List of city mayors of Gdańsk

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

• 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]

Kingdom of Poland">Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)">Kingdom of Poland

[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]

[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

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

• 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