List of city leaders in Bremerhaven
Geestendorf until 1888
- 1877–1888: August Lenthe , community leader
Wulsdorf until 1920
- Around 1860 to?: Johann Nicolaus Brakhahn (1819–1906), community leader
Lehe until 1924
Lehe has a municipal constitution similar to that of town law from 1880 and has been an independent town since 1920.
- 1880–1884: Gustav Fels (1842–1922), mayor
- 1884–1906: Gustav Augspurg (1837–1906), mayor
- 1906–1908: Theodor Johann Schmiedel , Mayor
- 1908–1915: Eugen Kirschbaum (1864–1915), mayor
- 1916–1924: Karl Schönewald (1878–1964) ( DVP ), mayor , from 1920 mayor
Geestemünde until 1924
Geestemünde has been a rural community since 1850, and a town from 1913.
- 1850–1856: Bröcker, community leader
- 1856–1868: H. Lohse, community leader
- 1869–1880: Christian Ludwig (1824–1893), community leader
- 1880–1889: Heinrich Rabien (1843–1913), community leader
- 1889–1899: Hermann Bleßmann (1862–1919), mayor
- 1899–1917: Wilhelm Klußmann (1863–1941), mayor
- 1917–1924: Walter Delius (1884–1945) ( DVP ), mayor , from 1919 mayor
Wesermünde 1924 to 1947
From 1924 to 1947, Wesermünde consisted of the merger of Lehe and Geestemünde and, from 1939, of Alt-Bremerhaven.
- 1924–1945: Walter Delius ( DVP , NSDAP from 1933 ), Lord Mayor
- 1945-1946: Helmuth Koch ( DNVP / CDU ), Mayor , used by the US -amerikanischen military government
- 1946–1947: Gerhard van Heukelum ( SPD ), Lord Mayor
Bremerhaven 1880 to 1939 and since 1947
Bremerhaven was a city of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen until 1939 and a district of Wesermünde from 1939 to 1947.
City Directors
- 1880–1890: Hermann Gebhard , City Manager
- 1890–1908: Adolf Hagemann (1855–1908) city director
- 1909–1913: Erich Koch-Weser , City Director
- 1913–1933: Waldemar Becké , City Manager
Lord Mayor
- 1923–1933: Waldemar Becké
- 1933–1939: Julius Lorenzen ( NSDAP )
- 1946–1948: Gerhard van Heukelum ( SPD ), from Wesermünde (until 1947) and Bremerhaven
- 1948–1957: Hermann Gullasch (SPD)
- 1958–1978: Bodo Selge (SPD)
- 1978–1983: Werner Lenz (SPD)
- 1983–1995: Karl Willms (SPD)
- 1995–1999: Manfred Richter ( FDP )
- 1999–2011: Jörg Schulz (SPD)
- 2011-today: Melf Grantz (SPD)