List of Commandants of Berlin Sectors

This is a list of the commandants of the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990.

American

Floyd L. Parks :(4 July 1945 - 2 September 1945)
James M. Gavin : (3 September 1945 - 10 October 1945)
Ray W. Barker :(11 October 1945 - 1 May 1946)
Frank A. Keating :(1 May 1946 - 13 May 1947)
Cornelius E. Ryan :(14 May 1947 - 23 September 1947)
William Hesketh :(24 September 1947 - 30 November 1947)
Frank Leo Howley :(1 December 1947 - 31 August 1949)
Maxwell D. Taylor :(31 August 1949 - 31 January 1951)
Lemuel Mathewson :(1 February 1951 - 2 January 1953)
Thomas S. Timberman :(3 January 1953 - 4 August 1954)
George B. Honnen :(5 August 1954 - 9 September 1955)
Charles L. Dasher :(10 September 1955 - 3 June 1957)
Barksdale Hamlett :(4 June 1957 - 15 December 1959)
Ralph M. Osborne :(20 December 1959 - 3 May 1961)
Albert Watson II :(4 May 1961 - 2 January 1963)
James H. Polk :(2 January 1963 - 31 August 1964)
John F. Franklin, Jr. :(1 September 1964 - 3 June 1967)
Robert G. Fergusson :(3 June 1967 - 28 February 1970)
George M. Seignious II :(28 February 1970 - 12 May 1971)
William W. Cobb :(12 May 1971 - 10 June 1974)
Sam S. Walker :(10 June 1974 - 11 August 1975)
Joseph C. McDonough :(11 August 1975 - 7 June 1978)
Calvert P. Benedict :(7 June 1978 - 5 July 1981)
James G. Boatner :(5 July 1981 - 27 June 1984)
John H. Mitchell :(27 June 1984 - 1 June 1988)
Raymond E. Haddock :(1 June 1988 - 2 October 1990)

British Commanders were:^[1]

Lewis Lyne :(5 July 1945 - 30 August 1945)
Eric Nares :(30 August 1945 - 13 June 1947)
Otway Herbert :(13 June 1947 - 23 January 1949)
Geoffrey Bourne :(23 January 1949 - 24 October 1951)
Charles Coleman :(24 October 1951 - 13 March 1954)
William Oliver :(13 March 1954 - 30 April 1955)
Robert Cottrell-Hill :(1 May 1955 - 6 February 1956)
Francis Rome :(26 March 1956 - 20 March 1959)
Rohan Delacombe :(23 March 1959 - 3 May 1962)
Claude Dunbar :(May 1962 - Dec 1962)
David Peel Yates :(Dec 1962 - Jan 1966)
John Nelson :(Feb 1966 - Feb 1968)
James Bowes-Lyon :(Mar 1968 - Nov 1970)
Lord Cathcart :(Nov 1970 - Jul 1973)
David Scott-Barrett :(Aug 1973 - Nov 1975)
Roy Redgrave :(Nov 1975 - Jan 1978)
Robert Richardson :(Jan 1978 - Sep 1980)
David Mostyn :(Sep 1980 - Oct 1983)
Bernard Gordon-Lennox :(Oct 1983 - Dec 1985)
Patrick Brooking :(Dec 1985 - Jan 1989)
Robert Corbett :(1989 - 1990)

Geoffroi du Bois de Beauchesne :(11 July 1945 - 12 March 1946)
Charles Lançon :(12 March 1946 - 4 October 1946)
Jean Ganeval :(4 October 1946 - 5 October 1950)
Pierre Carolet :(1 October 1950 - 31 December 1952)
Pierre Manceaux-Démiau :(1 January 1953 - 31 December 1954)
Amédée J.B. Gèze :(1 January 1955 - 30 September 1958)
Jean Lacomme :(1 October 1958 - 25 February 1962)
Edouard K. Toulouse :(1962 - 1964)
François Binoche :(1964 - 1967)
Bertrand Huchet de Quénetain :(1967 - 1970)
Maurice Routier :(1970 - 1973)
Camille Metzler :(1973 - 1975)
Jacques Mangin :(1975 - 1977)
Bernard d'Astorg :(1977 - 1980)
Jean P. Liron :(1980 - 1984)
Olivier Le Taillendier de Gabory :(1984 - 1985)
Paul Cavarrot :(1985 - 1987)
François Cann :(1987 - 1990)