List of mayors of Cologne
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Cologne Sections This is a list of mayors of Cologne. It includes the Lord Mayors of Cologne (Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Köln) since 1815 as well as the city managers (Oberstadtdirektoren) from 1946 to 1999.
Mayors since 1815
Lord Mayors of Cologne (1815–1945)
In Prussia
- 1815–1819: Karl Joseph Freiherr von Mylius
- 1819–1823: von Monschaw
- 1823–1848: Johann Adolf Steinberger
- 1848–1851: Friedrich Wilhelm Gräff
- 1851–1863: Hermann Joseph Stupp
- 1863–1871: Alexander Bachem
German Reich
Political party:
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Term of office | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
| German Empire (1871–1918) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:black"| | File:Alexander-Bachem-OB-Köln.jpg | Alexander Bachem (1806–1878)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 January 1871 | 29 May 1875 | Script error: No such module "age". | Independent |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:black"| | File:Hermann heinrich becker painted by julius schrader (2).jpg | Hermann Heinrich Becker (1820–1885)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
5 June 1875 | 9 December 1885 | Script error: No such module "age". | German Progress Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:black"| | File:Hermann Pünder (1).jpg | Friedrich Wilhelm von Becker (1835–1924)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 June 1886 | 14 September 1907 | Script error: No such module "age". | Independent |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:black"| | File:Wallraff crop.jpg | Max Wallraf (1886–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 October 1907 | 8 August 1917 | Script error: No such module "age". | Independent |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | File:1932 Konrad Adenauer Portrait.jpg | Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 October 1917 | 9 November 1918 | Script error: No such module "age". | Centre Party |
| Weimar Republic (1918–1933) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | File:1932 Konrad Adenauer Portrait.jpg | Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 November 1918 | 30 January 1933 | Script error: No such module "age". | Centre Party |
| Nazi Germany (1933–1945) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | File:1932 Konrad Adenauer Portrait.jpg | Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
30 January 1933 | 13 March 1933 | Script error: No such module "age". | Centre Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | File:Günter Riesen.jpg | Günter Riesen (1892–1951)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
13 March 1933 | 8 December 1936 | Script error: No such module "age". | Nazi Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | Karl Georg Schmidt (1904–1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 January 1937 | 26 November 1940 | Script error: No such module "age". | Nazi Party | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | Peter Winkelnkemper (1902–1944)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
3 January 1941 | 20 June 1944 | Script error: No such module "age". | Nazi Party | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| | Robert Brandes (1899–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 June 1944 | 6 March 1945 | Script error: No such module "age". | Nazi Party | |
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Lord Mayor of Cologne (1945–present)
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| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Term of office | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
| French occupation zone (1945–1949) | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 1 | File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P000669, Konrad Adenauer.jpg | Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
4 May 1945 | 6 October 1945 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| – | Willi Suth (1881–1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
6 October 1945 | 20 November 1945 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 2 | File:Hermann Pünder (1).jpg | Hermann Pünder (1888–1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 November 1945 | 23 August 1946 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| On 23 August 1946, Cologne became a city of the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| (2) | File:Hermann Pünder (1).jpg | Hermann Pünder (1888–1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 August 1946 | 31 May 1948 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 3 | File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F002967-0011, Köln, Einweihung Gürzenich cropped Ernst Schwering.jpg | Ernst Schwering (1886–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 June 1948 | 15 November 1948 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 4 | Robert Görlinger (1888–1954)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 November 1948 | 23 May 1949 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party | |
| Federal Republic of Germany (1949–present) | ||||||
| North Rhine-Westphalia became a federal state of the Federal Republic of Germany | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| (4) | Robert Görlinger (1888–1954)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 May 1949 | 9 December 1949 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 5 | File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F002967-0011, Köln, Einweihung Gürzenich cropped Ernst Schwering.jpg | Ernst Schwering (1886–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 December 1949 | 23 November 1950 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 6 | Robert Görlinger (1888–1954)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 November 1950 | 8 November 1951 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 7 | File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F002967-0011, Köln, Einweihung Gürzenich cropped Ernst Schwering.jpg | Ernst Schwering (1886–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
8 November 1951 | 9 November 1956 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 8 | File:Theo Burauen.JPG | Theo Burauen (1906–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
9 November 1956 | 17 December 1973 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 9 | John van Nes Ziegler (1921–2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 December 1973 | 28 October 1980 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 10 | File:Norbert-burger-1987.jpg | Norbert Burger (1932–2012)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
28 October 1980 | 30 September 1999 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 11 | Harry Blum (1944–2000)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 October 1999 | 17 March 2000 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union | |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 12 | File:Fritz schramma.jpg | Fritz Schramma (born 1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
20 September 2000 | 20 October 2009 | Script error: No such module "age". | Christian Democratic Union |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 13 | File:Präsident des Europäischen Parlamentes im Kölner Rathaus-8676.jpg | Jürgen Roters (born 1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
21 October 2009 | 20 October 2015 | Script error: No such module "age". | Social Democratic Party |
| style="background:Template:Party color; color:black"| 14 | File:OB Henriette Reker vor dem Empfang Liu Yandong 2016 im Kölner Rathaus -9702.jpg | Henriette Reker (born 1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
22 October 2015 | Incumbent | Script error: No such module "age". | Independent |
City managers 1946–1999
- 1946–1953: Dr. Willi Suth
- 1953–1965: Dr. Max Adenauer
- 1965–1977: Prof. Dr. Heinz Mohnen
- 1977–1989: Kurt Rossa
- 1989–1998: Lothar Ruschmeier
- 1998–1999: Klaus Heugel