Mayor of the City of Aachen
The city of Aachen was ruled by a single mayor from 1800, who was first called Maire (from the French), then Lord Mayor. He was supported by up to three assigned mayors. Until 1798 there was a dual leadership with two ruling mayors. These mayors are listed under Mayors of the Imperial City of Aachen . There were also double peaks later at times. From 1815 to 1888, in addition to the mayor of the city of Aachen, there was also a district administrator for the Aachen district. A somewhat different kind of dual leadership with an honorary mayor and an upper town director as head of administration was there again from 1946 to 1995. Therefore, the district administrators of the urban district and the upper town directors are listed on this page.
Maires of Mairie Aachen
Under the old imperial city constitution, the Free Imperial City of Aachen was ruled by a dual leadership of two mayors. In the transition phase from 1794 to 1800, Aachen was ruled alternately by mayors elected according to the old imperial city constitution, and in the meantime by Stephan Wilhelm Josef Beissel (January to March 1793) and Josef Brantten (July 1795 to spring 1797) as appointed Maires , who were supported by a 10-member municipal council. The old constitution was finally overruled by the French in 1798 and Jakob Friedrich Kolb then ruled Aachen as President of the cantonal community. Aachen was officially a Mairie since 1800 and was ruled by a Maire until 1815. Its function corresponded to that of the future mayor. The mayor was assisted by three adjuncts. The first maire was appointed in 1800, from 1802 the maires were elected. The three maires during the French occupation were:
| Maire | Term of office | Remarks | Adjuncts |
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Jakob Friedrich Kolb (1748–1813)  |
1800-1804 | Kolb had previously been President of the Canton since 1798, was appointed Mayor in 1800 and confirmed by election in 1802 |
1st adjunct
2nd adjunct
3rd adjunct
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Johann Wilhelm Gottfried von Lommessem (1743–1810) |
1804-1808 | ||
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Cornelius of Guaita (1766-1821)  |
1808-1815 | Guaita became the first Lord Mayor of Aachen after the Congress of Vienna |
District administrators of the urban district of Aachen
Until 1888 there were district administrators who headed what was then the city district of Aachen, which was the only municipality to contain the city of Aachen. This duality was then abandoned. Thus from 1888 the respective mayor was responsible for the affairs of the city and the city district together with the council.
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Friedrich Joseph Freiherr von Coels von der Brügghen (1784-1856) |
1818-1831 | also Police Director of Aachen; previously sub-prefect and from 1816 to 1818 district administrator in the Blankenheim district |
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Heinrich Schnabel (1778-1853) |
1831-1835 | initially provisional in 1831/32; at the same time police director of Aachen and civil commissioner of the VII Army Corps on the Belgian border |
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Georg Wilhelm von Lüdemann (1796–1863) |
1835-1843 | also Police Director of Aachen; Writer and lawyer |
| Josef Guisez | 1843-1848 | also Police Director of Aachen |
| Heinrich Stürtz | 1848-1850 | also Police Director of Aachen |
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Franz Carl Hasslacher (1805-1881) |
1850-1864 | from 1836 to 1853 district administrator in the Aachen district ; from 1850 also acting and from 1853 official police director of Aachen |
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Karl Johann Hermann Hirsch (1815–1900) |
1864-1887 | at the same time police chief of Aachen, since 1852, previously held the same position in Elberfeld worked |
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Johannes Freiherr von Funck (1851–1913) |
1887-1888 | also Police Director of Aachen |
Lord Mayor, Mayor and City Directors
From 1815 onwards, Aachen was headed by a Lord Mayor, who was assisted by two Mayor mayors .
Until 1946
| Lord Mayor | Term of office | image | (Deputy) Mayor | Remarks |
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Cornelius of Guaita (1766-1821) |
1815-1820 | |
Arnold Robens (1758–1820) BM from 1815 |
von Guaita was previously a mayor under the French occupation and was elected mayor by the citizens and not installed by the Prussian government. In 1818 the attempt by the Prussian government to depose him failed |
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Mathias Solders (1750-1826) |
1820-1826 | Solders, a former 3rd adjunct, was temporarily appointed mayor together with Wilhelm Daniels . Until the introduction of the Rhenish Municipal Code in 1845, new appointments were only made by the Prussian government. The first free election of a mayor did not take place again until 1848. | ||
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Wilhelm Daniels (1778-1845) |
1820-1831 | 1. Johann Christian Oeder (around 1774–1837) Term of office : 1826–1830 |
Together with Mathias Solders, Daniels was appointed provisionally as deputy mayor , from 1826 ruling alone. | |
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Edmund Emundts (1792–1871) |
1831-1848 | 1.a Johann Heinrich Schervier term of office : 1830–1845 1.b Engelbert Schwamborn (1797–1862) term of office : 1845–1854 2. Wilhelm Zurhelle (1786–1849) term of office : 1830–1849 |
Emundts was appointed Lord Mayor by the Prussian government ; Urged to abdicate in 1848 after violent unrest. | |
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Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1801–1874, DFP ) |
1848-1851 |  |
1. Engelbert Schwamborn term of office : 1845–1854 2. Carl Eduard Dahmen (1800–1883) term of office : 1849–1879 |
according to the Rhenish municipal code of 1845, first freely elected mayor. |
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Johann Contzen (1809-1875) |
1851-1875 |  |
1. Carl Eduard Dahmen term of office : 1849–1879 2.a Carl von Nellessen (1799–1871) term of office : 1854–1871 2.b Theodor Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg (1806–1882) term of office : 1871–1882 |
District Administrator Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (1830–1900) was elected Mayor of Aachen in 1874, but was not confirmed for political reasons. |
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Ludwig von Weise (1828–1915) |
1875-1883 |  |
1.a Carl Eduard Dahmen term of office : 1849–1879 1.b Carl Eugen Zimmermann (1828–1902) term of office : 1879–1885 2. Baron Theodor Geyr von Schweppenburg term of office : 1871–1882 |
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Ludwig Pelzer (1835–1915), center ) |
1884-1896 |  |
1. Carl Gerard Dubusc (1825–1903) term of office 1882–1903 2. Philipp Veltman (1859–1916) term of office : 1885–1895 |
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Philipp Veltman (1859-1916) |
1895-1916 | 1. Gustav Talbot (1859–1921) term of office : unknown 2. Leonhard Giani (1865–1933) term of office : from 1909 |
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Wilhelm Farwick (1863–1941, center) |
1916-1928 |  |
1. Alfons Klausener (1853–1921, center) term of office : unknown 2.a Adolf Hertzog (1867–1920) term of office : around 1889–1920 2.b Ludwig Kuhnen (1876–1955, SPD ) term of office : 1920–1932 |
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Wilhelm Rombach (1884–1973) |
1928-1933 | 1. Albert Servais (1887–1974, center, CDU from 1945 ) Term of office : 1928–1933 2. Ludwig Kuhnen (1876–1955, SPD ) term of office : 1920–1932 |
Rombach was deposed by the National Socialists in 1933 | |
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Quirin Jansen (1888–1953, ( NSDAP ) |
1933-1944 | |||
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Franz Oppenhoff (1902–1945) |
1944-1945 | 1. Edmund Sinn (1902–1978) 2. Hans Schwippert (1899–1973) 3. Kurt Pfeiffer (1893–1987) 4. Gerd Heusch (1903–1984) 5. Helmut Pontesegger 6. Josef Hirtz 7. Karl Breuer 8. Heinrich Faust 9. Hans Schefer term of office for everyone from Nov. 1944 - March 1945 |
Oppenhoff was installed by the American military government and murdered on March 25, 1945 by SS men on Himmler's orders in front of his house . He was supported by up to nine appointed / appointed citizens, all of whom were allowed to call themselves mayors. | |
| Wilhelm Rombach | 1945 | After the murder of Oppenhoff, Rombach was reinstated as mayor | ||
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Ludwig Kuhnen (1876–1955, SPD ) |
1946 | Kuhnen had already been the mayor of Aachen until his dismissal in 1933 by the National Socialists |
From 1946 to 1994
In the period from 1946 to 1995 there was a dual leadership. The Lord Mayor was a volunteer. At the head of the administration was an upper town director . In 1999 at the latest, with the first direct election of the mayors in North Rhine-Westphalia , the first full-time mayors, who also head the city administration, were elected. The council of the respective city could decide whether the mayor should work full-time before 1999. This often happened when a senior city manager retired or left his post. Aachen made use of this regulation in 1995.
| Electoral term | Lord Mayor | City Director | (Deputy) Mayor | Remarks |
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| 1946-1952 |
Albert Maas (1888–1970 CDU ) |
Albert Servais (1887–1974, CDU)  |
Servais, previously a member of the Center Party, had been mayor from 1928 until he was ousted by the National Socialists in 1933 | |
| 1952-1956 |
Hermann Heusch (1906–1981, CDU)  |
until 1954 : Albert Servais from 1954 to 1975 : Anton Kurz (1910–1986, CDU) |
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| 1956-1961 |
Heinrich Goffart (1901–1979, SPD) |
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| 1961-1964 | Heinrich Goffart | |||
| 1964-1969 | 1. Franz Stettner (1931–2012, CDU) 2. Heinrich Goffart |
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| 1969-1972 | Franz Stettner | |||
| 1. 1972–1973 2. 1973–1975 |
1. Hermann Heusch 2. Kurt Malangré (1934–2018, CDU)  |
1. to 1973 : Kurt Malangré (CDU) from 1973 :? 2. Anton Grunwald (1921–2008, SPD) |
Kurt Malangré took over the post of mayor in 1973 after the resignation of Hermann Heusch | |
| 1975-1979 |
Heiner Berger (1933–2015, CDU) |
1. Anton Grunwald 2. Clemens Gläßer |
The last of the three senior city directors did his job until his retirement in 1995, after which the office was dropped in favor of a full-time mayor | |
| 1979-1984 | 1. Clemens Gläßer 2. Waltraut Kruse (1925–2019, CDU) |
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| 1984-1989 | 1. Jürgen Linden (* 1947, SPD) 2. Waltraut Kruse |
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| 1989-1994 |
Jürgen Linden (* 1947, SPD)  |
1. Dieter Philipp (* 1943, CDU) 2. to 1991 : Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt (* 1950, The Greens ) from 1991 : Margret Ortstein (The Greens) |
Margret hardpan sparked in 1991 Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt from which a job as a project manager at Geoplan EDP - Society for Waste Management mbH Aachen had accepted |
From 1994
The Lord Mayors have been directly elected since 1999 and have been employed full-time. After the senior city director Heiner Berger resigned in 1995, the honorary mayor Jürgen Linden, elected in 1994, became the first full-time mayor.
| Electoral term | Lord Mayor | (Deputy) Mayor | Remarks |
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| 1994-1999 |
Jürgen Linden (* 1947, SPD )  |
1. Ulrich Daldrup (* 1947, CDU ) 2. Astrid Ströbele (* 1950, SPD) 3. Margret Ortstein |
Jürgen Linden was elected full-time mayor after the senior city director Berger retired in 1995 |
| 1999-2004 | 1. Sabine Verheyen (* 1964, CDU) 2. Astrid Ströbele 3. Meike Thüllen ( FDP ) |
Meike Thüllen resigned both from the office of mayor and from the FDP in 2003, but kept her seat as a non-party member. The office of mayor remained vacant until the next regular election | |
| 2004-2009 | 1. Astrid Ströbele 2. Sabine Verheyen 3. Hilde Scheidt (* 1950, Green ) |
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| 2009-2014 |
Marcel Philipp (* 1971, CDU)  |
1. Margrethe Schmeer (* 1950, CDU) 2. Björn Jansen (* 1977, SPD) 3. Hilde Scheidt |
According to the new local electoral law, Marcel Philipp was elected for six years. The term of the Lord Mayor would formally end in 2015. Following the amendment to the state electoral law in March 2013, the elections for mayors are to take place soon, at the latest in 2020, on the same day as the councils and every five years. Marcel Philipp then made use of his option to voluntarily shorten his term of office and run for re-election as part of the local elections on May 25, 2014. |
| since 2014 | 1. Margrethe Schmeer 2. Björn Jansen; from September 25, 2015: Norbert Plum (* 1955, SPD) 3. Hilde Scheidt |
all three mayors were initially confirmed in their offices. Since Björn Jansen took over the office of managing director of the spa and bathing company Aachen on October 1st, 2015, he resigned both his mayor's office and his council mandate. Norbert Plum was elected as his successor. |
literature
- Lothar Gall : From the old to the new bourgeoisie. The Central European city in upheaval 1780–1820 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1991.
- Walther Hubatsch (Hrsg.): Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945 . Series A: Prussia , Volume 7: Rhineland . Edited by Rüdiger Schütz, Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1978, ISBN 3-87969-122-3 .
- Herbert Lepper : Forms of urban self-government then and now. A documentation . Self-published by the Aachen City Archives. Aachen 1986.
Web links
- List of the Lord Mayors of the City of Aachen on the homepage of the City of Aachen
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Stadtkreis Aachen. In: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945. Retrieved on August 9, 2012 .
- ^ Press release from the city of Aachen
- ↑ Press release of the SPD-Aachen council group from September 23, 2015
- ^ Vita Norbert Plum on the pages of the SPD Aachen
Lord Mayor: Cornelius von Guaita (1815–1820) | Mathias Solders (1820–1826) | Wilhelm Daniels (1826–1832) | Edmund Emundts (1832–1848) | Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1848-1851) | Johann Contzen (1851–1875) | Ludwig von Weise (1875–1883) | Ludwig Pelzer (1884–1896) | Philipp Veltman (1896–1916) | Wilhelm Farwick (1916–1928) | Wilhelm Rombach (1929–1933) | Quirin Jansen (1933–1944) | Franz Oppenhoff (1944–1945) | Wilhelm Rombach (1945) | Ludwig Kuhnen (1946) | Albert Maas (1946–1952) | Hermann Heusch (1952–1973) | Kurt Malangré (1973–1989) | Jürgen Linden (1989–2009) | Marcel Philipp (since 2009)
City directors: Albert Servais (1946–1954) | Anton Kurz (1954–1975) | Heiner Berger (1975-1995)