Stadthaus Zürich - Limmatquai 2010-11-10 15-57-02 ShiftN

The

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of the

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city of

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(''Stadtpräsident von Zürich'') presides the city council (''Stadtrat''). The office of mayor (''Bürgermeister'') was introduced with the guild revolution of 1336, and held by

Rudolf Brun Rudolf Brun (1290s – 17 September 1360) was the leader of the Zürich guilds' revolution of 1336, and the city's first independent mayor. Since 1234, Zürich had been governed by an aristocratic council. One third of the council's members w ...

until 1360. It was abolished in the

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(1798–1803). In 1803, the title of ''Bürgermeister'' was given to the head of the cantonal government, and the office of the city mayor was renamed to ''Stadtpräsident'').

''Bürgermeister'' (1336–1798)

After its accession to the

Swiss Confederacy The Old Swiss Confederacy or Swiss Confederacy ( Modern German: ; historically , after the Reformation also , "Confederation of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (, German or In the charters of the 14th century ...

in 1351, Zürich was divided in its loyalties between its alliance with the Confederacy and the ties of its patriciate to the House of Habsburg. The

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enforced a number of concessions from the pro-Habsburg patriciate in 1373, among other things the reduction of the power of the office of the mayor. From this time, Zürich had two elected mayors, who alternately were in office for half a year. The same conflict erupted once again in the so-called "Schöno dispute" (''Schöno-Handel'') in 1393, in which the pro-Habsburg mayor Rudolf Schön (Schöno) was deposed by the pro-Confederate guilds and the constitution was changed again to reduce the mayor's influence. From 1803–1850 the title of ''Bürgermeister'' was held by the cantonal government, while the title of the city's mayor was changed to ''Stadtpräsident''.

''Stadtpräsident'' (1803 to present)

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Jonas Furrer Jonas Furrer (3 March 1805 – 25 July 1861) was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as member of the Federal Council, from 1848 to 1861, and as the first president of the Swiss Confederation from 1848 to 1849, and again in 1852, 1855 and ...

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Ernst Nobs Ernst Nobs (14 July 1886, in Seedorf, Bern – 15 March 1957) was a Swiss politician. He was the mayor of Zürich from 1942 to 1944. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 15 December 1943, as the first member of the Social Democratic P ...

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Corine Mauch Corine Mauch (born May 28, 1960 in Iowa City) is a Swiss Social Democrat politician who serves as mayor of Zurich. She is the first female and first openly lesbian person to be elected mayor of the city. Political career Mauch was elected m ...

, current mayor (2009)

''Bürgermeister'' (1336–1798)

''Stadtpräsident'' (1803 to present)

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