German |
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