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List of the Mayors (Template:Lang-de, Template:Lang-pl) of Danzig, from 14th century until 1945 when the German town at the Baltic Sea was made part of Poland, called Gdańsk. The German population was expelled and replaced by Poles. Thus, there is no continuation to later administrations.
Oberbürgermeister
- 1224 City founded (with Lübeck rights)
- 1308 Teutonic takeover of Danzig
Teutonic Order era
- 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 Hecht
- 1411-1417 – Herman Hittfeld
- 1412-1413 – Albrecht Dödorff
- 1413-1430 – Gert von der Becke
- 1415-1416 – Steffen Plötzker
- (vorher 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
State Republic Autonomy within Royal Prussia
- Teutonic Order lost influence in Danzig after 1454, during the Thirteen Years' War, and by the Second Treaty of Toruń (Thorn).
- 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)
- 1550-1554 – Johann Stutte
State Republic Autonomy within Royal Prussia
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth begun in 1569 with the Union of Lublin, which ended personal union with the king and threatend the autonomy of Danzig and others.
- 1548-1577 – Johann Brandes
- 1555-1588 – Constantin Feber
- 1557-1578 – Johann Proite
- 1558-1576 – George Cleefeld
- 1577-1585 – Reinhold Möllner
- 1578-1592 – George 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
- 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 Gralath
- 1777 – Schwarz
- 1787 – Johann Bentzmann
- 1790 – Zernecke
- 1793 – Eduard Friedrich von Conradi
Kingdom of Prussia
- 1794 – von Lindenow
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 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 – Artur Greiser (Präsident des Senats)
Second World War
- Free City status enforced by League of Nations de facto ended when German troops entered the town. The city returned to Germany according to wishes of the majority of the population
Poland, since 1945 Gdańsk
- Danzig was occupied by Soviets at the end of the Second World War and transferred to Poland, which expelled the German population and renamed the town to Gdańsk. A new communist Polish administration as well as new Polish citizens were brought in, without a continuation of the former Danzig administration.
See also
- History of Gdańsk
- Territorial changes of Poland after World War II and
- Territorial changes of Germany after World War II