List of city mayors of Gdańsk



This article lists the people holding the office of either the mayor of Danzig (Bürgermeister von Danzig) or the city mayor of Danzig (Oberbürgermeister von Danzig), between 1308 and 1945, as well as the city mayor of Gdańsk (prezydent miasta Gdańska) from 1945 to the present day (or holders of the equivalent offices during communism).

Historical outline

 * 1224 – Gdańsk received city rights (with Lübeck law)
 * 1308 – Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
 * 1454 – Danzig reclaimed by the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
 * 1569 – Danzig fully reintegrated along with the remainder of Royal Prussia into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 * 1793 – Danzig lost in the Second Partition of Poland to Prussia, but not to Germany (the Holy Roman Empire)
 * 1806 – Danzig a Napoleonic free city and a condominium of Prussia and the Duchy of Warsaw
 * 1815 – Danzig reclaimed entirely by Prussia, but not as part of Germany (the German Confederation)
 * 1866 – Danzig a part of Germany (North German Confederation)
 * 1871 – Danzig a part of German Empire
 * 1918 – Danzig a free city in a union with the Second Polish Republic concerning foreign, military, customs, rail and postal affairs
 * 1939 – Danzig illegally annexed by Germany
 * 1945 – Danzig (as Gdańsk) fully reclaimed by Poland

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

 * 1794     – von Lindenow

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
 * 1910–1919 – Heinrich Heinrich Scholtz

Free City of Danzig

 * Free City of Danzig created by the Treaty of Versailles


 * 1920–1931 – Dr. Heinrich Sahm (since 1920 President of Senate)
 * 1931–1933 – Ernst Ziehm (President of Senate)
 * 1933–1934 – Hermann Rauschning (President of Senate)
 * 1934–1939 – Arthur Greiser (President of Senate)
 * 1939 – Albert Forster (Head of State)

World War II

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


 * 1939–1945 – Georg Lippke

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

 * 1973–1977 – Andrzej Kaznowski
 * 1977–1981 – Jerzy Młynarczyk
 * 1981–1989 – Kazimierz Rynkowski
 * 1989–1990 – Jerzy Pasiński

City mayors of Gdańsk from 1990

 * 1990–1991 – Jacek Starościak
 * 1991–1994 – Franciszek Jamroż
 * 1994–1998 – Tomasz Posadzki
 * 1998–2019 – Paweł Adamowicz
 * from 2019 – Aleksandra Dulkiewicz

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

 * 1990 – Franciszek Jamroż
 * 1990–1994 – Andrzej Januszajtis
 * 1994–1998 – Paweł Adamowicz
 * 1998–2001 – Elżbieta Grabarek-Bartoszewicz
 * 2001–2018 – Bogdan Oleszek
 * from 2018 – Agnieszka Owczarczak