List of mayors of Danzig

This article lists 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.

Mayor of Danzig Bürgermeister von Danzig
Coat of arms of Danzig
Flag of Danzig
Formation	1342
First holder	Dettloff von der Osten
Final holder	Georg Lippke
Abolished	1945
Succession	Mayor of Gdańsk

Gdańsk Town Hall

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
• 1470–1483 – 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 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

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

Senate of the Free City of Danzig

• 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

Poland

Danzig conquered by Soviet Union in 1945 (see East Pomeranian Offensive and ru:Взятие Данцига (1945)) and put under Polish administration, as Gdańsk after the end of the World War II (see Recovered Territories, Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II and Former eastern territories of Germany for details)

See also

• List of mayors of Gdańsk (1945–present)
• History of Gdańsk
  • Timeline of Gdańsk

External links

• List at roots.gdansk.pl