Riksminister

Also known as minister of the realm

thumb|Anton von Schmerling from Austria: on July 15th, 1848 he belonged to the first three men that the Reichsverweser installed as German Reichsminister. Reichsminister (in German singular and plural; 'minister of the realm') was the title of members of the German Government during two historical periods: during the March Revolution of 1848/1849 in the German Reich of that period, and in the modern German federal state from 1919 to the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.