All presidents of the Association
| 1947 to 1949 | Rev. Franz Haibach (* 1899 Přimda, † 1958 Munich) |
| 1949 to 1951 | Franz Anton Prince of Thun and Hohenstein (* 1890 Prague, † 1973 Ulm) |
| 1951 to 1958 | Ferdinand Graf Kinsky (* 1907 Vienna, † 1969 Sauerlach near Munich) |
| 1958 to 1973 | Christian Altgraf Salm (* 1906 Vienna, † 1973 Dyck Castle) |
| 1973 to 1979 | Erich Bachmann (* 1910 Karlsbad, † 1991 Thambach in Upper Bavaria) |
| 1979 to 1982 | Götz Fehr (* 1918 Budweis, † 1982 Bonn) |
| 1982 to 2002 | Otto Herbert Hajek (* 1927 Studeny in the Bohemian Forest, † 2005 Stuttgart) |
| 2002 to 2005 | Barbara von Wulffen (* 1936 Munich) |
| 2005 to 2006 | Thomas Thun (* 1949 Ering am Inn) |
| 2006 to 2018 | Ernst Erich Metzner (* 1938 Holčovice in Sudeten Silesia) |
| from 2019 | Peter Becher (* 1952 Munich) |
Further information is to be found in the commemorative publications "50 Years Adalbert Stifter Association" and "60 Years Adalbert Stifter Association"
