List of mayors of Hamburg

The German: Erster Bürgermeister is the First Mayor of Hamburg, Germany. He is the president of the Senate (government) of Hamburg. The Erster Bürgermeister is Hamburg's Minister President.

The constitution of 28 September 1860 says that the state is to be governed by the ten-member Senate headed by the First Mayor as the President of the Senate. His deputy is the Second Mayor. Until 1997 the First Mayor was elected by the Senate. Now he is elected by the Bürgerschaft (the city's parliament) and the Erster Bürgermeister has appointed and dismissed other Senators.

List of mayors

Friedrich Sieveking: 1861-1862
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1863-1864
Friedrich Sieveking: 1865
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1866-1867
Friedrich Sieveking: 1868
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1869
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1870
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1871-1872
Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1873
Hermann Goßler: 1874
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1875
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1876-1877
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1878
Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber:1879
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1880
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1881
Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber: 1882
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1883
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1884
Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber: 1885
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1886
Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1887
Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 14 March 1887 - 1888
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1889
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1890
Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1891
Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1892
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1893
Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1894
Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1895
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1896
Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1897
Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1898
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1899
Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1 January 1900 - 15 September 1900
Gerhard Hachmann: 19 November 1900 - 1901
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1902
Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1903
Gerhard Hachmann: until 11 July 1904
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 11 July 1904 - 1905
Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1906
Johann Otto Stammann: 1907
Johann Georg Mönckeberg: until 27 March 1908
Johann Heinrich Burchard: 3 April 1908 - 1909
Max Predöhl: 1910 - 1911
Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1912
Carl August Schröder: 13 September 1912 - 1913
Max Predöhl: 1914
Werner von Melle: 1915
Carl August Schröder: 1916
Max Predöhl: 1917
Werner von Melle: 1918 - 1919

Weimar Republic

Werner von Melle: 31 March 1919 - 31 December 1919
Gustav Sthamer: 1 January 1920- 1 February 1920
Arnold Diestel, DDP: 2 February 1920 - 31 December 1923
Carl Petersen, DDP: 1 January 1924 - 31 December 1929
Rudolf Ross, SPD: 1 January 1930 - 31 December 1931
Carl Petersen, DDP: 1 January 1932 - 7 March 1933

Third Reich

Carl Vincent Krogmann, NSDAP: 8 March 1933 - 3 May 1945 (The real head of the government was the Reichsstatthalter (regional governor) Karl Kaufmann)

Appointed by the British occupation forces

Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, CDU: 15 May 1945 - 22 November 1946

Democratically elected after World War II

Max Brauer, SPD: 22 November 1946 - 2 December 1953
Kurt Sieveking, CDU: 2 December 1953 - 4 December 1957
Max Brauer, SPD: 4 December 1957 - 31 December 1960
Paul Nevermann, SPD: 1 January 1961 - 9 June 1965
Herbert Weichmann, SPD: 9 June 1965 - 9 June 1971
Peter Schulz, SPD: 9 June 1971 - 4 November 1974
Hans-Ulrich Klose, SPD: 12 November 1974 - 22 May 1981
Klaus von Dohnanyi, SPD: 24 June 1981 - 8 June 1988
Henning Voscherau, SPD: 8 June 1988 - 8 October 1997
Ortwin Runde, SPD: 12 November 1997 - 31 October 2001
Ole von Beust, CDU: 31 October 2001 - 25 August 2010
Christoph Ahlhaus, CDU: since 25 August 2010 - 7 March 2011
Olaf Scholz, SDP: 7 March 2011 - incumbent

Other websites

All mayors of Hamburg since 1293^{[permanent dead link]}