Mayor of Frankfurt

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The Mayor of Frankfurt (German: (male) or (female), sometimes translated as "Lord Mayor") is the highest-ranking member of city government in Frankfurt, Germany. The mayor was traditionally elected by the city council. This system was replaced in 1995, and the position has been directly elected. Three people have won election since then: Petra Roth (CDU), Peter Feldmann (SPD) and Mike Josef (SPD). In November 2022, following a successful recall election against Feldmann, Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Green) was the interim mayor of Frankfurt for six months. Current mayor Mike Josef (SPD) assumed the office in May 2023 following the election with 51.7% of the votes against the CDU candidate Uwe Becker.

The mayor is "first among equals" on the city cabinet (Magistrat), and acts as the cabinet's spokesperson. The mayor is also responsible for the policies of local government departments and oversees the city's administration.

History

The Free City of Frankfurt, as a state in the Holy Roman Empire and later the German Confederation, had various leadership structures, the most durable of which saw the city with two mayors: Senior Mayor () and Junior Mayor (). The present position of was introduced in 1868 following the occupation of the city by the Kingdom of Prussia. Through the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, Frankfurt's mayors oversaw the development of Frankfurt into a major centre for trade and culture.

In 1933 following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Ludwig Landmann – Frankfurt's first Jewish mayor – was expelled from the council, and Nazi Party member Friedrich Krebs was appointed in his place. Although the left-wing SPD and Communist Party had an overall majority on the council, they were excluded from the council session that confirmed Krebs' appointment.

Krebs remained in office until the US military captured the city in March 1945. The US military governorship that followed appointed trusted democrats as mayor to oversee the immediate denazification of the city administration and the beginnings of reconstruction. Council elections resumed in July 1946, and the SPD held the mayorship for the next thirty years. The rebuilding of Frankfurt was a significant topic in these years.

Following a statewide referendum, the office of mayor in Hesse became directly elected. Frankfurt's first mayoral election was held in 1995 and saw a surprise victory for CDU candidate Petra Roth over the incumbent Andreas von Schoeler (SPD). Since then, mayoral elections have been noted as especially personality-driven, and candidates regularly defy national party trends to become increasingly popular over the course of their mayoralty. Roth increased her majority over the course of her mayorship, winning in 2007 in the first round with 60.5% of the vote. After Roth resigned in 2012, Peter Feldmann (SPD) won a surprise victory over Boris Rhein (CDU), the Hessian interior minister, and he too saw a significant increase vote increase in his second election in 2018. Following various controversies, Feldmann faced a recall election in which he was recalled with 95.1% of the vote. Deputy Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Green) thus assumed the office and serves in a caretaker capacity until the next election scheduled for March 2023.

Oberbürgermeister since 1868

Since 1868 there have been 19 mayors of Frankfurt: 14 indirectly elected, 3 appointed and 2 directly elected.

Term		Image	Name	Party		Selection method
1868	1880	File:Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein.jpg	Template:Ill	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Independent	Indirect election
1880	1890	File:Johannes von Miquel (IZ 48-315 HScherenberg).jpg	Johannes von Miquel	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	NLP	Indirect election
1890	1912	File:Franz Adickes by Max Liebermann.jpg	Franz Adickes	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Independent liberal	Indirect election
1912	1924	File:Georg Voigt.jpg	Georg Voigt	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	DDP	Indirect election
1924	1933	File:Ludwig Landmann.jpg	Ludwig Landmann	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	DDP	Indirect election
1933	1945	Template:CSS image crop	Friedrich Krebs	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	NSDAP	Appointed by Nazi Party
1945	1945		Template:Ill	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Independent	Appointed by US military
1945	1946	Template:CSS image crop	Kurt Blaum	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	CDU	Appointed by US military
1946	1956		Walter Kolb	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1956	1964	File:Werner Bockelmann, Oberbürgermeister von Frankfurt am Main, 1963.jpg	Werner Bockelmann	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1964	1970	File:Willi Brundert, 1950, Dessau, Herwegen-Prozeß (cropped).jpg	Willi Brundert	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1970	1971		Walter Möller	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1971	1977	File:Rudi Arndt.jpg	Rudi Arndt	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1977	1986	File:KAS-Wallmann, Walter-Bild-5166-1 (cropped).jpg	Walter Wallmann	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	CDU	Indirect election
1986	1989	Template:CSS image crop	Wolfram Brück	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	CDU	Indirect election
1989	1991	File:1986 Volker Hauff 800.jpg	Volker Hauff	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1991	1995	File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F046799-0024, Mainz, FDP-Bundesparteitag, von Schoeler.jpg	Andreas von Schoeler	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Indirect election
1995	2012	File:Preisverleihung Konrad-Adenauer-Preis 2012 an Petra Roth-9491.jpg	Petra Roth	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	CDU	Direct election
2012	2022	File:Peter Feldmann SPD Ffm.jpg	Peter Feldmann	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Direct election
2022	2023	File:MJK 60904 Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2019).jpg	Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Green	Acting
2023	Incumbent	File:Mike Josef (Frankfurter Buchmesse 2015) (cropped).jpg	Mike Josef	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SPD	Direct election

Elections

The Mayor of Frankfurt is elected by the two-round system: if no candidate receives over 50% in the first round, a run-off is held between the top two candidates. The election is open to German and EU citizens over 18 years old who have lived in the city for at least three months. The mayor's term is 6 years – elections are brought forward if the mayor resigns or is otherwise removed from office.

2023

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Frankfurt mayoral election, 2023

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Uwe Becker	70,411	34.5
		Mike Josef	49,033	24.0
		Manuela Rottmann	43,502	21.3
	Independent	Peter Wirth (Bahnbabo)	10,397	5.1
		Daniela Mehler-Würzbach	7,356	3.6
	Independent	Maja Wolff	6,014	2.9
		Yankı Pürsün	5,768	2.8
		Andreas Lobenstein	4,628	2.3
style="color:inherit;background-color:Template:Party color" |	Citizens for Frankfurt (BFF)	Matthias Pfeiffer	1,565	0.8
		Katharina Tanczos	1,176	0.6
style="color:inherit;background-color:Template:Party color" |	Team Todenhöfer	Khurrem Aktar	858	0.4
		Frank Großenbach	744	0.4
	Gartenpartei	Tilo Schwichtenberg	661	0.3
	Independent	Sven Junghans	574	0.3
	Independent	Niklas Pauli	340	0.2
	Independent	Peter Pawelski	325	0.2
	Independent	Feng Xu	199	0.1
	Independent	Karl-Maria Schulte	158	0.1
	Independent	Markus Eulig	102	0.0
Turnout			205,116	40.3
	hold

2018

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Frankfurt mayoral election, 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Peter Feldmann	86,823	46.0
		Bernadette Weyland	48,032	25.4
		Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg	17,648	9.3
		Janine Wissler	16,669	8.8
	Independent	Volker Stein	11,218	5.9
		Michael Weingärtner	2,832	1.5
		Nico Wehneman	2,097	1.1
	Independent	Karsten Schloberg	1,585	0.8
	Independent	Ming Yang	938	0.5
	Independent	Juli Wünsch	409	0.2
	Independent	Felicia Herrschaft	340	0.2
	Independent	Hein Fischer	169	0.1
Turnout			188,760	37.6
	hold

2012

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Frankfurt mayoral election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Boris Rhein	67,253	39.1
		Peter Feldmann	56,744	33.0
		Rosemarie Heilig	23,987	14.0
		Janine Wissler	6,588	3.8
		Herbert Förster	6,519	3.8
	Independent	Oliver Maria Schmitt	3,009	1.8
	Independent	Jean Jules Tatchouop	376	0.2
	Independent	Harald Frenzel	357	0.2
	Independent	Carl Maria Schulte	219	0.1
Turnout			173,722	37.5
	gain from

2007

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Frankfurt mayoral election, 2007

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Petra Roth	86,785	60.5
		Franz Frey	39,410	27.5
		Ulrich Wilken	8,495	5.9
	Independent	Horst Schäfer	1,910	1.3
		Doris Zutt	1,171	0.8
		Rosemarie Lämmer	1,041	0.7
	Independent	Salvatore Ribaudo	549	0.4
	Independent	Pasquale Aita	165	0.1
	Independent	Kadim Sanli	163	0.1
Turnout			146,150	33.6
	hold

2001

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Frankfurt mayoral election, 2001

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Petra Roth	92,313	48.6
		Achim Vandreike	65,836	34.6
		Jutta Ebeling	19,579	10.3
		Hans-Joachim Otto	3,489	1.8
		Klaus Sauer	3,342	1.8
		Eberhard Dähne	2,789	1.5
	fun	Claude Cazaré	662	0.3
	FdS	Reinhold Müller	492	0.3
	DMP	Harald Frenzel	280	0.1
	Independent	Karl-Maria Schulte	269	0.1
Turnout			193,747	46.1
	hold

1995

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See also

• Timeline of Frankfurt