Mayor of Lübeck

Lübeck city seal

The mayors of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck were among the most powerful politicians in Northern Europe , at least until the late Middle Ages . Hardly any decision in the economic area around the Baltic Sea was not influenced or even determined by them at that time. This influence diminished with the loss of importance that led to the dissolution of the Hanseatic League after the Thirty Years' War . In the self-image of the Hanseatic people , the Lübeck mayors were heads of government of this small city-state until 1937 . With the incorporation into Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein through the Greater Hamburg Law , the mayors also became local heads of municipal administration in Lübeck. They have been directly elected since 2000. Jan Lindenau has been the mayor of Lübeck since 2018 .

Mayor of Lübeck before 1811

This selection was made in the chronological order of the previous entry of the listed persons into the city council . The list is derived from the Lübeck Council Line of 1925. The Council line also lists the members of the Council , as far as is known, in the order in which they joined the Council. This admission took place by election up to the middle of the 19th century, the council as a body thus supplemented itself, namely from the corporations of merchants and the circle society . The council had up to 24 members, the councilors. As a rule, these elected four mayors from among their number, who normally held this office until their death.

12th and 13th centuries

Even in the Westphalian place names in the surnames of the early mayors, the migration movement of the northeast colonization from Westphalia and the Lower Rhine becomes clear. This part of the 13th century is by no means conclusive and cannot be reliably secured due to the simultaneous use of written chronicles.

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments	Illustration
Giselbert von Warendorf (around 1140 - after 1201)	030th	around 1168–1188	Henry the Lion with his 2nd wife Mathilde of England (1188) emigrates from Warendorf / Westphalia to Lübeck. - Ambassador from Lübeck to Friedrich I. “Barbarossa” (1122–1190).	Barbarossa 1188
Elver v. Bardewik	056	1200
Lutbert vom Huse	063	1197-1201
Hinrich Wullenpund († between 1246 and 1250)	101	1229-1230, 1232-1233, 1236, 1240	He built the Wullenpund Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral , where he was buried. It is on the south side in front of the western end of the ambulatory and is also called the Apostle or Rochus Chapel. He donated two vicarages to the Fleckenhagen house who were drafted during the Reformation.	City seal from 1230
Hinrich Witte	104	1227-1236
Gottschalck v. Bardewik	105	1229, 1233-1234, 1240, 1244
Wilhelm Witte	106	1250, 1253	He was one of the council messengers (envoys) in 1226 with Emperor Friedrich II , who obtained the Lübeck Imperial Freedom Letter in Fidenza .	Friedrich II. With his falcon. De arte venandi cum avibus , late 13th century
Marquard von Hagen	154	1230-1240
Hinrich Vorrade	157	1238-1263
Hildemar	170	1250-1266
Hinrich v. Wittenborg	172	1255-1256, 1259, 1261, 1268-1269, 1273
Johann von Bardewik	173	1263, 1266, 1269, 1277, 1281, 1283, 1285, 1287		City seal from 1280
Vromold from Vifhusen	201	1271 and 1286
Hinrich Steneke († 1300)	202	1276-1277, 1286-1287, 1289, 1291-1294, 1298	mentioned in the Chronicle of Detmar : "de vil know one"
Johann Moench	203	1266, 1273-1274
Bertram Stalbuk	209	1276, 1281, 1283
Hildebrand v. Mölln	220	1269-1287
Arnold Schotelmund	229	1271-1291
Alwin vom Steene	238	1289-1290
Johann Runese	243	1292, 1299-1317
Marquard Hildemar	250	1286, 1290, 1293, 1297-1300
Dietrich Vorrade	259	1291
Bernhard von Coesfeld († 1301)	274	1299-1301	He was stabbed in the market .

14th Century

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Bruno Warendorp (around 1255-1341)	268	1301-1341	He was mayor for 40 years.
Segebodo Crispin († 1323)	270	1301-1323	Panel painting with his portrait in the Annen Museum
Albert von Bardewik († 1310)	272	1308-1310
Alexander Lüneburg (1240–1302)	281	1302	First councilor and mayor of the patrician family of Lüneburg - moved from Livonia to Lübeck - gravestone with inscription in the Katharinenkirche
Arnold Pape	289	1314-1319
Marquard Vorrade	291	1302-1307	1302 with Johann Runese envoy to Duke Otto II of Lüneburg . Father of Mayor Bertram Vorrade .
Hinrich Pleskow († 1341)	294	1320-1340	Moved from Wisby to Lübeck in 1296
Hinrich von Wittenborg	296	1318-1321	Appointed to the cathedral chapter in 1337
Hermann Morneweg († 1338)	299	1312-1338	Son of the founder of the Holy Spirit Hospital , Bertram Morneweg .
Konrad von Attendorn (1265–1339)	300	1324-1339	1285 established a vicarie in the Church of St. Petri from income from the Lüneburg salt works
Hermann Warendorp († 1333)	305	1328-1333
Marquard von Coesfeld	328	1341-1342
Hermann von Wickede I (1294–1367)	331	1365-1367
Eberhard von Alen (1280–1342)	337	1340-1342
Nicolaus Schoneke	339	1347
Bertram Vorrade	341	1363
Hinrich Pape	342	1342
Tidemann von Güstrow	344	1347	Was in Flanders in 1341 , from where he moved the local mint master to Lübeck. - on behalf of Thideman Gustrowe by the cathedral vicar Helmicus thymmonis , the Lübische law was written and called Tidemann Gustrowscher Codex .
Bertram Heideby	346	1343
Tidemann Warendorp (1310–1366)	352	1351
Hinrich Pleskow († 1341)	362	1357
Johann Wittenborg († 1363)	366	1360	As commander in the catastrophic defeat of the fleet against Waldemar Atterdag in 1363 he was executed.
Hermann Gallin	368	1359
Johannes Perzeval (1320-1384)	372	1363
Jakob Pleskow (1323-1381)	373	1364	As Lübeck's most important foreign politician, he was involved in various peace negotiations in the second half of the 14th century. Like his nephew Simon Swerting, he came from Visby .
Simon Swerting (~ 1340 - before 1388)	387	1370	He was involved in the negotiations for the peace of Vordingborg (1365) and had been in command of Waldemar Atterdag since 1370.
Thomas Morkerke (1330-1401)	392	1386
Brun Warendorp († 1369)	394	1367	In 1368 he was in command of the conquest of Helsingborg . He died before the fortress was handed over and was buried in St. Mary's Church.
Gerhard von Attendorn († 1396)	397	1382	Ambassador of Lübeck at the imperial court
Hartmann Pepersack (1330–1385)	402	1373	moved from Hildesheim to Lübeck
Gottfried Travelmann († 1391)	406	1390	He died on a diplomatic trip to Livonia.
Hinrich Westhof (f) († 1415)	409	1392
Goswin Klingenberg	414	1397
Johann Lüneburg (around 1360 - after 1406)	???	1392 and later	1390 member of the circle society - owned the salmon weir in Lübeck .
Johann Nyebur († 1399)	419	1393	The Kreuzküssung Nieburs (1392) was as a commercial contract for the next 100 years, more and again the Dat weer Nyeburs cruse kiss total quoted legal basis of dealing between Germans and Russians in Novgorod .

15th century

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Jordan Pleskow (1357-1425)	425	1400-1425	Member of the circle society
Marquard of Dame († after 1417)	426	1406–1408 and 1416- †	From 1408 he represented the interests of the old council against the new council in the HRR and internationally until the reinstatement in 1416. He was one of the founders of the circle society.
Henning von Rentelen (1360–1406)	434	1402	Member of the circle society.
Konrad Brekewoldt († 1436)	441	1407-1436	He is said to have been almost 100 years old. Member of the circle society. - Dressmaker in Lübeck.
Hinrich rapeseed powder († 1440)	442	? -1440	Testament 1439
Hermann von Alen († 1411)	446	1408-1411	Was elected to the New Council and appointed mayor.
Johann Lange († 1415)	447	1408-1409	Member of the New Council and Mayor; later left the council.
Simon Oldesloe († 1412)	448	1409
Elert Stange († 1418)	449	1408-1416
Johann Growe († before 1423)	455	1411-1412	Elderly man of the mountain drivers
Tidemann Steen († 1441)	467	1427	In 1405 he was the senior man of the Schonenfahrer and in 1416 was taken over from the New Council to the re-established Old Council. Later he became a member of the circle society.
Hinrich Schönenberg († around 1445)	484	1412-1416
Hermann Poling	485	1413	Turned against the reinstatement of the Old Council in 1416 and was therefore first captured and then expelled from the city. In June 1416 he made an original feud .
Johann Bere († 1451)	500	1436-1451	immigrated from Lüneburg to Lübeck. Admiral der Schonenfahrer and member of the circle society.
Johann Klingenberg († 1455)	507	1432-1454	Member of the circle society.
Johann Lüneburg (1385–1461)	511	1442-1461	Member of the circle society
Johann Kollmann († 1454)	512	1443-1454
Bruno Warendorp († 1457)	515	1432-1434 or 1435	Member of the circle society and its creator in 1443. 1434/35 resigns from the council.
Wilhelm von Calven († 1465)	517	1441-1465	Member of the circle society.
Gerhard von Minden († 1466)	519	1454-1462	Member of the circle society since 1447.
Bertold Witig († 1474)	521	1457-1474	Member of the circle society since 1443.
Heinrich von Stiten († 1484)	526	1466-1484	Member of the circle society since 1467.
Johann Westphal (around 1397–1474)	528	1461-1474	Member of the circle society since 1429.
Andreas Geverdes († 1477)	529	1475-1477	Immigrated from Magdeburg to Lübeck. Member of the circle society since 1460. Dressmaker
Hinrich Castorp (1419–1488)	533	1462-1488	1447–1450 elderly man in the Hanseatic Office in Bruges . Founder of the merchant company , from 1452 member of the circle society.
Johann Wickinghof († 1493)	550	1484-1493	Member of the circle society since 1470.
Ludeke von Thünen (1430–1501)	553	1475-1501	Member of the circle society since 1460.
Bruno Bruskow († 1487)	557	1479-1487	Member of the circle society since 1460.
Heinrich Brömse (1440–1502)	562	1487-1502	Member of the circle society since 1479.
Diedrich Hupe († 1498)	564	1494-1498	Member of the merchant company, from 1495 member of the circle society.
Hermann von Wickede II (1436–1501)	568	1489-1501	Member of the circle society since 1470.
Johann Hertze († 1510)	571	1498-1510	Member of the circle society since 1479.

16th Century

Sortable list

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Hartwig von Stiten († 1511)	575	1502-1511	Son of the mayor Heinrich von Stiten; Member of the circle society
Tideman Berck († 1521)	576	1501-1521	1504 coin agreement with Hamburg and Lüneburg; Member of the circle society
Heinrich Witte († 1523)	578	1513-1520
David Divessen († 1509)	581	1503-1509	1500 councilor; 1504 and 1506 coin agreements with Hamburg, 1506 negotiations with King John of Denmark
Heinrich Castorp (1451-1512)	582	1512	Councilor since 1500; Member of the circle society since 1501
Hermann Meyer († 1528)	584	1510-1528	Councilor since 1500; Member of the circle society since 1501; 1512/13 peace negotiations with King John of Denmark; several times in Antwerp because of the relocation of the Hanseatic Office in Bruges there in 1520
Thomas von Wickede (1472–1527)	593	1511-1527	brilliant diplomat; member of the circle society since 1501; 1524 by Frederick I for support against Christian II. Knighted
Hermann Falcke († 1530)	598	1522-1530	since 1510 commander-in-chief of the Lübeck fleet several times
Nikolaus Brömse (1485–1543)	604	1520-1531; 1535-1543	Member of the circle society since 1508; 1521 at the court of Charles V , where he fled in 1531 and was knighted; In 1535 he returned and in 1536 took part in the peace talks with Christian III. in Hamburg and participated in the interrogation of Jürgen Wullenwever in Braunschweig; 1540 Presidency of the Hanseatic Congress in Lübeck
Joachim Gercken († 1544)	605	1531-1544	Bergen driver , came from Hagenow ; 1532/33 negotiation with Frederick I about the exclusion of the Dutch from Baltic trade ; Excluded from the council from April to November 1534; 1535 negotiations with the citizens about the restoration of the old conditions; 1536 with Brömse at the peace talks in Hamburg and Wullenwever's interrogation
Mattheus Packebusch († 1537)	610	1528-1532; 1534-1537	Doctor of Laws from Stendal ; from 1495 Syndicus ; involved in all important negotiations in Lübeck and the Wendish cities; Resigned from the council in 1532 because of his age, but rejoined in 1534
Hermann Plönnies († 1533 in Münster)	613	1529-1531	left the city with Brömse in 1531 and was knighted by Charles V.
Gotthard III. von Hoeveln (1468–1555)	615	1531-1552	member of the Council since 1527; elected mayor by the citizens' committee under Jürgen Wullenwever against his protest; resigned from the council in 1535, but was persuaded by Brömse to rejoin
Nikolaus Bardewik (1506–1560)	618	1544-1560	from Lüneburg, member of the Zirkelgesellschaft since 1525, councilor at the age of 21 in 1527, son-in-law of Thomas von Wickede; 1532 commander of the fleet; 1537–1544 bailiff in Bergedorf ; several times as an envoy at the Danish court
Anton von Stiten († 1564)	620	1540-1564	Son of the mayor Hartwig von Stiten; member of the circle society since 1525; 1530 envoy to the Schmalkaldic League ;
Gottschalck Lunte († 1532)	627	1531-1532	Elected mayor directly from the citizens' committee in 1531, previously captain von Mölln . His widow married Marx Meyer .
Jürgen Wullenwever († 1537)	636	1533-1535	from Hamburg; Joined the council directly as mayor in 1533; declared war against the Dutch in 1533 and against Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark in 1534 ( count feud ); Forced to resign in 1535; Executed in Wolfenbüttel in 1537
Ludwig Taschenmaker († 1536)	637	1533-1535	1533 appointed mayor like Wullenwever; Resigned in 1535; Arrested in 1536 on the basis of Wullenwever's "confession"
Eberhard Störtelberg	641	1545-1549	Joined the council as a member of the committee in 1533 and resigned in 1535, but re-elected in 1541; 1541 envoy to Christian III.
Paul Wibbeking (1505–1568)	655	1560	Picture in the Marienkirche
Ambrosius Meyer	656	1551
Bartholomeus Tinnappel († 1566)	657	1564	As the commanding admiral of the Hanseatic fleet, he perished when it was defeated in the three-crown war .
Hermann Falke (1514–1566)	658	1553
Christoph Tode (1515–1579)	663	1560-1566	Ambassador of Lübeck at peace negotiations with Sweden and in 1570 at the peace treaty in Stettin
Anton Lüdinghusen († 1571)	664	1562
Hieronymus Lüneburg († 1580)	666	1561	In 1563 concluded the alliance with Denmark and signed the Peace of Szczecin . Re- founded the circle society in 1580 .
Heinrich Plönnies (around 1510–1580)	673	1572	Son of the mayor Hermann Plönnies
Johann Brokes (1513–1585)	680	1573
Dietrich von Broemse (1540–1600)	687	1588	Nephew of the mayor Nikolaus Brömse, owner of the Brömser Hof - suicide on August 5th, 1600.
Hermann von Dorne (1535–1594)	689	1579-1594	Epitaph with coat of arms on the east wall of the mayor's chapel in St. Mary's Church with Latin inscription.
Hermann von Vechtelde (1523–1572)	690	1571-1572	Son of the Mayor of Brunswick, Tilman Vechtelde. Died in a council meeting. Commemorative plaque with Latin inscription written by David Chyträus from his epitaph, which was broken off in 1800 due to dilapidation, on the north wall of the Marientidenkapelle of the Marienkirche.
Johann Lüdinghusen (1541–1589)	691	1580-1589	Responsible for the revision of Luebian law , published in 1586 as statute and city law .
Joachim Lüneburg (1512–1588)	683	1581	Son-in-law of Anton von Stiten, was significantly involved in the founding of the circle society
Gotthard V. von Hoeveln (1543–1609)	696	1589
Arnold Bonnus (1542-1599)	698	1594	was the son of Hermann Bonnus ; buried in St. Petri
Hermann Warmboeke	707	1589
Alexander Lüneburg (1560-1627)	709	1599

17th century

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Conrad Garmers (1539-1612)	710	1601-1612	As envoy in 1594 at the coronation of King Sigismund in Uppsala and in 1603 with Tsar Boris Godunov in Moscow
Jakob Bording the Elder J. (1547-1616)	720	1600-1616
Heinrich Brokes (1567–1623)	722	1609-1623	Member of the merchant company
Johann Vinhagen (1564-1630)	728	1619-1630	1620 envoy to Sweden
Lorenz Möller (1560–1634)	729	1612-1634	1615 Lübeck envoy in Copenhagen - took care of the security of the city of Lübeck during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Had a mighty wooden epitaph in the style of Gudewerth's Eckernförde school in St. Mary's Church, only surpassed in style by that of Matthäus Rodde .
Mattheus Kossen († 1621)	723	1616-1620
Heinrich Köhler (1576–1641)	739	1624-1641
Christoph Gerdes (1590–1661)	747	1627-1661
Johann Kampferbeke († 1639)	749	1634-1639
Heinrich Wedemhof (1584–1651)	751	1630-1651
Otto Brokes (1574-1652)	752	1640-1652	Brother of Mayor Heinrich Brokes (No. 722)
Hermann von Dorne (1596–1665)	757	1651-1665
Gotthard von Höveln (1603–1671)	765	1654-1669	Resigned from the council in protest of the cash process
Anton Köhler (1585–1657)	767	1642-1657
Gottschalk von Wickede (1597–1667)	769	1659-1667	Member of the circle society .
Johann Marquard (1610–1668)	763	1663-1668
Matthäus Rodde (1598–1677)	775	1667-1677	Spain driver
Heinrich Kerkring (1610–1693)	780	1671-1693	Member of the circle society
Johann Ritter (1622–1700)	785	1669-1700
Konrad Schinkel († 1682)	786	1680-1682
David Gloxin (1597–1671)	792	1666-1671
Johann Siricius (1630–1696)	798	1687-1696	As a lawyer, he became secretary of the Hanseatic Office on Bryggen in Bergen in 1657 . In 1677 he was ambassador in Copenhagen to obtain the clearance of the Lübeck ships that had been confiscated at the outbreak of the Skåne War between Denmark and Sweden.
Bernhard Diedrich Brauer (1629–1686)	799	1669-1686	He initially worked as a lawyer ( brewer von Hachenburg ) at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer. 1667 Syndic and Provost in Lübeck.
Bernhard Frese († 1688)	790	1685-1688
Anton Winckler (1657–1707)	802	1694-1707	Epitaph with marble bust of Thomas Quellinus in the Marienkirche in the north ambulatory.
Gotthard Marquard (1611–1694)	805	1692-1694	Brother of Mayor Johann Marquard (No. 763)
Gotthard Kerkring (1639–1705)	808	1697-1705	Member of the circle society. Epitaph for the one `Pater Patriae`in Marienkirche on the first wall pillar of the south aisle.
Hieronymus von Dorne (1646–1704)	809	1695-1704	Son of the mayor Hermann von Dorne. Epitaph with Latin inscription by Thomas Quellinus in the north aisle of St. Mary's Church, west of the Dance of Death Chapel .

1700 to 1811

In addition to the 18th century, the period includes the achievement of Lübeck's full sovereignty under international law through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire up to the Lübeck French era . It ends with the incorporation of the city-state by France in 1811. This was associated with the repeal of the old constitution and the introduction of French local government law.

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Johann Westken (1639-1714)	810	1703	Epitaph on the sixth wall pillar of the south aisle of the Marienkirche.
Thomas von Wickede (1646-1716)	815	1708	Grandson of # 713; Member of the circle society. Elected to the Senate in 1680 as the 12th member of his family, he became the fifth mayor of the family. Epitaph with Latin inscription in the south aisle of the Aegidienkirche on the second wall pillar in memory of his memory as head of the church, see the other plaque from 1645. He was buried in the Marienkirche.
Sebastian Gercken (1656-1710)	820	1706	Born in Magdeburg. Epitaph in the Katharinenkirche. Second burial chapel in the south aisle with Latin inscription.
Adolf Mattheus Rodde (1655–1729)	824	1708
Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1648–1723)	831	1715
Daniel Müller (1661-1724)	835	1717
Hermann Rodde (1666-1730)	836	1717
Joachim Lothar Carstens (1655–1727)	842	1722
Jakob Hübens (1654–1731)	844	1731	Hübens died in the year he was in office.
Heinrich Balemann (1677–1750)	846	1724	Epitaph in the south-eastern ambulatory of St. Mary's Church to the left of the side portal with Latin inscription.
Heinrich von Brömbsen (1673–1732)	847	1728	Member of the circle society
Anton von Lüneburg (1673–1744)	848	1732	The last of his line; Member of the circle society
Christian Albrecht Niemann (1680–1734)	850	1731
August Simon Lindholtz (1679–1743)	851	1735
Johann Heinrich Dreyer (1670–1737)	853	1732	Gentle driver
Hermann Münter (1679–1743)	856	1738	On November 19, 1716, hosted Tsar Peter the Great and his entourage in his garden.
Gotthard Arnold Isselhorst (1682–1765)	858	1744
Johann Adolph Krohn (1674–1750)	860	1744
Heinrich Rust (1678–1757)	862	1743
Mattheus Rodde (1681–1761)	869	1757	His portrait of Stefano Torelli in the house of the merchants .
Johann Friedrich Carstens (1696–1761)	871	1750	Together with councilor Philipp Caspar Lamprecht (# 882), in 1747, they made a comparison across the Lauenburg areas (the so-called Möllner Pertinenzien ) with Kurhannover .
Andreas Albrecht von Brömbsen (1703–1757)	872	1750	Son of # 847; Member of the circle society; His epitaph with a Latin inscription hangs on the west wall of the saints funeral chapel in the north aisle of the Jakobikirche
Ludwig Philipp Roeck (1697–1768)	879	1761	Gentle rider; his epitaph was in the Petrikirche.
Daniel Haecks (1706–1778)	883	1757
Friedrich Green (1701–1773)	887	1769	Novgorod driver
Heinrich Diedrich Balemann (1703–1768)	889	1761	Son of # 846. From 1728 fourth council secretary and registrar, 1738 protonotary. 1750 councilor.
Georg Wilhelm Detharding (1701–1782)	890	1765	Buried in a chapel of the Katharinenkirche, the Detharding Chapel, built in 1761 . Latin inscription on the baroque sarcophagus.
Joachim Peters (1712–1788)	895	1773	Novgorod driver. Grave monument in the Marienkirche in the Warendorp chapel in the south aisle with Latin inscription.
Bernhard von Wickede (1705–1776)	898	1773	Member of the circle society
Franz Bernhard Rodde (1721–1790)	899	1789	Member of the merchant company
Joachim Matthias Lütkens (1713–1780)	903	1777	Epitaph with Latin inscription in the north aisle of the Aegidienkirche, next to the main portal.
Hermann Georg Bünekau (1729–1805)	904	1778	Editor of the Bibliotheca juris Lubecensis .
Johann Arnold Isselhorst (1720–1785)	909	1781	Son of # 858. 1745 Council Secretary and Registrar. 1750 Protonotary, councilor 1765.
Joachim Tanck (1724–1793)	910	1783
Heinrich Brockes II (1706–1773)	912	1768	Descendant of # 722.
Anton Diedrich Wilken (1715–1792)	913	1790	Elderly man of the gentle drivers
Georg Blohm (1733–1798)	918	1792	Mountain driver
Hermann Diedrich Krohn (1734–1805)	919	1786	1759 Third Council Secretary and Registrar, 1765 Second Council Secretary, 1769 First Council Secretary (Protonotary). 1773 councilor.
Christian von Brömbsen (1742–1808)	921	1800	Son of the owner of Gut Nütschau . Member of the circle society.
Gabriel Christian Lembke (1738–1799)	925	1794
Johann Georg Böhme (1730–1804)	928	1799	Gentle driver
Johann Philipp Plessing (1741-1810)	930	1804
Johann Caspar Lindenberg (1740-1824)	934	1805
Mattheus Rodde (1754-1825)	936	1806	Husband of Dorothea Schlözer .
Nicolaus Jacob Keusch (1745-1817)	937	1817	Was elected to the council in 1790 as the senior man of the Schonenfahrer before the French era.
Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf (1749-1824)	940	1806	1773 Third council secretary and registrar, initially received a training trip to Wetzlar, Regensburg and Vienna approved.
Stephan Hinrich Behncke (1747-1824)	943	1818	Elderly man of the mountain drivers. Joined the council before the French era
Friedrich Nölting (1759-1826)	945	1826	Elderly man of the gentle drivers. Joined the council before the French era. Died a month after being elected mayor.
Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1751-1832)	946	1827	Senior man in the merchant company. Joined the council before the French era
Georg David Richerz (1742-1811)	947	1810	Procurator at the higher court. Councilor 1799. Son of Senior Georg Hermann Richertz (1716–1767)
Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755-1821)	949	1814	Co-founder and director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Joined the council before the French era

From 1811 to 1813 Lübeck was part of the French Empire

In the French era, Lübeck was part of the Bouches de l'Elbe department . Accordingly, the mayor took the place of the mayor.

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf	940	1811	provisional mayor
Anton Diedrich Gütschow	without	1811-1813	Maire, municipal syndic before and after the French era
Friedrich Adolph von Heintze (1768–1832)	without	1813	provisional mayor

Mayor of Lübeck from 1813 to 1946

The period from the coalition wars to after the Second World War initially included a phase of unconditional restoration. In 1848 the Lübeck state system complied and the first constitutional amendment in the modern sense followed, until the city's statehood was lost through the Greater Hamburg Law . Since then, the mayors have been and are, first in a Prussian and since the end of the Second World War in a Schleswig-Holstein city.

Name and dates of life	Council line no.	Reign	Special features and comments
Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf	940	1813-1824	Councilor since 1794/1813.
Christian Adolph Overbeck	949	1814-	Council member since 1800/1813
Between 1824 and 1916, the following people held the mayor's office several times for one year each time:
Christian Heinrich Kindler (1762-1845)	953	1821, 1825, 1827, 1829, 1831, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1837, 1839, 1841, 1843	Councilor since 1803/1813, owner of the Bene Merenti commemorative coin (1842)
Adolph Hinrich Voeg (1766-1833)	961	1825, 1826, 1828, 1830, 1832	Member of the Council since 1814.
Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf	946	1827	Councilor 1798/1813.
Thomas Günther Wunderlich	960	1833	Was elected to the council from the merchant company in 1810 and retired in 1852.
Johann Heinrich Kipp (1771–1833)	970	1833
Christian Nicolaus von Evers (1775–1862)	959	1836, 1838, 1840, 1842, 1844	Member of the circle society. Councilor since 1809/1813, retired in 1852.
Bernhard Heinrich Frister	971	1833, 1845, 1846, 1853/54	Elected to the council in 1821. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1856)
Johann Joachim Friedrich Torkuhl	974	1845, 1847, 1848, 1851/52, 1857/58	Councilor since 1824, retired in 1865 due to blindness. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1865)
Heinrich Brehmer	985	1849/50, 1861/62, 1865/66	Retired in 1870. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1870)
Friedrich Matthias Jacobus Claudius	983	1851/52
Karl Ludwig Roeck	982	1855/56, 1859/60, 1863/64, 1867/68	Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1864)
Theodor Curtius	994	1869/70, 1873/74, 1877/78	Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1885)
Heinrich Theodor Behn	998	1871/72, 1875/76, 1879/80, 1883/84, 1887/88, 1891/92, 1895/96	Retired in 1901 at the age of 82. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1895)
Arthur Gustav Kulenkamp	1004	1881/82, 1885/86, 1889/90, 1893/94
Wilhelm Brehmer	1005	1897/98, 1901/02	Retired in 1904. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1901)
Heinrich Klug	1012	1899/1900, 1903/04	Canal opening in 1900 In the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II, opened the Elbe-Lübeck Canal with the Senate Barge Lubeca from the Kaisertor to the Burgtor . Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1904)
Johann Georg Eschenburg	1017	1905/06, 1909/10, 1913/14	August 9, 1913 Step with Kaiser Wilhelm II on the occasion of his (last) visit to Lübeck, the honor company. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1910)
Ernst Christian Johannes Schön	1022	1907/08
Johann Hermann Eschenburg	1016	1911/12, 1915/16	He retired in November 1918. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1914)
Emil Ferdinand Fehling	1023	1917-1920	Now several years of office again; Mayor Fehling was the only head of state of a country in the German Empire that remained in office after the November Revolution. Holder of the commemorative coin Bene Merenti (1917), honorary citizen of Lübeck (1927)
Johann Martin Andreas Neumann	1029	1921-1926	Non-party, but with German national sympathies. After a press campaign, he resigned shortly before the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the freedom of the Reich in Lübeck.
Paul Löwigt	1038	1926-1933	The first mayor in Lübeck appointed by the SPD. The only social democratic head of the Lübeck state. Resigned together with all SPD senators under the pressure of the ongoing synchronization.
Otto Heinrich Drechsler	without	1933-1945	Dentist, NSDAP Mayor . Committed suicide while in British custody in May 1945.
Gerhard Schneider	without	1945	mayor
Friedrich Reeh	without	1945	Acting Mayor (appointed by the British Military Government)
Emil Helms	without	1945-1946	Acting Lord Mayor (appointed by the British Military Government)

British Military Government County Resident Officers

The district resident officer of the Lübeck district (820th detachment) was subordinate to the Military Governor of Schleswig-Holstein, Gail Patrick Henderson , Brigadier General of the 8th British Army Corps in Plön, from May 11th, Detachment Military Government in Kiel . This in turn was subordinate to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as Commander in Chief of the British troops in Germany (21st British Army Group). The district resident officer had his office in the former premises of the Lübeck NSDAP in the office building . The British city commandant had his office in the Behnhaus .

1945–1946: Lieutenant Colonel AJR Munro
1947–1950 (?): H. Gerald Sullivan (1899–1979)

Chairwoman of the city council since 1946

Otto Passarge

The new constitution was enacted by the military government on April 13, 1946; the first free elections since 1933 took place on October 13, 1946 under the supervision of the military government. The chairman of the citizenry is the highest representative of the city.

1946–1950: Otto Passarge ( SPD ), mayor
1950–1955: Helmuth Niendorf (SPD), mayor
1955–1956: Walther Böttcher ( CDU ), mayor
1956–1962: Werner Kock (SPD), mayor
1962–1966: Gerhard Gaul (CDU), mayor
1966–1969: Werner Kock (SPD), mayor
1970–1974: August Heine (SPD), mayor
1974–1979: Gerhard Gaul (CDU), mayor
1979–1986: Sophus Pohl-Laukamp (CDU), mayor
1986–1990: Ingeborg Sommer (SPD), mayor
1990–2003: Peter Oertling (SPD), mayor
2003–2008: Peter Sünnenwold (CDU), mayor
since 2008: Gabriele Schopenhauer (SPD), mayor

Head of Administration since 1946

Robert Knüppel

1946–1950: Emil Helms (SPD), City Director
1950–1956: Otto Passarge (SPD), mayor
1956–1959: Walther Böttcher (CDU), mayor
1959–1970: Max Wartemann (independent), mayor
1970–1976: Werner Kock (SPD), mayor
1976–1988: Robert Knüppel (CDU), mayor
1988–2000: Michael Bouteiller (SPD), mayor
2000–2018: Bernd Saxe (SPD), Mayor
since 2018: Jan Lindenau (SPD), mayor

literature

Rathslinie. Dith is de Linea of the Rades people. Manuscript from 1687 in the City Library (Lübeck) Signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 330 ( digitized version )
Ahasver von Brandt : Bene Merenti - A Lübisches decoration, its history and its owner. In: The car . 1958, pp. 58-64.
Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: ZVLGA . Volume 29, 1938, pp. 91-168.
Adolf Clasen : Unrecognized treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 , p. 22ff.
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925.
Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeck-Lexikon. The Hanseatic city from A to Z. Lübeck 2006.
Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008.

Web links

Commons : Lübeck Mayor - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Lübeck, Stadtarchiv, Hs. 735 and Marburg Repertory
↑ After BuK band I.2 .; at Fehling, Ratslinie, not recognized as mayor.
^ Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2008, pp. 108/109
^ Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: Lübeck stays red: Jan Lindenau (SPD) becomes mayor. Retrieved on November 19, 2017 (German).

[1] Lübeck, Stadtarchiv, Hs. 735 and Marburg Repertory

[2] After BuK band I.2 .; at Fehling, Ratslinie, not recognized as mayor.

[3] Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2008, pp. 108/109

[4] Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: Lübeck stays red: Jan Lindenau (SPD) becomes mayor. Retrieved on November 19, 2017 (German).