List of city mayors of Gdańsk
This article lists the people holding the office of president of Gdańsk from 1945 to the present day, 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, from 1308 to 1454 as the mayor of Danzig to its restoration into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1454 to 1793 as the city mayor of Gdańsk, from 1793 to 1919 as the city mayor of Danzig and from 1919 to 1939 as the senate president of the Free City of Danzig .
Historical outline
- 997 - Gdańsk first mentioned
- 1224 – Gdańsk received medieval city rights
- 1308 – Gdańsk massacre
- 1454 – Gdańsk reclaimed by the Kingdom of Poland
- 1569 – Gdańsk subsumed into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- 1793 – Gdańsk lost in the Second Partition of Poland to Prussia, but not subsumed into the Holy Roman Empire
- 1806 – Gdańsk-Danzig a Napoleonic free city under the Duchy of Warsaw and Prussia
- 1815 – Danzig under Prussian control, but not as part of Germany
- 1871 – Danzig a part of German Empire
- 1918 – Danzig a free city in a union with the Second Polish Republic concerning foreign, military, customs, rail and postal affairs
- 1939 – Danzig annexed by Germany
- 1945 – Gdańsk fully reclaimed by Poland
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 1950–1973 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
[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]
- 1920–1931 – Dr. Heinrich Sahm
- 1931–1933 – Ernst Ziehm
- 1933–1934 – Hermann Rauschning
- 1934–1939 – Arthur Greiser
- 1939 – Albert Forster
[World War II]
- 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
- 1923–1924: Julius Gehl
- 1924–1926: Adolf Treichel
- 1926–1928: Alfred Semrau
- 1928–1930: Fritz Spill
- 1930–1931: Julius Gehl
- 1931–1933: Wilhelm von Wnuck
- 1933-1933: Franz Potrykus
- 1933–1936: Wilhelm von Wnuck
- 1937–1939: Edmund Beyl
Chairpersons of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1945–1950
1945–1948 – Alfred Kossakowski1948–1949 – Leon Srebrnik
1949–1950 – Bolesław Gemza
Presidents of the Presidium of the City National Council of Gdańsk 1950–1973
Between 1950–1973 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