List of the main administrative officials of Hanover

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Regional President Hauke ​​Jagau

The list of main administrative officials of Hanover contains the main administrative officials of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover ( mayor , lord mayor , city director, senior city director ), the former district of Hanover ( district administrator , upper district director ) and the current region of Hanover ( regional president ).

City of Hanover

Mayor until 1699

From 1303 the council meets in the ballroom of the old town hall

In the period up to 1699 there were mostly two mayors who took turns every year.

Term of office Surname
1390 1401 Johann Turk
1391 1395 Borchert Tetze
1396 1396 Diderik vom Hagen
1398 1424 Volkmer of others
1402 1406 Diderik from the stone house
1408 1422 Rolef von der Nigenstadt
1423 1440 Diderik Turk
1425 1460 Dislike of others
1442 1452 Hermen Mutzel
1454 1456 Dethmer Kock
1457 1462 Hans Blome the Elder Ä.
1463 1463 Hans Krevet
1464 1476 Diderik from Wintheim
1465 1490 Cord Limburg
1477 1477 Diederik von Anderten
1479 1485 Diderik from Wintheim
1487 1515 Hans Blome the Elder J. (thirteen times mayor during this period) 
1491 1497 Diderik Schacht
1494 1501 Volkmer of others
1504 1530 Jürgen vom Sode
1518 1524 Gerd Limburg
1534 1550 Anton von Berckhusen
1535 1553 Hinrich Bomhauer
1557 1563 Bartold Homeister
Heiso Grove
1587 1611 Bernhard Homeister
1623 1632 Hermann Bartels , alternating with
1623 1632 Jacobus Bünting
1633 1663 Dr. Henning Lüdeke
1654 1678 Georg Turk
1663 1683 David Amsing
1684 1699 Anton Levin from Wintheim
1689 1699 Johann Hermann vom Sode

1699 to 1820 two mayors

After a political reorganization in 1699, the council consisted of two mayors, a syndic, a secretary, two chamberlains and six senators.

Term of office Surname Term of office Surname
1699 1717 Anton Julius Busmann senior 1699 1702 Anton Levin Wintheim
1717 1719 Johann Peter Tappen 1702 1713 Johann Christoff Dannhauer
1719 1761 Anton Julius Busmann junior 1713 1725 Otto Heinrich Volger
1761 1784 Wilhelm August Alemann 1725 1761 Christian Ulrich Grupen
1784 1809 Ernst Friedrich Hector Falcke 1761 1798 Ernst Anton Heiliger
1810 1820 Ludwig Christian Wilhelm Zwicker ¹ 1798 1820 Christian Philipp Iffland ¹

¹ From 1810 to 1813 Hanover belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia . During this time, Iffland was sole mayor.

City director from 1821 to 1918

From 1863 the council met in the Wangenheimpalais

From 1821 onwards, Hanover was only managed by one head of the city, who was designated city ​​director .

Term of office Surname
1821 1824 Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt
1824 1843 Rudolph Wilhelm Philipp Rumann
1843 1853 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Evers
1854 1881 Johann Carl Hermann Rasch
1882 1891 Ferdinand Halthoff
1891 1918 Heinrich Tramm
1891 1913 Hans Eyl (Deputy City Director)

Mayor from 1918 to 1946

From 1918, the mayor's name was the mayor (OB). During the Second World War , the post of Lord Mayor was temporarily occupied by so-called State Commissioners .

Term of office Surname Remarks
1918 1924 Robert Leinert ( SPD )
1924 1925 Gustav Fink ( DVP ) Acting OB
1925 1937 Arthur crowd ( DHP )
1937 1942 Henricus Halthoff  ( NSDAP )
1942 1944 Ludwig Hoffmeister (NSDAP) State Commissioner
1944 1945 Egon Bönner (NSDAP) State Commissioner
1945 1946 Gustav Bratke (SPD) Acting Mayor from April 11, 1945
1946 1946 Franz Henkel ( FDP )

1946 to 1996

The New Town Hall has been the headquarters of the city administration since 1913
1972 at the age of 28 youngest, in 2006 longest serving Lord Mayor of a major German city: Herbert Schmalstieg

Lord Mayor

In 1946, following the British model, the administration was separated from the city's political representation. Until 1996, the head of the administration was now the City Director .

Term of office Surname
1946 1956 Wilhelm Weber (SPD)
1956 1972 August Holweg (SPD)
1972 1996 Herbert Schmalstieg  (SPD)

City Director

Term of office Surname
1946 1949 Gustav Bratke
1949 1963 Karl Wiechert (SPD)
1963 1974 Martin Neuffer
1974 1979 Rudolf Koldewey
1979 1990 Hinrich Lehmann-Grube
1990 1996 Jobst Fiedler

Mayor since 1996

There has been a full-time mayor since 1996, who is also the head of administration. After Stephan Weil was elected Minister-President of Lower Saxony on February 19, 2013 , his term of office as Lord Mayor ended. In the following period, the office was temporarily held by the 1st mayor Bernd Strauch as the city's representative and the first city councilors Hans Mönninghoff (until the end of July) and Sabine Tegtmeyer-Dette (from August 1, 2013) as head of administration. On October 6, 2013, Stefan Schostok (SPD) was elected Lord Mayor of Hanover in a runoff election. He was sworn in on October 24, 2013. At his request and with the approval of the City Council of Hanover, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior retired him with effect from May 26, 2019.

The new election was set by the city council for October 27, 2019, as there was no candidate with an absolute majority, a runoff had to decide. This run-off election took place on November 10, 2019 between Belit Onay (Alliance 90 / Greens) and Eckhard Scholz (CDU), according to the preliminary final result, Belit Onay won with 52.9% of the votes.

Term of office Surname
1996 2006 Herbert Schmalstieg  (SPD)
2006 2013 Stephan Weil (SPD)
2013 2019 Stefan Schostok (SPD)
from 2019 Belit Onay (Alliance 90 / Greens)

District of Hanover

Old district house

District Administrator

Term of office Surname
1981 1989 Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt  (CDU)
Jürgen Bauermeister (SPD)
Eberhard Wicke (CDU)
1999 2000 Michael Arndt (SPD)

Oberkreisdirektor

Term of office Surname
1945 1948 Julius Fengler
1948 1966 August Steppat
1967 1971 Friedrich Bischoff
1971 1974 acting:  Herbert Droste
1974 1999 Herbert Droste

Hanover region

House of the Hanover region on Hildesheimer Strasse

On November 1, 2001, the district of Hanover was dissolved; The legal successor was the Hanover region , which is headed by a regional president .

Term of office Surname
2001 2006 Michael Arndt (SPD)
2006 officiating Hauke ​​Jagau (SPD)

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Mayors of Hannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.inschriften.net/angebote/suchresult/treffer/nr/di036-0055.html#content
  2. ↑ http://www.inschriften.net/angebote/suchresult/treffer/nr/di036-0055.html#content
  3. ↑ top v . : Appendix: The heads of council and administration since 1390 , in Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover : Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 802f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Grotefend, Fiedeler: Bernhard Hohmeister's notes on the history of the city of Hanover. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony , 1860, pp. 193–245; online through google books
  5. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : BARTELS, (3) Hermann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 42 and others; online through google books
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : The origin of the Hanoverian mayors from 1534 to 1820 . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 21, Issue 3 / 4.1967, pp. 203f
  7. ↑ Caesar Amsinck, Otto Hintze: The Rudolfinische Line. David Amsing, b. 1617, d. 1683 , in this: The Dutch and Hamburg family Amsinck: an attempt at a family history. (3 vol.), Vol. 1. From the middle of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th century , [Hamburg, Willistr. 25]: [A. Amsinck], 1886, pp. 90-99; Digitized
  8. ↑ Schostok becomes the new mayor, in the Internet archive ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Report at Hannover.de , accessed on August 12, 2019
  10. ↑ Mayor election: date set , notification from the state capital Hanover of June 27, 2019
  11. ↑ Belit Onay elected as the new mayor of Hanover. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .