List of mayors of the city of Kassel

The list of mayors of the city of Kassel can be identified from two writings dating from 1502. Further sources are church registers and civil registers of the city of Kassel. Eduard Grimmel succeeded in systematically presenting the mayors of Kassel from 1502 to 1963.

Mayor in the 16th century

1502 Claus Anebold
1505, 1507, 1511, 1512 Job Schrendeisen (also: Job Schrendeisen)
1508, 1510, 1513 Heinrich Furster
1513 Hermann Blum
1514, 1515 Hermann Almar
1520–1523, 1525, 1527 Ludwig Koch on the swan
1524, 1526 John
Herald period from 1510 to about 1520
1529 Ditmar Thonges (Anthonius)
1530 Martin Stotterjohann
1532 Bernhard Seitz
1535, 1537, 1540, 1541, 1547 Christoph Endell
1538, 1543, 1552, 1554, 1558, 1559, 1562 Johann Schweis
1541 Claus Harnich (Narnasch)
1544, 1545, 1548 Heinrich Mulderer
1546 Johannes Schaffenroith
1549 Michael Nussspicker (Nuspicker)
1550 Johannes Kannenbergk
1551 Heinrich Sachs
1553, 1556, 1557 Johann Schildt,
1560, 1564, 1566 Conrad Waldenstein
1558, 1561, 1563, 1566, 1568, 1573 Hennig Mogk
1569, 1570, 1571, 1574, 1578 Johannes Eckenschmidt
1572, 1579 Wilhelm Spede
1576, 1577 Euchcharius fig
1579, 1580, 1583 Heinrich Pflugk
1581 Juerge Holtz
1582 Dietrich Kuchenbecker
1584, 1585 Martin Müller
1586 Jacobus Didamar
1586, 1587, 1588, 1592, 1595, 1596 Johannes Becker
1591, 1597, 1601, 1602 Thomas Nadtler
1593, 1594 Johann Ebell
1598, 1599, 1600 Johann Booß

Mayor in the 17th century

1603, 1604, 1605 Johann Georg Schildt
1604, 1605 Georg Hesse
1606, 1607, 1608, 1609 Johannes Kleinschmidt
1610, 1611, 1612, 1616 Hieronymus Jungmann
1613, 1618 Johann Beckmann
1615, 1616, 1619, 1622 Friedrich Didamar
1620, 1624, 1625 Johannes Knauff
1626 Georg Walther
1627, 1631, 1635 Johannes Biermann
1629, 1630, 1632, 1636 Heinrich Rübenkönig
1633, 1634, 1637, 1638, 1639 Christoph Ungefug
1640, 1641 Nicolaus Christoph Müldener
1642, 1643, 1646 Peter Boclo
1644, 1645, 1649, 1650 Johann Ernst
1647, 1648, 1654, 1655, 1664 Justus Reuter
1651, 1670, 1671 Reinhard (Regnerus) Andreas
1652, 1653, 1656, 1657 Hieronymus Galle
1658, 1659 Heinrich Haxthausen
1660, 1661, 1683 Gerhard Vielmeder
1662, 1663, 1672, 1673 Johann Conrad Hast
1665, 1666 Johann Helfrich Chuno
1667, 1668, 1669 Samuel Bourdon
1674, 1675 Johann Christoph Ungefug
1676, 1677 Johannes Eulner
1678, 1679, 1692, 1693 Sebastian Reinhard Scheffer
1680, 1681, 1682 Johann Georg Beza
1684, 1685 Jakob Briede
1686, 1687, 1688 Justin Eckhard Motz
1689, 1690, 1691 Johann Heinrich Schotten
1694, 1695, 1696 Johann Melchior Murhard
1697, 1698, 1699 Wilhelm Müldner

Mayor in the 18th century

1700, 1713-1715 Johannes Koppen
1704, 1719 Heinrich Christoph Ehinger
1708, 1709, 1720, 1721 Philipp Henrich Vilmeder
1710–1712, 1717–1718 Claudius Petrus Schantz
1720, 1722–1724 Ludwig Christoph Scheffer
1725–1726 JC coot
1727–1728, 1730 Dietrich Christoph Ihring
1729, 1731, 1732 Franz Schotten
1734 Georg Henrich Hartmann
1735–1738 Wilhelm d'Aubigny
1739–1747 Cornelius Knobel
1748–1752 Johann Philipp Kuchenbecker
1753–1758 Wilhelm Christian Möller
1759–1775 Christoph Ludwig Goddäus
1776–1781 Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm book
1781–1795 Friedrich Heinrich Goddäus
1796–1806 Hermann Friedrich Wetzell

Mayor or Lord Mayor in the 19th century

1807–1813 Wilhelm Friedrich Gustav von Canstein
1814–1821 Caspar Heinrich Ludwig Stern
1821–1841 Karl Schomburg (from 1834 Kassel was mayor)
1842–1848 Nikolaus Ludwig Arnold
1848–1863 Heinrich Wilhelm Hartwig
from September 1, 1864 and from June 28, 1866–1875 Friedrich Nebelthau
December 4, 1875–1. November 1892 Emil Weise
1892–1893 to December 31, 1899 Albert Westerburg

Lord Mayor in the 20th century

1900–1912 August Müller
1912–1913 Ernst Scholz
1913–1919 Erich Friedrich Ludwig Koch-Weser
1920–1925 Philipp Scheidemann
1925–1933 Herbert Stadler
1933–1945 Gustav Lahmeyer (politician)
1945–1954 Willi Seidel
1954–1963 Lauritz Lauritzen
1963–1975 Karl Branner
1975–1991 Hans Eichel
1991–1993 Wolfram Bremeier
1993-2005 Georg Lewandowski

Lord Mayor in the 21st Century

2005–2017 Bertram Hilgen
since July 22, 2017 Christian Geselle

Individual evidence

^ Franz Gundlach, Das Casseler Bürgerbuch 1520-1699, Kassel 1895
^ Adolf Stölzel, Mayor and Councilor of the City of Cassel (1239–1650)
^ The mayors of the city of Kassel 1500–1963 under sociological-genealogical aspects, in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Volume 75/76, 1964/65, Kassel, pp. 225–258
↑ Alternative name: Forster
↑ Alternative name: Bune
↑ Alternative name: Almer
↑ this information is not sufficiently secured by Grimmel
↑ Alternative names : Henne, Hans
↑ the first name is uncertain and can be called Herman
↑ also Gerhardt as a surname
↑ Alternative name: Johannes Siegfried
↑ Grimmel suspects that this was Johann Eccard Wasserhuhn from Kassel

[1] Franz Gundlach, Das Casseler Bürgerbuch 1520-1699, Kassel 1895

[2] Adolf Stölzel, Mayor and Councilor of the City of Cassel (1239–1650)

[3] The mayors of the city of Kassel 1500–1963 under sociological-genealogical aspects, in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Volume 75/76, 1964/65, Kassel, pp. 225–258

[4] Alternative name: Forster

[5] Alternative name: Bune

[6] Alternative name: Almer

[7] this information is not sufficiently secured by Grimmel

[8] Alternative names : Henne, Hans

[9] the first name is uncertain and can be called Herman

[10] so Gerhardt as a surname

[11] Alternative name: Johannes Siegfried

[12] Grimmel suspects that this was Johann Eccard Wasserhuhn from Kassel