List of mayors of Danzig
Coat of arms of Gdańsk
List of the Mayors (German: Bürgermeister) of Danzig (Gdańsk) from 1308 to 1945. For the list of mayors from 1945 to the present day, refer to List of mayors of Gdańsk.
Oberbürgermeister
- 1224 Gdańsk received city rights (with Lübeck law)
- 1308 Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
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
- 1470-1438 – 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 declared personal union with the king ended (was not accepted)
- 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
- 1794 – von Lindenow
Danzig Free City (Napoléon era)
- 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
- 1910-1919 – Heinrich Heinrich Scholtz
Free City of Danzig
- Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of Versailles
- 1919-1930 – Dr. Heinrich Sahm (since 1920 President of Senate)
- 1931-1933 – Ernst Ziehm (Präsident des Senats)
- 1933-1934 – Hermann Rauschning (Präsident des Senats)
- 1934-1939 – Arthur Greiser (Präsident des Senats)
Second World War
- Free City occupied by Nazi Germany and incorporated into Third Reich
- 1939-1945 – Georg Lippke[1]
Poland
- Danzig conquered by Soviet Union 1945 and returned to Poland, as Gdańsk after the end of the Second World War (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II and Territorial changes of Germany after World War II for details)
- List of mayors of Gdańsk, after 1945 to the present day
See also
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