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() 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, from 1308 to 1454 as the mayor of Danzig () to its restoration into the
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from 1454 to 1793 as the city mayor of Gdańsk (), from 1793 to 1919 and from 1939 to 1945 as the city mayor of Danzig and from 1919 to 1939 as the senate president of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).


Historical outline

*997 - Gdańsk first mentioned *1224 – Gdańsk received medieval
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*1308 – Gdańsk massacre *1454 – Gdańsk reclaimed by the
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*1569 – Gdańsk subsumed into the
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*1793 – Gdańsk lost in the
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to Prussia, but not subsumed into the
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*1806 – Gdańsk-Danzig a Napoleonic free city under the
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and Prussia *1815 – Danzig under Prussian control, but not as part of Germany (the
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) *1871 – Danzig a part of
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*1918 – Danzig a free city in a union with the
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concerning foreign, military, customs, rail and postal affairs *1939 – Danzig annexed by Germany *1945 – Gdańsk fully reclaimed by
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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 Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz (; 2 November 1965 – 14 January 2019) was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the List of city mayors of Gdańsk, city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz, his assassination in 20 ...
*from 2019 –
Aleksandra Dulkiewicz Aleksandra Maria Dulkiewicz (; born 10 July 1979) is a Polish lawyer and politician serving as the city mayor of Gdańsk since 11 March 2019. Life and career In 1994, she graduated froThe Primary School No. 50named after Emilia Plater in Gdań ...


Historical mayors or city mayors of Gdańsk or Danzig


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:''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.''


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:''Teutonic Order lost Danzig to
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after 1454, during the Thirteen Years' War, and by the
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:''Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth begun in 1569 with the
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, which transformed the
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of Poland and Lithuania into a
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and also reintegrated
Pomerelia Pomerelia, also known as Eastern Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania, and also before World War II as Polish Pomerania, is a historical sub-region of Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. Gdańsk Pomerania is largely c ...
as part of Royal Prussia into the
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*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

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*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 The Free City of Danzig (; ) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrou ...

:''Free City of Danzig created by the
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'' *1920–1931 – Dr. Heinrich Sahm (since 1920 President of Senate) *1931–1933 –
Ernst Ziehm Dr. Ernst Ziehm (1 May 1867 – 7 July 1962) was a Danzig-based German politician from the conservative German National People's Party and President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig The Free City of Danzig (; ) was a city-state under t ...
(President of Senate) *1933–1934 –
Hermann Rauschning Hermann Adolf Reinhold Rauschning (7 August 1887 – 8 February 1982) was a German politician and author, adherent of the Conservative Revolution movement who briefly joined the Nazi movement before breaking with it. He was the President of the S ...
(President of Senate) *1934–1939 –
Arthur Greiser Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a German Nazi Party politician, SS-''Obergruppenführer'', ''Gauleiter'' and ''Reichsstatthalter'' (Reich Governor) of the German-occupied territory of ''Wartheland''. He was one of the ...
(President of Senate) *1939 – Albert Forster (Head of State)


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:''Free City occupied by
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and incorporated into the
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia () was an Reichsgau, administrative division of Nazi Germany created on 8 October 1939 from annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, the Greater Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the Marienwerder (regi ...
'' *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
1948–1949 – 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 Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz (; 2 November 1965 – 14 January 2019) was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the List of city mayors of Gdańsk, city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz, his assassination in 20 ...
*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
* History of Gdańsk
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Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
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