List of mayors of Danzig
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List of the Mayors of Danzig (Gdańsk) from 1308 to 1945.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Free City of Danzig
Oberbürgermeister
- 1224 Gdańsk received city rights (with Lübeck rights)
- 1308 Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdansk)The city of Danzig was captured by the State of the Teutonic Order on 13 November 1308, resulting in a massacre of its inhabitants and marking the beginning of tensions between Poland and the Teutonic Order. Originally the knights moved into the fortress as an ally of Poland against the...
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 LetzkauConrad LetzkauConrad Letzkau was a Councilman and later a Mayor of Danzig who, together with Arnold Hecht, was assassinated by the Teutonic Knights.-Origins:...
- 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 PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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 GieseTiedemann GieseTiedemann Giese Tiedemann Giese Tiedemann Giese (1 June 1480 – 23 October 1550, Heilsberg (Lidzbark), was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk). The brother of the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese and relative of Albrecht Giese he became Bishop of Culm (Chełmno) first...
) - 1550-1554 – Johann Stutte
Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthPolish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth begun in 1569 with the Union of LublinUnion of LublinThe Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages. In addition, the autonomy of Royal Prussia was...
, which declared personal unionPersonal unionA personal union is the combination by which two or more different states have the same monarch while their boundaries, their laws and their interests remain distinct. It should not be confused with a federation which is internationally considered a single state...
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 LindeAdrian von der LindeAdrian von der Linde - Danzig's patrician. Lord mayor of Danzig.-Lord mayor of Danzig:* 1630 - 1631 - probably this date is referring to another person with same name, please see disambiguation.* 21 March 1647 - 17 March 1648...
- 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 LindeAdrian von der LindeAdrian von der Linde - Danzig's patrician. Lord mayor of Danzig.-Lord mayor of Danzig:* 1630 - 1631 - probably this date is referring to another person with same name, please see disambiguation.* 21 March 1647 - 17 March 1648...
- 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 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 GralathDaniel GralathDaniel Gralath was a German physicist and Bürgermeister of Danzig.Gralath was born in Danzig in Poland of a well-to-do trade family. He had studied law and philosophy in Halle, then in Leyden and Marburg from 1728 to 1734. Later he became Ratsherr and, in 1763, Bürgermeister of Danzig...
- 1777 – Gottfried Schwartz
- 1787 – Johann Bentzmann
- 1790 – Zernecke
- 1793 – Eduard Friedrich von Conradi
Danzig Free City (Napoléon era)
- 1807-1808 – Carl Friedrich von Gralath
- 1808-1810 – Gottlieb HufelandGottlieb HufelandGottlieb Hufeland was a German economist and jurist.Born in Danzig , in the province of Royal Prussia, Hufeland was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and completed his university studies at Leipzig and Göttingen. He graduated at Jena, and in 1788 was there appointed to an extraordinary...
- 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 DelbrückClemens von DelbrückClemens Ernst Gottlieb von Delbrück was a German nationalist politician and later nobleman.-Biography:...
- 1903-1910 – Heinrich Otto Ehlers
- 1910-1919 – Heinrich Heinrich Scholtz
Free City of DanzigFree City of DanzigThe Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig and surrounding areas....
- Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of VersaillesTreaty of VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
- 1919-1930 – Dr. Heinrich SahmHeinrich SahmHeinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm , no party affiliation, was a German lawyer, mayor and statesman from the Free City of Danzig....
(since 1920 President of Senate) - 1931-1933 – Ernst ZiehmErnst ZiehmDr. Ernst Ziehm was a Danzig based German politician from the conservative German National People's Party and President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig from 1931 to 1933....
(Präsident des Senats) - 1933-1934 – Hermann RauschningHermann RauschningHermann Rauschning was a GermanConservative Revolutionary who briefly joined the Nazis before breaking with them. In 1934 he renounced Nazi party membership and defected to the United States where he denounced Nazism...
(Präsident des Senats) - 1934-1939 – Artur Greiser (Präsident des Senats)
- 1919-1930 – Dr. Heinrich Sahm
Second World War
- Free City occupied by Nazi Germany and incorporated into Third Reich
- 1939-1945 – Georg Lippke
Poland
- Danzig conquered by Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
1945 and returned to Poland, as Gdańsk after the end of the Second World War (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War IITerritorial changes of Poland after World War IIThe territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive. In 1945, following the Second World War, Poland's borders were redrawn following the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 at the insistence of the Soviet Union...
and Territorial changes of Germany after World War IITerritorial changes of Germany after World War II-The Allies decide the postwar German-Polish border:As it became evident that the Allies were going to defeat Nazi Germany decisively, the question arose as to how to redraw the borders of Eastern European countries after the war...
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- List of mayors of Gdańsk before 1308, and after 1945