Office of the city mayor This article lists the people holding the office of either the mayor of Danzig (German : Bürgermeister von Danzig ) or the city mayor of Danzig (German : Oberbürgermeister von Danzig ), between 1308 and 1945, as well as the city mayor of Gdańsk (Polish : prezydent miasta Gdańska ) from 1945 to the present day (or holders of the equivalent offices during communism).
Historical outline
Mayors or city mayors of Danzig
Teutonic Order Note that dates overlap. This is because there were four mayors. First was titled president and had highest power, the rest were named second mayor, third mayor and fourth mayor. After a year the president gave power to the second mayor, and became the fourth mayor. The process repeated itself, interrupted by deaths and elections of new mayors. 1342–1347 – Dettloff von der Osten 1342–1354 – Henrich Burmeister der Ältere 1346–1355 – Steffen von der Osten 1354–1374 – Hillebrand Müntzer 1356–1360 – Johan von Stein 1359–1372 – Johann Wallrabe der Ältere 1361–1362 – Casper Bock 1362–1390 – Gottschalck Naase 1368–1387 – Paul Jann 1372–1385 – Johann Wallrabe der Jüngere 1379–1386 – Johann Wackaw 1381–1384 – Nicklaus Gottsknecht 1384–1392 – Herman Rolberg 1392–1405 – Reinhold Hittfeld 1395–1399 – Lubbert Haacke 1399–1404 – Peter Fürstenau 1402–1418 – Tideman Huxer 1405–1411 – Conrad Letzkau 1407–1410 – Peter Vorraht 1408–1411 – Arend or Arnold Hecht 1411–1417 – Herman Hittfeld 1412–1413 – Albrecht Dödorff 1413–1430 – Gert von der Becke 1415–1416 – Steffen Plötzker (before 1436) – Nicklaus Rogge 1419–1433 – Johann Beisener 1430–1441 – Peter Holste 1433–1446 – Lucas Meckelfeld 1433–1443 – Heinrich Vorraht 1436–1449 – Meinert Cölmer 1442–1456 – Martin Cremon 1445–1456 – Albrecht Hexer 1447–1480 – Reinhold Niederhoff 1452–1462 – Herman Stargardt
Kingdom of Poland Teutonic Order lost Danzig to Poland after 1454, during the Thirteen Years' War , and by the Second Peace of Thorn (1466) 1454–1461 – Wilhelm Jordan 1457–1461 – Jacob Falcke 1461–1475 – Johann von Scheren 1462–1478 – Johann von Walde 1462–1478 – Johann Veere 1470–1483 – Philipp Bischoff 1477–1483 – Johann Angermünde 1479–1501 – Johann Ferber 1483–1485 – Marten Bock 1484–1502 – George Buck 1484–1490 – Johann Schewecke 1489–1505 – Henrich Falcke 1492–1501 – Henrich von Süchten 1502–1513 – George Mand 1503–1512 – Johann Schewecke der Jüngere 1504–1513 – Matthias Zimmerman 1506–1507 – Antoni Backelman 1510–1526 – Eberhard Ferber 1513–1525 – Greger Brand 1514–1524 – Henrich Wiese 1517–1535 – Philipp Bischoff 1524–1529 – Matthias Lange 1525–1538 – Cordt von Süchten 1526–1535 – Edward Niederhoff 1526–1554 – Johann von Werden 1531–1547 – George Schewecke 1536–1539 – Peter Behme 1538–1549 – Barthell Brand 1540–1560 – Dr. Tiedemann Giese (nephew of the bishop Tiedemann Giese ) 1550–1554 – Johann Stutte
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth begun in 1569 with the Union of Lublin , which transformed the personal union of Poland and Lithuania into a real union and also reintegrated Pomerelia as part of Royal Prussia into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1548–1577 – Johann Brandes 1555–1588 – Constantin Feber 1557–1578 – Johann Proite 1558–1576 – Georg Kleefeld 1577–1585 – Reinhold Möllner 1578–1592 – Georg Rosenberg 1581–1619 – Johann von der Linde 1586–1602 – Daniel Zierenberg 1589–1605 – Constantin Giese 1592–1612 – Gerhard Brandes 1603–1611 – Johann Thorbecke 1605–1614 – Barthell Schachtmann 1612–1616 – Andreas Borkman 1612–1625 – Johann Speymann 1615–1617 – Barthell Brandt 1617–1629 – Arnold von Holten 1618–1636 – Eggert von Kempen 1619–1635 – Valentin von Bodeck 1626–1620 – Ernst Kroll 1630–1642 – Johann Zierenberg 1630–1631 – Adrian von der Linde 1632–1654 – Constantin Ferber 1636–1644 – Hans Rogge 1637–1639 – Johann Ernst Schröder 1640–1649 – Nicklas Pahl 1643–1644 – Elert von Bobart 1645–1646 – Daniel Falcke 1645–1682 – Adrian von der Linde 1647–1654 – Henrich Freder 1650–1665 – Friederich Ehler 1655–1663 – Nathanaël Schmieden 1655–1673 – George von Bömelen 1664–1675 – Nicklas von Bodeck 1666–1685 – Gabriel Krumhausen 1677–1701 – Christian Schröder 1677–1686 – Daniel Proite 1683–1700 – Barbiel Schuhmann 1686–1704 – Constantin Ferber 1687–1691 – Constantin Ferber 1692–1707 – Johann Ernst Schmieden 1700–1707 – Constantin Ferber 1702–1707 – Reinhold Wieder 1704–1722 – Andreas Borkman 1707–1716 – Friedrich Gottlieb Engelcke 1708–1712 – Joachim Hoyge 1708–1740 – Gabriel von Bömeln 1712–1721 – Ernst von der Linde 1716–1710 – Carl Ernst Bauer 1720–1745 – Johann Gottfried von Disseldorff 1722–1720 – Salomon Gabriel Schumann 1723–1734 – Gottfried von Bentzmann 1730–1739 – Carl Groddeck 1735–1757 – Johann Wahl 1740–1753 – Carl Gottlieb Ehler 1741–1746 – Joachim Jacob Schwacher 1746–1748 – Johann Carl Schwartzwald 1746–1755 – Nathanael Gottfried Ferber 1750–1753 – Fridrich Krüger 1754 – Christian Gabriel von Schröder 1754 – Michael Schmidt 1756 – Johann Kenner ? – Johann Ernst von der Linde 1762–1776 – Gottlieb G. Weickhmann 1763–1767 – Daniel Gralath 1777 – Gottfried Schwartz 1787 – Johann von Bentzmann 1790 – Zernecke 1793 – Eduard Friedrich von Conradi
Kingdom of Prussia
Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic) 1807–1808 – Carl Friedrich von Gralath 1808–1810 – Gottlieb Hufeland 1810–1814 – Johann Willhelm Wernsdorff 1814–1849 – Joachim Heinrich von Weickhmann
Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire 1850–1862 – Carl August von Groddeck 1863–1891 – Leopold von Winter 1891–1896 – Dr. Karl Adolf Baumbach 1896–1902 – Dr. Clemens von Delbrück 1903–1910 – Heinrich Otto Ehlers [de] 1910–1919 – Heinrich Heinrich Scholtz
Free City of Danzig Free City of Danzig created by the Treaty of Versailles Senate of the Free City of Danzig
World War II Free City occupied by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia 1939–1945 – Georg Lippke [de]
City mayors of Gdańsk and equivalents
City mayors of Gdańsk 1945–1950 1945–1946 – Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski 1946–1949 – Bolesław Nowicki 1949–1950 – Piotr Stolarek
Presidents of Presidium of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1950–1973 Between 1950–1973 functions of the city mayor of Gdańsk and president of the City National Council of Gdańsk were combined into one office.
1950–1953 – Piotr Stolarek 1953–1954 – Stanisław Schmidt 1954–1958 – Julian Cybulski 1958–1963 – Stanisław Schmidt 1963–1969 – Tadeusz Bejm 1969–1973 – Jan Mikołajew
City mayors of Gdańsk 1973–1990 Paweł Adamowicz , mayor from 1998 until his assassination in 2019.
City mayors of Gdańsk from 1990
Speakers of the municipal legislature
Presidents of the Volkstag (1920-1939) 1920–1921: Wilhelm Reinhard 1921-1921: Adalbert Mathaei 1921–1923: Adolf Treichel (first term) 1923–1924: Julius Gehl (first term) 1924–1926: Adolf Treichel (second term) 1926–1928: Alfred Semrau 1928–1930: Fritz Spill 1930–1931: Julius Gehl (second term) 1931–1933: Wilhelm von Wnuck (first term) 1933-1933: Franz Potrykus 1933–1936: Wilhelm von Wnuck (second term) 1937–1939: Edmund Beyl
Chairpersons of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1945–1950 1945–1948 – Alfred Kossakowski 1948–1949 – Leon Srebrnik 1949–1950 – Bolesław Gemza
Presidents of the Presidium of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1950–1973 Between 1950–1973 functions of the city mayor of Gdańsk and chairperson of the City National Council of Gdańsk were combined into one office.
1950–1953 – Piotr Stolarek 1953–1954 – Stanisław Schmidt 1954–1958 – Julian Cybulski 1958–1963 – Stanisław Schmidt 1963–1969 – Tadeusz Bejm 1969–1973 – Jan Mikołajew
Chairpersons of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1973–1990 1973–1977 – Adam Nowotnik 1977–1981 – Jarosław Polski 1981–1984 – Wiesław Julian Gruszkowski 1984–1986 – Eugeniusz Wójcik 1986–1990 – Janusz Lewiński
Chairpersons of the City Council of Gdańsk from 1990
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