List of city mayors of Gdańsk

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City mayor of City of Gdańsk
Prezydent miasta Gdańska
Flag of Gdańsk
Incumbent
Aleksandra Dulkiewicz
since 11 March 2019
AppointerElectorate of Gdańsk
Formation1342/1945
First holderDettloff von der Osten/Alfred Kossakowski
Websitewww.gdansk.pl/prezydent-miasta-gdanska
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[edit]

Mayors or city mayors of Danzig[edit]

Teutonic Order[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 1794 – von Lindenow

Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Free City of Danzig created by the Treaty of Versailles
Senate of the Free City of Danzig

World War II[edit]

Free City occupied by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia

City mayors of Gdańsk and equivalents[edit]

City mayors of Gdańsk 1945–1950[edit]

Presidents of Presidium of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1950–1973[edit]

Between 1950–1973 functions of the city mayor of Gdańsk and president of the City National Council of Gdańsk were combined into one office.

City mayors of Gdańsk 1973–1990[edit]

Paweł Adamowicz, mayor from 1998 until his assassination in 2019.

City mayors of Gdańsk from 1990[edit]

Speakers of the municipal legislature[edit]

Presidents of the Volkstag (1920-1939)[edit]

Chairpersons of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1945–1950[edit]

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[edit]

Between 1950–1973 functions of the city mayor of Gdańsk and chairperson of the City National Council of Gdańsk were combined into one office.

Chairpersons of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1973–1990[edit]

Chairpersons of the City Council of Gdańsk from 1990[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]