List of city mayors of Gdańsk

This article lists the people holding the office of president of Gdańsk () from 1945 to the present day (or holders of the equivalent offices), as well as the historical offices of mayor of Gdańsk () from its founding as a major Slavic port in the 900s to the Teutonic takeover of Gdańsk in 1308, mayor of Danzig () in the State of the Teutonic Order (1308–1454), city mayor of Danzig () in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (1454–1793) and the Kingdom of Prussia (1793–1919) and senate president of the Free City of Danzig (1919–1939).

Historical outline

• 997 - Gdańsk first mentioned as urbs Gyddanyzc
• 1224 – Gdańsk received medieval city rights
• 1308 – Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
• 1454 – Danzig reclaimed by the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
• 1569 – Danzig subsumed into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1793 – Danzig lost in the Second Partition of Poland to the Kingdom of Prussia, but not subsumed into the Holy Roman Empire
• 1806 – Danzig a Napoleonic free city under the Duchy of Warsaw and Prussia
• 1815 – Danzig under Prussian control, but not as part of Germany (the German Confederation)
• 1871 – Danzig a part of the German Empire
• 1920 – Free City of Danzig in a union with the Second Polish Republic concerning foreign, military, customs, rail and postal affairs
• 1939 – Danzig annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II
• 1945 – Danzig annexed by Poland after World War II and renamed to Gdańsk

City mayors of Gdańsk and equivalents

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 and 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

Historical mayors or city mayors of Gdańsk or Danzig

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.

Kingdom of Poland

Teutonic Order lost Danzig to Poland after 1454, during the Thirteen Years' War, and by the Second Peace of Toruń

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

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 –
• 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 –

Speakers of the municipal legislature

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<br /> 1948–1949 – Leon Srebrnik<br /> 1949–1950 – Bolesław Gemza

Presidents of the Presidium of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1950–1973

Between 1950 and 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

See also

• List of Gdańsk aristocratic families
• History of Gdańsk
• Timeline of Gdańsk

External links

• List at roots.gdansk.pl