List of city mayors of Warsaw

The Mayor of Warsaw (officially in Prezydent miasta stołecznego Warszawy ) is the head of the executive of the capital of Poland elected directly during local elections for a term of five years.

Overview
The first city mayor of Warsaw was Jan Andrzej Menich (1695–1696). The municipal self-government existed in Warsaw until World War II and was restored in 1990 (during the communist times, the National City Council – Miejska Rada Narodowa – governed in Warsaw). Since 1990, the structure of city government has been modified several times. Between 1975 and 1990 the Warsaw city mayors simultaneously led the Warsaw Voivode. In the years 1990-1994, the city mayor of Warsaw was elected by the city council. Subsequently, a controversial reform was introduced, transforming the city in the years of 1994–1999 into a loose municipal union of several gminas, dominated by one of them, the gmina Centrum encompassing the entire inner city. During this period, the mayor of gmina Centrum who was elected by its council was automatically designated as the city mayor of Warsaw, in spite of representing only a fraction of the population of the city. The city was becoming increasingly unmanageable, especially after the administrative reform of Poland in 1999 which further complicated the local government structure of Warsaw. In 2002, the new Warsaw Act of the Polish parliament restored Warsaw as a single urban gmina with the status of a city with powiat rights, led by a unified local government. At the same time, a significant reform was implemented in all Polish municipal governments, introducing direct elections of the wójt/town mayor/city mayor in all Polish gminas. The first city mayor of Warsaw elected according to these rules was Lech Kaczyński, who however resigned ahead of term when he was elected President of Polish Republic in 2005.

Warsaw has thereafter remained an urban gmina with the status of a city with powiat rights. Legislative power in Warsaw is vested in a unicameral Warsaw City Council (Rada Miasta), which comprises 60 members. Council members are elected directly every five years (since 2018 election). Like most legislative bodies, the city council divides itself into committees which have the oversight of various functions of the city government. The city mayor exercises the executive power in the city, being the superior of all unelected municipal officials and other employees and supervising all subsidiary entities of the city.

The incumbent city mayor of Warsaw is Rafał Trzaskowski.

List of city mayors

 * Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Before 1792)


 * Alexander Chalmers (1702–1703)
 * Józef Benedykt Loupia (1724–1727)
 * Henryk Makin (1728)
 * Józef Benedykt Loupia (1734)
 * Mateusz Kostrzewski (1743)
 * Paweł Andrychowicz (1750–1751)
 * Paweł Andrychowicz (1753)
 * Jan Feliks Dulfus (1754–1756)
 * Michał Sakres (1761)
 * Jan Feliks Dulfus (1764)
 * Michał Sakres (1765–1766)
 * Jan Feliks Dulfus (1767)
 * Michał Sakres (1768)
 * Franciszek Witthoff (1769–1771)
 * Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1772)
 * Wojciech Lobert (1773–1776)
 * Jakub Maraszewski (1777)
 * Franciszek Witthoff (1778–1779)
 * Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1780–1780)
 * Wojciech Lobert (1781–1788)
 * Jan Dekert (23 February 1789 – 4 October 1790)
 * Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1791 – 13 April 1792)
 * Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (16 April 1792 – 25 August 1792)
 * Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (30 August 1792 – 20 March 1793)
 * Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)

Kościuszko Uprising

 * Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)
 * Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (17 April 1794 – 3 November 1794).
 * Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (20 November 1794 – 25 July 1796).

Prussian occupation (1795–1806)

 * Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove (25 July 1796 – 23 April 1799)
 * Friedrich Georg Tilly (23 April 1799 – 27 November 1806)

Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)

 * Joachim Moszyński (December 1806 – 21 February 1807)
 * Paweł Bieliński (17 April 1807 – 4 July 1807)
 * Stanisław Węgrzecki (4 July 1807 – December 1815)

Congress Poland (1816–1915)

 * Karol Woyda (6 January 1816 – 30 November 1830)
 * Stanisław Węgrzecki (30 November 1830 – 26 June 1831)
 * Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński (17 June 1831 – 1837)
 * Aleksander Graybner (1837 – 9 November 1847)
 * Teodor Andrault de Langeron (10 November 1847 – February 1862)
 * Kazimierz Woyda (luty 1862 – 15 August 1862)
 * Zygmunt Wielopolski (16 August 1862 – 18 September 1863)
 * Kalikst Witkowski (16 September 1863 – 1 October 1875)
 * Sokrates Starynkiewicz (18 November 1875 – 6 October 1892)
 * Nikolai Bibikov (6 October 1892 – 29 June 1906)
 * Wiktor Litwiński (July 1906 – 26 April 1909)
 * Aleksander Miller (4 September 1909 – 4 August 1915)

World War I and German occupation (1916/1917)

 * Zdzisław Lubomirski (5 August 1916 – 6 October 1917)

Republic of Poland (Second Polish Republic, 1918–1939)

 * Piotr Drzewiecki (28 November 1921 – 7 December 1921)
 * Stanisław Nowodworski (7 December 1921 – 22 June 1922)
 * Władysław Jabłoński 22 June 1922 – 7 July 1927
 * Zygmunt Słomiński (7 July 1927 – 2 March 1934)
 * Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski (2 March – 28 June 1934)
 * Stefan Starzyński (2 August 1934 – 27 October 1939)

General Government (1939–1944)

 * Julian Kulski (28 October 1939 – 1 August 1944)
 * Marceli Porowski (5 August 1944 – 2 October 1944)
 * Helmut Otto Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (October 1939)
 * Oskar Rudolf Dengel Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (5 November 1939 – 20 March 1940)
 * Ludwig Leist Nazi plenipotentiary of Governor of the Warsaw District, since October 1941, Mayor of Warsaw. It should be clarified that the last three mentioned were appointed by the Nazis during their occupation of Poland.

People's Republic of Poland (1945–1989)
Between 1950 and 1973 the highest representative of the government in Warsaw was named the "Head of the Presidium of the National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw" (Przewodniczący Prezydium Rady Narodowej miasta stołecznego Warszawy).


 * Marian Spychalski (18 September 1944 – March 1945)
 * Stanisław Tołwiński (5 March 1945 – 23 May 1950)
 * Jerzy Albrecht (23 May 1950 – 14 May 1956)
 * Janusz Zarzycki (14 May 1956 – 17 December 1956)
 * Zygmunt Dworakowski (17 December 1956 – 5 May 1960)
 * Janusz Zarzycki (5 May 1960 – 29 December 1967)
 * Jerzy Majewski (29 December 1967 – 9 December 1973)
 * Jerzy Majewski (13 December 1973 – 18 February 1982)
 * Mieczysław Dębicki (18 February 1982 – 31 July 1986)
 * Jerzy Bolesławski (1 August 1986 – 30 January 1990)

Republic of Poland (since 1990)

 * Stanisław Wyganowski (30 January 1990 – 5 October 1994)
 * Mieczysław Bareja (5 October 1994 – 3 November 1994)
 * Marcin Swiecicki (3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999)
 * Paweł Piskorski (30 March 1999 – 14 January 2002)
 * Wojciech Kozak (14 January 2002 – 18 November 2002)
 * Lech Kaczyński (18 November 2002 – 22 December 2005)
 * vacant (22 December 2005 – 9 February 2006)
 * Mirosław Kochalski (Acting; 9 February 2006 – 18 July 2006)
 * Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Acting; 18 July 2006 – 2 December 2006)
 * Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (2 December 2006 – 22 November 2018)
 * Rafał Trzaskowski (since 22 November 2018)