Lord Mayors before 1862

Lord Mayors is Oberbürgermeister in German

German language

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• 1342-1347 – Dettloff von der Osten
• 1342-1354 – Henrich Burmeister der Aeltere
• 1346-1355 – Steffen von der Osten
• 1354-1374 – Hillebrand Müntzer
• 1356-1360 – Johan von Stein
• 1359-1372 – Johann Wallrabe der Aeltere
• 1361-1362 – Casper Bock
• 1362-1390 – Gottschalck Naase
• 1368-1387 – Paul Jann
• 1372-1385 – Johann Wallrabe der Jüngere
• 1379-1386 – Johann Wackaw
• 1381-1384 – Nicklaus Gottsknecht
• 1384-1392 – Herman Rolberg
• 1392-1405 – Reinhold Hittfeld
• 1395-1399 – Lubbert Haacke
• 1399-1404 – Peter Fürstenau
• 1402-1418 – Tideman Huxer
• 1405-1411 – Konrad Leczkow (Conrad Letzkau
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• 1407-1410 – Peter Vorraht
• 1408-1411 – Arend Hecht
• 1411-1417 – Herman Hittfeld
• 1412-1413 – Albrecht Dödorff
• 1413-1430 – Gert von der Becke
• 1415-1416 – Steffen Plötzker
• (before 1436) – Nicklaus Rogge
• 1419-1433 – Johann Beisener
• 1430-1441 – Peter Holste
• 1433-1446 – Lucas Meckelfeld
• 1433-1443 – Heinrich Vorraht
• 1436-1449 – Meinert Cölmer
• 1442-1456 – Martin Cremon
• 1445-1456 – Albrecht Hexer
• 1447-1480 – Reinhold Niederhoff
• 1452-1462 – Herman Stargardt
• 1454-1461 – Wilhelm Jordan
• 1457-1461 – Jacob Falcke
• 1461-1475 – Johann von Scheren
• 1462-1478 – Johann von Walde
• 1462-1478 – Johann Veere
• 1470-1438 – Philipp Bischoff
• 1477-1483 – Johann Angermünde
• 1479-1501 – Johann Ferber
• 1483-1485 – Marten Bock
• 1484-1502 – George Buck
• 1484-1490 – Johann Schewecke
• 1489-1505 – Henrich Falcke
• 1492-1501 – Henrich von Süchten
• 1502-1513 – George Mand
• 1503-1512 – Johann Schewecke der Jüngere
• 1504-1513 – Matthias Zimmerman
• 1506-1507 – Antoni Backelman
• 1510-1526 – Eberhard Ferber
• 1513-1525 – Greger Brand
• 1514-1524 – Henrich Wiese
• 1517-1535 – Philipp Bischoff
• 1524-1529 – Matthias Lange
• 1525-1538 – Cordt von Süchten
• 1526-1535 – Edward Niederhoff
• 1526-1554 – Johann von Werden
• 1531-1547 – George Schewecke
• 1536-1539 – Peter Behme
• 1538-1549 – Barthell Brand
• 1540-1560 – Tiedemann Giese
• 1548-1577 – Johann Brandes
• 1550-1554 – Johann Stutte
• 1555-1588 – Constantin Feber
• 1557-1578 – Johann Proite
• 1558-1576 – George Cleefeld
• 1577-1585 – Reinhold Möllner
• 1578-1592 – George Rosenberg
• 1581-1619 – Johann von der Linde
• 1586-1602 – Daniel Zierenberg
• 1589-1605 – Constantin Giese
• 1592-1612 – Gerhard Brandes
• 1603-1611 – Johann Thorbecke
• 1605-1614 – Bartłomiej Schachmann (Barthell Schachtman)
• 1612-1616 – Andreas Borkman
• 1612-1625 – Johann Speymann
• 1615-1617 – Barthell Brandt
• 1617-1629 – Arnold von Holten
• 1618-1636 – Eggert von Kempen
• 1619-1635 – Valentin von Bodeck
• 1626-1620 – Ernst Kroll
• 1630-1642 – Johann Zierenberg
• 1630-1631 – Adrian von der Linde
• 1632-1654 – Constantin Ferber
• 1636-1644 – Hanss Rogge
• 1637-1639 – Johans Ernst Schröder
• 1640-1649 – Nicklas Pahl
• 1643-1644 – Elert von Bobart
• 1645-1646 – Daniel Falcke
• 1645-1682 – Adrian von der Linde
• 1647-1654 – Henrich Freder
• 1650-1665 – Friederich Ehler
• 1655-1663 – Nathanaël Schmieden
• 1655-1673 – George von Bömelen
• 1664-1675 – Nicklas von Bodeck
• 1666-1685 – Gabriel Krumhausen
• 1677-1701 – Christian Schröder
• 1677-1686 – Daniel Proite
• 1683-1700 – Barbiel Schuhman
• 1686-1704 – Constantin Ferber
• 1687-1691 – Constantin Ferber
• 1692-1707 – Johann Ernst Schmieden
• 1700-1707 – Constantin Ferber
• 1702-1707 – Reinhold
• 1704-1722 – Andreas Borkman
• 1707-1716 – Friedrich Gottlieb Engelcke
• 1708-1712 – Joachim Hoyge
• 1708-1740 – Gabriel von Bömeln
• 1712-1721 – Ernst von der Linde
• 1716-1710 – Carl Ernst Bauer
• 1720-1745 – Johann Gottfried von Disseldorff
• 1722-1720 – Salomon Gabriel Schumann
• 1723-1734 – Gottfried Bentzmann
• 1730-1739 – Carl Groddeck
• 1735-1757 – Johann Wahl
• 1740-1753 – Carl Gottlieb Ehler
• 1741-1746 – Joachim Jacob Schwacher
• 1746-1748 – Johann Carl Schwartzwald
• 1746-1755 – Nathanael Gottfried Ferber
• 1750-1753 – Fridrich Krüger
• 1754 – Christian Gabriel von Schröder
• 1754 – Michael Schmidt
• 1756 – Johann Kenner
• ? – Johann Ernst von der Linde
• 1762-1776 – Gottlieb G. Weickhmann
• 1763-1767 – Daniel Gralath
• 1777 – Schwarz
• 1787 – Johann Bentzmann
• 1790 – Zernecke
• 1793 – Eduard Friedrich von Conradi
• 1794 – von Lindenow
• 1807-1808 – Carl Friedrich von Gralath
• 1808-1810 – Gottlieb Hufeland
• 1810-1814 – Johann Willhelm Wernsdorff
• 1814-1849 – Joachim Heinrich von Weickhmann
• 1850-1862 – Carl August von Groddeck

Lord Mayors before 1920

Start year	End year	Oberbürgermeister
1862	1890	Leopold von Winter
1891	1896	Karl Adolf von Baumbach
1896	1903	Clemens G.ErnstDelbruck
1903	1910	Heinrich Otto Ehlers
1910	1918	Heinrich Scholtz
1919	1920	Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Chief Executive in 1920

Danziger Chief Executive
Chairman of the Council of State

• 1920 - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Free City of Danzig

Free City of Danzig

The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig and surrounding areas....

 (Freie Stadt Danzig)

In 1920 Danzig became a Free and Sovereign City under the Protection of the
League of Nations.

Heads of State

Presidents of the Senate / Senatspräsidenten (also in charge of foreign affairs):

• 1920-1931 - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm
  Heinrich Sahm
  Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm , no party affiliation, was a German lawyer, mayor and statesman from the Free City of Danzig....
  
  
• 1931-1933 - Ernst Ziehm
  Ernst Ziehm
  Dr. Ernst Ziehm 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 from 1931 to 1933....
  
    1867 - 1962
• 1933-1934 - Hermann Rauschning
  Hermann Rauschning
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    1887 - 1982
• 1934-1939 - Arthur Greiser
  Arthur Greiser
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    1897 - 1946

State President / Staatspräsident (3):

• 1939-1945 - Albert Forster
  Albert Forster
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    1902 - 1952

(3) The Senate, still headed by Greiser, continued to function as an executive body.
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Senators of Home Affairs

Senators of Home Affairs is Senatoren für Inneres in German.

• 1920-1924 - Wilhelm Schümmer
• 1924-1928 - Hubert Schwartz 1883 - 1966
• 1928-1929 - Friedrich Grünhagen 1876 - 1929
• 1929-1931 - Franz Arczynski*
• 1931-1933 - G. Hinz
• 1933-1939 - Artur Greiser

Senators of Justice

Senators of Justice is Senatoren für Justiz in German.

• 1920-1925 - Albert Heinrich Frank
• 1925-1928 - Hubert Schwartz
• 1928-1931 - A. Evert
• 1931-1933 - Fritz Dumont
• 1933-1939 - Willibald Wiercinski-Keiser (since 1934 Wiers-Kaiser)

Senators of Finances / Senatoren für Finanzen

Senators of Finances is Senatoren für Finanzen in German.

• 1921-1928 - Ernst Volkmann
• 1928-1931 - Bernhard Kamnitzer
  Bernhard Kamnitzer
  Bernhard Kamnitzer was a German jurist and Senator of the Free City of Danzig.-Biography:Kamnitzer was born in Dirschau , he studied law at the Universities of Danzig and Königsberg .Kamnitzer served in World War I and was severely wounded, he later worked as a lawyer and a judge in...
  
  
• 1931-1939 - Julius Hoppenrath

High Commissioner

• 1919-1920 - Sir Reginald Thomas Tower (United Kingdom
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  ) 1860 - 1939

Representatives of the League of Nations

High Commissioners

The High Commissioners appointed by the League of Nations

League of Nations

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 did not intervene in the internal affairs of the Free City. Their main task was to settle problems which could arise between Poland and the Free City.

• 1920 Col. Edward Lisle Strutt
  Edward Lisle Strutt
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  * (UK) 1874 - 1948
• 1920-1921 - Bernardo Attolico (Italy) 1880 - 1942
• 1921-1923 - Gen. Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking
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   (UK) 1862 - 1945
• 1923-1925 - Mervyn Sorley McDonnell (UK) 1880 - 1949
• 1925-1929 - Joost Adriaan van Hamel (Neth.) 1880 - 1964
• 1929-1932 - Manfredi, Conte di Gravina dei Principi di Ramacca (Italy) 1883 - 1932
• 1932-1934 - Helmer Rostgaard GommesenRosting (Denmark) 1893 - 1945
• 1934-1936 - Seán Lester
  Seán Lester
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   (Irish Free State
  Irish Free State
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  ) 1888 - 1959
• 1936-1937 - none
• 1937-1939 - Carl Jakob Burckhardt (Switz.) 1891 - 1974

Presidents of the Harbor Council

The Harbor Council was in charge of the harbor and all waterways of Danzig.
It comprised 10 members (5 Danziger and 5 Poles) and was presided by a Swiss
citizen (Nederbragt was an exception. He was appointed as he had successfully
resolve an important traffic problem in Danzig the year before he was chosen.

• 1921-1925 - James de Reynier (Switz.)
• 1925-1931 - Hugens de Loes (Switz.)
• 1931-1934 - Carl Josef Benziger (Switz.)
• 1934-1939 - Johan A. Nederbragt (Neth.)

General Commissioners of the Polish Republic

Based on the Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of Versailles

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 and on the Conventions of Paris and Warwaw (1919 - 1921), Poland received however some economic privileges safeguarding its free access to the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

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• Polish civilian ships had free entry to the harbor,
• Poland took over the administration of the Danziger railways, which were now administered by the Direction of the PKP Polish State Railways at Torun
• Poland had the right to maintain a separate Post Office (since 1925)
• Danzig and Poland were united in a customs union

• The same treaties also transferred to Poland all diplomatic and consular representations of Danzig, which did however retain the right to conclude treaties, join international organizations, etc.

General Commissioners of the Polish Republic (4)
Komisarze Generalni Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

Polish representatives

The Polish representatives were responsible for the liaison between the Senate
and the Polish government.

• 1920-1921 - Maciej Biesiadecki
• 1921-1924 - Leon Pluciński
• 1924-1932 - Henryk Leon Strasburger
  Henryk Leon Strasburger
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• 1932-1936 - Kazimierz Papée
• 1936-1939 - Marian Chodacki

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• Later (in 1924, with effect from 1926) the League of Nations also allowed Poland to establish a munition depot on the Westerplatte peninsula and to maintain a small garrison (ca 90 men)

Polish Commanders of Westerplatte

• 1926-1926 - Com. Ignacy Szaniawski
• 1926-1927 - Com. Borys Mohuczy
• 1927-1931 - Com. Józef Czechowicz
• 1931-1934 - Capt. Jan Litynski
• 1934-1938 - Maj. Stefan Fabiszewski (1896-1974)
• 1938-1939 - Maj. Henryk Sucharski
  Henryk Sucharski
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   (1898-1946), captured by German Army

Other Officials

German Danzig 1939-1945

In 1939 the Free City of Danzig was annexed to the German Reich.
After a brief transitional period, its territory became part of the restored
Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen.

Danzig-Land (Rural) County

formed by the merger of Danziger-Höhe and part of Danziger Niederung

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1939-1943 - Erwin Johst
• 1943-1945 - ...

Grosses Werder County

formed by the merger of Marienburg and part of Danziger Niederung

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 19..-1941 ...
• 1941-1942 ... Jansson*
• 1942-1944 Ernst Wallhöfer
• 1944-1945 ...

Zoppot City County

Lord Mayors/Oberbürgermeister:

• 1939-1941 - Erich Temp
• 1942-1942 - ... Koss*
• 1942-1943 - ... Schröder
• 1943-1945 - ... Hochlenert

• see also Administration of Danzig-West Prussia 1939-1945
  Administration of Danzig-West Prussia 1939-1945
  -Danzig district / Regierungsbezirk Danzig:In 1939 the Free City of Danzig was annexed to Germany.After a brief transitional period, its territory became part of the restoredRegierungsbezirk Danzig in the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen -Danzig district / Regierungsbezirk Danzig:In 1939 the Free City...
  
  

Administration after 1945

In 1945 Danzig was conquered by the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front

2nd Belorussian Front

The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...

 Army Group
commanded by Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Rokossovsky

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, Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union was the de facto highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ....

 (1896 - 1968). Soon afterwards the whole territory was handed by the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 to Poland, later becoming part of the Gdańsk Voivodship. (5) See: Administrations of Gdańsk since 1945.

(5) City President of Gdańsk / Prezydent Miasta Gdańska:

• 1945-1946 - Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski
• 1946-1949 – Bronisław Nowicki
• 1949-1953 – Piotr Stolarek
• 1953-1954 – Stanisław Schmidt
• 1954-1958 – Julian Cybulski
• 1958-1963 – Stanisław Schmidt
• 1963-1969 – Tadeusz Bejm
• 1969-1973 – Jan Nikołajew
• 1973-1977 – Andrzej Kaznowski
• 1977-1981 – Dr. Jerzy Młynarczyk
• 1981-1989 – Kazimierz Rynkowski
• 1989-1990 – Jerzy Pasiński
• 1990-1991 – Jacek Starościak
• 1991-1994 – Franciszek Jamroż
• 1994-1998 – Tomasz Posadzki
• 1998 - Paweł Adamowicz

Polish names :

• Berent = Kościerzyna
• Dirschau = Tczew
• Elbing = Elblag
• Gotenhafen (during Nazi occupation 1939-1945, earlier Gdingen) = Gdynia
• Karthaus = Kartuzy
• Neustadt = Wejherowo
• Zoppot = Sopot