The List of mayors of Augsburg is a list of holders of the office of mayor of the German city of Augsburg.
For simplicity they are all called mayors, although the title varied over the centuries.

On the head of the city Augsburg as chairman of the town council governed since 1266 the so-called Stadtpfleger, sometimes also called mayor, so it happened that both titles were in use at the same time.

By 1548 the title was fixed as Stadtpfleger. These officiated for some years and after that they were elected for lifetime. This is why there were sometimes two or more Stadtpfleger simultaneously.

After the transfer to Bavaria

Bavaria

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 in 1806 Augsburg constituted a magistracy with two mayors. It was supported by an additional council of so called "community commissioners" (Gemeindebevollmächtige).

Since 1907 the mayor has been called Oberbürgermeister

Lord Mayor

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, because Augsburg reached a population of 100,000. The title is stated in the Bavarian Gemeindeordnung

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Until 1919 mostly mayors were members of the aristocracy. After the last German Kaiser

Kaiser

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 Wilhelm II

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 was deposed, and the implementation of democracy

Democracy

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, the officeholder was elected. From this time on, the mayor normally was a member of a political party.

Nineteenth century

Name	DoB/ DoD	Years in office
Albrecht von Stetten	1736–1817	1806
Johann Baptist Peter von Carl	1761–1847	1806
Johann Jakob Besserer von Thalfingen	1753–1834	1807–1813
Johann Christoph von Zabuesnig	1747–1827	1813–1818
Johann Nepomuk von Caspar	1774–1859	1818–1821
Anton Barth	1787–1848	1822–1834
Richard Anton Nikolaus Carron du Val	1793–1846	1834–1846
Georg von Forndran	1807–1866	1847–1866
Ludwig von Fischer	1832–1900	1866–1900

20th century

Name	DoB/ DoD	Party	Years in office	Notes
Georg von Wolfram	1851–1923		1900–1919
Kaspar Deutschenbaur Kaspar Deutschenbaur Kaspar Deutschenbaur was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1919 and 1929. He was a member of the Bavarian People's Party....	1864–1950	BVP	1919–1929
Otto Bohl Otto Bohl Otto Bohl was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1930 and 1933. He was a member of the Bavarian People's Party....	1885–1969	BVP	1930–1933
Edmund Stoeckle Edmund Stoeckle Edmund Stoeckle was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1933 and 1934. He was a member of the Nazi Party....		NSDAP	1933–1934
Josef Mayr Josef Mayr Josef Mayr was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1934 and 1945. He was a member of the Nazi Party.-References:...		NSDAP	1934–1945
Wilhelm Ott Wilhelm Ott Wilhelm Ott was briefly the mayor of Augsburg, Germany in 1945.He was a member of the Bavarian People's Party, and, as interim mayor, was heavily involved in the transfer of power from the Nazi Party to the Allied Forces at the end of World War II.-References:...		BVP	1945	provisional mayor
Ludwig Dreifuß			1945–1946	provisional mayor
Otto Weinkamm Otto Weinkamm Otto Weinkamm was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany in 1946. He was a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....		CSU	1946
Heinz Hohner Heinz Hohner Heinz Hohner was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1946 and 1947. He was a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....		CSU	1946–1947
Nikolaus Müller Nikolaus Müller Nikolaus Müller was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany, between 1947 and 1964. He was a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....		CSU	1947–1964
Wolfgang Pepper Wolfgang Pepper Wolfgang Pepper was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany between 1964 and 1972. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany....	1910–1997	SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...	1964–1972
Hans Breuer Hans Breuer (politics) Hans Breuer was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany for twenty-eight years between 1972 and 1990. He was Sudenten German and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. One of his most memorable achievements was the grand celebration of Augsburgs 2,000 years of existence in 1985. In 1991...	*1930	SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...	1972–1990
Peter Menacher Peter Menacher Peter Menacher was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany for twelve years between 1990 and 2002. He was a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.-References:...	*1939	CSU	1990–2002

21st century

Name	Dob/ DoD	Party	Years in office	Notes
Paul Wengert Paul Wengert Dr. Paul Wengert is Mayor of Augsburg in the state of Bavaria in Germany since May 1, 2002. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party.In 2006 he was one of the finalists for World Mayor.-External links:**...	*1952	SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...	2002–2008
Kurt Gribl Kurt Gribl Kurt Gribl is currently the Mayor of Augsburg, Bavaria, an office he has held since May 1, 2008. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.-References:...	*1964	–	2008 – present	acceded for the CSU Christian Social Union of Bavaria The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany... , still no member (state: 11 May 2008)