List of mayors of Danzig

Coat of arms of Gdańsk

List of 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.

Oberbürgermeister

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 Thorn (1466)

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)

Kingdom of Prussia

Danzig Free City (Napoléon era)

Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire

Free City of Danzig

Free City of Danzig created by Treaty of Versailles

Second World War

Free City occupied by Nazi Germany and incorporated into Third Reich

Poland

Danzig conquered by Soviet Union 1945 and returned to Poland, as Gdańsk after the end of the Second World War (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II and Territorial changes of Germany after World War II for details)
List of mayors of Gdańsk, after 1945 to the present day

See also

References

  1. de:Georg Lippke

External links

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